Lightening Online

9 comments:

1. Bettina, 3. November 2008, 13:05
   

   We’ve been making our own chicken patties lately. We make them up the same as ordinary rissoles (egg and bread crumbs), but when they are mixed through, we make our patties and press them into a shallow bowl of stuffing mix to coat them.

   You could use ordinary bread crumbs, but the stuffing mix has all the seasoning and herbs in it that adds to the flavour.

   Tastes great, simple to do and the kids love them.

   Good luck with your $130 - we managed $150 last week and were very pleased with ourselves.

    
2. river, 3. November 2008, 18:57
   

   If you like things with a bit of heat I could post my chicken burger recipe in your comments?
   What the heck, here it is anyway–
   600g chicken mince
   1 1/2 cups breadcrumbs
   3 TBS buttermilk*
   1 tsp salt*
   1 clove garlic, crushed*
   1 eggwhite*
   1 tsp white pepper*
   Extra breadcrumbs to coat
   set oven at 180*. Mix together the * ingredients. Add this mixture to the chicken mince, mix well. Add the breadcrumbs. Mix well. (You may need to use hands for this bit.) Roll into burger shapes. Roll in extra breadcrumbs. Seal in hot oil about 30 seconds each side. Place on baking tray, bake about 10 minutes. Maybe a bit less? Depends on your oven and thickness of burgers.

    
3. Sowing The Seeds, 3. November 2008, 21:36
   

   We have “Friday night Pizza night” every week in our house. It’s fun to make the pizzas together and start a tradition! I usually spend around $130 a week on food, try to buy whats on special and home brands to save. I am really enjoying your blog, thankyou

    
4. Prizetastic, 3. November 2008, 21:44
   

   Oh boy, I keep reading your menu planning and shopping related posts realising how crap I am at this sort of stuff!!! I might make hubby menu plan with me tonight seeing as he’s so fussy…. then shop and stick to it…….. although I really need to do a HUGE shop this week we are out of so many basics *sigh*

    
5. lightening, 4. November 2008, 11:20
   

   Bettina - thanks for that. I’d not have thought of using stuffing mix (not a big fan of stuffing myself - but more the texture so this might still work for us). Congrats on your shopping successes.

   River - thanks for that recipe. Sounds yum!

   Prizetastic - I’ve not been doing all that great lately. It does take a certain amount of planning, time and effort and I guess everyone needs to find the balance that works best for them. Good luck with the menu planning.

    
6. Jason, 5. November 2008, 10:33
   

   After getting back into the budgeting thing after *way* too long of being out of practice, it’s a nice boost to see the food area causes lots of people problems! I’ve always had a nominal weekly figure in mind for food (even when not budgeting properly), but we still kept going over it. Hopefully the new level of focus and commitment should help.

   BTW - care to share your slow cooker Spaghetti Bolognese recipe?

    
7. Babyamore (Trish), 5. November 2008, 12:53
   

   I am with you on this one - been doing my best to eat out of the freezer and now I spring cleaned the Pantry…

   good luck on the challenge.

    
8. Prizetastic, 6. November 2008, 0:49
   

   Just doing my menu plan for the week now…. A friend pointed me towards http://www.mealopedia.com/ and its freakin awesome!! Found some great new recipes and I think using something like that It’ll be much easier for me to stay on track (it’s free to join too :)) Not to mention that this weekend we are digging up part of our backyard to put in a veggie patch…. I think I’m more excited about that than the kids lol

    
9. lightening, 6. November 2008, 18:10
   

   Sowing the Seeds - We do Friday night “fake take away” night here so some weeks it’s pizzas. Other weeks we have things like hamburgers, hot dogs or chicken munchies with chips. I think a few traditions with kids is a great idea!

   Jason - I don’t really follow a recipe but I’ll try to post some vague instructions soon.

   Trish - thanks. I’m planning to get things down a bit before attempting to defrost the freezer and reorganise the pantry.

   Prizetastic - thanks for that site. Will check it out soon. Good luck with the vegie patch.

    

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