Edible Xmas gifts that can be made well in advance.....

SmlSave

I've never heard of Home Bargins, is it a normal type of store?

mum2one

SmlSave wrote: »

I've never heard of Home Bargins, is it a normal type of store?

Home bargains - is brillaint, its sort of hard to describe, but has a bit of everthing. Give you a few ideas

Toiletries - everything you could imagine
Baby Items, - pjs, bibs, gifts, dummies, wipes
Stationary - again adult to child, school to work, birthday cards, wrapping paper
Sweets, chocolates
Drinks - bottles of pop, kids juices, ready made drinks, big bottles huice, wines, beers, not spirits but the cheaper versions of Baileys

Food
Drinks - Teabags, coffees, drinking chocs etc
Breakfast cereals
Tins - from salmon to tin fruit
packets - cup a soup, pasta
Sauces - brown sauces, mustarrs, ketchup

Household
Every utensil for the kitchen from a mug through to a tray, egg timer and everything inbetween

Cleaning - washing powders, tanlets, colour runners, clothes airers

Pictures for walls,

Kids presents - boys, girls, teenagers, lot of make up sets

bedding

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Eg - I brought dd a Bratz suitcase, the medium size, but still able to use as hand luggage - £4.99

High school musical books - 39p each

Kids roller suitcase - fairies - £3.00 same one was £10 in mothercare

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Before xmas, they had job lots of ex- argos items, for a fraction of the price.

Food etc - named brands, Typhoo tea, Heinz ketchup etc.

Lot cheaper than supermrkets

Sometimes items are cheaper than Poundland others aren't, this week we had whiteing crystals for washing machone 89p Home bargains, £1.00 Poundland, but cadburys biscuits, 59p pack, Poundland 2 for £1.00

Def worth going to if your near one xx

foxy219

cdsmiler wrote: »

Hello all,

Been lurking, but decided to post now!

Angela - how did you manage to eat nettles?!

Planning on making raspberry jam this year - it went down really well last year. However, last year we went to a PYO farm and they had gorgeous raspberries. This year it's reduced fruit from ASDA. Not had a chance to go this year, but fingers crossed I can make a little for close family for gifts! Also planning on making Sweet Red Onion Chutney, Sweet Chili Jam and Tomato Relish/Chutney with the excess tomatoes my parents will hopefully have grown! lol

Fancy the sweetcorn & chili relish - Alfie would you mind sharing the recipe? Weird it's come out salty - did you need to add salt to the recipe?

Regarding making jam from frozen fruit, that's what I did last year! Works perfectly.

Anyone have a recipe for lime vodka?? It's a long shot... lol

Clare x

Hi Clare do you have any recipes for the tomato relish and sweet red onion chutney, I would really appreciate it if you could pm me them!
Lisa x

foxy219

Well having seen everybody else making an effort I dragged the kids out this morning in our waterproofs and we have come back with 3 HUGE tubs of blackberries, I downloaded a recipe from the Tesco website for quick and easy jam and my first jar is proudly cooling in the fridge as we speak! I have put two tubs in the freezer, and will be making an apple and blackberry crumble for pudding tonight. The only drama is that I got stung by a wasp, put tea tree ointment on when I got home and although it still stings a bit could have been a lot worse!
So, now in need of ideas as to what else I can make with my berries, will be going again next week - there were lots just coming that weren't ripe yet so will definitely be worth another trip!

Anglea

Hi all

Blackberry recipe - there's a blackberry and coconut squares on the BBC Good Food website.

I can't paste the link as my comp has been playing up lately.

Foxy, so you're the 3rd casualty so far with blackberry picking, hope you feel better soon.

Clare, the reason why I ate the nettles was because I was stretching my hand quite far to get into a good spot, and the area was covered in nettles the same height as the blackberry branch. So I just grabbed a handful of large berries and nettle tops by accident :mad: Tell you what, it's put me right off eating them in situ again.

If any of you have a local Nat West, they have free lifestyle mags called Sense. There was a recipe for a Rasberry and vanilla ice cream dessert in there which can be used for any fruit I reckon.

Line a square tin, cover it with thin slices of sponge cake. Cover with fruit, then cover that with vanilla icecream, then more fruit, then more sponge. Cover with cling film and put in freezer. Remove 30 mins before eating and sprinkle with icing sugar.

alfieroux

cdsmiler - the recipe came from my book of preserves - will post it tomorrow as am away from it tonight! Have had the idea that I will make another batch with NO SALT, then mix the two together to dilute the saltiness. Have also been told to boil a potato in the mixture as this will absorb the salt - no idea if this is the right thing to do with a relish? Will also add some more sugar. So will end up with double the amount (no problem as chilli plants are going mad and no frills sweetcorn is piling up in the cupboards anyway), sweetened. If this works I'll let you all know.

Thanks for the support - it is nice to start keeping a record of my Christmas makings. The hard bit is going to be a) not giving it away to family before Christmas or b) not keeping it all for ourselves.:)

Oooh and easy mistake to make but I am a lady rather than a gentlemen mum2one:rotfl:.

Love
Alfie (Mrs!)

tartantotty

Can I join in the thread please? I am determined to do more HM pressies this year! One wee question - can you use frozen berries in vodka? I cant afford to buy the vodka til the end of the month but my local shop has some good deals on rasps just now!

Thanks for all the suggestions for things to make btw, I have been inspired! -)

Anglea

tartantotty wrote: »

Can I join in the thread please? I am determined to do more HM pressies this year! One wee question - can you use frozen berries in vodka? I cant afford to buy the vodka til the end of the month but my local shop has some good deals on rasps just now!

Thanks for all the suggestions for things to make btw, I have been inspired! -)

Hi and welcome

Sorry I don't know the answer to your question, someone else will fill you in.

lazysheep

tartantotty wrote: »

Can I join in the thread please? I am determined to do more HM pressies this year! One wee question - can you use frozen berries in vodka? I cant afford to buy the vodka til the end of the month but my local shop has some good deals on rasps just now!

Thanks for all the suggestions for things to make btw, I have been inspired! -)

I've had a quick google and people seem to have success with frozen fruit (blackberries/raspberries) so I don't see why it shouldn't work for you

mum2one

alfieroux wrote: »

cdsmiler - the recipe came from my book of preserves - will post it tomorrow as am away from it tonight! Have had the idea that I will make another batch with NO SALT, then mix the two together to dilute the saltiness. Have also been told to boil a potato in the mixture as this will absorb the salt - no idea if this is the right thing to do with a relish? Will also add some more sugar. So will end up with double the amount (no problem as chilli plants are going mad and no frills sweetcorn is piling up in the cupboards anyway), sweetened. If this works I'll let you all know.

Thanks for the support - it is nice to start keeping a record of my Christmas makings. The hard bit is going to be a) not giving it away to family before Christmas or b) not keeping it all for ourselves.:)

Oooh and easy mistake to make but I am a lady rather than a gentlemen mum2one:rotfl:.

Love
Alfie (Mrs!)

Woops........ mum2one hides in the corner (sorry!!0 xx