Becoming self sufficient from scratch-my diary

Lotus-eater

Someone has to grow veggie mince, it's made of soya beans isn't it?

taka

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Someone has to grow veggie mince, it's made of soya beans isn't it?

:hello: It depends... quorn is mycoprotein from a fungal source, TVP (textured vegetable protein) is from soy. Hth!

MissPop

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Someone has to grow veggie mince, it's made of soya beans isn't it?

True. It's just a shame bags of Quorn don't grow on trees, otherwise I'd have half a dozen in my garden :rotfl:

Lotus-eater

taka wrote: »

:hello: It depends... quorn is mycoprotein from a fungal source, TVP (textured vegetable protein) is from soy. Hth!

Sounds absolutely delicious _pale_

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Sounds absolutely delicious _pale_

i seen a programme on how they make that soya stuff,

gizmocoe

Bonsibabe -
How / why would you get moisture into your compost bin please? Mine seems a bit dry - tell me where I'm going wrong please!!!! I did hear somewhere that the best compost activator is to get a helpful gentleman to pee into the bin but my hubby doesn't seem very keen.......... (scared of the neighbours and the earwigs..!) Gratefull for any advice / alternatives...

Lotus-eater

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

i seen a programme on how they make that soya stuff,

and..................?

Are you going to fill us in with your unbounding wisdom, oh queen of trikes?

Lotus-eater

gizmocoe wrote: »

Bonsibabe -
How / why would you get moisture into your compost bin please? Mine seems a bit dry - tell me where I'm going wrong please!!!! I did hear somewhere that the best compost activator is to get a helpful gentleman to pee into the bin but my hubby doesn't seem very keen.......... (scared of the neighbours and the earwigs..!) Gratefull for any advice / alternatives...

Tell him to do it in a watering can, otherwise he is trouble. Works for me.

If it is too dry urine is the best thing for it. Or you can just put a bit of water on it. What are you putting into it though? Try cutting down on the brown stuff and just put in green waste for a few days, then mix it up, that will get moisture in no problem.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lotus-eater wrote: »

and..................?

Are you going to fill us in with your unbounding wisdom, oh queen of trikes?

ooo ye sorry it was well ummmm very off putting it looked as though they were making blocks of slim sorry

but it did put me off, and i must admit it just didnt seem natural.. if that makes sense,

but on saying that, if we know how most of our food is processed or made, we wouldnt eat it

gizmocoe

Thanks for that. Yesterday I put some fresh green grass clippings in so hopefully that should add some moisture. There had been quite a lot of brown dry stuff from where I had cut back some of the dead winter branches. Will try to alternate more green bits in! We save all our fruit / veg peelings as well as teabags, but I have never put paper or card in - does it work?