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No time, no money - mealplan help please!
I've just had a baby and so we're on severely reduced income and I'm spending every waking hour (this is a lot!) breastfeeding him. I'm aiming to get down to £25-30/week all in for two adults. I'm trying to lose a bit of weight and DP is a big hungry lad who takes a packed lunch (has to be sandwiches - he thinks pasta…
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Sunlight fading carpets - will net curtains help?
We are fortuntate enough to have a very sunny house, the sun pours into the dining room. However this is causing our carpet to fade. If we put net curtains up at the patio doors will this stop the carpet from fading any more? Thanks
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Silicone cake moulds
Hello I've managed to aquire some shaped silicone moulds but on the instructions it doesn't say anything about greasing the moulds before baking a cake in them never used these before so do I grease them or not:confused: tia pam
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wannabe knitter
Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows of a book I could get that would teach me to cast on and cast off? I used to do knitting with my mum but she always did that bit for me to save time. Thanks a lot sam
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Thursday 13/9/07 OS Daily Thread
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Thursday 13th Sept '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,…
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Cheap massages in London?
I know there are cheap haircuts but are there cheap beauty treatments in London? Has anyone have a place they can recommend? Ta much!
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Hell's Kitchen Basic Menu/Meals
Not sure if anyone has been watching it, but tonight Marco the chef changed the menu, to OS meals. Such as, shepherds pie, fish n chips, trifle, etc. What are your favorite basic O/S meals? Mine are savoury mince/shepherds pie Bubble & squeek bangers n mash Toad in the hole Stew & Dumplings Cheese pasta bake Good old Beans…
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cooking "proper" rice and burt pan
hi i bought a huge suppy of proper rice rather then buying the expensive rice in a bag and microwave for a minute. i tried cooking it lastnight and i dont know what went wrong but half of it wasnt cooked and i burnt the pan. so how do i cook it? and how do i get a really burnt pan back to normal? thank you in advance
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First Slow Cooker Experience...Help!
Right, I've followed the recipe out of the slow cooker manual, almost to the letter (except that I added a leek as well) So my 3.5 Litre slow cooker now has in it 600g Caserole Steak 2.5 Smallish potatoes (should be 2 medium) 2 Carrots 1 leek 2 small onions (should be 1 large) 300 ml beer 200 ml beeb stock only the water…
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Recipes NOT to be repeated!!
I'm SO :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:!!!! I tried making Nigella Lawson's Fried Calamari which not only was horribly expensive (£7 on the calamari for 2 people :eek:) but it didn't work. The cornflour/semolina mix came off the calamari in the oil. I even went to the trouble of making…
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Veg Delivery boxes in Stoke on Trent
If anyone is interested i have just recieved an email from boxfresh organics saying that they are starting to deliver in the stoke on trent area on a wednesday, also northern harvest are now also starting to deliver in Stoke on a friday. Links Below http://www.northernharvest.co.uk/ www.boxfreshorganics.co.uk HTH
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Cold pasta dishes for a buffet - ideas please!
I've agreed to help my sister with buffet for my BIL's 30th party and said I'd do some pasta salad dishes. Does anyone have any ideas for some dishes, need at least one for veggies and one tuna one. Shes the most un-OS person I know and has helpfully suggested I can just go a buy some from M&S and they'd be fine:rotfl:…
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Does your slow cooker bubble or boil?
Hi I have bought an Antony Worrall Thomson slow cooker, but since this is my first one I am not sure how they should behave. I wouldn't have expected a slow cooker to boil but the instruction booklet warns that if you operate the slow cooker on high it will boil. Mine doesn't boil or bubble or anything like that, and I…
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Help me make a cleaning rota
Ok so many of you may have read previous posts by me - i need some help getting my head round this cleaning lark. My son starts school today (well nursery) and i want to make a rota i can do round him so that cleanign is doenadn i can enjoy time by myself and with him when hes around rahter than havign to clean all the…
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latest prices increase on food how will it effect your food budgeting ?
over on a thread in shop but dont drop board..... they are saying about the big jump in prices of certain fod items.. like bread going from 80p a loaf to £1.15 ( hovis invisable crust) 6pts of milk in tescos going up to £1.96 butter going up by a large sum..... when i was in the butchers last week buying a turkey…
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Ironed logo on t-shirt
Master tru has just ironed his t-shirt, it's light blue with a dark blue logo. He ironed straight over the logo and it's now smudged :rolleyes: Is there any way of getting the smudged bit off? The logo feels slightly rubbery but I'm not sure what it's made of :confused: Brand new t-shirt - typical :rolleyes:
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Shower Gel
Can anybody explain why retailers, Sainsbury for example, charge 50p + for a 400ml of their own brand shower gel, but sell what is basically the same stuff (check the ingredients) as creme bath in 2 Ltr bottles for about £1? I've been buying bubble bath and using it as shower gel for years, and it works a treat. Why pay…
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Old Style Wednesday 12th September 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 12th September 2007. 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,…
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Kosher salt.....
Any ideas what it is, where to get it from and what a substitute for it would be? I was watching The Barefoot Contessa and she always uses kosher salt. It is similar to rock salt etc? Thanks
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Can I freeze roast beef
I cooked a huge joint of beef yesterday, had it for dinner yesterday and today, but still have a huge lump left, I would like to make it into a curry, but will not have time to do it till next week, so is it ok to freeze it ? Thanks Redruby x
