http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:11:57 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=4570 spanikopita filling layer (half a portion), the pasta again and a layer of bechemal. It was fine, but it was 9:00pm by the time we ate it and I have to admit I was pretty over it by then. That’s a recipe which needs some work, maybe it’ll make an appearance here once it’s fixed. We’re eating a lot of veg, but we’re also eating a lot of carbs, more than usual. We started off with pizza, we’ve had three days of porridge breakfasts, and dinner leftovers for every lunch. Shopping at the Markets To be honest, after all the veg we bought, I’m doing a worse job of cooking balanced meals than I expected. The big shop at Paddy’s Markets was relatively stress free; the two of us had $70, we’d spent $10 on pizza ingredients and bought a steak at the butcher, so we went into the markets with about $55 in our pockets. Putting aside $20 for the non-fruit-and-veg items (and inspired idea on the part of my beau), we roved the markets that Sunday arvo and we were ruthless. Brocollini $3.50? Tell ‘em they’re dreaming. Hard tofu $2.30 for 500g? Well, silken firm is $3 for 900g, so that’s the one we’ll get. We came out with everything we were after (or substitutions) and money to spare.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/10/the-big-spend-and-the-big-shop/feed/ 9 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/day-2-the-big-shop-and-everything-summer-salad/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/day-2-the-big-shop-and-everything-summer-salad/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:24:30 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2306 Yesterday, we grabbed the few grocery store items we needed at woolies. This was relatively stress-free as the number of things we needed was dictated by our budget - $35 x 2. At woolies we spent about $18 and this got us cottage cheese, 2 litres of milk, tinned tomatoes, 59 cent spaghetti, frozen spinach and not much else. It took all of 10 minutes and at this made me wonder if maybe extreme cost cutting is the way to go. However, this morning at Paddy’s Market (Haymarket) was more of a trial. We only had one shopping bag with us and I had decided we needed to buy heaps of fruit because we never eat fruit so now is obviously the time to start. We spent about half our budget there and walked out with more fruit and veg than we could carry. I wondered how we'd feed ourselves on such a budget if we didn't have a really cheap market nearby.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/day-2-the-big-shop-and-everything-summer-salad/feed/ 3 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/menu-planning-%e2%80%93-10-tips/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/menu-planning-%e2%80%93-10-tips/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:43:11 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2269 ]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2011/10/menu-planning-%e2%80%93-10-tips/feed/ 5