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Really need help please.
I hope it's ok to post here. We have always had a very comfortable income and been able to splash out a lot. However we have had a terrible few months (long story) and we are having to take stock, try to get our lives back on track and cut costs. Thanks to this forum I have managed to make a lot of cuts and shopping and…
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HM hoi sin sauce
Does anyone know how to make homemade Hoi Sin sauce please?
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An OS meet in East Lothian
Have been chewing over for a while a meet in our area: Strawberry tea????? Early June???? If you live within striking distance of East Lothian........ Let me know what you think................
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Menu planning help please for limited cook
I have a friend coming to stay tonight until Tuesday, plus my brother has invited himself over to be fed on Saturday, so I need to do some planning and shopping so I can feed us all, but I have had Carpal Tunnel surgery, and have stitches in my right hand, so I can't do much that requires both hands at the moment, like…
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Help needed - Weaning a dairy intolerant baby with finger foods only
A bit of a challenge for you all! My son is 7 months old and we've been baby led weaning him for the past month (i.e. finger foods only, and letting him feed himself). However, we have discovered that uncooked dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, cream and butter) bring him out in a severe contact rash (we don't think he's…
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Pickling spice?
What is it? I've some onions to pickle and I have a cupboard full of spices so if I can cobble my own version together it'll save me buying it specifically. Thanks x
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OS Daily Thread - Friday 30th April
Hi there! This is the Old Style Daily Thread for Friday 30th April.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…
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Suggestions for Living on A Very Small Budget
Have been trying to add this to the thread for living on less than £15 for food for a week but cannot find it. These suggestions are taken from Shirley Goodes website which is an excellent money saving site so they are not mine but whe has given permission for them to be used. Firstly I would start with breakfast. This…
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recipe ideas?
Hi my 16 yr old son has got to make a vegetable dish in cooking tomorrow and the recipe he's brought is for stir fry and includes mangetout, baby sweetcorn etc, all quite expensive ingredients and I wondered if anyone had any alternative suggestions. It doesn't have to be stir fry Cheers
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dry goods in bins
I used to work next door to a useful little shop where dry goods were sold in bins and you scooped up what you needed, it was weighed and charged for at the till..This closed down shortly after I retired and I wonder whether anyone has seen this type of shop lately? On a similar subject, I wa surprised to find last week…
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any home cures for athletes foot/ bad rotting feet? (OH-footballer)
OH has the worst feet ever, smelly, rotting, athletes foot, just disgusting. Anyone know of any homecures to help this? All his shoes have to live outside now and the flat just smelles of socks
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MealPlans WB 3rd May 2010
Hi Guys! It's been a while since I started this thread, but wanted to say "hi!" and I'm still here:D Where is this year going? Anyway, I need to sort our mealplans out as I've been very ill again and back and forth from hospital, so they have gone out the window a lot:o This week we are having: Mon-BBQ (weather…
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OS Daily Thread - Thursday 29th April 2010
Hi there! This is the Old Style Daily Thread for Thursday 28th April.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…
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Baby oil
Hi - I've got an almost full bottle of baby oil and no baby! Anyone got any ideas what I can use it for? Susy
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Peppered seasoning? Like the butchers?
Hi All I have searched and couldn't find what I am looking for (Hope I'm not missing a trick, as that would be highly embarassing :p :rotfl:) I am wanting to replicate the peppered seasoning you get on peppered steaks, or pepper coated chicken? They sell peppered chicken on the bone in my butchers and it is delectable…
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Help needed asap with dinner
Ok So last night I cooked up onion, carrot, new potatos and chicken thighs in a chicken stock so it made a sort of one pot stew. Tonight I have some left over and was thinking of blending it down into a soup - adding a bit more chicken stock and few more veggies (ie carrots, green beans etc), bunging in a load of rice till…
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What can I make to feed my gran up?
Hoping you lovely people can give me some ideas!! I'm going to visit my gran for 4 days tomorrow, and really want to feed her up as shes 91, not very well and the carers that come a few times a day aren't doing a very good job of giving her decent food so shes losing weight quite badly :( Need to get ideas for what I can…
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Bread making machine
Just bought one,reduced from £40 to £14.99,never used one before so is it as simple as selecting a programming,adding ingredients and leaving it,at the mo it's kneading,will it spread itself out and bake.
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Please Help! I've Only Got £15 To Last A Fortnight.
I'm a single person, and have a Tesco and Lidl nearby. What i can i buy to feed myself on £7.50 a week? Please help, with suggestions. Thankyou.
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Low income restictive diets - can it be done?
Previously we've made full use of Weezl's talents and managed to live very well on a limited food budget. Our circumstances have now changed, in that DH has been told he needs to cut his blood sugar level drastically to curb becoming diabetic. I also need to loose weight. Our boys however are another story. One of them…
