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lining kitchen shelves
my oh is fitting our new kitchen next week and i can't wait:j we've had the money since we got married aug 2006 but in true os it's been sitting in an isa until i made my mind up what i wanted. well you don't rush these things do you? what i want to know is i saw anthea putting newspaper on the top of the units which i…
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Is your toilet cleaner than your fridge?
After confessing to my terrible oven cleaning (or lack of it) it got me thinking about other neglected areas of the house. I then came to the conclusion that my toilet IS cleaner than my fridge!!!!!!!! I clean the loo every day but only do the fridge when it gets really grotty!!!!!! ANYONE ELSE WILLING TO CONFESS!!!!!
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cleaning ovens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello after spending my morning scraping the oven doors with a wallpaper scraper:embarasse :embarasse to get the burnt on food off. I now need some way of cleaning the inside that doesn't involve nasty chemicals (or money) Any tips for a bad housewife trying to mend her ways???? (other than not letting it get that bad in…
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Can anyone help with butter free crumble mix please?
I've spent all morning chopping up and de-mankying a shed load of windfall apples and last leg blackberries and stewed them , and I think I should turn them into something before I freeze them as otherwise they'll just be bags of purple lurking for months (years??!) in the freezer. I fancied doing crumble but have loads of…
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OS DAILY - MONDAY 24th SEPTEMBER 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Monday 24th September. 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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Quick query about making my own Christmas Cake
Hi I would be grateful if someone could help me with a couple of queries that I have in making my own christmas cake. Yes I am going to attempt to make my own - I am going to take my time following the receipe carefully and fingers crossed it comes out ok. Yje receipe that I am going to use is Delia Smiths classic…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 24th September 2007
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. 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 enjoy it! Following requests to start things steadier for…
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EMERGENCY - All Spice Alternative
I have just come into the kitchen to try the Jamaican Rice with Peas, which calls for All Spice in the recipe. I thought I have some, but its Spice Mix I have, which appears to be for fruit rather than a rice dish. Is there any alternative to this? TIA, Me!
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Wow! What a difference
The consumer magazine Which? Is 50 years old and it has been looking back at how spending patterns have changed over that time. A few examples: * In 1957 housing costs were 8.7% of average income by 2004 it was 22% * In 1957 more than 33% of average income went on food now it is less than 10% A typical shopping basket…
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Indian Curry Recipe Needed!
Please help! Having try so my curry rceipes it still doesnt taste like the takeaways, its costing us a fortune as i love curry and have at least 5 a week!!! ( i cant :shhh: help it) i like the thick currys bangladesh style! i think they use a curry paste's. If theres any indain cooks out there please help me! thank you…
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Mealplans for week 22nd September
Hi-hope it is ok to start this week's thread, couldn't see one already up and running:confused: -if I've missed it, please merge/move-thanks! I always find I need to get this done by Sunday evening otherwise it all goes to pot (no pun intended) by the time I shop on Monday morning:o :eek: This week we should be having....…
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alternative uses for silicone muffin tray???
just found a web site where someone made the eggs for their eggs benedict in their silicone muffin tray- ingenoius I thought! the eggs were a perfect shape then to fit on the muffins. Apart from sweet and/or savoury muffins, anyone else got any ingenious uses for a silicone muffin tray? I just thought of one, little fruite…
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Cooking chocolate
I bought 2 bars of Green and Blacks cooking chocolate but now I don't know what to do with it. Nearly all the choccy recipes I can find use cocoa not chocolate so I am a bit stuck. Does anyone have any recipes for stuff that I can take into work like traybakes etc? I had a look in the index and they were mainly cocoa…
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Washing/Clothes Line
Hello All, My garden is surrounded by trees so is quite sheltered. My clothes dry well in the summer when it is sunny, but at this time of year onwards I find that even if I hang out my washing first thing, by the end of the day it is hardly any drier. I use both a straight washing line and a rotary drier. When I was a…
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Bland Risotto.
I made a butternut squash risotto yesterday. I had one recently in a Brewers Fayre and it was delish, probably full of butter. I made a weightwatchers one (currently trying to slim) and despite following the recipe it lacked something. It was basically these ing. butternut s. risotto rice, wine, sage, onion and olive oil.…
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Sauce help please..
Hi, At an Italian resturant we go to, they srve this lovely chicken breat with like a creamy mushroom sauce and i am trying to find out how to make something similiar. Ive not had much luck trying to search for recipes. I have got garlic, mushrooms and single cream. Do i just fry a bit of onion/garlic/mushrooms and then…
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beef olives?
Was at butchers yesterday and he had a special on lovely looking beef olives. Bought them, got home, then realised don't know how to cook them! Anyone? And can they be frozen?
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Help Biro Ink in the Dryer Drum!!
My sister a student nurse has borrowed my washer and dryer and must have left a biro in her uniform - There is now biro ink smeared in the drum of my dryer!!!!:mad: What will get rid of it!! Anything to get it out of clothes too!!:rolleyes: Rsdiscos wife
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OS Cleaning
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/style/eco_cleaning.html This has got tips on natural (and cheaper!) cleaning products, and how and where to use them.
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OS Daily Sunday 23rd September 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 23/09. 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…
