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Peanut popcorn recipe
I'm not sure if this is allowed but I was browsing the food magazines while waiting for the train and it was this month's delicious or Good Food where there is a sticky peanut popcorn recipe to be served as half of a desert. I don't suppose anyone who subscribes could copy it here? Thanks :)
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School dinner @ £1.20 vs a lunchbox meal?
ive got untill the start of new half term (ie november) to decide what ds will be having at lunchtime when he starts on full days, if i ask him 1 day its school dinners next its lunchs anyway back to my question/advice needed (sorry !) a school lunch is £1.20 menus are given weekly (i think) vs my lunch that at the moment…
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Garlic Sauce
Hi, does anyone know how to make the garlic sauce you get in pizza and kebab shops. I love the stuff, but I would much prefer to make my own. Cheers x :beer:
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Weekly Flylady Thread 29th September 2008
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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Does rice do this to you too, and how to avoid it?
Not sure if OS is the right place for this, so apologies to the BGs... I've had a very simple but tasty wholegrain rice dish for lunch, and loved every bit of it. I would have rice more often, but after a couple of hours of eating it I start feeling really sharp hunger pangs. I mean real HUNGER, and only rice does that to…
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Have you ever been on a cookery course?
If so (doesn't matter what course, when, where, the level of difficulty) I'd love to hear your views on.... Did the teacher/tutor demonstrate and cook at the same time as you - so you and the tutor ended up with a finished article, or did they not cook at all? Just show you how to chop etc? Did they gather you around and…
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Indecisive about money-saving on lunches.
Hello. Could do with some help on deciding cheapest/healthiest route to go please. For lunch each day OH and I take sandwiches (him 2, me 1) plus 1 apple and 1 orange. However, I'm trying to decide if it would be cheaper to take something homebaked rather than the fruit. Trying to cost certain recipes for scones etc but it…
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Smelly Bathroom Drain help
Hi I have a level access bathroom, with a shower, that drains into the floor. This has become very smelly - probably old hair and disgusting stuff. What suggestions to people have regarding cleaning it. It runs into the same drain as the toilet, so will end up in the sewerage system, but I'd rather not buy something…
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Baking utensil - name?!
My hands really ache when I'm rubbing butter/flour together to use in recipes (scones, rock cakes etc). My mum used to have a baking utensil that did the job but I don't know what it was?! It was D shaped - the handle was the straight bit & it was either wood or plastic, and the curved bit was 3 or 4 metal strips? I've…
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Kneading paddle for fastbake breadmaker
Ive just realised that after making the last loaf of bread the kneading paddle got stuck in the bottom of the loaf of bread....now i have since thrown the bread away and yes...the paddle was still in the bread! :mad: Ive looked on the morphy richards website and it says the paddle is no longer available, i was just…
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sweetcorn &babies?
Can they eat it? she is about 9months old. Am talking fresh corn on the cob (obviously I dont expect her to chew it off the cob :rotfl:) Just thought fresh from the garden they are so sweet but unsure whether can digest it etc or if there is any danger from it:confused:
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OS Daily Thread - Sunday 28th September
Hi, this is the OS Daily thread for the 28th September. It 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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Good Food Show Birmingham Nov
Hello, Just been reading about this in the magazine & I really fancy a trip. Just wondering what others have thought of previous shows?
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take the itch out my trousers?
I work for ASDA, we need to wear the trousers provided, problem is that they make me itch like crazy at the top of my legs and my crotch area. They are the right size but made of that cheap trousers stuff, cheaper than the material used in the £5 George trousers we sell. My question is is there any way to take the itch out…
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Maybe the wonderful OSers can help me - toothpaste stain on a knitted cotton top
Is there anything I can do? My favourite jumper and I got toothpaste on it, and it hasn't come off in the wash. I hate to say it but it almost looks like it's bleached the fabric - is there anything I can do? I will be gutted if it's ruined forever :( :( :(
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October 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.
Hello everyone, Welcome to the tenth Grocery Challenge of 2008. :hello: If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your September budget, then keep on posting in the September Grocery Challenge. As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you…
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Cooking with alcohol.
What do you do if you want to cook a recipe and it tells you to add aclohol to it, but, your wanting to give it to children :confused: . Is there anything I can substitute for the alcohol? Jackie
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Keeping parsley fresh
I was given a large amount of parsley today from my green grocer and there's enough to last me a few weeks. What's the best way to preserve it, it's still on the stock. I've read a few methods, like freezing it (unwashed) in an air tight container, storing it unwashed in an air-tight container or placing it in water like…
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Why do i get white lines on Black jeans?
Sorry if this is in the wrong place.... I have no idea why all our black jeans get white lines when they are washed, is there a special way of washing them? Am i the only one with this problem?
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Stuffed crust pizza
Hi, as my bread maker is well and truly dusted off and producing bread at rate of knots :T, I thought today I would have an attempt at the pizza dough. I would love to have a go at making the stuffed crust varieties that you get in Pizza Hut etc, but I have absolutely no idea where to start. Does anyone have any hints and…
