As we are sliding into the chaos that is Christmas, I am trying to stay as organized as possible. Over the weekend, I wrote out a list for all the gifts we are giving so hopefully there will not be too many last minute panics. I am going to try to make our week night [...]
I guess it is officially winter; hats, gloves and no locally grown green beans. The beans we got in the market on Saturday were the last of the season and not very nice. Time for more hearty fare. Last weeks Slow cooker red wine short ribs was a huge hit with no need to serve with anything [...]
This week I am joining the fabulous Penny Golightly for Tenner Week. Which means I will be using the Living Social deal, I bought for my beloved’s birthday in August, clearing out the freezer and using up what we have so we don’t need to buy much. The slow cooker will be working a lot [...]
Months ago I wrote a post entitled Sexy Packed Lunches, now that Spring is here I thought we should revisit the brown bag brigade. Isn’t it depressing when you go to all the trouble to bring your lunch to work, and when lunchtime rolls around you don’t fancy what you have made? We have all [...]
I am getting into the groove of working full time and spent the weekend doing food prep – post about it coming soon. I am trying to figure out my new balancing act. If anyone has any tips about juggling work after a long stint of working at home please drop me a line. Monday – Sausages [...]
This past weekend, I cooked up a storm in my attempt at being a lean, mean organizational machine. I made tons of chicken stock in the slow cooker, Israeli couscous salad for lunches and did some batch prep. I am determined not to let going back to work stop me from cooking. Watch this space [...]
Most people when they think of slow cookers and slow cooker recipes, they think about hardy stews with chunks of meat to warm you up on a cold winter’s night. Not so I say, I use my slow cooker year round. It is actually is even more economical to use in the hot, summer [...]
Today started extremely well, I have a new job and all my trains worked but then disaster happened – our flat flooded. Luckily my beloved was there to try to sort it out so tonight will be all about cleaning up. Waitrose to the rescue – they are doing a third off their fresh ready [...]
The past few weeks have been crazy. I have had more work on then I have had in ages but it was all a surprise so was not prepared. This week is a bit more chilled because I am now in a holding pattern waiting to see if I get hired for the temp job [...]
I woke up feeling great this morning. You ask why? I did pretty much nothing over the weekend except my usual market shopping and inforced rest. I made myself take a break because the past two weeks have been super busy and very stressful. It is amazing how much better you feel if you take [...]
Last week ended up a bit of a car crash, it started out ok but by Wednesday it went totally off course. I ended up working a 16 hour day so I did not cook and was too tired to cook on Thursday. Luckily Waitrose Dine for £10 came to the rescue. This week looks [...]
There has been a lot of doom and gloom in the news this week. In the past month, food prices have risen and fuel is turning into an extravagance instead of a necessity and best of all wages are staying the same. As I always say over here at The Lean Times, when facing adversity [...]