Squeaky's test MEGA index thread

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INSECTS

...ANTS

Ants ants and more ants
Ants in the patio (+link)
Cheap Ant Killer?
Help with ants please
House full of ants


...FLIES

- Fly killer
- Swarms of flies
- Wheelie bin


...MOSQUITOES

Mosquitoes


...WASPS

Help Wasps! Water & soap trick??



...THE REST

Moth repellant?
Plaster beetles
Slugs indoors
Woodlice



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KITCHENWARE

We are compiling a list of basic kitchen items with guides on how to use them which we hope that beginners will find useful.

Basic kitchen items and how to use them

Baking tins and containers
Baking pans

Breadmakers:
The Complete Breadmaking Collection

Cheese Preservers

Chopping boards - What kind?

Crockery - Corelle ??!!

Discussions:
- What kitchen gadget would you not be without?

Flasks - what should I look for?

Food processor:
- Do I need one for baking?
- I need help with (buying) a food processor

George Foreman little grill

Griddle pan - cast iron

Ice cream maker (+recipes)
Ice cream home maker?

Kenwood Chef:
- Breadmaking and a lot more
- KM 300 - slice and grate attachment or a food processor?
- Old Kenwood Chef £55 - is it good value? Advice appreciated

Kettle is new - cuppa tastes of plastic

Kitchen scales - which one?

Knives:
- How to use a sharpening steel
- Knives and scissors
- Which kitchen knives do you really need to have?

Must have kitchen gadgets

Pie dish - what can I use instead?

Pressure Cooker:
- Has no instructions, help please
- Prestige - riser melted

Remoska:
- Anyone got a remoska?
- Remoska cookers

Rice Cooker

Saucepans:
- Handles are hot
- New saucepans wanted
- Which pans to buy?


Slicer - Domestic Food/Meat Slicers - any good?

Slow Cooker:
The Complete Slow Cooker Collection


Spong

Steamer - worth getting for one person?

Water filters

Yoghurt Maker

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MAKEUP & BODY CARE

Aftersun?

Bath:
- Bathing in fairy liquid??
- Make Lush bath bars last longer
- Refill a Boots bath foamer
- Relaxing bath anyone?

Beard trimming

Beauty therapy, cheap

Blackheads

Blue eyes

Cabbage juice

Cheaper Beauty Products?

Clarins substitute?

Clothes - wardrobe control?

Cosmetics:
- cut down on spending?
- The friendly way (from FOE)

Exfoliate for pennies

Face:
- Can you re-use facial wipes
- Cheap spot remover
- Facial scrub
- Muslin cloths for cleansing

Fake tan dilemma (gone streaky)

Feet:
- Hard skin
- Medicated foot bath recipe?
- Smelly
- Treat for feet?

Hair:
- Cut and trim your own
- Dandruff
- Dry shampoo please?
- Head lice - aargh!
- No shampoo
- Saving money on shampoo?
- Shampoo substitute?
- Straighteners
- Tips for shampoo?
- Tonic - stinging nettles
- ylang ylang for hair

Hands:
- Hand treatment
- Liquid hand wash
- Nail whitener?
- Nails breaking
- Rough hands??
- Vinegar on dry cracked hands

Hydrogen Peroxide

Lipstick - Saving Lipstick

Money saving beauty tips
Moneysaving Soap etc

Moneywasting

Shaving - Gillette Mach3 Turbo razor blades
Shaving - what to use instead of shaving foam

Shower gel and bath gel - interchangeable?

Skin:
Dry skin
- Skin cream?

Sunscreen - out of date

Static in clothes

Tea tree oil
Tea tree oil - source?

Teeth:
- Toothpaste - cheap recommend?
- Toothpaste - value or brand?
- Tooth Whitening

Vinegar:
- Has anyone seen the adverts for that vinegar book? + link to ebook
Vinegar for yeasty nipples

Wright's Coal Tar Soap

Yoghurt



Websites:

http://www.free-beauty-tips.com/homemade.html



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MISCELLANEOUS TIPS

Aluminium cans worth 1p each

Anniversary treats (link)

Auctions - Furnish your house for buttons

Bamboo - dye it?

Barbecue:
- Fir cones as fuel
- Party ideas please?

Birds:
- Feed the ducks?
- Feeding wild birds
- Starlings
- Two little birds

Birthday Party ideas (7yo)

Bonfire night - free and legal tipping

Books:
- How to beat the system


Bounce - a million and one uses

Bubbles

Car - Fuel efficiency

Car boots - A clever way to make or save a few pounds...
Car boot sale tips

Central heating:
- economy?
- reduce temp or timings?
- save money

Cheats refills/swaps/exchanges

Chicken pox....how to stop a four year old scratching?

Clothes:
- Basic Tip for clothes addicts
- Essential clothes for winter?
- How do you 'de-shine' a suit?
- Itchy Linen clothes
- Sizes? What do the numbers mean?

Clothes Airer/Horse/Maiden

Coal / smokeless fuel

Cocktail sticks

Coffee grounds

Cooking oil Used as Diesel!

Cooking without a kitchen

Christmas lights - How to stick xmas lights to new upvc windows?
Christmas Money Saving Tips

Days out:
- cheapest leisure you can get
- free museums and galleries
- Old Style


Don't just throw them away...

Drinks:
- Delivered milk
- Keeping opened Pop fizzy
- Sugar free is best?

Duct Tape - The joys of...

Elastic bands - from marigolds

Energy saving

Fancy dress ideas

Filing - Is it possible to drown in paper???

Free food at work
Free Petrol Leaf Blower

Freecycle

Furniture Dents in Carpets

Get help for free (includes LETS)
Get it all out

Getting organised:
- Help needed in throwing things out
- How do you do it?
- Organising cupboards
- Shoe storage
- Time saving tips
- The benefits of beingorganised

Hair conditioner - other uses?

Halloween - trick or treat??

Handkerchiefs vs Tissues

Help needed to throw things out

Holidays - Old Style

Holidays - decanting shampoo etc to take away

Hot nights

House sharing, Old Style

How do you use less?

Hydrogen Peroxide

Keeping opened pop fizzy

Kitchen tap - another use

Laundry:
- Be Canny With Fabric Softener
- Fabric Freshener - Any Ideas on a cheap version?

Lavender

Leather - looking after leather

Library

lots of questions can you help?

Make trousers and jackets last longer

Marmite

Mayonnaise - not just for salads

Missing parts? Order them.

Money - How do you think your kids would cope?

Muslin cloths

Nappies

Newspaper - Read them all on line
Newspaper - using up old newspapers

Obvious tips collected

Old Magazines

Old wine rack??

Orchids - care of

Paint stripping with hot vinegar

Pistachio shells

Plastic lids - Mis-shapen plastic container lids

Plastic tubes of toothpaste,shampoos,hand cream,etc. (teabags)

Proper old-fashioned saving the pennies

Recycling:
- Charity shop, recycle, or bin?
- Cutting back reduces packaging?
- For avid recyclers and freecyclers and LETS enthusiasts
- ironing board cover
- Junk mail
- Making paper bricks
- Old Bras
- Photographs
- Recycling tips
- Take away containers
- Throw away society
- Any uses for shredded paper?
- Waste not want not...

Relaxation - Thrifty Relaxation Tips

Rings - Getting a ring off my finger

Rock salt source?

Roses wilting

Rubber Gloves:
- make them last longer
- uses

Salt - 60 uses for salt

Scavenging

Sea fishing

Sea shells

School holidays, cheap days out?

Shocked by shocks


Shoes:
- How can I stretch a pair of trainers?
- New sandals rub
- Shoe repair DIY
- Squeaky shoes

Shredded paper waste

Slow Cooker - Another use for slow cookers

Smoke Alarm - Burnt the dinner ?????

Soap - using up old soap

Socks:
- How to make socks last longer
- Use for old socks???!

Stamps - unglue stamps

Students:
- What to send them off with? Items and tips?

Table - Cracked wooden table

Tea:
- Leftover tea
- Tea Bags
- Tea Bags versus Loose Tea

Tights - uses for holed tights

Tin Foil as a scourer/ Brillo Pad..handy hint!!

Tips:
- Ask your mum...
- Double Duty

Toilet:
- Reduce water use per flush
- Unblocking the toilet - any ideas?

Turpentine substitute / source?

Vacuum cleaner bags

Wall paper - self adhesive border removal

Water:
- Saving water - tips
- Saving water revisited
- Washing up water

Waterproof sheets?

Wedding gift - how much money to give?

What can be watered down

What do with some old watches...

Wind up radios and torches

Wine rack - uses for old ones?



Websites:
- Other Ol'Style Sites (links)
- Organised home - Printable forms
- Robbies Household Tips
http://freecycle.org/display.php?reg...ited%20Kingdom





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PETS

Cat pee
Cat pee on holdalls
Cat poo - how to discourage?
Cat sick stain
Cat using our garden, help?
Cat wee in new dyson!

Cat used sofa as scratch tree

Cat - weaning kittens

Dog:
- Food recipe?
- Food to fatten one up?
- HM Food - for dog with gippy tummy?
- HM Food and Training Treats
- Wee on sofa

Fish

Fleas
Flea control tips?
Fleas - ERGHHHH Fleas !!! (Cat not me!!) Please help
Fleas - Getting rid of fleas with no chemicals?

Fur:
- Cat fluff / fur
- Moulting dog

Litter trays - Cat/rabbit litter tray - calcium deposits
Litter - Cheap cat litter?

Pet accident smells removal

Picky pregnant cat

Vinegar rinse for the dog





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SHOPPING

Asian supermarkets:
- Asian supermarket in Norfolk?
- What other treasures to look for in an asian supermarket?

Basic shopping list needed

Bartering skill, trading

Birthday cards


BOGOF's and reductions:
- BOGOF's
- Reduced and on offer

Budget:
The MSE Budget Spreadsheet and others
- being organised
- Budget - starting up
- Budgeting crisis
- Charts and spreadsheets
- Cooking for one
- Costing out meals
- Day to Day budgeting - your tips please!
- For Xmas
- Help a single saver
- How did older people manage without credit cards?
- How Do You Keep a Record?
- How exactly do you do it?
- How much shopping budget for...
- How much can you cut back your monthly bills?
- How to budget
- I stumbled, then there was an avalanche!
- Ideas/tips young people on limited budget
- In a bit of a tight jam
- Living within your means
- MoneySavingExpert Budget Spreadsheet
- New to budgeting
- Reasonable amount to live on per week
- Save to spend
- Save up the easy way
- The three purse system
- Tiny budget, meal plans?
- Want to start money saving but where to start?
- What did you use before credit/debit cards?

Buying in bulk:
- Bulk buying and refills with postage paid
- Is it really worth it?
- Where to buy Old Style cleaning products.

Buying local - I'm puzzled

Cash & Carry (how to sign on)

Charity shops
Charity Shop Shopping

Cheapest place to buy walnuts ( and more )

Cheese - Any good cheese shops...?

Comparison sites:
- Prices On Line
- Grocery prices

Coupons:
- Coupons
- Coupons and Vouchers - Trouble at t' till
- Using coupons at the supermarket
- Vouchers (also see the vouchers board)

Credit cards - ditching them

Delivery - What do I do if Iceland delivery doesn't turn up?

Desperate House....husband

False economy

Fishmongers

Gluten free

Grocery Challenge Please Help!!!
Groceries - General grocery savings tips?

Independant bakery

Meat on line

Meeting your grocery challenge target

Mystery Shopping

Need to cut costs dramatically

OLDSTYLE 5 Commandments

On-line shopping - New to it questions

Pasta maker problem - used sold as new!

Pound shops - huh!

Price Book

Reduced food query (salmon)

Running back for tips with my tail between my legs!!!

Saving money on chicken

Shop like granny
Shop - My grocery money saving tip

spreadsheets to manage outgoings?

Store cupboard essentials?

Supermarkets, best buys, own brands:
Aldi - what's best?
Aldi / Lidl opening times and fruit?
Asda - fresh meat no longer as good
Asda and lidl's own brands
Costso - What's it like?
Makro
Tesco - Misprice policy
Tesco - Raincheck vouchers (Price promise)
Tesco - Tesco
Tesco - Watch out for Tesco's Value
Waitrose - do they do club cards?

Supermarkets general:
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- Best Kept Secrets
- Best Supermarket for selling 'reduced' food
- Supermarket shop, weekly or monthly?

Swap shop

Unpaid leave - spending less/no money short term

Went shopping yesterday

Wholesale - what should I buy

WI Markets

Yoghurt Maker - sources?





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Laminate cabinets - ink

Laundry:
- Be Canny With Fabric Softener
- Colour run cloths - cheaper alternative?
- Collar and Cuff Grime - The Final Solution
- Crusty jeans
- Drying clothes indoors?
- Dye bleeding - tip to monitor
- Eco Balls (wash balls) (laundry balls)
- Fabric Conditioner - home made?
- Fabric Freshener - Any Ideas on a cheap version?
- Fabric softener warning
- Folding clothes before hanging out to dry
- Hard water?
- Hardened washing powder
- Home made laundry stain remover
- How much vinegar and soda crystals to use?
- If only they knew
- Ironing emergency!!!!!
- Ironing - Silver marks on black trousers!
- Ironing - Sweet smelling clothes
- Ironing - Very Creased Curtain fabric
- Keeping whites white and blacks black
- Linen trousers - dry clean or wash?
- Making towels soft
- Net laundry bags for delicates
- Pegging out sheets
- Quick washing by machine
- Rose water
- Silk tie ruined
- Smell after being trapped in Washing Machine
- Spin and spin again
- Sweet smelling laundry? (machine)
- T-shirts shrinking!
- Tea towels - keeping them white?
- Vinegar as fabric conditioner
- Washing line or rotary
- Washing powder - explained
- Washing powder versus liquid

Leather belt smells

Light bulbs

Marble - How to clean marble table?

Microwave - cleaning the microwave

Milton's sterilising fluid - tips

Mirror - Gilt frame

Mugs - Can I revive white tea stained mugs?

Oven:
- Black marks on hob
- Burnt olive oil on base of oven
- Burnt on food
- Ceramic glass hob
- Ceramic hob - cleaner?
- Cooker hood
- Greasy oven dishes
- Grill element cleaning
- Heavy duty oven cleaner
- Plastic melted onto hob
- Shelves help please
- Stinky Oven!!!
- what's the best way to clean my oven
- Wood stove

Oxiclean - Home made Oxiclean

Pans:
- Burnt on rice
- Burnt Porridge
- Burnt pan...what to use?
- Pans dull after being in dishwasher

Patio & Paving:
- Cleaning patio stones
- Oil stains
- Weed killing - see under Gardening in the Food section

Permanent Marker (from garage door)

Photocopier Glass?

Plasticware - Stained plasticware

Polish - Alternatives

Pyrex - carbon deposits on pyrex

Radiators:
- Dusting down the back
- Radiators

Roasting tin:
- cleaning?
- rusty

Rugs:
- Cheap way to clean a rug
- Cleaning vomit from a wool rug

Shampoo - double up on shampoo

Shoes:
- Biro
- Chewing gum
- Cleaning/Waterproofing Walking Boots?
- Grease spot on beige suede shoes
- Grubby trainers
- Leather sandals
- Leather shoes stinky
- Shoe Polish
- Smartening up heels on shoes
- Stinky shoes
- Suede - Pale Pink Suede Boots
- Suede - Pink Suede Shoes
- Suede - Pongy suede mules
- Suede - Water marks
- Whiffy Shoes and Trainers!!!

Shopping list - new convert shopping list items

Shower:
- Black Marks On Silicone In Shower
- Black mildew from bathroom please!
- Curtain
- Daily Shower Spray
- Descaling a shower head
- Door - How do I keep a shower door sparkling?
- Marked shower tray
- Mouldy shower
- Mouldy shower curtain
- Rain repellant on shower screens
- Stains in shower tray
- Substitute for shower spray

Silver:
- Cleaning silver jewellry
- Silver cup
- Sterling Silver

Sink:
- Blocked seriously
- Scum around sink
- Shiny Sink
- Smelly plug hole
- Stainless Steel Sink
- Stainless steel sink completely discoloured

Sofa:
- Cleaning a cream coloured suite
- Cleaning removable sofa covers
- Leather - Cleaning leather suite
- Leather - How can I clean cream leather suite
- Leather - Permanent marker
- Olive oil
- PVC
- Tea stains

Sportswear:
- Grease mark on football shirt
- Mud
- Washing Top Tip Required

Sticking plaster residue

Suede:
- Cleaning
- Dry Cleaning, can I avoid it?
- Jacket

Stainless steel

Suitcases smelly

Super Glue - how to remove it (link)

Swarfega - dont buy swarfega anymore

Table - Cup ring on wooden table

Taps - How do I clean gold plated taps?

Tea tree oil as disinfectant

Teddy smells

Toilet:
- One NOT to use
- Clean Toilet Brush
- Limescale
- manky toilet bowl
- toilet cleaners --- refill

Towel - removing leg wax

Tupperware - Smelly tupperware

TV:
- Clean & Clear Static From The TV
- Spilt perfume marks

UPVC Window frames

Vacuum freshener?

Velcro - cleaning out the bits of lint?

Vinegar & White Vinegar:
- Brown (malt) vinegar will not stain your clothes!
- Cleaning product replacement?
- Concealing the smell of vinegar?
- For more than just cleaning
- How do you mix it / use it?
- Masking the smell
- Sources
- The great Bleach v Vinegar debate
- ..The search for cheap vinegar
- Uses
- What is it?
- White vinegar?

Walls:
- Candle wax on wallpaper
- Crayon (& felt tip) off the wall
- Red wine

Washing up:
- Bottle holes getting bigger
- Using less

Wheelie (and other) bins:
- Maggots
- Taken over by flies
- Wheelie bin

Wallpaper - biro

Windows:
- Best cloths for cleaning windows/mirrors/glass?
- Streak free windows?
- What to use?

Wipes:
- Anti septic wipes for less
- Can we MAKE cleaning wipes????
- Dettol and flash wipes

Wood burner

Worktops:
- Burn marks on unit top?
- Gloss Worktops
- Wax

Wundaweb - removal?

Websites:
Organised Home (cleaning recipes and more)
Allergy sensitive cleaning tips
Laundry symbols on clothes
http://www.inspection1.com/buyer/stain.htm
http://www.dylon.co.uk/main.htm (dyes, stain removal and whitening)
Laundry labels - what they mean
The World's Longest List of Uses for Vinegar
http://www.wen.org.uk/health/Report...g_factsheet.pdf (OS cleaning factsheet)
http://www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/product...oval/index.asp
http://www.soda-crystals.co.uk/



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COOKING and RECIPES


We have a long running thread which is a collection of over 200 of our Old Style Recipes and which has been indexed separately to help you find things:-

The Old Style Recipe Collection



__Basic Cooking - Learners start here:
- Can't cook don't cook! Time for change.
- Help needed for reluctant cook!!!
- Hopeless cook
- Pre heat the oven?


Basic store cupboard supplies:
- Emergency food tin (for students)


Baking powder:
- (& baking soda) defined
- Or Self Raising Flour?
- Turning Plain Flour into Self Raising

Baking recipes - scones etc (with links)

Barbecue:
- Barbecue Food
- Barbecue ideas?
- Barbecue ideas on the cheap please?
- Barbecue sauce?
- Gas barbeque - does food taste barbecued?
- MoneySaving BBQ ideas

Batter mix for yorkshire puddings
Batter for chicken / prawn balls please

BBC Masterchef On-line Course

Beans, Lentils, Peas, & Pulses:
Beans cooking times government safety link
- Alfalfa
- Butter beans
- Chestnuts - advice on cooking?
- Chickpeas - and green lentils
- Chickpeas
- Dired vs tinned?
- Flageolet beans
- Kidney bean recipes????
- Lentils
- Padding meals out
- Pearl barley - how to use it?
- Slow cook, pressure cook, toxins?

Beetroot

Birthdays:
- Birthday breakfast and tea
- Buffet ideas
- Party for 7 year old on small budget

Biscuits:
- Banana and date bars
- Cereal bars etc for diabetics
- Cookies - Freshly baked
- Forgot to add the sugar, can I add it now
- Flour - can I use strong?
- Help with biscuits please
- No bake cereal bars
- Oat cakes (hob nobs)
- Oatmeal biscuits - old recipe?
- Quick and easy?
- Recipes please?
- Ritz biscuits out of date
- Shah biscuits recipe?

Books:
- Be-ro - the book and the website
- Cookbook needed - heart disease AND diabetes
- Favourite cook books
- Presents from the kitchen
- Recipe book for proper curries?
- Recipe (simple) book recommendations please
- Slow Cooker Recipe Book
- The most useful cookery books ever?
- The Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten
- What's the best cookery book you have?
- World War Rationing ?
- Worth its weight in gold

Bread and Breadmakers:
The Complete Breadmaking Collection

Breadcrumbs:
- Making
- Using

Bread - Stale Bread - what to do with it?

Bread Pudding - Sweet and savoury versions

Buffet ideas?

Bulk Cooking - Once a month cooking (freezer cooking)

Butter - home made

Butternut Squash

Cake:
- Baking advice needed
- Baking recipes for the freezer
- Baking tips
- Banana - cake and muffin ideas please?
- Banana and strawberry ideas?
- Birthday Cake - Help with Birthday cake
- Brown food colouring
- Cake tins - Conversion for Home Baking
- Carrot cake - Killer Carrot Cake
- Carrot cake - with banana? (+links)
- Cheesecake - Cheap recipes?
- Chocolate beetroot cake
- Chocolate cake tips please
- Chocolate Wedding Cake
- Chorley cake
- Christmas Cake
- Christmas (yes it will soon be here) Cake
- Christmas pudding - When to make it?
- Cornflake tart
- Fatless sponge(+)
- Flapjacks are floppy
- Fruit Loaf
- Icing and frosting, help needed
- Malt Loaf - Cheap Malt Loaf/Kids Activity Recipe
- Marg/butter for baking - quality or price?
- Microwave cakes?
- Muffins - Help, muffin recipe please
- Muffins - I cant bake muffins to save my life
- Pound Cake (via link)
- Scarey cake for halloween
- Scones - Wholemeal Date and Walnut
- Ship Cake
- Strawberry Tart Glaze
Strawberry Tart - gel
- Vinegar cake
- Yule log recipe?

Caravan and Holiday Cookery

Celery - What to do with celery

Cereal:
- Breakfast cereal
- Magic Cereal
- Muesli (and sponge pudding)

Challenge:
- Cheapest cake to feed six
- Cheapest meal
- Feed six for £1.62
- Full cupboards
- Got £1 and hungry
- Store cupboard Challenge

Cheating when cooking lets share ideas

Cheese:
- Brie - recipe ideas please
- Cheese and Bacon Savoury?
- Cheese Straws
- How do you make Cheese?
- How to store cheese?
- Recipes using cheese needed

Chicken and other poultry:
- Bored with rubber chicken
- Chicken breasts, bacon and cheese?
- Chicken & Rosemary - Too Lazy/Tired to stuff a chicken
- Chicken & sauce
- Chicken thigh recipes wanted!
- Chicken Nuggets
- Christmas dinner starter
- Duck
- Duck - Stock, what to do with it?
- Feeding the five thousand...
- Giblets - What to do?
- Help me make my chicken rubber
- Hickory smoked chicken
- Home made version of big Als BBQ Chicken Grills?
- How to cook a poussin?
- Recipe for chicken pie/crumble
- Reheating a Rubber Chicken
- Rubber Chicken
- Using chicken carcasses for soup?

Children ( kids ):
- Fun meat loaf (plus)
- Ideas for kid's meals

Chilli:
- Made with braising steak?
- Too hot

Chocolate:
- Chocolates gone white
- Dairy-free milk chocolate recipe?
- HM chocolate spread?
- Lots and lots and lots

Christmas:
- What do you have on your Christmas Day menu?
- When do I bake my Christmas cake?

Coconuts:
- a lovely pair
- ideas please?

Colcannon

Coleslaw

Conversions:
- American cups
- Cups and ounces
- Quick links for conversion charts when cooking

Cooking for one
Cooking from scratch

Cous cous

Cream - home made

Crisps:
- Home made?
- Posh crisps from root vegetables- recipe anyone?

Crumble:
- How do you make it?
- The perfect crumble?

Curry:
- Amount to use not in the recipe
- Cheap daal curry (& good for you!)
- Curry Help
- making Curry Queen's curry - how many onions in 1kg?
- Quick curry

Custard:
- Can you make it without custard powder?
- Egg custard for baby?
- Low fat?


More Cooking and Recipes are listed in the post immediately below this one. Please just scroll down...


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Cooking and Recipes (continued)


Delia's way

Diet cauliflower cheese

Dips

Drinks:
- Beer Making Kits-How Easy????
- Cocoa - Hot chocolate drinks
- Coffee - Yuk! Cheap Instant Coffee, Now What?
- Cucumber lemonade
- Decaffeinate your own tea
- Elderflower cordial
- Ginger plant / Ginger beer
- Homebrew
- Home made Baileys
- Home made booze recipes
- Home made instant cappychino
- Home made wine and stockists of equipment
- Home made Irish liquer
- Iced coffee
- Juices and lemonade
- Lemon squash (and lemon cordial)
- Margaritas
- MoneySaving cocktails (+link)
- Rampant Rabbit
- Sarsaparilla
- Sloe gin
- Soft drinks, infusions, lemonade
- Soft drinks - recipes
- White wine recommendation?
- Wine - home made

Dripping

Eggs:
- Easy scrambled eggs with mayo
- Egg whites only
- Six yolks

Emergency Food Tin

Fish and other seafood:
- Fish cakes
- For stock (first and last posts)
- herring and other fish
- Raw fish bits - for stock or...?
- Salmon, tuna... others?
- Salvage a salmon
- Sardine burgers
- Smoked salmon in main course
- Squid - from frozen
- Tinned kipper fillets
- Trout
- Tuna steaks
- What should I do with cod?

Flapjacks

Flour:
- Help, what is all-purpose flour?
- Plain flour, what to do?

FOOD! - Food links by Fran (some duplicates)

Foil - clean and easy meal for one or two

Freezer mishaps:
- Freezer left open
- No frozen food

Freezing:
Freezing Foods - A Guideline link
Focus on freezing
- Apples and crumbles?
- Bakery items
- Bread Dough
- Broccoli
- Burger mix
- Cakes and puddings?
- Can I freeze double cream and fruit salad?
- Can you freeze scones & pancakes & cakes?
- Carrots
- Cherries
- Chillies, herbs (and wine)
- Chillies, mixed
- Cider
- Cooked meals?
- Cooking for the freezer... Help!
- Cooking meals for the Freezer
- Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian
- Couscous
- Curry sauce from a jar
- Defrosting cooked meals
- defrosting goat's milk
- Defrosting in a microwave
- Defrosting lasagna
- Defrosting semi skimmed milk
- Defrosting surplus food
- Eggs
- Foods that dont freeze well at all
- French sticks
- Fresh fruit/veg?
- Guacamole
- Herbs - Basil
- Herbs - Coriander
- Hummus
- Lasgana - Cooked or raw?
- Lemons (+out of date cream)
- Meal planning and freezing food
Meringue - does it freeze?
- Milk
- Milk - What can you freeze?
- Milk - Freezing milk
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Onions (revisited)
- Pasta, cooked
- Pastry and pies?
- Potatoes, mashed
- Potatoes, raw
- Pizza bases
- Risotto
- Sauces and pastes
- Soya milk
- Sweet and sour mixed veg
- Yoghurt
- Yorkshires - freeze the batter or the cooked puds?

Fruit:
- Apples - Home made apple pie recipe?
- Apple sauce
- Apples - What To Do With Apples?
- Bananas - to use up
- Bananas - too many
- Bananas - going black
- Bananas, over ripe
- Bananas, ripe
- Blueberries - frozen
- Crab Apple recipes?
- Cherries - going soft
- Elderberries - what to do with them other than wine?
- Fresh fruit - ideas?
- Gooseberries
- Hot fruit puddings
- Lemon - What can I substitute for a lemon?
- Mango
- Orange juice - frozen, any ideas?
- Orange peels - what do do with them
- Oranges - 12 organic oranges, any ideas
- Passion flower fruit
- Peaches, tinned
- Pineapples - Anyone got recipes for pineapple?
- Pineapples - Over ripe
- Quince
- Raspberries - easy and quick?
- Rhubarb
- Satsuma Overload
- Sloe berries
- Strawberry glut
- Too much fresh fruiyt

Fudge:
- Carrot Fudge
- Vanilla Fudge

Fussy Eaters:
- easy meat recipes to beef up underweight teen
- Hiding vegetables
- Meal ideas for picky kids
- What can I feed the fussiest eater in the world?





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Cooking and Recipes (continued)


Ginger Biscuit Roll

Goulash

Gravy - decent gravy please?

Grocery Challenge - The first one

Healthy eating:
- 5 a day?
- Chocolate cake for diabetics
- Healthy eating for weight loss
- I have no idea what to cook!
- Iron rich recipes?
- Low cost meals
- Low fat vegetarian ideas please?
- Low salt diet
- No wheat
- Omg...all This Home Cooking Is Making Me Fat!!
- Nutritionaly good meals for the Freezer?
- Sausages
- Student cooking (and shopping)
- Sugar Free cake recipe
- Treats for diabetics?

Herbs and Spices:
- Bay leaves / tree
- Curry spices - grind my own?
- Garden Mint
- Garlic, chopped
- Help... bolognaise is too spicy!!
- Rosemary - What do I do with Rosemary?
- Spices - Inexpensive sources
- Stem Ginger
- Thai seasonings
- Too spicy
- Wild Garlic

Honey Roasted Cashewnuts.

Honeycomb

Ice cream:
- Ice cream - cheap and really cheap
- Ice cream recipes please! (single cream)
- Brown Bread Ice Cream recipe wanted
- Ice lollys
- Iced lolly ideas

Indian and Chinese

Ingredient substitution

Inspiration:
- Celbration meals ideas with no cooker?
- Celebration frugal for six
- Cheap, easy recipies required! (for children to make)
- Cheap meals?
- Dinner party on a budget- ideas please!
- Elimination diet - help please
- Fish and some veggies... help!
- Food for hot weather?
- Food on the go...............HELP!!!!!
- Help me use what I've got left
- Helllpppppp!!! running out of ideas...
- Inspiration needed
- Lots of help needed please (mostly recipes)
- Mushroom tortelli, cous cous, sesame... and...?
- My store cupboard needs clearing out - Help!
- Odds & sods- recipe ideas?
- Saturday brunch ideas
- Tinned spaghetti? and soups?
- Vegetables
- Vegetable selection... what can I make?
- What can I make with? Mushrooms, peppers, carrots, celery?
- What's for breakfast/lunch/dinner?
- What's for tea tonight?

Jam, Chutneys, and Preserves:
- Apricots - first timer
- Banana chutney
- Beetroot pickling?
- Cherry jam
- Fruit bottling with pressure cooker and jam jars
- Help with jam making please?
- Is making jam easy?
- Kilner Jars, gaskets?
- Lemon curd, in the microwave
- lemon marmalade
- Make jam in your breadmaker
- Making jam in the microwave
- Making jams
- Mint jelly - help please
- Onion - Red Onion Chutney
- Passionfruit curd
- Pickled eggs
- Plum jam
- Rhubarb
- Should I sieve my jam?
- Sterilising jars and bottles?
- Sweetcorn relish
- Where do I find jam jars?

Juicer:
- Recipe ideas for a newly bought juicer?
- What to do with the pulp?

Lasagna:
- Cheese sauce
- HM Lasagna sheets?
- With creme fraiche?

Leftovers:
- Barbecue
- Beef
- Bubble and Squeak
- Chicken
- Chicken leftovers
- Chicken - Tea: inspiration needed!
- Lamb - What to do with leftover lamb?
- Leftover Christmas veg
- Lleftover potatoes
- Marzipan, icing, mandarins...
- Mostly mash and...
- Pasta??
- Pesto - ideas pls?
- Rice
- Rice ideas?
- Roast beef
- 2 in 1 recipes
- Use-it-up experiments
- Veg - runners, peas & courgettes & roast pots
- What can I do with left over egg yolks?!?

Low Fat - low fat/low carb/diabetic/vegetarian recipe site
Low Fat - reduce fat in baking

Lunch:
- Best sandwich?
- Cheap and practical lo-carb
- Desk top sweet snacks
- Food on the go
- For work
- Healthy eating (packed lunch ideas?)
- Lunch for work(salads)
- Packed lunch
- Packed lunch - Advice On Daughter Please!
- Ploughman's
- Problem with pack-up

Macaroni Cheese (Baked)

Marinade recipes

Marmalade - Seville oranges

Meals for one - Moneysaving Meals for one

Meat:
- Joints pictured plus cooking methods (link)
- Bacon - Makin' Bacon
- Bacon offcuts - what to do with them?
- Bacon - recipes using it?
- Bacon - Saltpetre needed
- Bacon and egg pie recipe?
- Beef - Salt beef
- Black pudding
- Brains
- Braising steak ideas?
- Brisket - Have you cooked? & Yummy but... (merged)
- Brisket - What to do with brisket
- Cheapest cuts to buy?
- Cheaper cuts of meat PLUS colour diagrams link
- Cheap steak
- Corned beef
- Corned beef hash
- Corned beef - home made
- Cooking a joint of beef
- Gammon - steaming
- Ham - help needed
- Heart - Stuffed heart recipe please
- Lamb - Cheshire Lamb Crumble
- Lamb - half shoulder of lamb
- Lamb - leg of lamb (boneless) (but have the bone)
- Lamb - meatballs / patties
- Lamb - Minted lamb?
- Liver recipe needed
- Mince - Ideas please?
- Mince - More exciting mince
- Mince - Savings on mince
- Pork - Cooked piggy
- Pork - Cooking a pork joint
- Pork - Pork Belly
- Pork - What to do with 10 Pork Chops?
- Rabbit
- Reheating lamb
- Sausage Casserole Old Style
- Sausages - Home made, help please
- Shepherds pie - can I prepare now and eat later?
- Soya mince?
- Steak and...?
- Steak and kidney
- The perfect roast?
- Tinned Meats
- What to ask for in the butchers

Menu Planning:
The Menu Plans Collection

Microwave:
- Cooking challenge
- Meringues?
- Nutritious and filling meals?
- Sponge puds

Milk:
- Buttermilk, home made?
- Condensed (and evaporated)
- Uses for sour milk?

Miscellaneous:
- Smelly cooking hands
- Weighing out Golden Syrup

Mushrooms:
- 24 hr mushrooms ???
- Breaded mushrooms
- Lots of Mushrooms. What to do with them?
- Mushroom chow mein?




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