September was characterized by pre-made hamburgers and pre-made meatballs, because that’s usually what we found on sale when we went to the grocery store after school.

In fact, the Sainsbury’s near us is great because there’s always discounted foods as the store nears its closing hours. Pre-made meatballs and hamburgers are commonly discounted items and quite worth the lower price paid. The first couple weeks of meals were filled with meat though, because we didn’t have a fridge and thus had to eat all the meat we bought each night.

Also, no, we didn’t have donuts for dinner one night (nor are these all the dinners we had). But I did want to include it in the mosaic of pictures. Click on the pictures below for short caption (=

Sausages and hash. This might have been a breakfast, not a dinner.

Burger and creamy pasta.

My attempt at bangers and mash.

Hands down the best jam donut I’ve tasted so far, and from our local Sainsbury’s.

Burger and lots of lettuce. An attempt at being healthy.

Attempt number 2 at being healthy, but with carbs and carrots.

The first of many batches of green onion pancakes made at home.

Comfort food = dumplings from a nearby Chinese supermarket, green onion pancakes and congee (I chopped the green onion too coarsely).

Creamy pasta.

Steamed tofu with ground pork.

My first slow cooker meal, which was an attempt at beef stew with potatoes and carrots.

Creamy brie-filled meatballs (all the brie leaked out though) with tomatoes and pasta.

If you have any meal ideas, drop me a note please! Jack keeps saying he’s okay with whatever I cook but really I’d like to try different meals (there’s only so many meals in a row where I’m okay with chopping potatoes).