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What would you invest £230 of homeware vouchers in?
Hello OS! Hope you don't mind me picking your brains! OH (now DH!!!!) and I got married last week! :T Yay, I'm a MRS to a wonderful man at last! We've been given £230 of John Lewis vouchers by a very generous relative. We've been living together for nearly 8 years now, and have most house/kitchen things, but everything we…
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Need help with frugal meal ideas
I monthly shop (with a top up every week of fruit, veg etc - normally £12-15) and have a budget of £260p/m (inc. weekly shops). This is for 2 adults and one 3 year old and I have found I've saved quite a bit since swopping from weekly shopping. This covers EVERYTHING for us inc toiletries, all meals (i.e. we prepare our…
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need help quick-lamb related!!
hi, havew a bone-in 1kg leg of lamb, but now need to go out so can't roast it before parents come to tea. Can I cook it in slow cooker, or will it end up sitting in a pool of fat? would it need to stew or could I cook it "dry" in the slow cooker? high. medium or low? thanks in advance :(
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do you think this is ok to eat?
Hiya I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to food, My Mum usually tells me off saying there are days left in things.... Anyway I made a lovely batch of fresh Bolognese sauce on Thursday - it's been kept in the fridge since then, would it be ok to use today or even freeze still ? Thanks Sarah
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batch cooking tomato sauce recipe
Hi there I want to make a massive batch of tomato sauce so that I can freeze it for adding to meals/base for soups etc can anyone help me out with a recipe - I will probably be using cheap tinned toms for this I tried making one in the slow cooker before but it had a funny taste (this could however have been the fact it…
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O/S Daily Thread Monday 1st September
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…
