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Homemade pasta help
I was thrilled to acquire my Lakeland pasta maker from ebay, and knew that it might be tricky at first, but my first try was an unmitigated disaster! I duly made the dough, and started the process of feeding it through the machine. Each time there was no problem with the first, thickest settings, but I could NOT get it to…
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Cling Film dispensers and kids
Hi seems like a daft problem, but its costing me a fortune, lol. I buy cling film from various supermarkets and within a couple of days the kids have either broken the box or managed to tear off the cutting strip thereby making using the cling v difficult and I usually end up wrestling with it before finally giving up and…
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how long will home prepared veg keep in the fridge?
i am on a bit of a diet and want a healthy nibble prepared so thought i could make a fruit salad, but know long would it last in the fridge. the normal things like apple, pear banana etc
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How Do You Do It?
I used to be very regular on this board and MSE in general but since having my baby 6 weeks ago all I manage to do is the washing!! I don't have time to do anything let alone cook from scratch or bargain hunt or plan my shopping! My Mum brought me some microwave rice packs which have been great for getting fairly healthy…
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Please help my family!
Hey guys Ive been a lurker on here for years, I'm now 23 with a 10 month old daughter and a lovely other half who works his bum off for us. We are spending waaaay too much on food, we tend to get a takeaway at least once or twice a week. We also struggle to decide on meals despite having loads of food in the house. I've…
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onion powder
Hi guys Im going to attempt to do the secret takeaways lamb kebab and it asks fir onion powder. Ive tried all the supermarkets and can only find onion salt. Is this the same thing?
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Help, need to cut weekly shopping bill
Ok so money is really tight this month, I need to cut my weekly spend to less than £50. Was thinking I should take cash for the week and go to the butchers and the local greengrocer once a week then get the other bits from tesco? I have recently bought a double compartment slow cooker, it's great but need to use a bit more…
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O/S Daily Monday 21 Jan
OS DAILY Monday 21 Jan Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 21st January 2013 - . 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…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 20th January 2013
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us. Thank you Dusty for last week's thread There are 3 levels per day with Level 1 being very basic, level 2 in the middle, up to 3 which is more advanced and time consuming. Feel…
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Best way to strain yoghurt ?
Had a bit of success in straining a container of youghurt made in the Lakeland yoghurt maker . I did use a muslin but found it quite messy . And how long should I do it for ? , I think I did it for an hour and a half . Should it be longer and it only gave me half a container back . Any tips ?
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Help from OS cooks needed
Hi everyone, I am trying to get back in to OS living (fell off the wagon a bit at Christmas). Anyway this weekend I have worked out a budget, put some seed potatoes to chit, bought the seeds for growing veggies etc. and done this weeks meal plan :T - except for tomorrow's dinner. I have 325g of leftover roast chicken and…
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Freezing cooked roast beef?
I made a delicious roast beef this evening and we have some left over. Is it possible to freeze slices to make up another meal. I was wondering whether it would be too dry second time round?
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Can I freeze pastry?
Hi All, I am making some pastry at the moment and wanted to make some extra batches, is it ok to freeze it once I have made it?
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shocked
I have posted a few times on here but more often than not spent the time lurking and reading. Both my partner have decent enough jobs that pay well over the minimum wage and apart fom an overdraft each we have no debt. We dont drink or smoke but do each run a car and at the end of each month we are back into the…
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Carrot Ribbons
Hi all, We had 'carrot ribbons' with a russian meal at a restaurant a month or so back & I was going to try the same again tonight to use up some carrots with our roast. Any ideas how I would cook them & what with? I can remember that they were very delicious, but can't remember what they may have tasted of other than…
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Bread problem
I hope that someone can advise. I have some Tesco strong white bread flour....bought when on offer. When I use it in my Panasonic bread maker...using the recipe for the white and the 50/50wholemeal which I have used for years...the resulting loaf sinks down a bit on the top and the texture is waxy. I usually use Lidl's…
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Odd smell from cooking vacuum packed meat...not off just...odd.
Bought a leg of vacuum-packed lamb from ALDI on Friday. Opened it up about an hour ago and it seemed fine. Nice and healthy colour, no usual smell that you get from vacuum packed meat. Put it in the Halogen oven and now an hour later there is an odd smell in the house. I can't put my finger on it. Never smelt it before.…
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Help, my chicken is still partly frozen!
I took it out of the freezer yesterday but it's still frozen underneath. Do you think it will be ok if I sook it at a lower temp for a while then increase the heat for the rest of the time?
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Cooking tips when you're feeling poorly
I'm recovering from radiotherapy and chemo. Because I've been bed/sofabound for a few weeks I'm very weak to the extent that even doing something simple like making a cuppa or feeding the cats leaves me out of breath. Because of this, we've been eating a mix of convenience foods and some home made that DD has cooked and…
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Feeding a family of 5
Trying hard to feed our family of 5 and we are spending about £150 a week, this takes into account ALL household goods like washing powder etc Is this a reasonable amount or are we way above what we should be spending??????
