New Thrifty Gifty - Organised for Christmas and all ocassions 2010- Santas Challenges

mum2one

elysia2003 wrote: »

The Dairy book - is that the one you used to buy off the milkman? My mum had one of those - used it all the while when we were kids and it literally fell to pieces in the end. It's funny how something as simple as a cookery book can bring back so many memories.

Yep off the milkman, this is a 70s one, and its so funny looking at the recipies, there was even a section on sandwiches, must of been the highlight of the year, sandwiches with the crusts off!!

Its weird as I had a Bero one as a kid, and I got one for dd, and some of the kids recipies were the same!!

And the moulds for jelly - apparently as a child I wouldn't eat jelly unless it was made in a mould.

You felt so posh if you went to a friends bday party and they had cheese and pineapple on sticks, coming out of a foil wrapped orange, (idea to look like a hedghog, and you had to wear long length party dresses....

Quite looking 4ward to hunt for any recipies and ebay a few books...

sarahf191979

mum2one wrote: »

After thinking about starting the decluttering of the recipie books, I had a brain wave......

Lets see who can find the most weirdest recipie in their book.

I'll start you off

Dairy Cookery Book
Beer Soup
Coconut Soup

xx

Chocolate Beetroot Cake:cool:

sarahf191979

Well I did My Fridge and Freezer yesterday :j (Better Late than never LOL:rotfl:) and started having a good sort out in the kitchen as soon as thats finished will start on the bedroom:eek:, have a busy rest of the week ahead and cant seem to get focused this morning:o oh well a few more COFFEE's might help.

Take care

sarah
x

elyphant

re the recipe de-clutter I just found this link blog-hopping the other day http://brownpaper--packages.blogspot.com/2010/01/family-meal-planner-shopping-guide.html which looks like a lovely way to keep your recipes if you are feeling the need for something craftish...

I also found this http://littlenannygoat.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-heck-it-30-meal-plan.html which is about reducing your entire recipe collection to 30 meals that everyone in the house loves - sounds a bit ambitious to me and I have to say I love my recipe books - but I quite like the idea of having a collection of favourites to make meal planning easier (and also for those days when everyone's grumpy and you want to avoid a fight!)

I am a bit behind on the challenges. Since you got us tidying up kids rooms, we have taken a whole month to do one cos we decided to do a real full-on clear-out. BUT it's been brilliant and has stayed that way and DS1 loves it, so we have decided to do the whole house like that, one room a month... OK so it's only Feb, plenty of time for that to slip...

DS2's room is next and we have got off to a brilliant start with a 'big' bed for him off freecycle, totally unused just been kept in someone's garage for a year - yay!

(sorry i lurk and lurk and then post mammoth messages - just ignore me and carry on!)

mum2one

elyphant wrote: »

re the recipe de-clutter I just found this link blog-hopping the other day http://brownpaper--packages.blogspot.com/2010/01/family-meal-planner-shopping-guide.html which looks like a lovely way to keep your recipes if you are feeling the need for something craftish...

I also found this http://littlenannygoat.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-heck-it-30-meal-plan.html which is about reducing your entire recipe collection to 30 meals that everyone in the house loves - sounds a bit ambitious to me and I have to say I love my recipe books - but I quite like the idea of having a collection of favourites to make meal planning easier (and also for those days when everyone's grumpy and you want to avoid a fight!)

That sounds a really good idea, as I guess when you think about it, its always the same type of meals.

I am a bit behind on the challenges. Since you got us tidying up kids rooms, we have taken a whole month to do one cos we decided to do a real full-on clear-out. BUT it's been brilliant and has stayed that way and DS1 loves it, so we have decided to do the whole house like that, one room a month... OK so it's only Feb, plenty of time for that to slip...
That sounds just like my bedroom........
No -ones ever behind with the challenges as we have to Dec!! joking apart thou, well done,.

DS2's room is next and we have got off to a brilliant start with a 'big' bed for him off freecycle, totally unused just been kept in someone's garage for a year - yay!

(sorry i lurk and lurk and then post mammoth messages - just ignore me and carry on!)

Don't apologie for mamouth posts yoy haven't seen some of mine!! Thats brilliant news about ds2 bed, bet he can't wait for it.

Lurk away, pop in and say hi anytime, were one big family xx

mary-op

Hello all :j
Sorry - can't think of any weird recipes not being much of a 'cook' person.
Somewhere deep in grans bible box is lurking her little notebook full of recipes of one sort or another. Keep saying I'll look it out............bible box is under the desk that I've now actually cleared of clutter and polished it :T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Still few bits on there but they're things I like to look at, sort of decorative if you know what I mean.
Neighbours daughter came and went round with Henry and did a floor mop............did a good job so thats that done for this week.
Apart from sorting my desk out (including tidying the drawers that were a mess like you don't want to know) and fixing a hook on the back of the door for my bag haven't done much -wrote couple of letters and that was about it...........still, done my bit with the desk I think.:o

Anglea

Hi all

I've not bought the Dairy cookbook but every year I buy the Dairy diaries and write up all my Xmas notes in the back.

Weird recipes Mum2One - well in and old Marks (St Michael) cookbook I've got -
(look away if you're sqeamish) -
* lambs'tongues with herb dumplings,
*baked stuffed hearts in cider
* farmhouse turkey mould made with pigs trotters and turkey legs :mad:

What I like the sound of is Fidget pie - veg, bacon and apple

On the subject of coconut soup, I think that was on one of the Come Dine with Me repeats I watched last week and the bloke hacked open a coconut outside on the concrete and all the milk came out - so he had to use tinned instead.

sarahf191979

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rosalie-lavender

mum2one wrote: »

After thinking about starting the decluttering of the recipie books, I had a brain wave......

Lets see who can find the most weirdest recipie in their book.

I'll start you off

Dairy Cookery Book
Beer Soup
Coconut Soup

xx

In the middle of one of my cookery books (the type where you write out the recipes) I have a recipe for nit/headlice lotion that the school nurse gave us. Does that count as weird.:rotfl::rotfl:

sarahf191979

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

In the middle of one of my cookery books (the type where you write out the recipes) I have a recipe for nit/headlice lotion that the school nurse gave us. Does that count as weird.:rotfl::rotfl:

:eek::eek: LOL:rotfl: