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Archives for April 2010

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    • Needing food ideas

      Hi there, I've done a major shop and parents have done some approved food for me. I get Mr A tomorrow and AF whenever. This is what I have ordered: Beef frying steak x 3 Bag of frozen sweetcorn Bag of frozen peas Oven chips Variety crisps 6 Milk Chocolate Bars 2 tins Baked Beans 2 tins Tomato Soups 1 Naan bread Mix (enough…

    • Please help - disgusting poo problem

      Hi I didn't know who else to ask about this but as you all are the fount of all wisdom I thought I would post this here. Warning - if you are easily grossed out, don't read any further. This afternoon an elderly male friend visited me. He asked to use my bathroom and I inwardly groaned because he always wees on the floor…

    • Mealplan w/b Mon 5th April

      Unless I'm missing something (entirely possible, I know!), it looks like we haven't started the mealplan thread yet this week, so I shall I go first? This week I've got: Friday - pork and mushrooms in creamy mustard sauce with leek mash (many thanks to whoever it was on this board who gave me that idea :beer:) Saturday - a…

    • White/Wholeweat flour exchange experiment

      It is well-known that the diet of families under rationing during the second-world war caused our nation to be the healthiest it has ever been, (Soon became unhealthy again when rationing stopped) As quite a few of us have done, I have been using many war-time home-front type recipes and feeling the benefit. In the…

    • Pesto Ciabatta

      Hi everyone I have some pesto and a ciabatta bread mix and was wondering if it would be ok to mix some pesto into the ciabatta mix? Thanks for your help

    • OS Daily Thread - April Fools Day

      Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Thursday 1st 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 achieved…

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