really old style living?

NualaBuala

Glad it turned out to be nothing terrible Annie. x

pagangirl

Found by accident - next episode of Edwardian Farm is on BBC2 tonight (Sunday) - 7pm til 8. HTH so nobody misses it !

parsonswife8

mardatha wrote: »

Next year I want to change some things.
I want to start strict proper menu planning, and using all leftovers from one day in the next days meal.
I want to use less meat and more veg.
I want to make soup every day for lunch, as I used to but I slipped. I would like any really OS soup recipes and suggestions please
I need to see if I can cut down more on the food bill !!

Leek and potato soup Mar...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/leekandpotatosoup_1920

rosieben

There's a good selection of soup recipes in the Grocery Challenge recipe index

mardatha

Thanks ! Got my A4 notepad here, all ready for new soup recipes that will
a) turn me into Fanny Craddocks aunty Mard
b) allow us to live on £3.09 a week
c) make me lose 2 stone overnight
whoohooo :j:j:j

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

Thanks ! Got my A4 notepad here, all ready for new soup recipes that will
a) turn me into Fanny Craddocks aunty Mard
b) allow us to live on £3.09 a week
c) make me lose 2 stone overnight
whoohooo :j:j:j

If there's a recipe that does all that I want it too!

Pitlanepiglet

annie123 wrote: »

Me too.......................I want to spend the winter in the caribbean:D

If I get my act together and quit smoking, the only area I literately burn money:mad: then that would pay for 2 weeks, which would be a start:)

I do have an e-cig enroute to me to try that.

I was talking to a friend who has given up smoking after 23 years, she pre-spent the money she would save on a pair of designer sunglasses and then absolutely couldn't smoke again as she'd spent the money. Designer sunglasses might not be your thing but I did think the idea of buying your treat to start with might be helpful....

Mardatha - my store cupboard soup which I had today....Spicy (or not), tomato and lentil soup - onion, bacon (optional - if I don't have any I don't bother), chilli powder (optional), veg stock, tinned tomatoes, red lentils. Fry off onion and bacon (if using), add tinned tomatoes (I blitz them first but I've got a bit of a thing about the texture of tomatoes - you're probably more sensible!), add stock and lentils, cook for a while then blitz again with a hand blender or liquidiser.

I also chuck in anything else that I have so today's had a carrot and a leak that had both seen much better days!

It's also really nice made with a beef stock (as I discovered when I used the wrong stock in error!)

mardatha

This bad weather is making me think. When we moved in here, there was a real pantry (with a window)- and next to it a big deep cupboard which the last tenant was using as a coal cellar, to save him having to go outside. When we moved in we knocked the wall down and opened that space out. Now I wish we had left it all alone !

Hippeechiq

annie123 wrote: »

Me too.......................I want to spend the winter in the caribbean:D

If I get my act together and quit smoking, the only area I literately burn money:mad: then that would pay for 2 weeks, which would be a start:)

I do have an e-cig enroute to me to try that.

annie I used to be a smoker, and gave up 4 years ago using NiQuitin patches.

I would never have managed without the patches, and a lot of sheer bl00dy mindedness, as my OH still smokes, as does my daughter.

I used to get out of bed, come downstairs and light a ciggie before I had even put the kettle on! Maximum I could go without one was 2hours, although I used to start getting twitchy after 1½....any longer than 2 hours and I was ready to rip peoples heads off! lol

I don't think anyone expected me to succeed, but I clearly remember having my 6th ciggie one Thursday morning and thinking, I'm going to give up smoking today. Went out, bought the patches and haven't had so much as a single puff since. If you're determined, they're a marvellous help.

First 2 days are tough, but it's the habit rather than the cigarette you miss I think. Like having one first thing in the morning/with a cuppa/after a meal/when you're on the pc. After that, it's surprisingly easy. I used to chew a lot of standard chewing gum too, to keep my mouth occupied

missychrissy

Hi annie

I too used to be a smoker of at least 30 a day but finally managed to give up in 1992, nearly 19 years ago. I knew smoking would kill me if I didn't kick the habit for good. I had tried several times before to stop with varying degrees of success from a few hours to a few months. I often fell into the trap of thinking that as I hadn't had one for some time that I could handle the odd one but I couldn't. One cigarette inevitably led to others. I came to realise that if I was going to be successful I could not have an occasional one but had to become completely and utterly a none smoker.

I prepared well in advance for my final and as it turned out successful attempt. It was my new year's resolution for 1992. However, I knew stopping on New Year's Day would not work so I looked in my diary and noted that March 1st was also a Monday and picked that as my first day of becoming a complete non smoker on the first day of the month and the first day of the week. I had read in a book on 'stopping smoking' that it was a good idea to change your brand, preferably to something that you do not like in preparation for stopping.. I therefore switched my normal cigs to menthol, which I didn't like, but admittedly quickly got used to. I also drew up a list of all the reasons for stopping smoking on a piece of lined A4 paper. Over the weeks I almost filled the page. On the other side I drew up a list of all the reasons to continue smoking, admittedly much smaller, but I did think of quite a few. The list on reasons to stop smoking proved to be invaluable when I eventually stopped as I would read through it every time I was tempted to light up. It strengthened my resolve. Apart from the health issues one of my main reasons for giving up was the cost, so I decided not to use patches, as in 1992 they were relatively expensive and not supplied free by GPs. I was determined to cope with any withdrawal symptoms by just ploughing through them. I started to replace smoking with exercise. When I took my youngest 2 children to swimming lessons I would fill the time by swimming in the adults pool. In a relatively short space of time I could fill their half hour lesson with non stop swimming. I then joined a gym and a running club and then a Taekwondo class. I had been an athletic child and I loved the buzz I got from being really fit again. I essentially replaced cigarette smoking with exercise and provided myself with another feel good factor that I didn't want to lose by starting smoking again.

It wasn't plain sailing. I still tell people, when the subject comes up, that it was the hardest thing I ever did. It was empowering. I felt that if I could give up smoking I could do anything. I went back to college within a year and then on to do a history degree. I became very fit: black belt at Taekwondo; running 10k under an hour and swimming 32 lengths in 20 minutes. These were my achievements because I stopped smoking.