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Sunday Lunch - Remember this?
Cook off A journalist has pm'd me to say she's interested in unusual Sunday lunches and is writing an article. Anyone interested? Actually, a virtual community lunch is quite weird! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
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Sponge Flan Base Recipe ??
Hi there, Does anyone have a recipe to make the sponge base for a fruit flan? Thank u, CandyB101
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Food budget disappeared!
Hi all, not posted here before but I thought I'd have a look as my food budget seems to have disappeared this month! I have £45 left to last the rest of the month. We are moving soon so I am saving up for removal van, certain items of furniture that we will need. Really could do with not touching my savings. Unfortunately,…
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Whole Tilapia in the freezer
I went to tesco the other night and they had just reduced all of the fresh fish, i got 4 tune steaks for 10p each, and 2 tilapia fillets in carribbean marinade for 10p each. all in the freezer now! also the cat enjoyed a finest wild alaskan salmon fillet that couldn't be frozen but was only 1p!!! anyway as well as all of…
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OS Daily Friday 13th June
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 13th June. 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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Mealplans WB 13th June 2008
Hi Guys! This week we are having: Friday-Friends cooking for us:D Saturday-Tacos & Salad Sunday-Chicken, Pots & Veg Monday-Egg, Chips & Beans Tuesday-Pizza & Salad Wednesday-BBQ Thursday-Sausage, Mash & Beans Have just got back from hospital and dont have much of an appetite, but this is what OH is making and having. I…
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The least bony fish?...your help please.
Yes I know I'm too fussy. But I'm trying to introduce more fish into my diet...I quite like fish but I'm easily put off if I start finding bones. I've just had a thin slice of trout tonight, it tasted lovely but was full of tiny bones, which were probablly edible but not for me! I've tried the usual salmon, cod, haddock…
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Black water marks on the cistern
Hi yesterday my handle on the loo finally broke and I had to buy a new one .My son-in-law bless him fitted it for me and it works beautifully, only slight problem I have is that where the seal to the handle had gone there had been over the last few months a slight leak which left a black limescale marks on the cistern…
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Two questions: one about juicing, one about dried veg, please?
Hi everyone! I've just started using a juicer which we've had in storage for a while. A good friend bought it for my husband and it's a Magimix one, so I figured we'd better start putting it to use. B*gger to clean, mind you. I do feel very torn about using it as sticking fresh fruit in it and leaving the fibres behind…
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how do i.... remove permenant black pen from a white top
i know the whole point of it meaning permenant is permenant but i got a top and has got a little black dot of permenant pen right in the middle so very noticeable. Any ideas how to remove if any?
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OS daily thread Thursday 12th June
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 12th June. 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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Spinach & Red Onion
Bread.............:j I have made spinach & red onion bread. My spinach was going to seed and I thought I would make some bread, I got a recipe from MRSMACAWBER but it had bacon bits in but I changed it as we dont all like bacon so I got the breadmaker out and went and got the spinach which hhad gone to seed chopped it up…
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Preserving Swede/mushrooms and Peppers
This is my first post so let's hope it goes well. I have quite an addiction to buying veg so I have stacks ( a whole fridge full) and need to know how to preserve it ie to freeze Mushrooms, peppers - all sorts and swede and maybe parnsips. Can I just stick it in? What do I need to do.? Freezer space is not a problem and I…
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Beetles down chimney
Help! Over the last week i've found about a dozen beetles on their backs on my hearth. I've just been brave enough to pull the grate out and there's another dozen dead beetles underneath the fake coals. It's one of those gas fires that looks like a real one. It's put on about once every three months for a few minutes to…
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Challenge to Old Stylers: Peruvian Corn
Hello OSers OK here's the challenge. When on holiday recently - the MSF and I ate Peruvian Corn in a restaurant. This is huge corn, some of the individual pieces are over half an inch wide... but we can't find it anywhere in the UK to buy and cook it... Does anyone know - can anyone help? Martin :)
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Crackers and Pork
Right i found a box of stale crackers in the cupboard last night and as I'm an OS'er in training I decided to bash them up to make some sort of coating for the Whoopsied Organic pork escalopes i ppicked up for 50p in Asda last night....I wsa thinking it would make a kind of pork schnitzel type thing? but I'm not really…
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Help de-fluffing my sofa!
Hi Guys Have a terracotta sofa which looks gorgeous with nice black scatter cushions on it, problem is it is absolutely horrendous to clean! It (and the cushions) appear to have some magic dust/fluff magnet and for some reason the fluff always looks blue! Whats that all about?! Anyway I have spent a small fortune on…
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Black laundry and fluff.
Hi all, hope someone can help me. I've just done a dark wash and all my black tshirts and jumpers are covered with white fluff, I think it could be from one of the jumpers. They seem deep engrained and don't think a clothes brush is going to help. Any way for me to get my clothes back to black? Also any tips for washing so…
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questions re honey & vinegar.
Can you store honey ? How long for ? And is there anywhere to bulk buy a lot of vinegar? What kind of places have it ? TY :D
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What to do with Sugar Puffs?
Hi all, We recently bought some Sugar Puffs on BOGOF as my son loved them but then he got a sick bug and because the last thing he ate was SPuffs he will not eat them any more!! Now I will eat them occssionally but I still have the best part of 2 boxes left and I know the opened one will just solidify if they don't get…
