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UHT Vs Powdered Milk expiry dates
I'm not entirely sure where to post this, if this is the wrong board please feel to move it. Bit of a random question... Out of powdered milk and UHT milk which has the longest expiry dates? Or can they be kept for roughly the same length of time? Thanks. :)
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ginger cake with fruit as a christmas cake?
I love the costco gingercake (its about £10). I dont like heavy black fruitcakes. I was thinking of making a gingercake as my christmas cake, fondant iced & all. Anyone seen any gingercake recipes that incorporate dried fruit? Sultanas & dates are favourites of mine, I like nuts too. Any tips for icing? Would I apricot…
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Stuck in a cooking rut!
I feel like I am stuck in a cooking rut and end up buying more food because I don't know what to cook. We are a family of 4, two children 5 and 8. Prefer to cook from scratch apart from those rushed days, both work full time so we get home and need something fairly quick to prepare or something we can prepare the night…
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cleaning a fabric covered bed base
Anyone got tips with what to clean a bed base with please?
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fridge bottom soup?
Well this is perhaps the strangest question I have asked, but here goes -I have some green beans, an onion and some bendy carrots to be used and I have heard of people making soup with their leftovers. I have some soup pulses - SO - what do I do? doesn't seem like much veg variety though I do have some frozen mixed veg -…
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O/S Daily Sunday 13 October 2013
OS Daily Thread Sunday 13th October 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 we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s…
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Lamb Bone
Cooked a leg of lamb today. Stripped it of all the meat, and wondered what to do with the bone. Any ideas? Many thanks :beer:
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Old style ways for first house
Hi all, me and OH are moving into our first house in a couple of months so I'm trying to be really organised. At the moment we live with his mum and she does all the food shopping,cooking etc so we don't really have a lot of say in this. When we move I want us to eat healthier and cost effectively (ATM we live on ready…
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Winter food musthaves on a budget.
I am just wondering what other people stock up on for winter? I always crave hot stodgy food when it is dark and cold outside, so i always make sure that i have some appropriate foods. I also love my slow cooker in the winter :) This is the list i have come up with so far: Porridge oats Cheaper cuts of meat…
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OS Daily Thread Saturday 12th October 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 we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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What to do with allot of onions (chopped)
Well it seems my freezer decided to defrost itself overnight, thankfully the only causalities was a couple of packets of bacon and allllll my onions left from my harvest. I'm looking at around 6 bags of 500g and an odd bag. I broke down and cried when I thought of my harvest going to waste so any ideas would be amazing…
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Out of date mix
Hi all, Beef casserole in the slow cooker *os moneysaving* go me! BUT I have a dumpling mix (bought because it was cheap a long time ago, and want to use it up) that is dated March 2013...should I use it? Many, many years ago, my mum made dumplings and the suet was out of date/had gone off, and the taste of them stopped me…
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cold busting chicken soup
sorry if this isnt the right place but its my favorite part of the forum friendly and knowledgeable With winter comes colds even more so since my daughter started nursery so i was hoping you guys could help me with your best or favorite chicken soup recipe to bet the winter colds :D cheers in advance :T
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OS Daily Thread Thursday 10th October 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 we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Mushroom Chow Mein and Veggie Curry
Does anyone have a fail safe recipe for the above please?
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sun dried tomato oil
This is probably a silly question - but does anyone use the oil when they have finished a jar of sun dried tomatoes? And if you do, what for?
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Chutney liquor uses
Have made a huge batch of homemade chutneys and because I had to decant some excess liquids I have ended up with a couple of pints of liquor with is a tasty fruity-vinegar-veg thin liquid. Anywone with ideas what to use it for as I don't want to chuck it. Cheers
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Light Brown Soft sugar instead of Caster in Brownies?
Hi all I wonder if you can help. I am about to make some brownies, but I am a bit short of caster sugar, by about 1/3. I do have some Light Brown Soft Sugar in the cupboard. Would that be ok to put in the remaining 1/3 for sugar? Thanks
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OS Daily Thread Thursday 10th October 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 we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Potato skins
I was having a proper lazy afternoon so while at my mams they were cutting some chips up for the actifry so I said that they should try cooking the skins .... Yum !!! So instead of gammon and chips it was potato skins and chips for dinner for us .... Think I'm gonna make it a rule if they do chips they need to send the…
