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Wholefoods and healthy eating shopping lists
I've joined a few facebook groups and such which give recipes to try and what not, but I'm still very new on my journey to make my diet of the wholefoods variety. I'm essentially running with the concept that you should have very few ingredients in anything you buy pre-packed (and you should be able to pronounce them).…
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Can anyone help me with an OS shopping/meal plan?
Hello, I've been a long time lurker on this forum but this is my first post. I'm hoping some clever person can help me stop worrying about my money so much! Apologies if this is in the wrong place etc or if this has been asked already. Today, I looked at my "food expenditure" manager and saw I was spending nearly £400 a…
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O/S Daily Thursday 24th July
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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Dyeing converse trainers??
Got me some cheap converse thanks to a thread on this very board... only ones in my size were yellow looking ones... Fair enough I thought, pastel summery yellow isn't too bad... However they arrived and they are fluorescence yellow like a high viz jacket! How easy would it be to dye them? Ideally black but really any…
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Drying Fresh Chillies
Afternoon all! Just after some advice re drying chillies. This is probably a very stupid question but here goes....... I bought a chili plant and it sat happily on the window sill and has about 20 small chillies on. We then went away on holiday and I forgot all about the poor chili plant :( When we returned the plant is…
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Can I freeze this recipe?
Hello lovely people I'm going to make this on the weekend http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/squash-spinach-pasta-rotolo Now.... It feeds 4-6 people and there is only 2 of us. Do you reckon I'd get away with freezing some portions until we're ready to eat them? I don't think there is anything in the…
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Memory foam for sofas?
We have a sofa for which we need new cushions and it needs re upholstering. It had three seat cushions before but I love the idea of one long one, which it think would be difficult with normal foam, and very, very heavy with feather. It made me wonder if memory foam might work? Any one know?
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O/S Daily Wednesday 23rd July
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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Making / Bottling sauces
Hi All, I was up at my local PYO today and they had some jars / bottles of various sauces (tomato and pepper / chili / bbq) the kind of thing you'd mix in pasta or use as a marinade more than a ketchup kind of sauce. They all had 2015 dates on them to use by / best before. They looked lovely, which got me thinking to xmas…
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In dire need of help... or a kick up the bum
I'm just reviewing my finances and the food shop has come onto my radar! I'm spendiong anything up to £70 a WEEK (Which is ridicous because the kids dont eat at home 3 times a week!!!) I'm doing WW, I'm trying to meal plan but I've got waste at the end of the week so I'm going wrong somewhere! Realistically speaking, how…
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Is there such a thing as good bread? And other breakfast ideas
I'm trying to cut our food budget in half from this week, and I'm trying to sort out breakfasts. Hubby and I have smoothies (no idea how I am going to budget them, berries are so expensive!) but first off working out the kids. I'm happy to buy no sugary cereals but would like a few healthy suggestions that I've likely…
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OS Tuesday 22 July
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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Starting up in home brew
Hey everyone I recently got into home brew and thought it might be worth putting a thread together to show just how easy it is to get started up. I did a lot of reading beforehand on here and elsewhere, but couldn't find one single guide that showed everything in one place. In the end I went down to a home brew shop near…
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kilner and other preserving jars
Being the preserving season, thought I'd flag up this site which I came across the other day in case anybody has Kilner or other old preserving jars with bits missing/damaged, which they want to reuse. For jam and marmalade making, I also find that commercial jars and lids are perfectly safe to reuse provided they are…
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OS Daily Monday 21st July
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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Getting musty smell out of pram - any ideas?
I've bought a 2nd hand Babystyle Oyster pram with carrycot for a bargain price. Unfortunately it's been stored in the cellar of a pub for the last few months so it has a musty smell. Although the care instructions say to sponge clean it only we've put the fabrics through the washing machine on a 30 degree wash - twice! -…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 21st July 2014
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. Thanks to Dusty for last week's thread The idea is that even if you are really busy you don't need to fall off the wagon! Every room comes back around next week so please don’t…
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the great war, WWI OS ways etc
I know there is a thread somewhere on WWII etc, but with this year being a 100 years since the start of WWI, I thought it would be fitting for us to have an OS thread in memory, and also what life was like for families during this time. There a 14 page special on this in my nfu ( national farmers union) which got thinking…
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What to feed everyone when they're out more than they're in?
I'm not sure if this should really be in Old Style, but as I don't want to go down the convenience food/ready meals route I thought this might be the best place. After 25 yrs of having at least one child around, I suddenly (and it is sudden, it's completely changed in a matter of wks) find myself rattling around the house…
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Meal plan WC 20th July- School holidays
It's that time again, school holidays :eek::rotfl: Here is our plan to get through the first week without doing an impression of old mother Hubbard. Sunday- Piri piri half chicken with hm vegetable fried rice Monday- Corned beef pie with chips and peas Tuesday- Sausage carbonara Wednesday- Chicken curry and turmeric rice…
