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  • LEJC
    LEJC Posts: 9,618 Forumite
    Thank you Mhoc....

    I'm actually just so chuffed that the site is getting noticed.......
    It's been a long hard slog for those involved in it and they really are very passionate about it spreading.
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  • LEJC
    LEJC Posts: 9,618 Forumite
    mhoc wrote: »
    also people fridge emptying before they go on holidays

    you may say that in jest...but I can confirm that one of the very first concepts for the site was based very much on what was left in a fridge when someone was about to move house
    frugal October...£41.82 of £40 food shopping spend for the 2 of us!

    2017 toiletries challenge 179 out 145 in ...£18.64 spend
  • marmitelovemehateme
    marmitelovemehateme Posts: 3,764 Forumite
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    Womble 12/8 A v T

    2x Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Chcolate & Hazelnut Granola (380G) £5.98 £2.98
    1x Mikado King Chocolate Biscuits (51G) £1.00 £0.69
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  • pattylabelle
    pattylabelle Posts: 7,474 Forumite
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    davemorton wrote: »
    I know it seems a lot, but they do last a lot longer. When I used to buy cheap ones, they would last a season, but you can easily get ten years out of a good pair if you so wished, and much better for your eyes than the really cheap ones.
    :cool: :D


    Eh?

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  • Miró
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    LEJC wrote: »
    you may say that in jest...but I can confirm that one of the very first concepts for the site was based very much on what was left in a fridge when someone was about to move house

    Someone has offered 5 cold chips near me!! They even bothered to take a photo:o
  • Serendipitious
    Serendipitious Posts: 6,446 Forumite
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    LEJC wrote: »
    Thank you Mhoc....

    I'm actually just so chuffed that the site is getting noticed.......
    It's been a long hard slog for those involved in it and they really are very passionate about it spreading.

    I just wish there was something so that the farmers don't have to plough perfectly good stuff back into the ground, those parsnips I saw the other week on a repeat of HFW's programme really upset me.

    I've seen a vast difference since moving to the town from the wilds. Here it's so easy to pay for sanitised vegetables and then waste, whereas in the countryside an innocent morning coffee with someone invariably involved a huge basket of produce being thrust upon a person. I gave generously, received gratefully and never wasted a thing, not even the peelings, and I really miss the swapping that used to go on. If you went out, you'd often came home to a box of fruit on the doorstep.

    I am beginning to think, having moved to town 4 years ago for the grandkids, that it's all been a very lovely experience, but I am almost ready to go home now... I actually haven't dared revisit old haunts in case I find it impossible to return here.
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  • Enterprise_1701C
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    Serendipitious wrote: »
    I just wish there was something so that the farmers don't have to plough perfectly good stuff back into the ground, those parsnips I saw the other week on a repeat of HFW's programme really upset me.

    I've seen a vast difference since moving to the town from the wilds. Here it's so easy to pay for sanitised vegetables and then waste, whereas in the countryside an innocent morning coffee with someone invariably involved a huge basket of produce being thrust upon a person. I gave generously, received gratefully and never wasted a thing, not even the peelings, and I really miss the swapping that used to go on. If you went out, you'd often came home to a box of fruit on the doorstep.

    I am beginning to think, having moved to town 4 years ago for the grandkids, that it's all been a very lovely experience, but I am almost ready to go home now... I actually haven't dared revisit old haunts in case I find it impossible to return here.

    What shocks me is the amount of wild fruit that is wasted. We visit the apple trees nearby, we will go out for half an hour and come back with 10lb of gorgeous blackberries, then in the season we have a favourite chestnut tree. I can understand it with apples, but I am amazed when people that have access to these things can't be bothered and go out and buy instead. OK, with the blackberries you might get pricked, and with the chestnuts a squirrel might try to attack, but it all adds to the fun.
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  • Serendipitious
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    Enterprise_1701C wrote: »
    What shocks me is the amount of wild fruit that is wasted. We visit the apple trees nearby, we will go out for half an hour and come back with 10lb of gorgeous blackberries, then in the season we have a favourite chestnut tree. I can understand it with apples, but I am amazed when people that have access to these things can't be bothered and go out and buy instead. OK, with the blackberries you might get pricked, and with the chestnuts a squirrel might try to attack, but it all adds to the fun.

    Yes, I agree. I need to go exploring.

    Here, in the autumn, my eyes are often drawn to a particular golden plum tree which rains down fruit. Just one problem, it's located in the lush grassy verges approaching a major roundabout that intersects with a motorway - no pedestrian access naturally!

    I heard of one UK town council - can't remember where- that fenced off its plum trees in one of the parks in case someone got injured by falling fruit... :(
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”




  • gocat
    gocat Posts: 5,905 Forumite
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    Enterprise_1701C wrote: »
    What shocks me is the amount of wild fruit that is wasted. We visit the apple trees nearby, we will go out for half an hour and come back with 10lb of gorgeous blackberries, then in the season we have a favourite chestnut tree. I can understand it with apples, but I am amazed when people that have access to these things can't be bothered and go out and buy instead. OK, with the blackberries you might get pricked, and with the chestnuts a squirrel might try to attack, but it all adds to the fun.
    Been doing this since I got my dog 6 years ago. Makes the dog walks more interesting :D
  • mhoc
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    Mir! wrote: »
    Someone has offered 5 cold chips near me!! They even bothered to take a photo:o

    I saw listed a bottle of pears on some sort of brandy - one of those things you get given at Christmas - this had a use by date of July so maybe some one ways to love dangerously :)
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