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Can I pick your brains please?!
Hello people, (Firstly, if this is in the wrong place, feel free to move - I just come on the OS site a lot as I care about food and cost etc) How much have you ever thought about where your mushrooms come from? OH and I are thinking of setting up a bit of a commercial mushroom farm as we think there is a gap in the market…
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Low Cost Living - book - £2.39
Browsing Quick Grabbit threads, came across one that you may like. Thanks to OP. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3553429 When economic conditions are tough, we all need to watch our spending. In this book, John Harrison's simple, tried and tested methods will help you to enjoy a better standard of living…
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Mon 17th Oct
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Monday 17th October. 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 already.…
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Ideas for storing large amounts of spices
Now that the OH and I have become OS and started making our own curries, rather than ordering take aways, we have discovered a local Asian shop that sells herbs and spices at really cheap prices, but in larger than usual packs. The box that I used to keep all the supermarket size jars in has now overflowed, and I need to…
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Your wise words...
I am posting this because I would really appreciate a bit of help. My mum passed away suddenly earlier in the year and as I'm sure you can imagine, my life got turned upside down. I am grieving but starting to push on with life and get my moneysaving lifestyle back on track. I let myself have the odd treat to try and bring…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 17th October 2011
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! There are levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 1 being very…
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Biscuits that you roll and refrigerate, then cut and bake
Apologies for the long winded title! Does anyone have recipes for biscuits that you make up the dough, roll and keep in the fridge, then slice and bake when you want them??? I'm looking for something to pre-prepare and bake each evening on work-nights. We can't have dairy/eggs so don't have bought biscuits etc - but I can…
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Cookworks 6.5L Slow Cooker - cooking too fast !!
Hi All Having read glowing reviews, I recently purchased a Cookworks 6.5L Slow Cooker from Argos (£21.99) - and I'm struggling with it. I am using it for the third time, and yet again, it seems to be cooking too fast (using the LOW) setting. For all my recipes I have pre-browned ingredients and used hot liquid as…
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suet pud (savoury) cooking time
I've got a mushroom suet pudding steaming away happily at the moment. It's been on for about 2 hours and the pastry at the top looks like it's done already ! Does anyone have an idea how long a pud should take to steam given that the filling is already cooked inside? TIA
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Food Economics and Recipies Thread
I don't know how long/whether this will last but it's worth a shot. I'll start with a tip. To make a good ratatouille: 1. Add the aubergine first as it takes longer to cook than the other stuff. Only cook for 15-20mins once the courgette and toms are in and add the (grilled & skinned) peppers right at the end. 2. A proper…
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Sunday 16th October
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 16th October. 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 already.…
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smoking your own fish? any advice?
hi wondering if anybody has ever built their own fish smoker? my lot only like smoked fish and DS is getting right into his fishing, (mostly mackerel) also the difference in price between white and smoked can be a couple of £ per kilo. have looked at them online - not prepared to pay £70 in lakeland! have tried reading up…
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Help! Ever heard of this...?
I have been asked to make a cake for a friend. Its his birthday and he has requested a type of tart I have never heard of, Apparently it has a pastry base (ok with that) and fruit like apples then a toffee topping (help- would that be when you boil condensed milk in a pan to turn it to toffee? how long would this take?…
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Three bean salad
I don't like pulses at all. However I am aware how good for you they are and want to give my family them. Tesco do tins of three bean salad, but they say you have to cook it. However they do lunch dishes of 3 bean salad in vinagrette. Do you have to cook the tins and let them cool then serve or not. What do you recommend…
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Chicken and Rice Recipe
Morning, My mother used to have a recipe where you put so much rice in an oven proof dish, chucked something else in (lemons or garlic maybe?) put some liquid in (wine or stock), placed chicken thighs on top. Put it in the oven for so long and it all came out cooked to perfection! She has since chucked this recipe out! I…
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McDougals Granary bread mix
Hi I am not sure if I have put this on the right thread, but here go's. I have been using this bread mix for a long time now and it has always been very successfull making a large loaf with a very good texture as we like granary bread. I use it during the week to save time in my bread machine and make my own bread…
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Old Style Daily Thread for Saturday 15th October 2011
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Tuesday 16th August. 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 already.…
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white vinegar & bathroom silicon-will it damage?
Hello Apologies if this isn't the correct place to post this but i'm after some advice regarding using white vinegar as a cleaning product. I've just discovered the wonders of using WV to clean limescale in the bathroom (taps). However, i was wondering if it's possible to use it to clean round the top edge of the bath or…
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How much should we be spending ?
Hi everyone been lurking around this website for a while and was just wondering how much should we be spending on a family off 7 in a week for food shopping ?which is two adults and 5 kids oldest are twins which are 14 then 10 , 8 and 3 , Have currently lost my income off £260 per week so just be relying on hubby income…
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Can I reheat ... Risotto?
Attempting to make Chicken & Leek Risotto tomorrow (1st time):D It's a bit of a "clart" (which is why I've not done it before) but I love risotto so not really a good excuse!;) Anyway, I'm bound to have some left over so ... can I reheat it? If so, how? I know you've got to be really careful reheating rice and it's not…
