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Garlic Wash - Any Ideas of Boiled/Chopped Garlic?
Don't know how many of you read the Greenfingered Moneysaving Thread but some of us have a snail/slug problem. One of the solutions suggested was to make a garlic wash by boiling up two chopped bulbs of garlic in water and then diluting to and use to water plants. Well I now have my garlic infusing in the water after…
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Anyone having problems getting hold of easiyo?
Hello, I've had a yogurt maker for a few weeks and have used easiyo sachets as well as making my own yogurt from starter, but I seem to be having difficulty getting hold of easiyo sachets through the web and also in shops. Does anyone know if they are being discontinued in this country or something and what is a good…
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Any useful ways to use slats..
I am putting up wooden venetian blinds and have loads of slats to remove to shorten them , I am loathe to just chuck them in the bin as they are a really nice pale wood and there must be a good way to use them .. Any ideas welcome? Some are 2' long and some are 6'...
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Recipe Help
Hi Everyone, This is my first post on the O/S board, im all nervous, lol. Im really hoping you guys can help, in an endeavour to sort ourselves our financially and health wise and are going to go back to doing a weekly meal plan. :beer: We have done this before and normally it works fine until we reach week three which…
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Good Quality Butcher in Enfield
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OS daily thread Tuesday 27th May
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 27th May. 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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Soup!
I'm thinking of doing a stew/casserole type thing for Wednesday night's tea. This will involve making it tomorrow night and Slow Cooking it while I'm at work Wed. I plan to use the following "recipe":- 1. Pork (cheap in Tesco today - was going to be lamb but ran out!) 2. Seasonal vegetables (can't remember what was in the…
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Damper bread
does anyone have a recipe for this? Ray Mears is cooking it on the tv now.
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How do you do it?
I've just been moaning on the DFW board about my finances - I've been keeping a spending diary for the past month and things are much worse than I thought. Anyway, one area I really MUST tackle is my food spending. Despite my very best intentions I'm the world's worst OS when it comes to cooking/planning. I never manage to…
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Tumble dryers
Before i moved i sold my all singing all danceing condenser tumble dryer a) for space reasons (i was not sure id fit it in anywhere) and b) i was simply using it as it was there (washing was comeing out the machine and straight into tumble dryer) however this new house is tiny so even hanging out washing to dry is hard…
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Fresh orange spilt on my slate hearth!
I don't know if this is the right board to ask this so mods please could you move to the correct place if wrong, thanks. My daughter spilt fresh orange on my black slate hearth and it has taken the colour out and has become a white patch. I have tried everything but nothing is working to restore it back to black. Has…
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sweetcorn in the oven?
Hiya, I am planning on cooking ribsand chicken nigella style tom evening when a friend comes round. We are also going to have roasted spuds and corn on the cob, but I dont really want to have to use the hob as well as the oven (its electric and seems to eat the electricty despite being A rated when I bought it 2 years ago)…
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Feeding yourself on BOGOFS & other special offers
I'm intrigued to wonder how possible it would be to feed yourself for a week by merely buying BOGOFS, "two for the price of one" or other special offers from supermarkets. It would probably be a rather wierd diet but if everybody would post the BOGOFS we come across and which supermarket, it might provide an idea of what…
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Tomato ketchup wastage
Has anybody else noticed how difficult it is to remove the last dregs of Heinz tomato ketchup from their upside-down bottles these days? The plastic bottles seem to have lost their squeeze factor which makes it impossible to remove quite a large quantity of the sauce. Does anybody have suggestions on how to extract this?…
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What can I replace bananas with in a recipe
Have got a recipe for banana and butterscotch loaf that I use, which I would like to make today but have no bananas and don't want to go to the shops for one ingredient. The recipe uses 3 bananas, anyone know if I could use dates or something different instead?
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slow cooker bread
i seem to remember a thread with info on cooking bread in a slow cooker can anyone please point me in the right direction i dont seem to get on with the search facility :( thanks in advance
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OS daily thread Monday 26th May
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 26th May. 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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Slow cooker with timer???
Hi there, I am a fairly new slow cooker user and have a Anthony Worrall-Thompson 4.5 litre one which I have used successfully for lots of meals BUT I have had a few go wrong where the food is very tasteless and to my mind overcooked - an example being when I did a pork joint with peppers, onions and loads of spices (a…
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Use up mini raisin wheats??
I've got half a box of raisin wheats my OH like but has gone off eating cereal. I don't fancy them myself, any ideas how I can use them up please or are they destined to go to the bird table? PS like baby shredded wheat with a raisin in the middle
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Does anyone make their own Tea Towels?
Hi It might be a weird question, but I get fed up of stained old tea towels and would love an economical way of making my own fresh supply. I wondered if there was a tea towel-ish type of material I could buy by the metre that I could cut up and machine the edges to make my own, and if anyone already does this? I could…
