Brain wave to raise fund for MN!!

[Munz]

what do ya all recon to a cook book, which is full of nutrious, wholesome meals, but also cheap for those on budgets?

thought it could be done like the MN books they already sell, or do u have to have a qualification or something for cook books?

pop - no specific reason, just thought a cook book was a good idea - if the towers don't want the money perhaps we could spilt it between several charities or something?

Could you do something that is time-oriented IYSWIM:

Often I have 60 seconds to sort out a meal for a 14 month old IYSWIM, othertimes I might have more time to sort something more edible, LOL...

Ooh yes - a "meals in 5 seconds flat" section

Also meals for "nuffin" ... "What do you fancy for tea?" "NUFFIN!!!"

Meals in minutes:

Put bread in toaster
Put beans in microwave

3 minutes later - voila

garnish with grated cheese (optional)

lol at the quicky meals and nuffin meals - we have ifit's! lol.

MN towers (abby) said there's a meetin tomorrow and she'll bring it up then so fingers crossed it's somethin they fancy doing as well

We did something like this at HomeStart because our famillies just didn't know how to cook. basic stuff- a casserole made from veggies, tinned tomatoes and tinned chickpeas / cannelini / black eyed peas (no salt) that was fine blended for abbies, or could have a touch of chilli added and served with bread for adults, that sort of thing. We didn't really push it sales wise but the famillies found it really useful.

How to make your own custard was one of the popular ones, along with tomato sauce to be used as a basis for all sorts; shepherds pie; stew....a llt he old ones that you either learn from your family or not

Sorry it's taken us a while to get to this. As it happens we did explore this idea quite seriously about a year ago and even talked to a couple of publishers but neither of them wanted to proceed at the time. We still think it's a great idea and it's one we hope to revisit at some point in the future. In the meantime if you do have a recipe suggestion you'd like to share you can post it here

Thanks

carrie, dare we ask how things are going on the battle with the fair lady voldemort (aka, she who must not be mentioned)?

Nothing new to report at the moment - we'll keep you informed if there are any further developments though.