then i left my employed world and i had a lot more time. i was delighted to be able to do a better job on the food front.
three years on, in a case of "be careful what you wish for" or maybe "the grass is always greener on the other side" food has become a kind of bittersweet tyranny. i like to think that i provide tasty and healthy food most of the time but with six adults, two of them ravenous young men, and two almost as ravenous young women, all with personal preferences and wildly varying timetables, keeping everyone happy seems to have become almost a full time occupation. and once they are fed there's the cleaning up and the shopping to do. it's endless.
as an added degree of difficulty, the boys start uni tomorrow and their timetables will require large amounts of portable food. there are only so many sandwiches any mum wants to make and the kids get equally sick of eating them, i am sure.
so, hit me with your best ideas for food on the go!
Is there a common room handy where they can microwave meals? If so, left-overs always trump sammiches.
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ReplyDeleteword is that there are a lot of strategically placed microwaves. that will be handy
I used to pack lunch for my son when he went to work afrter his divorce. I used to give him our regular meals which he could heat up and have at lunch time and supplement with some fruit carried separately.
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I like homemade crackers, homemade bread, peanut butter, fruit, and nuts, but, except for the homemade crackers and bread, nothing that you haven't already thought of.
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ReplyDeleteI love that idea but i never seem to be able to create enough to have excess for lunches!
Snow,
ReplyDeleteDoes my bread machine bread count as home made? It's certainly a lot cheaper than store bought, it also gets very dry much faster than the preservative laden muck
also, Rummuser, I like those lunch boxes, just like in the film!
ReplyDelete"it also gets very dry much faster than the preservative laden muck"
ReplyDeleteDo you use plenty and oil, and keep your bread bagged and in the fridge? I don't have that problem so much, so I don't consider it inescapable. I find that the most tedious of making bread is the kneading, so I got a Kitchen Aide mixer for that. I used to think about buying a bread machine, but I'm content enough without one. Of course, you bake for more people, so you probably make a lot more bread. I also make biscuits, crackers, and cornbread, and it keeps us from going through the yeast bread so fast.
i dont use oil and i dont keep the bread in the fridge. I probably should look at that, oh wise one
ReplyDeleteNo oil? Butter then? I've never made yeast bread without some kind of oil.
ReplyDeletei must try it but more importantly, did you notice the flattery?
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