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Hilarious Cake mix from M&S
I have to share this with you all, I thought you might have a chuckle! My husband passed through M&S food store on his way out of the train station on Friday night. He saw a victoria sponge cake kit and thought it would be a lovely thing to make with the children. He has once in 6 years made some biscuits with them, and…
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Can I still use these sausages ??
I froze some sausages on Friday night, and was going to use them for last nights dinner, but didnt. They have been in the fridge since, is it OK to eat them this morning, or should i bin them?
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OS Daily Thread - Sunday 24th January 2010
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Sunday 24th January.It 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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What ingredient can't you do without?
Evening All! I'm wanting to stock up the kitchen cupboards with stuff I can use to make other stuff :D Although I use a SC and make soup, I want to start making alot more things from scratch but I don't know what base ingredients I should have at home (porridge oats to bulk out mince? Flour to make sure there's always…
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An offal challenge...
Ok, In my chest freezer I have two bags of beef offal from my 2/8ths of cow I order from the farm up the road and a bag of lamb offal from the farm the other way! I have absolutely NO idea what to do or where to start with it. The lamb isn't so much of an issue, I have one lambs kidney so I guess I could so steak and kid…
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wanted an opinion on last months meals.
I seem to be doing a tad pants when it comes to posting and keeping to meal plans/budgets. I'll persevere, but I've managed to keep track of dinner for the last month since Christmas. It seems to have gone down quite well, and I was wondering what people thought of it as a general meal plan (with single meal in variations…
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Frozen Beef and Muffins in a loaf tin
I am trying to be soooo good and cook all my meals for the coming week over the weekend and I have not one but two crisis' Firstly I ran out of muffin cases so put my banana muffin mix in a loaf tin (well sillicone) and now I have no idea how long it will take to cook (I have put it in at 180/190 ish). No skewer and the…
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Altenatives to tea, coffee or fizzy drinks?
My specialist told me not to drink tea, coffee or fizzy drinks. I am a very thirsty diabetic. I can't think of anything else that you could drink apart from milk (fattening), or water(boring). Any other suggestions please while I am still sane from caffeine withdraw?:D
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Beef question
Hi all I'm looking at Tesco at the moment at the beef offering as there's none in the freezer and DH fancies a pie. I've just noticed they now have on there: braising steak casserole steak stewing steak The Stewing steak is more marbled and sinue-y looking so I assume will need longer slower cooking than the other two…
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You guys are great!
Hi, I only stumbled across this section of the board really at new year and I just thought I should show some love. I reckon I might be a bit of a rare breed on here as I am a 24 year old male! I got a slowcooker for christmas, and to my girlfriends delight, she has not cooked a meal so far this year! she is nearly five…
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Need help to get started please
Hi everyone I am looking for some help please after being inspired from reading other posts: This is going to sound really stupidly dumb but I just dont know where to start with a slow cooker. Ours is big enough for 2 (ideal as we dont have kids) so quite small but deep. All the receipie books I have found are for fancy…
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What have you baked today?
While I wait for the timer to go off, I'm just wondering who else is baking today and what yummy goodies they are making :D It's Australia Day on Tuesday and I have several Aussie workmates so I've made some Anzac biscuits to bring to work. Also while the oven was heated I thought I might as well make a cake so I've thrown…
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Economical electric clothes dryer
Hello all, my name is joe and i am currently studying for a degree in product design and technology. As part of my corse i have been given the task to design an electrical rotating clothes dryer (think of it as a standard rotating clothes dryer which is electrically driven as opposed to being spun by the wind.) The idea…
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New Year- New Start . HELP please !
Asking for help please in menu planning ...:D Since the OH went diabetic, I have totally lost the plot re saving money on food. Meals are hard because he wont have much in the way of carbs, which rules out pasta & potatoes, apart from a small helping. It's mainly meat and veg. And we eat nothing exotic! :D Not much…
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How to clean a bath old style
I hope this is the correct forum for my question, but can anyone tell me how to get a newish white bath up to scratch without using fancy cleaning products, This tub has marks that wont come off with scrubbing, They have faded but seem to ignore old fashioned elbow grease. Am trying to be a little greener and a bit more…
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Dry clean only...best way to iron?
Hi all, foolishly I have bought a dry clean only dress as part of my work uniform. It is a polyester/viscose mix so have just put it in the wash rather than pay £10 every week to maintain it!! I am not even sure why it is dry clean to be honest. I have laid flat to dry but there are some noticeable crumples and creases, do…
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What can I use instead of a muslin cloth?
I want to make windfall marmalade http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mumsknowbest/recipefairs/ep2_bridget.pdf But I don't have a large muslin cloth. All my pillow cases are good ones. The town I'm getting my shopping in today doesn't have much. Where would I get large muslin cloths? What do you think I could use today instead?…
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Help needed for Belling M384 TCGR Microwave
Hello. Has anyone got a Belling M384 TCGR Microwave please. I have just got one but it doesn't have the instruction manual with it. I have tried the various websites to see if there any i could download or buy, but have had no luck whatsoever. I am hoping that someone here may have one. I would like to know how to use it…
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Buying tinned pulses or cooking pulses
Is it cheaper to buy tins of chickpeas, or to buy the dried ones, add a little bicarb, soak overnight, and cook them yourself? I mean including the lecky involved.
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Help with smell!
Over Christmas my mothers dog decided it was too cold to go outside to relieve himself and watered my front room carpet - I have cleaned and cleaned but the smell is overpowering (not sure if he went elsewhere!!) Any idea what I can do? (moving / new carpet not an option :) ..... sorry if this is in wrong place wasn't sure…
