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What are you making today?
I'm trying to make stuff that uses complementary stuff, so todays supremely unhealthy mix is Limoncello- 1 litre vodka, 700mls boiling water, 750g caster sugar and the zest 4 lemons, allow to infuse for a week Lemon curd- Juice 4 lemons, 2 eggs, 2 yolks, 200g sugar, 100g butter. Melt butter add sugar and juice, beat in…
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O/S Daily Thread for Sunday 10th July 2016
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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Balancing out spice in food (making chilli or what looks like it)
I like the taste of proper store bought chilli not the cheap ready meal ones. Whenever I make chilli I can never work out the best way to cook things so end up just shoving stuff in. Like I used to use passata but someone told me it was too watery so used chopped tomotoes, tried using a small amount of chilli and I can't…
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THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)
NEW AND SHINY!!!:j:j:j:D:) This will be the PREPPING thread inspired by this long running thread Votes took place here on what this thread is designed primarily for:) outcome was as follows.... 54% One thread please politics or not - all prep chat welcome 11.29% Two threads - one Brexit based politics welcome, one general…
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Your "OS" thought of the day :)
Lighthearted thread.. mine today is how people spend too much time engrossed in technology. It's everywhere ALL of the time!!!! I've been going sitting under my favourite tree recently and just stopping to be... listen to the birds, no music or phone etc. I'm a closet hippy really!!:rotfl:Myself and a friend had a picnic…
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New prepping thread - vote by 6pm!
Hiya VOTE BY 6PM!!!! Trying to please everyone here. I'll come back at 6pm or thereabouts and set up the new thread with the line in the sand drawn :) Ill quote this in the first post zip
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Christmas 2017 mega index/christmas chat!!!! Yes, it's early I know :)
Might be a little early for some... I used to post this up early just to wind Pink up. She would ring me and "scold" me - Zippy, why are you setting up a Christmas thread in July :rotfl: :A BUT!!!!!! I think it's a nice positive thing to have on the board. So if the Christmas early preppers want to post about Christmas,…
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Christmas 16 mega index/christmas chat!!!
Might be a little early for some... I used to post this up early just to wind Pink up. She would ring me and "scold" me - Zippy, why are you setting up a Christmas thread in July :rotfl: :A BUT!!!!!! I think it's a nice positive thing to have on the board. So if the Christmas early preppers want to post about Christmas,…
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Eat Well For Less Series 3
Series 3 of Eat Well for Less starts on Wednesday 13th July 2016 at 8pm on BBC 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07l205y For this series there are 5 episodes and Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin are joined by a new presenter Hala El-Shafie. Going by the website it looks as if the programme brief may have been slightly…
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Cleaning a cream leather suite
We have a "Stressless" cream leather suite which came with some expensive cleaning fluid and "conditioning" cream which is now running out. The suite is now a little grubby and needs cleaning . Do I really need to use this or will cleaning with damp cloth and bottled hand washing soap be just as effective? And what could I…
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O/S Daily Thread for Saturday 9th 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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Bread alternatives
My kids love bread! It's just a lot daily for then I think, so I'm trying to swap out things for them but I'm getting stuck, especially when I'm trying to make good choices for them health wise too. They want toast for breakfast, sandwiches or toasties for lunch - anything on toast or muffins, crumpets! It's just all bread…
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Fridge/Freezer Broken Down
Hi there, Wondering if any you wonderful old-stylers can help a girl out! I live in rented accommodation and last night my fridge/freezer broke down for the third time in 6 weeks. I had just done a food shop on the Wednesday, most of which is now ruined and I have calculated I have lost around £200 worth of food because of…
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Fav Salmon dishes
I've been very lucky and have been given a whole salmon straight from the river last night I'm about to clean it and am wondering how best to cook it It's pretty big and with there being just three of us I think cooking it whole will be a waste So your fav ways with salmon please? Plus has anyone ever hot smoked their own?
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O/S Daily Thread for Friday 8th 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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Hair health recommendations?
I have very thick hair, even now I have had compliments on how thick it is (im a male by the way) But mostly down to extreme anxiety I ahve been losing hair for 10 years, slowly but in some ways its not bad down to my age (33) It used to be I had a fringe so thick and long that after 4-6 weeks the hair pretty much covered…
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I have a huge pile of rhubarb from the garden
What can I do with it to save it for winter? I don't have much freezer space.
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Cheese Sauce
Trying to think of a way I can have cheese sauce with fewer calories! At present, I use Bisto cheese granules and 20g of that works out to be around 97 calories if made with water. If I used Blue Cheese laughing cow triangles (24 calories) and mixed it with some milk (not sure on calories), would this work? Or taste…
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washing machine woes
My trusty Bosch washing machine's decided to misbehave. I've had it about 7 or 8 years now, and very recently I've noticed that when it spins it makes a bumping rattling noise. It's intermittent, and sometimes the rattling noise is worse/louder than at other times. Earlier this morning it sounded like I was washing a load…
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O/S Daily Thread for thursday 7th 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…
