really old style living?

smileyt_2

Tonight for my tea I had scrambled egg on toast. Eggs laid by my hen Mavis, and bread hand-made by me using Dove's Farm flour. Not too many food miles and extremely OS. (The dogs also had scrambled egg as a treat )

Yesterday I had home-made lasagne which included home-grown courgette and onion. And I cleaned the splashes of white sauce off the top of the oven with .... bicarb and vinegar :rotfl:

(Oh yeah, and I had home-made jam on home-made bread for breakfast)

*Polishes OS-halo*:A :rotfl::rotfl:

NualaBuala

smileyt wrote: »

*Polishes OS-halo*:A :rotfl::rotfl:

Hope you used elbow grease and an old pair of knickers rather than expensive polish and a shop-bought duster!

Sounds great though!

D&DD

Hi Mardatha
Have only just started reading the thread I've been offline for most of the year so got a whole lot of catching up to do!

Once I've caught up a bit I might be able to add something a bit more constructive I hope!

We are planning to spend the next year saving like mad after a bit of a naughty splurge just recently although nothing has been bought on credit and my shiny new greenhouse was a necessity...honest

smileyt_2

NualaBuala wrote: »

Hope you used elbow grease and an old pair of knickers rather than expensive polish and a shop-bought duster!

Sounds great though!

Ooooh, now there's a thought ... I was just looking through my knicker drawer this morning and thinking some of them were past it .... is there such a thing as being too OS?:eek::rotfl:

D&DD

smileyt wrote: »

Ooooh, now there's a thought ... I was just looking through my knicker drawer this morning and thinking some of them were past it .... is there such a thing as being too OS?:eek::rotfl:

:rotfl:certainly not :rotfl:

I still remember the sight of my mum using a pair of my dads old M&S y-fronts as dusters :rotfl:

NualaBuala

smileyt wrote: »

Ooooh, now there's a thought ... I was just looking through my knicker drawer this morning and thinking some of them were past it .... is there such a thing as being too OS?:eek::rotfl:

Nah, at least I don't think so. But maybe this lot have just turned me a bit funny!

NualaBuala

I got the idea from this great thread on Old style things that 'only you' do.

Although I'm pretty sure we had old underpants in the rag drawer when I was small!

D&DD

Right,bear in mind I'm only up to page 10 so if I'm repeating stuff just ignore me :rotfl:

Working out a storecupboard list.
I think one of the best ways to start up a little store is to make a list daily of meals and snacks and their ingredients for ideally 4 weeks.
You can then times this by 12 to give you a rough idea of how much you will need for a year.

Thats the easy part lol,next I usually buy items only when they are on offer for example I use a lot of caster sugar when baking etc so in a month I will use a 2kg bag on average..My tesco were selling these off at the same price as the smaller 1kg bags so that week i bought 12 bags and left out loo roll as it was full price and kitchen roll.When the kitchen roll was on offer I bought 12 packs of that etc etc.
Once you have a reasonable store you don't tend to run low enough on anything while you stock up on special offers

Fruit and veg in the garden.
Now most of our fruit bushes are mature I can judge by looking what I will have for fresh use,jamming and freezing.
I bought a small chest freezer purely to store the garden produce but also have a tall freezer and a fridge freezer which I use for overflows
Each day I pick I add to the small zip bags and each bag will do roughly 2 pies/cobblers or a batch of 4 small jars of jam.
Any surplus to this is dehydrated or cooked into meals for the freezer.
I try to freeze 26 bags of fruits to last me til next years crops are in..this year so far I have 11 bags full of redcurrants(1 bush),8 portions of rhubarb,10 bags of raspberries and loganberries,3 bags of blackcurrants,4 bags of blueberries and the blackberries just coming in have gone mad!
I also have a few miniarettes but we eat the fruit fresh and raid my brothers cooking apple tree for the freezer :rotfl:

Veg is portioned off into dinner sized portions,prepped and frozen eg the boys love julienne carrots so I do a whole row in the kenwood on the chipper blade which usually fills about 9 dinner sized bags,these in turn are wrapped in large ziplock bags until I get around 40 portions.The rest are dried for soups etc.

I also dehydrate my cherry tomatoes and turn the plum toms into pasta sauces and freeze in small ziplocks laid flat they take up next to no freezer space.Tigerellas are eaten fresh as are the beefys.

Golden rule is grow what you like to eat so at least that way you'll always have something you love in store

ceridwen

D&DD wrote: »

Hi Mardatha
Have only just started reading the thread I've been offline for most of the year so got a whole lot of catching up to do!

Once I've caught up a bit I might be able to add something a bit more constructive I hope!

We are planning to spend the next year saving like mad after a bit of a naughty splurge just recently although nothing has been bought on credit and my shiny new greenhouse was a necessity...honest

Welcome back.:D

A new greenhouse is quite DEFINITELY a necessity if theres room for one - means you can grow food all year round and not just the summer period:D

I was quite inspired by the tale in an autobiographical book I read - the author was commenting that he had spent some time living in rented accommodation in London and he said that two others there had made up a makeshift greenhouse on the flat roof and had a good supply of veg. throughout the year and detailed off about eating Christmas Dinner with them - using largely their own veg. as I recall.

mardatha

Re knickers -Just for goddsake dont hang them out on the line once they get a bit polishey and holey !