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Dried Beans
Any tips and advice where you buy yours from in bulk? I really don't want to spend so much money on a little pack at Sainsburys.... sorry if this has been asked before - I tried searching the forum - but try searching for beans.... Thank you
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Instant Milk/Powdered Milk/Milk Powder
I'm probably being a bit thick but I've got a couple of recipes in front of me. One calls for milk powder, the other powdered milk and I've actually got instant milk. Are these all the same things or are they all different? :o
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Calling All Old Style Money Savers... & potential TV Stars.
We’re producing a brand new Channel Five Series called “It Pays To Watch” presented by Martin Lewis. We are currently looking for people who would like to share their ‘old style’ money saving tips with the nation. We will come to film at your home and all you have to do is show us some of your favourite money saving tips.…
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Ok, I'm back...
And after my burgers ended up being 3 foot high mega burgers with lots of sludge hanging around the baking tray, and my corned beef hash had me eating for 2 weeks, I want to try something new :D That lot didnt go down to well, but hoping this might! I got a chicken, never cooked one whole before. So, whats the best method…
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Turkey Curry Help!!!
Hi there, I could do with a little bit of help please. I did a full Xmas dinner yesterday (for best friends and goddaughter!) and now have the usual left over turkey. It's the first time I have cooked a Xmas dinner so first time I have had the lovely leftovers. Lucky me:j :j I did a turkey crown so only have white meat,…
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Tuna and mayonaise pasta
Hi all Am trying to cut down my spends on food and one of my biggest short-comings is buying lunch at work sooo, i love tuna and mayo pasta so much so i could eat it every lunch time and not be bothered at all, only problem is i don't know how long it would keep could i do a big batch on sunday to last through to friday or…
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O.S Daily thread Mon 17/12/07
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 17/12/07. 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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Last minute Turkey (playing chicken)
Hello - I may being a tad insane here, what I have in mind is hanging on until Christmas eve (Monday) to buy the Turkey. I have £50 in M&S tokens having bought the Daily Mail for a few weeks; so my plan is to go there first. I remember from last Christmas Eve's people shoving anything into their trolleys at Tesco's with…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 17th December 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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Help please---visitors over Xmas!!
We moved to our new house in September. Most of our family and friends havent been to see us yet so we have invited a few round over Xmas!!!!!!I am really not a very good hostess---I honestly dont enjoy cooking or baking and as much as i enjoy people visiting I dont know what to make them to eat.I am going to ask them over…
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Ideas for savoury dish for party
Hi My daughter has a school party on tomorrow and she brought a note home on thursday to say that she needs to provide a savoury dish for 4 people. We have been seriously busy car hunting this weekend and haven't been to the shops. Someone else will be providing sandwiches and crisps and cakes. We were thinking of mini…
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Mince pies.
I thought Mince pies were meant to be a sweet but all the recipes I have seen for them say "mince meat". So how can you have a sweet with meat into?
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Help with coconut ice
Afternoon everyone, I've just tried making coconut ice for the first time, and I'm not sure that it's quite worked. Here's the recipe: 225g caster sugar 75ml milk 75ml desiccated coconut Then the same again, plus red food colouring Dissolve the sugar in the milk and bring to the boil. Then boil gently for 10 minutes.…
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Strange meal traditions
Just been reading the macaroni as a dessert thread. At this time of year, we'll all be either going to other people's homes or having them come to us. Do you have any strange meal traditions to share? My ex-inlaws have a really strange tea. I'm used to there being plates of sandwiches, cakes etc., in the middle of the…
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Helping others for FREE!
Official MoneySavingExpert.com Note: MoneySaving's all about cutting the cost without cutting back and website Justfortheloveofit.org is a great example of that. It's aim is to share what skills, tools and land we all have amongst our communities for free, thereby reducing the purchase of material goods. It's completely…
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Food help
Hi all was on Weight watchers points plan so my spending was limited to things i could easily point lol. Changing plan to one where i can eat any non processed food. Couple of Questions 1. What is the ideal spend per week/month on a family of 2 + 2 cats 2. Whats the best things to buy? Any other advice would be brill, we…
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Throwing food in the bin
I know that most people on these MSE forums are very careful about not wasting food and utilising leftovers and so on, but how many of you know people that are wasteful about food? We had a kind of Christmas do at my DH's dad's place, and at the end of the meal, there were tons of leftovers... from curries and papadums…
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OS Daily Thread Sunday 16/12/07
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sat 15/12/07. 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…
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DADDIES Sauce
While I am aware that HP Sauce is now being made on the continent, I cannot recall hearing whether or not manufacturers have 'pulled the plug' as no matter where I look it hasn't been on the shelves. I wonder if anyone else experienced problems in finding it?
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No turkeys!!!!!
I've just tried to organise an online shop with Tesco for some xmas food only to find they have no turkeys whatsoever, fresh or frozen!!! :eek: Is this a national thing or just my local store? I can't beleive I can't even buy a frozen turkey as they're usually trying to sell them off cheap after xmas!!! Would I be too late…
