Squeaky's test MEGA index thread

squeaky

Cooking and Recipes (continued)


Nibbles!

Oat groats

Olive oil - Source (+advice)

Party:
- 1950's theme
- feeding 100

Pasta:
- Home made?
- Pasta machine recipes?
- With feta

Pasties:
- Chicken, which pastry?
- Home made

Pastry:
- Pastry is a disaster
- Puff pastry keeps going flat
- Whats the difference?

Pate - What to do with Chicken Liver Pate?

Peanuts - Salted peanuts, uses?

Peppermint Creams

Picnics:
- Any ideas for picnic food??
- Beach picnic ideas?

Pie - Make me a nice pie

Pizza:
- Dairy free pizza dough
- Dough - do you need to pre cook it?
- First timer advice needed
- HM pasta sauces and pizza dough
- Quickest Pizza Ever


Pressure Cooker:
- Chicken cooking times
- Recipes

Quiche and egg custards
Quick Recipe Collection

Rayburn recipes anyone?

Ready Brek

Recipe Bank
Recipe Links

Rice:
- Cooking Plain Rice
- Cooking rice on a gas hob
- How can I make it exiting?
- Rice recipes please?
- Tupperware Rice cooker

Risotto

Rose petals

Salads:
- Balsamic dressing
- Cucumber glut
- Lettuce - cooked?
- Salad recipes

Salt - too salty

Sauces:
- Bolognaise sauce?
- Bread Sauce
- Cooking without ready made sauces
- Coronation sauce?
- Egg/caper/lemon sauce?
- Getting Saucy
- Moonshine sauce
- Pesto, has anyone made their own?
- Pesto - Help ideas needed to use up hm pesto
- Sweet and sour?
- Tomato - Making Jars of Tomato Sauces?
- Tomato sauce (ketchup)
- Worcester sauce

Sausage Casserole

Scotch Eggs

Shepherd's Pie - How many potatoes?

Shortbread

Shredded wheat

Slow cooker:
The Complete Slow Cooker Collection

Smoked bacon

Smoothies:
- And Milk Shakes
- Frozen raw apple
- Freezing fruit
- How to make smoothies?
- Lump free?

Soup:
- Broccoli and Apple Soup
- Celery soup recipe?
- Chicken soup help please
- From these leftovers
- Recipes

Spaghetti Carbonara

Sprouting:
- Can I eat it all?

Sprouting broccoli?

Steamers:
- Can you steam frozen vegetables?
- Recipes for electric steamer?

Stew

Stock - Best way to make stock??

Stretching things

Stuffing

Suet - What can I do with it?

Sugar, lots of it, but no ideas

Sweetcorn Jelly

Sweets:
- Bread and butter pud
- Chestnut Puree
- Christmas pudding and white sauce
- Coconut ice
- Crumbles
- Fudge Tart and Jam Roly Poly
- Homemade sweets and fudge
- Jelly recipe
- Lemon Curd Smash (with meringues and whipped cream)
- Lemon Meringue Pie
- Old Puddings
- Pancake toppings / fillings
- Popcorn
- Quick puddings
- Rice pudding - baked
- Rice pudding - microwave recipe plus
- Rice pudding - recipe wanted
- School days recipes
- Semolina
- Sorbet - any sorbet recipes?
- Sugared Almonds
- Vanilla pannacotta

Rikki

I think you are monopolizing this thread squeaky.

squeaky

Taco's Fajhitas etc (spices)

Tahini - Substitute for tahini paste

Teens:
- Feed lots of teens on pasta...?

Tips:
- Cooking tips collection
- Save cooking time

Toad in the hole:
- Frozen - problems
- Recipe?

Tortillas - recipe plus fillings

Vegetables:
- Aubergines - What to do with aubergines
- Broad beans
- Broccoli soup?
- Butternut squash?????
- Butternut squash (and fennel)
- Cabbage
- Cabbage - Red cabbage ideas please?
- Carrots - Oodles of carrots
- cassava
- Cauliflower - any uses for the leaves?
- Celery?
- Corn on the cob
- Courgettes
- Curly Kale
- Fennel
- Globe artichokes - marinating and preparing
- Leeks
- Marrow - Any ideas please?
- Marrow - a 10p marrow
- Onions (and garlic)
- Onions - loads of
- Onions - Red onions
- Parsnips
- Peppers
- Peppers - does it matter which one?
- Peppers - Red, a glut
- Peppers - roasted and stuffed?
- Potato - Baked Potato
- Potato - Chips
- Potato - Coatings for Potato Wedges?
- Potato - Crispy roast potatoes
- Potato - horrible and gray
- Potato - Loaded potato skins
- Potato - Mash, boring mash!!!
- Potato - Mash, Mountains of
- Potato - Mash, what marge to use?
- Potato - Mash, the recipe says Smash, I want to use real
- Potato - Question (and quiche)
- Potato - Recipes
- Potato - Reheating jacket potatoes
- Potato - Salad
- Potato - Sprouting spuds
- Potato - Use them or lose them
- Pumpkins
- Red Cabbage
- Romanesco broccoli
- Scallions
- Spinach - alternative recipes?
- Spring Grrens
- Spring Onions
- Spring onion tops
- Sprouts - Spruce up your sprouts
- Sweet potatoes
- Tomatoes - Boiling and skinning?
- Tomatoes - lots of them
- Tomatoes - TOOOOO Many Tomatoes, Help Please

Vegan - Vegan Christmas Cake

Vegetarian:
- Beans and pulses
- Inspiration required
- Lancashire hot pot inspiration needed
- Meal Plans
- Meat and three veg without the meat
- Millet
- Quark cheese
- Quark - what can I make with it
- Quinoa recipes?
- Something special for vegetarian Xmas Day lunch
- Soya mince
- Tofu experiences?
- Vegan and vegetarian food on the cheap
- Vegetarian Mince (Beanfeast)
- Worcester Sauce for vegetarians

Video - Tried to save money getting Delia vid from library

Water chestnut substitute in stir fry?

Watercress

Wine for cooking

Yoghurt:
- Bel yoghurt maker - instructions?
- Easiyo or make your own?
- How to make yoghurt at home
- Lids on or lids off?
- Runny yoghurt
- Salton Yoghurt maker instructions plus recipes
- Tights as a strainer?
- Yoghurt Recipes Thread

Yorkshire puddings:
- Batter mix
- BIG yorkshire puddings?

Waffles



Websites:
- Aga recipes
- Christmas Recipe Central
- Cook it simply
- Cooking by numbers
- Death by Curry (rubymurray)
- Delia online
- Delmonte and Green giant
- Food network
- Hillbilly housewife cooking
- Home cooking
- Nestle
- Online recipe sites for the UK
- Recipe Cottage
- Recipe website using own ingredients
- Recipe goldmine
- http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/recipes.html
- Curry Addicts Website
- The Great British Kitchen (includes conversions)
- http://organizedhome.com/printable.html
- http://search.allrecipes.com/recipe/Ingredient.aspx
- Old Scrote's real Food Cookbook
- http://www.ivillage.co.uk/food/tools/recipefinder
- http://crockpot.allrecipes.com/ (slowcooker recipes)
- http://www.soupsong.com/
- http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html
- Google Slow cooker index
- http://www.recipegoldmine.com/leftovers/leftovers.html
- Vegetarian Recipes From Around The World
- http://gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/freezing.htm
- http://www.odlums.ie/pages/recipes.htm
- http://missvickie.com/index.html (pressure cooker website and recipes)
- www.copykat.com (make your own homemade versions of famous recipes)
www.kitchenlink.com/copycat.html (make your own homemade versions of famous recipes)
http://topsecretrecipes.com/(make your own homemade versions of famous recipes)
http://cook.dannemann.org.uk/ Website with illustrated "how to" photos

squeaky

Rikki wrote:

I think you are monopolizing this thread squeaky.

That's the general idea, yes

kiwichick

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squeaky

Welcome to Old Style


Hello and welcome to MoneySaving Old Style

The Old Style board is about making the best of what's left after you have done all the financial cut downs which you can find on the various boards here on MoneySavingExpert and paid all your bills etc. Essentially we help you to make the most of your housekeeping money.

This is all about depending on older, more basic and often cheaper ways of running the home, not relying so much on modern consumerism, processed foods or off the shelf solutions to achieve the standard we want in our everyday lives.


What is Old Style?

Old style is about taking charge of the money you have saved elsewhere on MoneySavingExpert by using the many ideas collected here. It's about taking control of the home areas of your life. Essentially what used to be known as Home Economics, or Domestic Science.

Old style isn't all OLD. We're happy to use modern up to date things like Slow Cookers, Microwaves, Breadmakers and more. We like to re-use, reduce, re-cycle. We save money (and, by coincidence time and energy) by cooking double and freezing. That way you always have some "ready meals" in the freezer for those days we all have when we don't feel like cooking.

What's OLD about this forum is that we try not to rely on ready made instant meals. We try to shop with thrift in mind and not blindly throw the nearest and easiest thing into the shopping basket and barely glance at the total in the till as we hand over our credit card.

We try to set and keep budgets, plan meals, find ways to use up leftovers, and some often very inventive ways of using up those food items that are hiding in the back of the fridge and the cupboards before they go out of date (or mouldy and 'orrible) and have to be binned.

Old style isn't just about cooking. We can help rescue those disasters from spills and accidents that would otherwise have you paying huge cleaning and laundry bills. We can recommend household gadgets/equipment that we know from experience "do wot it sez on the tin" before you set off to the shopping boards to find yourself the best deal. And more. Much more.

We really really don't harp on about the good old days, (well, not too often ) nor do we try to step back in time. If we did we'd all be cooking on open fires in the back garden and bashing the laundry on rocks in the nearest river



Please note: You can't possibly be expected to make all the changes you'll see suggested here in the various threads at once. It's impossible. You wouldn't expect to pass your final exams after one day at school, and you shouldn't expect to be able to do the same here in Old Style.

The best approach is a step by step one. Pick one or two things that you think will be of best help to you and do those until they become normal. Then pick the next best and so on. As you go you'll find that everything gets easier and you'll be patting yourself on the back and actively looking for new ways in no time at all.



Where to start?

We have a number of threads where members have asked this, and how can Old style help me? They have been collected together so that you can browse through them and pick the ones that most interest you:-

Getting Started on Old Style

For many members who are on low income, or are forced onto low budgets by high repayments, the Debt-Free Wannabe board can help release a bit more for housekeeping and, if you've already been there and been directed here after they've given your budget a good make over, we have a regular Grocery Challenge that helps you to gradually reduce your budget in a pain free, supportive and friendly way. (The first post in each of our challenge threads explain how they work and, usually, some helpful advice)

It is always a sticky (with a next to it) at the top of the forum listing so that it is easy to find.

If you'd like to browse through older challenges ---> Click Here.

Alongside the Grocery Challenge, many members find it useful to plan their meals, generally first by having a browse through their store cupboards, before starting a shopping list. We have a weekly thread where members post their plans, which often help inspire/remind others - so if you pick the most recent thread from the list you are more than welcome to join in:- Weekly meal plan threads


If you've ever said -

"I've got a pantry full of food and nothing to eat"...

Then there are plenty of ideas and inspiration in this older thread store cupboard challenge and more in this recent one Family of 5 'shop from home'food storage challenge... and if those can't help you, you can look up your prospective main ingredient and find a thread (or two) full of recipes each in The Complete Cooking Collection and if you are still stuck then try here:- Cooking by numbers website



How do I find everything?

A perennial question, honest

If you are fairly new to MSE, or find that the search rarely helps you to find things; you should know that the default setting for the forum search is to look back for one month only. Many of our threads are older than that, recipes tend not to go out of date

The first post here --> Quick search help will show you how to change your setting. The following posts in that thread can help you use the search to good effect.

In many cases you may not need the search at all. We have an entire set of Indexed Collections covering the most frequently used areas of the forum:-

Our Indexed Collections

The first post holds a list of collections - each held by one of our members, and the following posts contain the best part of 3,000 threads all sorted by category, and then alphabetically so that you can find pretty much anything quickly and easily.

And the really good news is that you don't even have to remember where it is!

At the top of every page is our "Resource bar" and you can find Our Indexed Collections (and our Monthly Challenges) right there. (See the image below)

Tip 1:- At the bottom of most collections there is a list of web sites that members have also found helpful.

Tip 2:- If you still cannot find what you want and your question is likely to have a fairly simple or yes/no answer we have some quick questions threads on subjects like freezing, bread, slow cookers, and more.The main thread is a sticky Quick Questions on ANYTHING and the first post has a list of more "specialist" quick questions.

Tip 3:- We encourage members to join any thread that has a similar question to their own. We honestly don't consider joining threads to be "hijacking" someone else's thread. It really does help to keep similar questions all in one place.





Cooking and Cleaning - the easy and cheap way?

Since these are usually by far the costliest parts of any housekeeping budget, here are some good starting points:-

Cooking:-

You'll have seen mention of the Grocery Challenge and Menu Planning in the earlier "How do I start?" section just above here, and between them they'll help make a major difference to your food bills.

By and large our members are keen not just to eat cheap food, but to eat healthy food too. Cooking from scratch, pretty much by definition, reduces your intake of additives. You can still have your favourite junk food, such as pizza or burgers, but we can show you how easy, cheap and healthy it is to make your own.

By buying value foods (as long as you find them an acceptable substitute - and if not then don't do it, don't make yourself miserable - stay within your personal "comfort zone") you can release a bit of money to help buy a few more organic foods.

To that end, you can find organic shops, farm shops, and even delivered box schemes local to you by using this site:- www.bigbarn.co.uk and a related thread:- Organic supplies and deliveries near you

There are lots of threads which contain either cheap, or healthy, or both, ideas for recipes. Here's a short list of both:- cheap healthy threads

There are more here:- The Complete Cooking Collection listed under "healthy eating"

Packed lunches for work and school can also be found in that collection listed under "lunch", with thousands of ideas which can be a great money saver. You can also find other lunch based threads (including a lunch challenge) on Debt-Free Wannabe and others (especially for school) on MoneySaving in Marriages, Relationships & Families. And if they don't tickle your taste buds this google search:- google packed lunches comes up with just over 2,000,000 pages. You don't need to read them all - but the first several are very good. Honest

We also advise deliberately cooking extra of meals such as chilli, stews, casseroles, curry, soups and putting them in the freezer. They can either be used for packed lunches or instant ready meals.

- Cooking for the freezer... Help!
- Cooking meals for the Freezer
- Cooking Meal building blocks for the freezer
- Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian

Again from the Cooking Collection, this time listed under "freezing", the threads above contain a number of tips and meal ideas that freeze well.

Dietary needs such as diabetes, gluten free, lactose intolerant are also covered in many of the main recipe collections (again under "healthy eating" in the Cooking Collection) and if they don't cover your own needs then just ask on the board. There's always someone who will be able to help you.

Vegetarian meals, recipes are well covered in our food related indexes and we even have seasonal meal plan threads:- Vegetarian Meal Plans

Weight loss. Yep, we do that as well. Join our Weight loss the Old Style way thread, and perhaps you would also like to browse the associated Losing Weight Recipes Collection

Growing your own. Although this is very much an Old Style way of keeping yourself supplied with fresh healthy fruit and veg, we now have a board especially for all things that don't necessarily need green fingers. (Including flowers - a number of which are edible, honest). Please don't make gardening posts here on Old Style, instead could you post them over on

Greenfingered MoneySaving


Cleaning:-

You can clean your house for pennies, do your laundry at a fraction of the cost, and then there's cleaning your self (and pampering ) too.

Wa-a-a-ay back in September 2003 a single post raised so much interest and enthusiasm that it became the inspiration for starting a whole new forum on MSE. This one! It's still every bit as interesting and useful today so here it is:-

Save Zillions On Cleaning Products

The thread is long, so the highlights have been indexed - Click Here

After reading that, for a bet, you are going to want to know a lot more about using vinegar for cleaning around the house and how to use it for your laundry. So here's one of the main threads on vinegar:-

White vinegar

And lots more here:- vinegar threads here on Old Style




And yes, before you say it - the real joke here isn't the use of vinegar - it's the man cleaning the cooker!


Domestic Appliances Come up quite often, and they have their own section in the MEGA index:- Appliances and it includes (at the bottom) two links about sourcing long lost instruction manuals; one of which is our own thread, and the other is to a useful website. Here we are concerned only with cleaning problems so if you have mechanical problems then the best forum for those would be In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving (and they too can help with instruction manuals).

Laundry and clothes include all sorts of tips on removing stains and spoils and the indexes contain a wealth of good stuff. Just follow your nose when using Our Indexed Collections and the MEGA Index which are mentioned above.

Make-up and bodycare figure largely there too. Not to mention that by keeping a close eye on the Grabbit board and the Freebies board you can keep your dressing table well covered with offers and samples - and we do now have a Health & Beauty MoneySaving board as well.



There's more... MUCH more:-

At the time of writing we are steadily closing on 20,000 different threads and half a million posts!

If you tried to print it all out and make into a set of books they'd overload your bookcase! And wear out your printer! If it does - see Techie Stuff first and then use the shopping comparison sites on Shop but don't drop and don't forget the cashback links!

Just like any other good book/resource we have an index. Actually we have several I can't stress enough how useful they are to help you find a thread that very probably already has an answer to your question or some recipe suggestions for your intended ingredients. So remember - the entire collection of indexes can be found at the top of every page here:-





How do I signatures and pictures and things?

If you are new to the web, or to forums, or just to the MoneySavingExpert forums there's an excellent guide written by one of our members that shows you how to do all of these things.

If you are very new perhaps you'd like to have a look here:-

sra's MoneySavingExpert Beginner's Guide

And in more detail for those of you who want to do a bit extra:-

sra's Complete MSE A-Z

What do all the abbreviations mean?

DD, DS1, MiL, LOL BM SC... are all explained:- Click Here



And finally...

Phew! That was all a long read. But it's not all serious stuff here on Old Style. We have our Daily Thread which is our equivalent of chatting with the neighbours over the garden fence, full of support and good humour. It's rarely off the first page so there's no need to link to it. So if you just want to chat - that's the place to go.

And if you think we all must be brilliant at cooking and stuff... well we are... most of the time.

But not always! Have a read here.





Gingham Ribbon, Pink-winged, squeaky









.

kiwichick

Dont know how the link got to be there TBH?? In any case, its well deserved........................................................the smillies that is........................not the rude word!!

squeaky

Welcome

Hello and welcome to MoneySaving Old Style

This is all about depending on older, more basic and often cheaper ways of running the home, not relying so much on modern consumerism, processed foods or off the shelf solutions to achieve the standard we want in our everyday lives.

Please share with us, your ideas, your hints and tips, whether it's cooking from scratch, cleaning for pennies, gardening, homemade gifts, how to shop and the works really. Of course EVERYONE is welcome to contribute and to ask questions, share recipes etc. and for the enthusiasts there's breadmaking and even keeping your own chickens.

Old Style, with a New Style Flair.

We do hope you enjoy the board.


What is Old Style?

Old style is about taking charge of the money you have saved elsewhere on MoneySaving by using the many ideas collected here. It's about taking control of the home areas of your life

Old Style isn't all OLD. We're happy to use modern up to date things like Slow Cookers, Microwaves, Breadmakers and more. We like to re-use, reduce, re-cycle. We save money (and, by coincidence time and energy) by cooking double and freezing. What's OLD about this forum is that we try not to rely on ready made instant meals. We try to shop with thrift in mind and not blindly throw the nearest and easiest thing into the shopping basket and barely glance at the total in the till as we hand over our credit card. We try to set and keep budgets and ask ourselves questions like "Is this something I would like to have, or is it something genuinely useful?"


Please note: You can't possibly be expected to make all the changes you'll see suggested here in the various threads at once. It's impossible. You wouldn't expect to pass your final exams after one day at school, and you shouldn't expect to be able to do the same here in Old Style.

The best approach is a step by step one. Pick one or two things that you think will be of best help to you and do those until they become normal. Then pick the next best and so on. As you go you'll find that everything gets easier and you'll be patting yourself on the back and actively looking for new ways in no time at all.



Our Monthly Challenges

We challenge ourselves each month to stick to our budgets and even to keep pin money.

The Grocery Challenges are to challenge yourself to shop to a budget. Help, support, and advice is readily available.

Before joining the challenge you'll find THIS POST a helpful guide.

Pin Money Savings keep a check on all of the savings you make, coupons you use and put the money towards a new slow cooker or a family holiday.

Before joining the challenge you'll find THIS POST a helpful guide


Where to start?

A good place to start is with one of the challenges.

You could start with the store cupboard challenge to use up everything in your food cupboards, fridge and freezer to give you a kick start in using up all those things hiding in dark corners.

Or you could start with clearing out your cleaning cupboard and replacing the many bottles with just vinegar, bicarb and some essential oils (yes it is possible). Have a look at the Cleaning links

Then you could move onto the Monthly grocery challenge, remembering to use the Menu planning and to put all of your virtual savings into your Pin Money Savings. Have a look at the collections below and use the recipes, slow cooker, and breadmaker threads to help you plan.


Our Collections

We have a varied collection of recipes, economic cleaning tips, breadmaking and slow cookers, how to shop and how to plan a menu to fit your budget.

The indexed save zillions on cleaning thread

Old Style recipe index

Breadmaking, Hints, Tips, etc.

The slow cooker recipe index

How to shop

Menu planning

Indexed Homemade Gifts


You don't have to come back here to find all these collections and challenges again, our Indexed Collections Thread and our Monthly Challenges Thread are both linked on the blue bar at the top of every page. It looks something like this:-

Other useful threads

Feed 6 for £1.32

Garden Produce

Growing your own fruit and veg

My Baby seedlings

In season food

Organic supplies and deliveries near you

Rubber Chicken - there's a great explanation HERE and recipes can be found on the recipe links thread.


Common questions - how do I?


Do a hyperlink?

To do a simple www,example,link Click Here

For a fuller explanation Click Here

For the full pictorial guide by sra Click Here

Do a smiley?

Smilies are the small pictures you see in posts like this one --->

For the guide to using smilies by sra Click Here

Have an avatar?

Avatars are the pictures you see below the person's name in the top left corner of their posts.

For the guide to having an avatars by sra Click Here

The Beginner's Guide

For the site's Beginner's Guide by sra Click Here

The MoneySaving A to Z

For the complete MoneySaving A-Z by sra Click Here


What do all the abbreviations mean?

DD, DS1, MiL, LOL... are all explained:- Click Here