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Please sir, can I have some more…

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I follow se7en_hoods on Instagram and always look at her food tweets in awe – imagine feeding 8 kids 3 times a day EVERY DAY!! She doesn’t even get a break because she home schools. I know her older ones help out but still – 24 portions EVERY SINGLE DAY!

I usually buy around 500g of meat for each meal and work out 2 chicken breasts for David, Cam and I etc. Well it has recently been bought to my attention that this is no longer enough! I did try and ignore it but the starving faces raiding the cupboards after dinner have now become too hard to ignore.

So now I am buying the 12-pack burger patties instead of the 8-pack ones. The 18 eggs is now 30 eggs a week. I am buying bulk rice and sugar every month now.

I won’t lie I am a little afraid of what our food bill is going to look like once Cameron hits the teenage years and the little ones get older and are eating full meals. I never really paid attention to how much kids ate until there were 4 of them and the budget is tight. They eat a lot and all the time. Kiara especially is a snacker, she eats all day long, drives me a little crazy but I have given up on trying to change the eating habits of my girl child. Weekends are the worst, it seems like all we do is eat, as soon as the kitchen has been cleaned it is time to prepare the next meal and it doesn’t matter what the meal is, the next one has to be just as big.

I may need to seriously get my veggie garden going again and possibly a cow and a chicken or two!! Actually maybe we need to just move to a farm? Shayne if you know any for sale let me know :))

While I am scouring the Farmers Weekly I am going to need to research quick and easy meals for a large family on a budget! Do you have any ideas or recipes?

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12 Responses

  1. I saw her in action two weeks ago and it was impressive 🙂 I’m blogging our date this Friday.

    I also get scared at the thought of Connor being a teenager.

    Before I could “budget” on 3 adult sizes for the 4 of us – 1 each for D and me, and the two kids would easily eat the third adult portion. Now, Connor eats as much as I do about half the time…… it’s scary and impressive all at the same time.

  2. Yikes! Well, most likely by the time Jack hits the big teenage eats, Cameron might already be either mostly out of the house…OR bringing a tribe of friends over for you to feed?

    Better get cracking on that veggie garden, and see what you can stretch with startches.

  3. Oh man, I am totally stressing about this one. Especially now that we have cut out all grains. Filling meals means LOADS of veg/salad and even more meat.

    The girls luckily don’t eat much yet, although that is definitely starting to change. Knox is a muncher so it’s only going to get worse from here.

  4. I feel your pain! And I have also recently learned that WE. WANT. MORE. FOOD!
    Something that has always worked well for us is stews – you can make large quantities and freeze for later use and they’ll be hearty, warming food in the coming months of cold. (I think we’re heading into a flipping freezing winter!)
    We’ll probably eat porridge in the mornings in winter – lots of mealie meal (luckily, my kids love it). And I cut out a lot of starches in the summer but I’ll start stretching meals with potatoes or rice in winter…

  5. Can completely get that… Bradley is already eating as much as Lance is… and if it’s something he loves, then Connor eats just as much as them too.
    I find it easier to make burger patties than buy them, and then I know what they’re made with too. And I make enough for leftovers for lunchboxes etc.
    For big meals I find getting meat from butchers work out better for us.

  6. It never ends. Gym Boy is still eating like a horse at 20, but… thankfully he tries to pay for his own food because it’s a special gym diet and he’s not going to get those things in my cooking.

  7. Yup, and food is expensive!

    Btw , there is a farm just down the road from us for sale 🙂

    We are fortunate to have access to really good mutton, but I buy my beef and chicken from friends so we get it at a good price. I also get eggs (my chickens died) and cheese from fellow farmers/the co-op, so that is also cheaper than the shops.

    But the rest of food is expensive. I tend to cook in bulk and alwasy have enough for at least another meal and some leftovers for lunchboxes.

    It’s a never ending thing tho x

  8. I can’t even imagine it with 4 (nevermind 8). We got 2 kids, and I’ve just caved as well and started buying bigger portions. I kept on giving them some of my meat portions, until recently when I was left with nothing. Husband also seems to be going through a growth spurt as he’s just eating more and more (of course without picking up weight)

    Our dishwasher also broke last week, so it’s been feeling that all I’m doing is cooking and washing dishes. I even dreamt we went on a holiday to America, but all I was doing was washing dishes in my dream.

  9. Oh it is endless! And I try to have leftovers for H and if possible for Lucy and me for the next day. The boys still eat small portions but we are going to have two teenage boys! A eats relatively big portions but nothing like a grown up yet. And if its KFC on the very odd treat day- well, just buy for 5 adults!

  10. Well hello, thank you so much for the mention… we serve up at least thirty meals a day here and that’s not counting guests. 10 for breakfast, 9 for lunch and 10 for dinner and then the father person has a mid-night snack – a toasted cheese or egg on toast. We almost always have dinner guests and the kids have friends over for lunch a couple of times a week… I try not to think about the numbers too much and focus on plonking plates on the table!!! Here’s a post explaining the how and what of food in our home: http://www.se7en.org.za/2012/12/21/table-for-ten-part-4-we-are-what-we-eat Hope you have the most fabulous weekend!!!

  11. I do struggle with this issue a lot. I don’t do grains anymore and this complicates my life because as you know, it’s quite expensive to live a healthy lifestyle. I need to spend some time researching solutions for this.

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