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Sometimes I use the microwave to start them off, then finish them off in the oven. I tend to cook a batch of jacket potatoes at a time, halve, scoop, mash, refill, then freeze. They only take a few minutes in the oven from frozen and taste as good as freshly baked.

It's a good way to do it too!
I often batch cook a basic mince recipe in the slow cooker knowing that once it is portioned up, it can become: bolognaise sauce (with spaghetti one meal, lasagne another); or a chilli (with rice one meal, enchiladas another, calzones another, maybe a stroganoff with noodles); or it is made into savoury mince served in Yorkshire pudding, or cottage pie.
Likewise with chicken, when that is cooked in the slow cooker it is so succulent and almost falls of the bone running! Curry, chicken enchiladas, fajitas, soup, pies, casserole " title="WantLick " />

Recipe please

 

No hurry ... I have enough dry bread and water to see me through until Monday

 

@Kandy I do jackets in the microwave too but you can the quickly dry fry them when done to crisp the skins.

I like your phrase ping cuisine so must incorporate that into my vocabulary rather than saying 'nuke'!

@"M" I do exactly the same as you here. After mashing I add chopped onion and cheese triangles. When required I do them in my Phillips Air Fryer ... 5 minutes to heat up to 200c then 10 minutes to cook potatoes.

 

@"M" I can't freeze my jacket spuds as my freezers are full of a lot of the vegetables and soft fruit that we grow over at the allotment and as my oven is electric it takes twenty minutes just to get it up to a decent temperature,and Mr Kandy would start moaning if he had to wait hours for a spud

@Victoria I shall have to have a go at dry frying the jacket potatoes as I think nothing beats the skin of a spud done in the oven and they are a good source of fibre

 

I'd like to say that the Beef Hotpot I have has...... a) 21% pure beef ( which I don't think is bad )
b) 3.8g of fat ( out of a 375 g meal )
c)only 375 calories

When you live on your own and only have a small freezer in a small flat you can't really batch buy/cook.

What I tried to say before about brands etc is that I wouldn't trust supermarket home makes. I find " Aunt Bessie's" or " Bisto " the best .

Speaking of supermarkets, I don't normally use them at all. I was shocked just before Christmas when I went into Sainsbury's, the meals I buy for 89p were £1.25 and the ones I buy for £1 were £1.50. We also looked at the ice cream, we pay £1 for a Vienetta or £1.50 for two, they were £1.75 EACH.....!!!!! Supermarkets such as Sainsburys, Tescos etcare just a rip-off in my opinion.

The only one we do use occasionally is Aldis.

PS.... The reason we went is it's the only place to get cd's from.

 

I haven't seen Aunt Bessie's ready meals but I do buy the Bisto lasange/spaghetti bolognese now and again for myself when the kids are having turkey drummers/chicken nugs. They're pretty tasty! I tend to shop in Farmfoods as its at least 25% cheaper than Asda/Tesco for make brands but I do go to asda/tesco for a fresh fruit/meat or things I can't get in FFs like Tassimo discs. but then I only buy them if they're on offer.

 

Went for a walk, on the way back in a single track road there was some horses 2 a breast galuping towards us at full glaup, they didn't slow down past us at all then some mud flick up and when in my eye.

I bet if i drove past them at the same speed in a single track road i'd be done for careless/dangerous driving
Respect works both way :rasp:

 

Totally agree @Jiffy, having been a horse owner for well over 25 years I have
seen the deterioration of RESPECT from drivers to riders and the other way round. No wonder the instances of bad accidents and many horses getting killed on the roads is rising year on year.
Please try to not let this incident colour your judgement the next time you are driving near horses/ponies, just like drivers not all riders are complete morons. When accidents do happen it is often the innocent horse who pays with it's life, the car normally only has a dent and the rider perhaps a few scrapes but can also be badly injured killed.
Why have people just stopped respecting each other? I see this in all walks of life and it makes me feel quite sad. Is it any wonder I choose to live in the countryside with NO neighbours close by...bliss!

 

It wont as i know there is some good people out there, but the people just make it bad for every one else, but i do get my own back in other ways i may not be able too run but i can wait

There's been a few things happening about here and the comman plebs have had enough and are reporting things and the people breaking the law and rules are finding out about things , ouch

 

We always slow right down to pass horses and give them a wide berth and 99.9% of the riders always smile and put their hand up to say Thankyou but there are a few that completely ignore us and just look straight ahead

We also put a hand up to say Thankyou to other road users if they slow down or stop to let us through and some do the same but a lot do not,but I remember my driving instructor telling me not to achnowledge other road users when I was learning to drive because he said that only having one hand on the steering wheel meant that I wasn't fully in control of the car and even on the driving test it was a big no no.Do t know what the rules are now for learner drivers PS,my instructor did always say Thankyou to to other road users when I was on my lessons but he wouldn't let me do it

 

When I first passed my test and was free to roam the open roads, if I had passengers I would deliberately pull over, slow down, wait, whatever it took just so that I got the smile/wave ...

... I thought it made me look 'popular'