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Need Vegetarian meal ideas!
I need help from the vegetarians on the board please! I have some friends visiting this weekend & amongst the dietary requirements, I have a vegetarian, & multiple allergies. The allergies I've catered for manytimes, the vegetarian I can cope with, but I'm struggling to put the two together! Rather than cooking different…
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OS features in your living space--what do you look for?
Hi:wave: I'm thinking of moving flats in about six months, and I'm in the process of making a list of things I want to look for when I start viewing. Primarily, OH and I will need more space, as our current flat is very small and we may both need to work from home at times next year. While I've been listing things like…
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Help with my out of hand collecting!
I am running out of space in my house and don't know what to do! I love collecting antiquarian books and magazines. At the moment I have 37 A4 box files of magazines and 2000 books. I don't look at each one very often at all, but whenever I pick one up I love it all over again - they are my absolute passion. I don't know…
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getting organised!
Hey guys, How does everybody manage to organise their lives? I think I struggle with the motivation rather than anything else... I work full time with changing shifts, I am an apprenticeship assessor at work, have a stay at home partner who is on disability who I am the main carer for, I do all the cooking, cleaning,…
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Problem with panosonic breadmaker...
I wonder if anyone can help...I've had my breadmaker for approx 1 year (had a morphy richards for 10 years before this)and it's made lovely loaves up until the last four? I also use it regularly to mix the dough for rolls which i finish off in the oven. I have done nothing different to normal, except i did buy a different…
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OS Daily Tuesday 17th January
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Tuesday 17th January. 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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Inspiration required for store cupboard meal plan..
So pay day in 11 days, and I forgot about a DD which came out today :( I now have enough for fuel, and nappies but £15 for food. Having searched through the cupboards, fridge and freezer I know I have enough food to see us through but with OH and DD being fussy eaters I am struggling to work out a meal plan, my brain…
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Out of date Chorizo , shall I use it?
Just noticed a sausage shape piece of chorizo became out of date on 6th January. Would you use it? The shelf life on them is ages so I am inclined to but not sure. It's cured. I was going to make microwave jambalaya with it. Fab good food website recipe. Meat gets really hot so think that would kill any nasties. Any advice…
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Veggie bolognese into soup - urgent advice needed!
So, I popped a veggie bolognese into the SC today (red lentils, bit of soup mix I had, carrots, onion, peppers, courgette and celery with tinned toms) and it tastes fab. However, DH is going to be home really late and the sauce seems too, well, "meaty" to go with pasta. It's crying out to be soup really. So the question I…
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sausage storage
Storage details for chicken salami with beef & olives is store at +7 C. Am I right that this means not chilled therefore room temperature; at least not until slicing it? Thanks.
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Cleaning Grease on Glass?
Hi, I have grease on my glass hood on the cooker,i have tried mr muscle glass cleaner but the grease does not move! Any ideas what i could use? Thanks Janette xx
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custard
is there anything i can do with custard other than put it on something or trifle? just wondering if any of you wise people had a idea of something it could go into. got a cheap tub of posh stuff from waitrose and it needs using. thanks
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Real Simple magazine
Hi everyone :wave: I've got about 25 to 30 copies of US magazine Real Simple from 2002/3/4/5 which I want to get rid of. Most of the stuff in them is fairly timeless, only the odd bit on fashion. I've asked the local Drs surgery, but they didn't want them. Was wondering if anyone knows of anyone in the Manchester area that…
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What to make with minced beef?
We eat quite a bit of minced beef, usually in chilli, spag bol, cottage pies, burgers, can anyone suggest something a little bit different? DH is getting bored but we have three kilos in the freezer that needs eating up before I buy anything else :rotfl: Thanks in advance!
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OS Daily Monday 16th January 2012
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Monday 16th January. 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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Clothes Dye?
I'm looking to dye a few clothes back to black that are looking a bit worse for wear. (rather than throw away). Where can I get cheap but good value black dye, and is it better to hand dye or machine dye?
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Weekly Flylady Thread 16th January 2012
Welcome to this weeks thread. Normally we have an influx of newbies around this time so welcome everyone, make sure you read this post and jump straight in. Don't worry if you can't keep up with the thread, it moves really quickly especially at this time of year, just concentrate on doing the lists and let us know how…
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Gran lives happily money free for 16 years!!!
I thought I'd share this read with like minded people. I am not very technical so I hope the linky works :p http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/german-grandmother-lives-money-free-never-happier-173900934.html Happy reading :beer:
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Messy-less cooking!!!
I am losing the will to live where my house is concerned and I desperately need some recipe ideas of meals that don't make much mess!! I am a good cook either with or without recipes and can make a meal out of almost nothing... however, I can also make a BIG mess out of almost nothing too :o It doesn't help that my kitchen…
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Mini, Mid Month Freezer Challenge.
I'm planning to feed us out of the freezer this week as I'm doing the Grocery Challenge this month and need to keep spends low. Anyone want to join me...? Off to inventory what I've got lurking in the frozen depths, then be back with a plan of attack... Wish me luck!
