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Home grown tomatoes ????
i have bought a grow bag and the tray that goes underneath, i have got a conservatory and was wondering if i should grow them in there or outside. i was worried in case they look a mess in the house. I have got four tomato plants for the grow bag is that right ammount ? any help will be greatly appreciated. :confused:
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Money saving BBQ ideas
Hello to everyone, What a great site! As the weather finally seems to be improving, I intend to have a BBQ at the weekend. There will be 6 of us to feed - 3 of which are my step kids who are all fussy teenagers! Has anyone got any ideas for healthy, tasty and above all cheap BBQ ideas. Not just meat but the side food too.…
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Places to buy "stuff" on line..
Right, here goes. First time I've spent time reading this board - find it fasinating! Is there any merit of having an online shopping menu...you know places to buy organic, specialist, cheap? food on-line? You never know his Nibbs may find a way to generate cash for the site if we all click through it? You all "sound" like…
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Organic?
Following on from my first visit to our local butcher and being surprised at the difference in the quality of the meat. I am now wondering if we should be changing to using organic fruit and veg aswell. I'm not sure if there is anywhere local to us that sells it and am wondering if there's any point if it's still from…
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First visit to butcher
Since coming on here a few months ago I've been meaning to go to our local butchers but kept forgetting (no excuse as there is one at the bottom of the road!). But on saturday I decided to go. Found it a little daunting not just being able to pick everything up and through in a trolley but managed ok. We got 2 chicken…
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Help a Single Saver
Ho hum, single again! Anyway - I need refreshing on ways to keep the costs down, now I am single again. I have contacted Sky and cancelled the subs, contacted the Council re Council Tax etc. Will hopefully be using less electricity and gas, and using the phone less which should bring those bills down. I'll be swapping back…
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Multi-Cooker - any good?
I've been sent a clothing catalogue and the introductory offer seems too good to be true - all I have to do is order anything from it and they will give me a free "Multi-cooker", normally worth £30 (they say). For £2.99 they will include a griddle plate. It looks a bit like a small crockpot (only 1.3L) but cooks a bit…
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Cookery Book Shuffle
I love trying out new recipes and when I'm doing my meal plan I always sit down with my cookery books in hand and plan new meals, when it comes to cooking them I can never seem to find the same recipe again. So what's the best? Writing down name of recipe, cookery book, and page number in my meal plan or typing them up and…
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Great Tips... one liners
I like all the indexes to 'tie-in' all the various pieces of useful information on these pages, it's like an encylcopedia! I have one minor suggestion, could we have a page (not indexed) of just tips - you know, like the one line things that you get in magazines such as 'old face cloths make really good oven cloths', these…
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Quickies in the recipe sticky?
:idea: Dear Squeaky or Galtizz I recently suggested (click here) that we could perhaps have a *quick recipe* thread in the old style recipe index, eg recipes that definitely take less than 15 or 20 mins to prepare as sometimes I really don't feel like cooking for very long, often I just need to be inspired (like the…
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General Pizza tips & Quick Questions
I have been using up various bits and pieces in my cupboard in a storecupboard challenge kind of a way (enforced through overspending at the begining of the month!) One thing I used was a packet mix to make pizza dough/base. The packet originally cost me about 80p for 2 servings. You add water, mix, kneed and then let rise…
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Squeaky! (merged with Q and A)
Nice welcome and I can understand all the recipe links etc but why are there a list of common questions about hyper whatevers mixed in with recipes? and three different ways of doing it, is their not one version on This Site. right off to read about breakfast although I have had mine does a post start soon about lunches? I…
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Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).
I need to revamp my breakfast routine - I know loads of you dont eat breakfast in the morning but I can quite happily get out of bed and eat chocolate cake, I am usually really hungrey! - there is loads of talk of dinners on the mse board - but I rarely eat a big meal in the evening - just have a bit of soup... The problem…
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M&S purge
Not very Old style but just wanted to confess my m&s purge on monday night, bought 2 gorgeous ready meals one auberine layer thing and a potato daupheouise they where absolutly gorgeous we then popped into tescos (their next to each other) to get hubby some (value) scampi and bough a finest choc cake. naughty me but it was…
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ouch, it hurts!
have been packing up the OH's ebay-ed things ready to post them off tomorrow, and for the first time since.....sept or oct if i remember correctly....im having to use a shop bought jiffy bag :eek: after half a year of wading through a MOUNTAIN of receycled jiffy bags, boxes, brown paper, bubble wrap etc i cant tell you how…
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Found a good site...
The Foody has loads of recipes from the UK and Ireland, updated versions of Mrs Beeton's recipes, info on farmers markets,seasonal food, conversion calculator (only seems to work in explorer) and loads more...I love the Historic recipe section. http://thefoody.com/historic/index.html
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Christmas drinks
Wonder if anyone on here can help me. Sometime ago while trawling through these pages I read a thread on making cheap Christmas drinks at home..I particularly remember one that was similar to Bailey's. However I cannot locate that thread. Can anyone please give me directions? Thanks in advance!
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Moneysaving Stir Fry ingredients
Am staying with my mum this week. Since my brother went to uni last year she has stopped receiving tax credits, child benefit AND my dad's maintenance payment, which has halved her income and meant she's had to go back to her old moneysaving ways. Anyway, we had a yummy stir-fry this evening, and as a costcutting…
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Tea stains on cream leather
While giving my suite a polish over I was horrified to find tea stains, its looks like they splashed on to the bit below the cushions when some tea got knocked over and we were so busy clearing the mess up on the floor we didn't realise it had also hit the sofa, any way at all of cleaning it - I tried all the leather…
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Bicarbinate of Soda
Hi everyone, I have just bought from Sainsbury some Bicarbinate of Soda. I am going to use it in my son's nappy bin to soak up the smell. Should I be mixing it with water before I add it to my son's nappy bin or do I just sprinkle the powder at the bottom of the bin? How long does it last for? What else can I use…
