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Asian Supermarkets-How Do I Find One?
Hi All, I keep hearing mention of Asian Supermarkets being great places to buy things in bulk.ie.vinegar etc. Can anyone tell me how I go about finding one near to me? Is there a chain of them? Many Thanks, Allison.
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Blowing the dust off the breadmaker, need some advise please?
I am so totally inspired by you all this afternoon & wondered if anyone could help me? I have a Morphy Richards Fastbake breadmaker, but i've lost the instructions, does anyone have a basic recipie for it? I've found a basic bread recipie on here but that I can try, but which order do I put the ingredients in? Also do you…
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Easy/cheap/studenty recipes for one or more please.
I want to make my youngest sister up a hamper and a recipe booklet for Uni in September. Must be cheap store cupboard type ingredients that she maybe only has to buy only a couple of ingredients for the rercipe. Anyone got any good ones? She's also currently doing Weight Watchers so lower calorie/fat recipes would be…
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What to do with 4 pints of Double cream
As the title says I have 4 pints of the stuff that goes out of date today - got it for 10p at my local makro - couldnt resist !!!! Dont have time to really make ice cream so any other suggestions would be great. Hmmm, I also have four bags of frozen rhubarb ??? I wonder ???
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Fantastic recipe book for jams, preserves and chutneys
As we are coming into the Autumn I thought I'd recommend a book that has proved so useful to me over the years. It's called The Basic Basics Jam, preserves and Chutneys handbook by Marguerite Patten. It really is a complete guide suitable for all levels of ability. On the back its says; "The complete guide to successful…
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cloth nappies and leaking wraps
Hello all :) Hoping I'm posting this in the right place I use terry squares for my little ones bottom with nature babies wraps, however latley the wraps have been leaking......infact all the front of the wrap leaks....I'm having to change the wrap with every terry at the mo. Night time is awful..I have to change him during…
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Blackberries & eating apples
I've discovered some blackberries in my garden (they may be some other berry as they're quite big!). What can I do with these and eating apples (of which I have many)?! Thanks Punky
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Tchibo mouli..
I have been after one of these for a while but even on ebay they are very expensive I found this one in Tchibo for £8.99 if anyone else is after one The item no is 022613.They also have a steam juicer for £25 which is really cheap and I just HAD to have one...:rolleyes: Apologies if its already been posted!
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Are slow cookers worth it?
I've been reading through alot of the threads on here, you all have such fab ideas for inexpensive meals, I'm going to start planning for next week in a bit. I dont have a slow cooker, but am thinking of investing, is a basic model as good as the more expensive ones? I will hopefully be returning to work soon (after 7…
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Burnt pan!
Hi, please help, I have done something really silly! Put an empty pan on top of the stove with the lid inside (didnt realise the cooker ring was on!) so the plastic handle from the pan lid has melted inside the saucepan Is there any way I can save my pan, and remove the burnt plastic? I know I know how can someone be so…
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The shocking truth about bread and why you should make your own..
Interesting article in todays Independent and a good argument for owning a breadmaker or making your own by hand.... " Flour, yeast, water and salt - a traditional loaf needs only four ingredients. So why are calcium propionate, amylase, chlorine dioxide and L-cysteine hydrochloride now crammed into our daily bread? Andrew…
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Wildfood recipe site
With all this talk of free wildfood foraging thought the following site may be of interest. It has some free recipes aswell as a free e-book to download [which I haven't checked out] https://www.countrylovers.co.uk and go to the really wild food link Aril
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Washing soaked by rain - advice for drying!
Hi - sorry for the wierd title, but really need help here... I did a huge load of washing early yesterday morning, put it out in the sunshine, went to work and it rained. Anyway, the washing is now soaked (literally dripping), and no chance of drying today as they forecast rain so I didn't put it out before leaving for…
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any recommendations for canned food?
ok guys some of you might already know that on Monday, we would be living on a campsite... which means we would have to eat canned food. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as to what to cook with canned ingredients. i already know that a tin of tuna into a tin of mixed veggies is quite yummy, but we would…
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Help - my 10 jars of tomato chutney are too runny.
Have grown my own tomatoes and made green tomato chutney yesterday - 10 jars. Unfortunately it is too runny, I could scream. Made it last year and it was lovely. Think I haven't let the vinegar evaporate enough. Don't know whether to put it back in the pan and boil it down, re sterilise jars or should I just chuck it. Any…
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Master to do lists
OK, Feeling inspired I decided to create a master to do list (well a spreadsheet) that I can add to and check things off as done so I can see that I am doing things. :D Basically rather than posting the whole spreadsheet I’ll give you an idea and hopefully people can comment, let me know if I’ve missed anything or post…
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Coconut Bread
Does anyone have a recipe for Coconut Bread? I've looked on the recipe threads but can't find anything Not sure if this is a 'traditional' bread or more of a 'bun loaf' thing. We got addicted to it on holiday and would love to make some. Thanks
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help me decide what to cook tonight
Ok We are off away tomorrow, and as a result I dont really want to buy any more provisions, so.... this is what I have in- inspire me 2x cod fillets ( never cooked them the other day in the end, I have the fear!) half bag oven chips bag pasta bag couscous ( OH not keen on this really lol ) Loads of mushrooms Carrots 2x red…
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Ever made people stare?
I popped into the local market yesterday to buy my ingredients for my soup. The guy was binning a load of stuff, and rather than ask for it I just popped back later! I got about 5kg of bananas just entering their brown period! Bananas will be going into a cake tonight as well as making banana beer = )
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os menopause
I am 42 and I missed my last two monthlys. I did a test and I am not pregnant. Is it the menopause? I thought you got that when your in your 50s. If its the menopause are there any os remedies to help symptoms like hot flushes? TBH I'm nervous about all of this.
