Old style things that 'only you' do...

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Primrose wrote: »

I grow my own peas, and instead of throwing the shucks onto the compost heap I turn them them into a delicious peapod soup.

I overheard a lady in the charity shop say that she uses pea pods for HM wine- how's that for reducing waste?!

Penelope_Penguin

marmiterulesok wrote: »

Hi Peskypants,

Isn't baking parchment and greaseproof paper the same thing?

I meant what you use to line cake tins before baking,is that called baking parchment or greaseproof paper in the UK?I'm just curious cos I can't remember!

Love your name BTW!

Baking parchment is for lining tins and sheets when baking.

Greaseproof paper is for wrapping your sarnies

PeskyPants

In the garden: put down cardboard and/or newspaper with grass clippings on top to keep weeds down.

Use a spatula to scrape out the Flora tub for OH's sandwiches - there's often enough left in there to cover a slice of bread.


PP

compforus

I boil the kettle in the morning full, then make our cuppas and put the rest in a flask. I don't need to boil the kettle again as we have coffee the rest of the day. Any left goes for cooking in the evening, saves time and energy.

Water my plants with the contents of cold hotwater bottle.

Throw toilet tissue which has been used just for wee in a bin to save emptying the septic tank as often. I learnt this from growing up in South America and staying at my grandmothers farm where emptying septic tanks was done by hand (ALL toilet tissue went in the bin and often had newspaper instead when couldn't afford toilet paper). As no regular bin collection in the countryside and stray dogs galore, she used to put the used tissue in the wood burning stove which she sometimes did the cooking on. Lol, getting bit carried away here reminiscing and I could go on for ages but it does make you think what a wasteful society we are!

Have a 'string ' draw in the kitchen and throw in anything from old shoe laces to ribbon off presents to use for use in the garden.

Thanks for all the tips by the way, I have started doing quite a lot of them! Makes me chuckle and gives me a good feeling when I do them.:rotfl:

**skinnyminny**

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Baking parchment is for lining tins and sheets when baking.

Greaseproof paper is for wrapping your sarnies

ooooh, i have learnt something new today

WeirdoMagnet

carolinerunner wrote: »

Georgina, that's really early, cos in the winter it'll be 0630. Unless you want it like this, might be worth asking the meter man next time he comes if he can adjust the timer on the meter? It must be said that having cheap elec til 0830 in summer is really handy!

Sorry to bump this as it's a bit OT, but with the clock change at the weekend, we realised that we have some kind of radio transmitter thingy, which has told our meter, so our electricity times are the same! Phew! No getting up at the crack of dawn to get a shower before the meter flicks over!

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I have never bought baking parchment in my life I have always used greaseproof paper to line my cake tins with even the ones that are supposed to be non-stick

Fruball

Baking parchment is better I bought it by accident once but found it much much better.

hitatotatus

I've just used greaseproof paper for tracing paper for my son's school project. :rotfl:

betterlife

hitatotatus wrote: »

I've just used greaseproof paper for tracing paper for my son's school project. :rotfl:

i always do that, its so much cheaper than proper tracing paper.:p