really old style living?

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

....So how did Willie Wallace make his porridge then ? And Rob Roy ? Is a wonder they ever had time to fight !

that is why the women were responsible for the daily grind:D

RAS

Here mar http://www.ehow.com/how_5935440_process-oats-home.html

mardatha

brilliant ta !

annie123

After having read all about grinding ones own oats, I know why they are available already done in the supermarket! I'll stick to fruit, herbs and veg:D

It's been 2 months now since I stopped going to MrS every week and I'm really pleased I did.
I've been once a month for a large shop and topped up with Tesco local or little co-op and local veg stall in front of a corner shop.
Now whilst I pay a bit more in Coop/tesco I'm down from £300 pm to £240 :T
The only thing I miss are the 30p digestives could buy 4 packets but they'd be gone in a week-hubby can't help it he says!
I'm now wondering what I used to spend it on, cause I cant find anything missing from our cupboards, except less sweeties, and I wasn't spending £60 on sweeties:eek:

mardatha

I used to spend £60-£70 a week in Tescos YEARS ago and now I'm the same. I wonder what on !

ceridwen

Not in those leagues chez ceridwen - but I used to spend £35-£40 per week on food usually. These days - I figure a weeks food costs more like £25 (thats with everything possible now being organic and my usual drink is now real coffee). So I'm eating much better than I did and spending less - but then I'm making most of my food from scratch these days and growing what little I can manage in my garden.

PLEASE don't let anyone put up the price of pasta though - I havent got time to try making that myself yet. Errr...loses count of how many packets of dried pasta I'm stocked up with (from when I read about wheat prices likely to go up recently). I gotta "compete" with GreyQueen's stock of tinned tomatoes.:rotfl::rotfl:

GreyQueen

ceridwen wrote: »

Not in those leagues chez ceridwen - but I used to spend £35-£40 per week on food usually. These days - I figure a weeks food costs more like £25 (thats with everything possible now being organic and my usual drink is now real coffee). So I'm eating much better than I did and spending less - but then I'm making most of my food from scratch these days and growing what little I can manage in my garden.

PLEASE don't let anyone put up the price of pasta though - I havent got time to try making that myself yet. Errr...loses count of how many packets of dried pasta I'm stocked up with (from when I read about wheat prices likely to go up recently). I gotta "compete" with GreyQueen's stock of tinned tomatoes.:rotfl::rotfl:

Compete with me? I've only got 76 tins under the bed! And 5 in the actual food cupboard. Plus I have diversified into some other tinned goods and.......pasta. Most of my cooking is based around tomato-y, pasta-y things and it'll be too traumatic if I have to learn new skills because pasta gets expensive. My punt is that wheat prices will drive it up, so I'm stocking up to have plenty in the "food bank". This is like the bank-bank but with a far better rate of return on your investments.

Ballymackeonan

I agree about having a "food bank" - not just for the anticipated increases, but for "weather events" like this winter. During the cold snap, the roads around here were so bad that driving anywhere would have been foolhardy, so apart from milk and eggs from the local garage shop which was within walking distance (with care) I had the contents of the fridge, freezer and cupboards. I was able to bake my own bread, yeast and soda, and ate pretty well on the whole! There was even a box of cooking apples in the garage - I'd been given it by a work colleague who had a glut on her apple tree this year - so Christmas pud was replaced by stewed apples with some sweet mincemeat mixed in (it was delicious)!

Now I'm building up stocks again...

mardatha

I have 30 boxes of tea bags. I like tea
:rotfl:

rosieben

I have a huge pile of tea bags too, Mar, everything seems more bearable when you can have a cuppa! my sis rang to say she'd bought me present the other day - she turned up later with an 18 roll pack of Andrex! she knows my squirrelling tendencies