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What can I put in a pack up for 8year old for the whole day
My daughter is going on a school day trip this week and needs to take a day's worth of food! They leave at 6am and home about 6.30/7pm so will need plenty of food....but I don't want to overload her! She normally has packed lunch anyway but I don't know what else to put in so looking for any ideas please :)
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Weekly Flylady Thread 30th March 2009
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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15l + containers for bulk flour storage?
I've just got a 16kg bag of flour that I'm splitting with my mum but want to keep it safe from the evil psocids so I need a large container to put it in. My rough maths say I need at least a 15l tub but largest I can find in the shops with a tight fitting lid is 13l - anybody seen anything suitable?
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prepare for summer?
I enjoyed the prepare for winter thread on here last autumn and have been thinking (!) about preparing for summer and some of the expenses summer brings and how I can best plan for this and I felt like posting, maybe we can all share ideas. Although summer doesnt necessarily (or hopefully) bring the huge gas bills etc of…
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Teen new Veggie = Stress for mum...
My 16 yo son decided about a month ago that he wants to become vegetarian (no fish either but will eat eggs) . I know he isn't doing this on a whim, as he has mentioned this on many occasions in the past. Problem is, what to cook for him? and how to keep this cheap, as not to enflate my food shopping,by buying extra stuff…
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Soggy cake...
im having trouble making a chocolate or strawberry jam sort of cake ... i really want those sort of soggy cake overly moist im blaming it on pregnancy craving but i damn refuse to pay the prices at shop for a cake i know i could probably make at home ... the thing is my cake although they turn out lovely they're drier then…
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OS Daily Sunday 29th March
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 29th March 2009. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
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rust
Am I correct in thinking you can't get rid of rust? I've seen something on ebay I'd like to buy that has a bit of rust and wondered if it was possible to clean up...
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urgent advice please
ive made sime meatball and chips for tea using turkey mince and a pack of stuffing and the chips are in the fryer. * my 1st problem is that too me the meatballs smell horrible and turn my stomach but other half says theyll be fine. is he right? * my 2nd problem is that i dont know sauce to serve with them or over them.…
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bits of chocolate Cake
Eek i broke my cake.... silly thing wouldn't come out of the tin, now i have hundreds of "bit's" of cake.. *sigh* ... it tastes yummy but it's just in 100's of bits waay to make to glue back together. Anyone got any idea's what i can do with it??? i don't really want to throw it away and start again, it wasn't for anything…
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Whole chicken, no oven. Help Please!
My oven packed in last week and we are waiting for it to be fixed. In meantime I forgot and ordered whole chicken from butcher. Looked at recipes for pot roast chicken, but they all say, 'put in oven' to finish cooking. Can I cook it gently in some liquid with veg on top of stove and have it stay nice and moist? Any good…
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Which Balsamic Vinegar will you recommend?
Hi, As titled, which Balsamic Vinegar will you recommend? Some are very expensive but I have no idea if they are really that good. I'd like to use it to make salad dressing. Thanks!
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hand held blender not behaving itself
I was just making some soup and tried to blend it with a handheld blender thingy - like a stick with whirly blades on the end. Result: SOUP EVERYWHERE. I have not used one of these before, am I doing it wrong?! When I had my own house I had a normal food processor type thing which I got on fine with but now I'm someone's…
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Trying not to get carried away....
but im so excited YAY.... hubby has finally agreed to a 2nd freezer and it arrives on friday... :T :T I've been complaining for months that that real thing that stops us being truely old style is a lack of freezer space, i want to try and fill it quickly so it uses less power but im trying to keep "food bills" in check and…
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Preserving our produce
I don’t think there’s anything better than eating what we freshly harvest but what are your best ways to preserve what you have grown? Last year I made a huge maslin pan worth of mashed potato and froze it in plastic containers. All it needed was microwaving for 5 mins to give fresh tasty mash, and I also used it to top…
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Mash potato in a food processor?
This is going to make me sound really lazy, but can you mash potatos in a food processor? I'm struggling mashing potatos at the moment because of arthritis and I want to batch make some cottage pies, but I don't want to cook aload of potatos and then they go to musy if you see what I mean in a processor.
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silicone cup cases
I have bought some silicone cup cases as I thought they were rather pretty and also surely it must be better than using plastic cases.....but how do I use them. I don't want to spoil them because I do something stupid
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Things that worked or didn't work last winter
I'm just recapping what we did in the winter (now it's nearly over :cool: ). Looking at what worked and what didn't, to keep the house warm and dry, and save money. Did anyone use bubble wrap on the windows, and did it work? Things that seemed to be ok were; The thick curtains everywhere, really kept the cold draughts out.…
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Dry cleaning sheets for tumble drier
I have a dry clean only coat A few years ago with a different coat you could buy sheets to put into your tumble drier which dry cleaned them Ive tried 3 shops so far and all have looked ta me like im mad Does anyone please know what these are called and if they are still on sale? :confused: Thanks
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OS Daily Saturday 28th March
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Saturday 28th March 2009. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved…
