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Getting stains out of clothes
I am desperate for some help with my washing! I spend an absolute fortune on various stain remover products, from ones you spray ditrectly onto the clothes, to ones you put into the washing machine dispenser, and as far as I can tell they are all rubbish! I have 4 children who between them can cover their clothes in…
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Help - dissected chicken in the freezer!
Since getting my own chooks, I can only bring myself to buy free range chicken - and not very often at that. I went into a new butchers and the only FR chicken he had was frozen. I'd actually wanted one cut-up (jointed) so I could freeze the portions which he said he could do whilst frozen. What I actually ended up with is…
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Cleaning up um vomit
Sorry for the title of thread ds1 is sick and has done so over my matress and sofa, i have an upholstry part on my cleaner but its too heavy for me to be lugging up stairs unless im really going to have to anyway what can i use to clean up and get rid of the smell from the fabric the sofa is a dark blue so there should be…
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Freezing Rhubarb?
How do you freeze rhubarb? can you just cut it into chunks when raw and put into freezer? I have some left over. Ive heard that crumble mix doesnt freeze well? otherwise i could make a crumble and put into freezer. help please, thanks
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Help with saving budgets
Hi all, I am trying to set up a simple spending/saving plan for day to day spending. i have seen the budget plan on here,its great but would like a one just for every day spending. Just to see how much i really waste on rubbish, and where i can cut down. I need to start saving some money, and reading some of the help and…
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pasta sauce recipes
This is probably the dumbest question Ive ever asked on a public forum however.... I bought some tomatoes today as they were reduced, and I thought Id make a yummy pasta sauce with them. I remember one of my old housemates doing it, so I know it can be done LOL But how? I do have an aversion to ACTUAL tomatoes although i…
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Frugal Foodies
Apologies if this has already been mentioned - it's from yesterday's Times and includes a sample shopping list (£25 per week) on page 2 http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-2181642.html PS I hope it's OK to link to it - Mods please remove if not
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Chillies - to de-seed or not to de-seed?
This is just a quick q - I'll be home in a couple of hours and making the chilli con carne recipe from the BBC website. I have a few red chillies (medium) in the fridge, and I've never done chilli con carne using fresh chillies before. The recipe simply says that the chillies should be chopped finely - can anybody suggest…
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Veggie Meal Challenge
OK - here's a challenge. Well, it's a challenge for me, but hopefully you can help! We have visitors over the weekend, one whom is a veggie, and is also fussy! To save me having to cook seperate meals, I'd like us all to have veggie. So, I want something that looks stunning(!), and could possibly be prepared in advance. I…
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Re-hemming trousers
I have to re-hem some trousers as I need to let the hem down. So I have picked out the old hem. And I am thinking about cheating and using wonderweb type stuff to do the re-hemming. Yes being lazy I know. But one question how to I get rid of the old hem mark. Do I just wash them and keep making the area damp and ironing…
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**URGENT** - curry sauce is green!!!
Hello, making Curry Queen's curry sauce this afternoon. Have got to the stage of boiling the water, garlic and ginger in a pan for 40 mins. However I've just checked and the contents of the pan are bright green!! Aaaaaargh. Surely this can't be right?? I'm using my pressure cooker as a saucepan and it's aluminium, could…
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Spring/Summer home
What have you changed in your home for Spring/Summer. Am in need of a little inspiration, nothing that costs more than a couple of quid though.
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baking beans
I don't want to buy fancy baking beans for baking pastry cases blind etc. Can you suggest an old style alternative? Thanks
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Self Catering Holiday
Hiya, I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice? in a fortnight we are going away for our first holiday, me and dd, (and granddad also), for a week in a self catering cottage in yorkshire. I've no idea what I'll need to take (apart from "food", lol although not sure what to take in that department, or where…
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Eating on a budget and IBS
Hi everyone, my first post on this board so be nice ;) Have been diagnosed with IBS in January this year and I am supposed to be eating a little more healthy, however we are on a very tight budget and some of the things that have been suggested to me by the doctor are a bit too pricey and it also made me feel sad that my…
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Potato bake recipe please
I want to make a potato bake what do i need to make a low fat recipe apart from potato:confused:
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Red kidney beans!
Hiya. It's my first time on this forum, I'm usually found on the DFW forum. Anyway, I wondered if anyone could tell me how many beans I need. I have a recipe looking for 1lb of cooked red kidney bean. I want to know how many ounces of dry beans I need to cook. Thank you in advance.
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Duck breasts
A few weeks back I picked up three little packets of sliced duck in the Co-op, reduced to clear. I used one straight away in a stir-fry but the others are still languishing in the freezer and I was wondering what I might do with them. TBH the duck came out a bit tough in the stir fry and so I was thinking it might benefit…
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Pork Joint in SC
hello Ive got a pork joint, was thinking of putting in SC instead of usual roasting, can any help with suggestions as what to put in with it? and does the pork joints come out ok in SC? thanks
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Is this realistic?
Ok I'm really getting into this now!It's amazing how addictive SAVING money is after years of just spending it!LOL:rotfl: Anyway pre budget we used to spend a lot of ££s each week/month on food/beer/nappies etc etc.Looking through the bank statements aswell as the massive bundle of receipts stuffed in my bag I'm estimating…
