A freezer (almost) full of meals...

...cos that's about as crafty as I get at the mo!

A week or 2 ago I came across a few links about cooking once a month, or freezing a month's worth of food ahead.. I was inspired!


Here's an uninspiring photo of the contents of my freezer -



We did our usual weekly shop on Saturday and at the same time I grabbed another trolley and loaded up. Surprisingly the base meals (without sides etc), cost less than an additional $100 (approx) to our weekly food bill.

As a result we now have in our freezer -
Porcupine meatballs + 2 portions of sauce
4 pizzas
A batch of chicken sausage rolls, frozen individual before being bagged so we can grab as many as needed
Chicken meatballs
Burritto filling
2x pasta sauce
2x pasta bake
2x apricot chicken
4x stirfry
A batch of vegie sausage rolls

About 20 meals worth, not too shabby for my first effort I thought.

I did have ideas about how to make the meat stretch further (by adding extra goodness), but was in such a rush to just get it done that I forgot all about investigating them, oops. Will have to remember that for next time! And next time I will def be doing more vegie meals, mmmm falafel.

A sliver of rainbow

Today we went up to Dunkeld as part of the Discover Dunkeld festival. They had a market in the gardens, horse and carriage rides, lots of things to see and do!

One of the things we went to see was the 'Every Drop Counts' exhibition at the Off The Rails Gallery, which is in the old Dunkeld railway station. That is where I was last weekend, helping them to set it up.

It was very cool and we had lots of fun looking around the markets, though it was very hard to actually look at anything with the kids wanting to do a million things and cracking it if we stayed still for too long!

There were many stalls with knitted bits and pieces, a stall with alpaca yarn that a man was weaving into a scarf on a loom (kids were not as fascinated as I!), but I was bummed to not see any with yarn or fleece.
But then! Aha! During a quick scoot around with groaning children in tow (they wanted to go to the bouncy castle...) I spied a stall with bags of fleece and skeins and skeins of hand dyed yarn. I would have loved to get some fleece and yarn, but I didn't want to blow all our cashola. (Needed it for horse and carriage ride..)
So I settled for this hand dyed sliver of rainbow... very nommy.



Now I just have to get back to practising spinning so I don't kill it!!

More Juliet

Yay for progress!

I knuckled down on this last night and got up to the part where I cast off the arms and then...... The smallest woke up cranky and needed me, hence no post yesterday!

Tonight I cast off the arms and then knit 2 rows before whacking it on waste yarn to see how it fit (and zomg I was mentally begging it to fit, cos buggered if I wanted to undo the cast off and do more) and for photos.

Here ya go -

Juliet flat(ish), still on needles.

Juliet on moi, was grr at not fitting it all in the pic though

This is me trying to not scrunch up Juliet too much,
balance the phone in one hand and not make
a stupid face...

And repeat..

I'm very pleased with the fit :-)

Was not pleased at dropping a bunch of stitches off the needle while putting it onto the yarn, and was also very not pleased at Jamie's amusement at me freaking out. Poohead.

I did save it though, obviously, LOL, and yayed at the non-slipperyness of the yarn for helping it not go to hell!!

Now to continue the garter till below the bewbs and then start the lace, yay!

zzzzzz

Geeeeeeez how boring have I made my blog by joining in Blogtoberfest?! Gah, LOL.

I could show you my progress on Juliet, but it will look much the same as the other photo, even though I've done quite a bit.. Until I cast off the sleeves it's just going to look like a strip of brown.

I haven't even touched the longies since I cast on Juliet, oopsy. And I am fending off thoughts of knitting socks, or thinking up Giftmas presents to knit. I mean, cos clearly I don't have enough going on already without adding a bazillion more WIPs into the mix.

Go figure...

So apparently you actually get more knitting done if you, ohhh you know, PICK IT UP! As opposed to merely perusing Ravelry and adding millions of future WIPs to the queue in your head.

Who knew?

MMm Monday

I am doing this now, so that later I can knit without worrying what I will blog about, LMAO.

I don't know why I feel so compelled to put youtube vids in every post at the mo, but here you go...



And now for some sorta kinda craft content, and I apologise profusely if you're not a member of Ravelry because you need to be to see it..., I am currently addicted to this forum thread. I don't usually go to the forum, but I was bored one day and stumbled across it, Your Ugliest FO? There is some brilliantly bad stuff in there and I am working my way through the hundreds of pages, hehe.

My sheet has yonis on it.

As promised, progress shot of Juliet. It doesn't look like much but I've done ummmm 15/16 rows already.



Yes, that is the sheet that is on my bed, kind of awesomely bad, no? I kinda think those leaf shape things (I think they are leaves???) look like yonis...

And last night I was all Sussudio, tonight I am all Julllllllliiiiiieeeeetttttttttttttttt... Like yk, that bit in Romeo + Juliet when her mum and nurse are yelling for her.

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