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casserole help needed!
Suddenly I have an extra mouth to fee this evening. I have defrosted some lamb casserole but it was a bit sparse on meat anyway and stretching it to 3 means there will be very little meat each. I can do heaps of extra veg and potato but is there anyway I can disguise the lack of meat without it being obvious that we are…
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help - think i made a mistake
ok I was making a chocolate type tray bake - with melted chocolate, butter and golden syrup. I am doing it in a loaf tin and decided to layer with milk and white chocolate - i.e a layer of milk then white then milk. Anyway when I did the white chocolate it looked very caramelly - I just though maybe thats what happened…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 12th March 2007
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread, usually ran by Moggins but I'm just filling in temporarily. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to…
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Beansprouts with the beans on!
Another veg box question, sorry! This week I got a lovely looking tub of mixed beansprouts (aduki, mung, chickpeas, lentils I think),all with the little bean on the end. I have used beanspouts a lot for stirfrys etc but normally just the supermarket ones in a bag. Can I just use these ones the same way, bean and all?! Or…
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Lidl Meat
Hello, I know there have been the best things to buy at Lidl discussions before, but I wanted to ask a more direct question. - do you buy meat from Lidl ? and if you do which do you recommend ? I always buy my fruit drinks/biscuits/sweets/chocolate and frozen pizza there, but I am very unsure about their meat - I have this…
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What can I use Stardrops for?
I'm trying to use up some of my old chemical cleaning products and not replace them - but can I use Stardrops for everything? Washing the floor? Cleaning the shower? Cleaning the oven? Any advice on using Stardrops much appreciated!
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MealPlans WB 11th March 2007
Another week gone:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Here's my weeks menu! Sunday: Chops in Celery sauce, mash, carrots & brocolli Monday: Chicken Cassarole Tuesday: Toad In Hole, mash, carrots & sweetcorn Wednesday: Chicken, roasties, swede, peas & yorkies Thursday: Shepherds Pie, cabbage and carrots Friday: Egg, chips & beans…
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Alternatives to Persil Colour Liquid
Hi, hopefully someone can help. Looking at ways to cut the budget down. I always use persil colour liquid for washing my coloureds. Does anyone know of any good alternatives, ie recommend any supermarkets own brand. Any help gratefully received.
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Egg recipes to freeze
Help - found myself with a dozen large eggs out of date emmm..... 2 days ago. Am looking for a spanish omelettey type thingy but all recipes I've seen say not to freeze? I don't like puddings and am trying to stay off pastry so quiche out (however, if you can freeze quiche would have thought you could freeze omelette? What…
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advice pls can we still eat this?
Hi all, I cooked some beef in gravy from the receipe collection and my husband forgot the place it in the fridge. It's now two days old (in the fridge from yesterday) and I just want some reassurence that its ok. Two little ones, so I need to be sure. Sorry if its confusing, like a mad house here! MM
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Help preventing mould
Hello all, I'm quite a newbie to os but have already benefitted from many of your tips - Thanks:T I have been in this house a year and it really suffers from condensation and consequently I end up with mould on my window sills. Is there anything you can advise a) to remove it and b)to stop it coming back? Any wise words…
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OS thread SUNDAY 11th March 07
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 11/3.07. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come…
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Buying food on a daily basis?
I'm totally fed up of throwing food out - as background, OH works quite long hours, and I'm never sure when he's going to be home for dinner, and I temp and have started a new contract working 3 days a week for about 3 months. it came to a head towards the end of last week when I realised that I'd taken something out of…
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help - freezing pork pie
We were given a large pork pie (rectangle and about as long as a newborn baby!) Anyway I don't like it so it would only be OH eating it and I really don't think he will get through it all. Are there any other uses for it? Can it be frozen?
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Washing
Just been sorting some of my washing out as I have loads to do at some point and was wondering how to sort it out into piles that would wash the best. I have put all my jeans/trousers together but have just seen a tip on a site that said mix small and large items as the small items will move around so it will be a better…
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Pancetta - can I still eat it?
I've got a vacuum sealed pack of cubed pancetta in the fridge with no date on it. Do you think it is still safe to eat? I remember buying it from Tesco's about a month ago and it came in 2 sections. The 1st section I used for a recipe so that side of the pack must have had the use by date on it! I do think that it is a bit…
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Waitrose - Great Free Recipes
Had a wonder through Waitrose yesterday - like to see how the rich folk live:rotfl: They do give away some really good literature found a recipe for Goan Chicken with Mango & yogurt chutney. I made it and it tastes great (having it for dinner tonight). I couldn't afford to buy all the things in Waitrose - Mango £1 :eek: v…
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Lemon, Coconut Slice
Afternoon all, Bought some of these from the farm shop the other day and I have to say they were extremely yummy but at £1.90 for 4 slices I'm sure I could make them cheaper. They had a sort of pastry base which was very light and soft and then a layer of lemon something:confused: possibly lemon curd but not sure and…
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Jam sandwich biscuits?
Anyone got a recipe for jam sandwich biscuits? Do I bake the biscuits seperately, then add the jam and sandwich OR do I layer biscuit, jam, biscuit then bake? My 4 year old wants to buy them from the school tuck shop (not at 30p a biscuit!!) and as far as I can work out from his description, they are a tray bake of some…
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O/S Wedgie coating?
Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a great day. Just done my online shop and as usual ordered 2 packets of onion and chive wedgie coating (kids absolutely love them). Two packs = 85p. My question is this, is there a way of making my own coatings and if so can any of you good people let me know how exactly. Sorry if…
