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Christmas veg ideas for the freezer
January is a long cold month already but with all the cheap veg in the supermarkets I’m trying to make the most of it by making food for the freezer. So far it’s been mostly soups a bit I thought we could share some ideas to make the most of the cheap food and stock up the freezer. * Soup ( millions of variants!!) *…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 22 December 2024
Good morning sll. It's been a dreadful night, the winds roared and, by the sound of it, hailstones bounced off the windows endlessly. May have been icy rain. I'll be back.
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Old Style Daily Saturday 21 December 2024
Good morning all. I'll be back.
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 1st Quarter 2024
Hi All Welcome to the Old Style Weight Loss thread for quarter one 2024 - where did 2023 go! Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st January until the 31st March. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you…
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Old Style Daily Friday 20 December 2024
Morning all.
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O/S Daily Thursday 19th December 2024
Good morning, I couldn't sleep so I thought I might as well get up. It seems to be dry, yesterday turned into a nice day after a wet start. Thank you all , for your good wishes for my Dh, you're all so kind. My visit to the Eye Hospital had a positive outcome yesterday! The consultant said he could operate to improve my…
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Best/Easiest Roast Potato Recipe
Hello everyone, I was just wondering if anybody has a reliable recipe for roast potatoes? I tried to make them last year for Xmas but they never turned golden in the oven despite being in there for nearly an hour! Hoping to try another recipe and do a dummy run before the big day. Thanks!
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Xmas Meats
My second Christmas topic is meats and proteins. Can you post the best Xmas deals you see? Let's share. Thank you.
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Old Style Daily Wednesday 18 December 2024
Morning all. Just slowly rousing.
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Morrisons five points per item deal.
Just a little trick for the above offer. If you buy loose Bananas, spread them out individually along the checkout belt, so you then get five points per Banana instead of just five points for the bunch. Just saying, LOL. This could also work, maybe, for any loose fruit or veg. I would probably draw the line at loose…
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Park Homes. Pro's and Con's
Hello Am looking at Park Homes. I understand all the different kinds of sites and the rules for occupancy. My question is about cost and value for money. The site I am looking at is quiet and minimum when it comes to 'facilities'. So no pools or discos ! The site fees include water and sewage. Gas and electric is extra.…
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Anyone use a Combi Microwave/Oven/Grill got any cooking tips?
Anyone use a Combi Microwave/Oven/Grill got any cooking tips? Most foods don't include cooking instructions for Combi-Microwave so I'm wondering whether you can use printed cooking times to work out combi timing?
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Low/ non alcohol cocktails
Hi as usual I’m the host for Christmas for my family 12 of us including grandkids so Im very busy cooking . I usually buy the usual wines beer soft drinks but this year I like to make a cocktail that looks good in a jug and festive with ice that can be made in advance ( may add ice just before serving) which tastes nice…
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Pickled onions for Christmas!
Posting this in here after not many comments in the 'I want it' forum. Always a good idea to try Old Style! I'm a great fan of pickled onions and used to make my own. Unfortunately illness has meant that I haven't been able to make any for a few years now and I'm reliant on the commercially-available ones. Can anyone…
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Cheaper readings glasses
A useful tip to get reading glasses cheap. if you have your eye test figures and , e.g; +3 left eye and right eye +2 . Then go to cheap shops (home bargins or some chemists etc) buy 2 pair of glasses the same style , 1 pair +2 and the other pair +3. Then swap the lenses so they match your persciption. Lenses normally just…
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Old Style Daily Tuesday 17 December 2024
Morning all. I'll be back.
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Old Style Daily Monday 16 December 2024
Morning all. The wind has been raging all night here.
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Old Style Daily Sunday 15 December 2024
Good morning all, though it's not really good outside.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 9th December 2024
Thank you, Valli, for last week's thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on
the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is
often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to
provide the support we all need and to make the…
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Old Style Daily Saturday 14 December 2024
Morning all. Yesterday passed without mishap.
