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Freezing Sliced (cooked) Meat
Ok, long store short, I bought a large (2.5kg) gammon joint on yellow sticker yesterday, this time ive portioned it and used to for soup, roasted some and made some pies with some (also yellow label) chicken and frozen them. I was thinking though, if I rtoasted and sliced it, could I freeze the slices and defrost them…
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O/S Daily Sunday 14th January 2018
O/S Daily Sunday 14th January 2018 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,…
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Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)
Hi chums I see for some reason unbeknown to us all that the previous thread was deleted .OK well lets no be despondant it was 11 months old and I certainly didn't expect it to run as long as it did,but this will no defeat us in our object to LFHW will it .So come on chums get those ideas rolling again for the new year…
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Cooking for one (Mark Three)
Welcome to Cooking one (Mark Three), time to get a shiny new thread up and running. The link to "Cooking for one (Mark Two)" can be found here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/73708876#Comment_73708876 Cooking For One 13th Jan 17 at 7:32 PM Hi, newbie poster though long time lurker trying to adjust…
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O/S Daily Saturday 13th January 2018
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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Thread gone AWOL
Where has the Love Food Hate Waste thread started last year by the lovely JackieO gone? I can't find it anywhere. :( Or am I missing something? And I'm sure my post count has gone down too!
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Struggling to find threads
Hi sorry to be a pain, I’ve taken inventory today of all my food cupboard, fridge freezer food and I’m trying to make a menu plan. I used to read the living below the line £1 threads and a very ancient meals for 50p thread for a couple of my go to recipes. My laptop broke months ago and hasn’t been replaced and I’m…
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How to cook smoked pork tenderloin?
I impulsively bought a piece of smoked pork tenderloin in Morrisons just after Christmas as it was reduced. As it was BB that day, I cut it in half and chucked it in the freezer. I now have one half defrosted in the fridge but am having difficulty finding recipee for cooking it. Searches seem to be throwing up how to…
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Fish curry
I have made a fish curry using frozen fish could someone tell me if I can either re-heat it tomorrow or re-freeze as I have lots left over. Thanks
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O/S Daily Friday 12th January 2018
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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Should I move a Baby Bond to a jISA
I have just done some research and found I should really move my childrens Trust Funds to Junior ISAs. However, I also have 2 Baby Bonds (one due to mature next year the other in 2021) and I cannot find any advise of weather or not I should (or even if I can) transfer these Baby Bonds to Junior ISA as well. nay help would…
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after defrost - time before cooking
Bit of a random question! I took some sausages out of the freezer on Wednesday morning and put them into the fridge. For various reasons I don't need to cook them till Saturday. Will that be OK? Or do I need to cook them before that date?
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O/S Daily Thursday 11th January 2018
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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Crafty birthday presents
Hi Iv got a couple families birthdays coming up and im trying to think of a frugal/money saving/ crafty gifts for them. I have already scoured the charity shops and not found anything so now going down the craft route. Possibly thinking a personalised candle or looking into making note books or crocheting stress balls. Any…
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Do things really go out of date really quickly once opened?
I am a student so everything I cook is just for me and I'm finding it difficult to not waste food and save money! I already cook meals (curry, tart, pasta bake, stew, pasta sauce etc.) and freeze them to eat for about 4 different meals which saves me money and time (I try to have at least 4 different options frozen and…
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Sainsbury's Magazine offers
I would like to subscribe to Sainsbury's magazine as my previous one has expired - does anyone know what, if any, they have for a free gift and what code to use at the moment. Many thanks.
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O/S Daily Wednesday 10th January 2018
O/S Daily Monday 8th January 2018 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,…
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What are you making for dinner?
There were problems with the original thread in that it disappeared and could not be reinstated. So a new thread was created and we all started again, unfortunately that thread also seems to have joined it's predecessor. So here's a new one. We need to hear about Suki's lamb casserole and Island Maid is back from Amsterdam…
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Home made carpet cleaner?
I saw a thread but last post was 5 years ago, basically used to use shake and vac years ago when it was like 40p for a stores own brand and I lived in a studio flat. Now I live in a proper flat and the price is around £1.20 and I need at least 2 bottles a time it works out expensive to do so I never do it. Online as I…
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Food Processors
Hi, can anyone help. I want to cream butter and sugar for cake and biscuit mixtures. I want to get a food processor that can do this without major effort. I have a Magimix and since the blade is now not held down with a spindle the mixture goes under the blade and means constant blade removing to scrape the mixture higher…
