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Cheapest white sauce for lasagne?
I need to make 8-10 people's worth of lasagne - in the past I've used fresh milk, uht milk and jarred sauce (L1dl) and would need at least a pint's worth - more likely pint and a half - what's the cheapest way you've found to make (or buy) white sauce?
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Strangest item you've seen in a charity shop
Many of us love a charity shop bargain - or just the thrill of poking around for something unusual or eye-catching - as the enduring popularity of the Shop Charity Store in 24 thread shows. I was in a charity shop on Saturday that had a selection of unopened squeezy bottles of condiments, including Lidl tomato ketchup,…
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O/S Daily Wednesday 25th September 2024
Morning - I'll be back soon
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Removing odour from storage barrel
I've bought a second hand plastic barrel to keep a bulk order of flour in. The barrel came clean but with a residual odour of whatever it held in its first use (smells like lime pickle to me). So far I've tried airing the barrel, scrubbing with hot water and washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda dry left overnight, then…
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What do you do with paper instructions manuals?
Afternoon all. I am in the process of trying to go paperless in my home, at the moment, and have a scanner that I try to use for everything before adding to a hard drive before destroying the original. One thing, however, is a huge box of instruction manuals that I have in my loft. Whenever I buy anything at all, the…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 24th September 2024
Morning, I'm just starting, be back soon.
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Foraging in '23 and beyond...
I've just been out after blackberries for the freezer today, and came home with 3 take-away boxes full, plus a big bag of sloes and another of elderberries. We're lucky enough to live close to the countryside, and over the next few weeks I'd expect to be able to find crab apples, hazelnuts, rose hips & walnuts as well as…
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Old Style Daily Monday 23 September 2024
Morning all. I'll be back.
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Weekly Flylady Thread 16th September 2024
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 whole task easier and quicker. We
also…
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Old Style Daily Sunday 22 September 2024
Morning folks. BRB
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Old Style Daily Saturday 21 September 2O24
Morning all. More later.
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O/S Daily Friday 20th September 2024
Good morning, it's a dry start here, still dark of course. I'll pop back later to see what everyone is up to.
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O/S Daily Thursday 19th September 2024
Morning all, just starting, I'll be back soon.
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O/S Daily.Wednesday 18th September 2024
Good morning, it's a fine dry start here. Over halfway through September, how the days slip away. Yesterday was an ok day, boiler was serviced and was ok, though so it should be it's only 3 years old. We were talking to the boiler man about getting rid of our old living flame gas fire in the sitting room, it's 30 years old…
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O/S Daily Tuesday 17th September 2024
Good morning, it's fine here. Yesterday was a nice day, but chilly. Sorry to read that dg d is in hospital again Dp1, hope it can all get sorted out. Our boiler is being serviced today, that's the only exciting thing going on here. We'll go to the quiz as usual tonight of course. Everyone seems busy, hope you all have as…
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O/S Daily Monday 16th September 2024
Morning - I'll be back soon
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Weekly Flylady Thread 9th September 2024
Welcome to the weekly Flylady 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 whole…
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O/S Daily Sunday 15th September 2024
Good morning, still dark, but I think its an ok morning. Yesterday was a nice fine day. I went to a shopping centre nearby to look for some new slippers but didn't find any I liked. Did a bit of shopping in Sains while I was there. We might go out today, Dh was thinking of Barnard Castle, it's nice there. Not much else…
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Re-purposing wooden ready meal trays
I have a few, in various sizes, of the Charlie Bigham wooden trays that hold their ready mealse.g.. The following is off the website.What do you do with Charlie Bigham wooden trays?Can you recycle our packaging? Our cardboard sleeves and plastic film are both recyclable. Our wooden trays are suitable for the garden waste…
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Air Frying for 1 person
I am quite good at using the AF but so many recipes - I do change them around a bit - are for families. Also, so many seem to need to use frying pan and a lot of cheese. For a single old person trying not to use hob just AF SC and microwave as well as keeping costs down, using yellow sticker stuff and inventing I am…
