Not Buying Pizza

Gone are the days when we would casually get home late grabbing a pizza from the fridge aisle in Sainsbury’s, all wrapped in cardboard, plastic and polystyrene to bung in the oven. The number of times we have had a list of meals to stick to, and the ones that need preparation always got pushed to the weekend and over the edge because we weren’t home early enough or changed our evening plans.

To keep our bin slim if not our waistlines, I precook some meals that we can defrost in the microwave and cook with bulgar wheat which is even faster than rice, and far more flavoursome. Yesterday I made 3 lots of shortcrust savoy pastry, two lots of pizza dough and some oat cakes all wrapped in grease-proof paper to go in the freezer, ready for when we are. Today I will top that up with biscuit dough and cake mix, and if there is time, shortcrust sweet pastry. Oh and bake and eat some of all of the above. 

The oak cakes are from the recipe here and they are so much tastier even than Nairns, which Rich won't eat because they are 'cardboard.' These lovelies are very moreish and are lower in fat than their supermarket, plastic wrapped counterparts. One thing I did differently to the recipe is I used whole oats and stuck them in a blender, as I keep these in the house all the time from the bulk buy shop.