Grocery & Pantry Challenge Week 4. Making brownies & using my Instant Pot more. Frugal Living uk
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Welcome to my Pantry Challenge & Grocery Challenge! As part of my Frugal Living UK series, I’m chatting about how I’m planning to cope with 3 months of …
The Brownies look delish. You can add vegetables to the instant noodles to make it more palatable. Frozen pizzas are good to stock up on while on sale. I do that and have them on stand by
Love you video. Hope you are feeling much better. I buy my pizza base from Lidl and freeze them. Great for when you don't feel like cooking. Love your instant pot. What brand is it.? I have been using my old pressure cooker of 36 years. So thinking of buy a new one. Take care x
I make pizzas and freeze i cook bases a bit first then top and freeze ๐
ยฃ35 doesn't sound much when when converted to Australian dollars that $64, which is the same as I've been averaging for 4 adults since the start of September. We've been doing our annual eat the fridge, freezer and pantry down so I can give them a deep clean.
when i don't like cooking i batch cook stews and freeze them and lots off soups.hope you feel better soon i enjoy watch your u tube . iuse my pressure cooker to do soups and stews.
Had my instant pot a year now and only used it a handful of times cause I don't know what to do with it. Would love to see you use yours more thanks.
The brownie recipie would be most welcome. Can you use an insta pot like a slow cooker? If so recipies for a slow cooker type things would also be welcome. Hope you get a lot better soon.
I find that rice is better with 1 cup rice and 1.5 cups water .
One way you can cut down your food by having only one pork chopped each, cover each chop with stuffing and put in the oven delish!,
Iโm scared to do a pantry challenge but Iโm scared because of the threat of shortage of food stores are already starting to show some shortages in my area
Sweetie, you sure sound like you could have a Covid variant. Lambda, Mu and Delta have similar symptoms. It feels like a bad cold, but with more fatigue. My grandson got Delta twice in 30 days. I hope you are staying hydrated and getting rest. God bless you.
Hope you continue to feel better. This "i don't wanna cook!" feeling is going around. Times like these call for eggs, soup, sandwiches, things tossed into the crockpot/IP/etc or my usual…a sheet pan full of whatever and baked in the oven.
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ETA: Technically, you were under the last few weeks….so, no worries about the pizza. โค
Keep it up Claire! You can do it. Glad you are feeling better!
If you have a crock pot, dinner can be put together early in the day, and done by dinner time. Breakfast can be made in a crock pot and cooked on low over night too. When I was working, I had dinner in the crock pot before I went to work and it was such a pleasure to come home to a hot meal, then I just had to add a veggie or salad and dinner was served. Using a slow cooker is a real friend in the kitchen whether you are single, a couple, a big family or anything in between. If you have a large one, you can easily roast a chicken or other meat for more than one meal. tfs hope you feel better soon. ๐ฅฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๏ธ๐ฅฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๏ธ I love my Instant Pot too ๐ You can roast the sweet potatoes in the oven. Just scrub, cut and roast in your oven, Easy and roasting really brings out the sweet deliciousness of the potatoes. You can also do this with carrots too. Roasting retains the vitamins. Sheet pan recipes are something you might want to try too ๐
Great Video! I think you did amazing despite feeling so lousy! I'm glad you started to feel better by the end of the week <3 That chili looked tasty ๐
I'd love to see more instant pot stuff too please Claire. ๐. My Mum used to use one of those old style, scary pressure cookers when I was a kid but these instant pots look much safer. The money saving aspect, once you've laid out the initial cost, is very appealing. X
I think I will look at one of those pressure cookers . Have you checked you not got covid because how you describe feeling is like we been and we got it . No appetite no energy . We have the flasks already send soup / stews in them in winter .
Video paused while I guess you nailed it! Because your good at this ๐
The rice and beans mixture looks yummy.
Are you cleaning out the pantry so you can buy new stuff? I've been slowly building up a pantry and I'm glad I did due to the coming food shortages and rising prices.
Iโm amazed by the instant potโฆ. Once we have moved I think Iโll see if I can
get my hands on one.
Iโve been toying with the idea of an instant pot but not taken the plunge, be interesting to see what you make with it x
You are doing awesome ๐
I KNOW that you stayed on budget this week Claire.
Great meal ideas…hope you are feeling better, hard to cook when you aren't well…I have an Instapot & haven't used it yet – would appreciate more videos on them.
Adding in the 2ยฃ Pizza, you were only over by 0,22 ยฃ.
Unless, you meant, that you paid 2ยฃ for each pizza. I took out my calculator..๐
You were less over, than you have been under.
Yes, I can be hard to stick to a plan if your not feeling well, take care
Could you plan for a frozen pizza style meal night? We do that and i tend to use them on the nights where you don't have motivation to cook. We do homemade pizzas some Saturdays instead of take away when we've got more time to prep it all. Glad I'm not the only one who lack's motivation to cook after working all day!
I think you did well considering you have felt so poorly!
BY late afternoon, I feel just as you do at present, just too tired to prepare vegetables. For me this is a danger point as I am more likely to eat sweet things. I now try to prepare all my vegetables in the morning. Potatoes in cold water and other veg in ziploc bags in the fridge. This is particularly good if you have to be out in the afternoon and this time of the year, you arrive home cold, tired, and hungry.
Iโm guessing well under budget this week ๐
I guessing that you stayed within budget, spending about ยฃ30 ๐
Thank you for this, I would love to see you make more meals in the instant pot, Iโve just got mine and Iโm not sure where to start!