Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

melymay

Just a quick recommendation. . have bought the knee length ski socks from @sda tha past few years and they are brill !! I wear heavy duty boots for work everyday and they have lasted ages . .only just started to go a bit thin on the heels, btw, I work in the cold/outdoors and they are so toasty!
Got more today and they are 2 pairs for £5 . .also their ladies thermals are 3 for £5 and they last for ages, so much longer thn mens !
HTH someone
MM

kidcat

Melymay I bought the ski.socks when my son was going away with school and he still wears them now, they are brilliant. Although they can take ages to dry, I was lucky enough to get them reduced. Will Def be looking for some for the others.

TudorRose

I get to have a free read of the Times Monday to Saturday as a friend of mine has it delivered to my shop because it won't fit into the mail box at his new flat so I read it then he comes & collects it at lunchtime.
I love magazines & used to buy 2 or 3 a month & I especially loved to get the Christmas editions & look athe decorating ideas & recipes. I have looked at some of the Xmas editions over the last few days but I have resisted! After all there can't be that many new recipes or ideas in them (Well I tell myself that) Anyway the money would be better spent on a treat than something that ends up in the bin.
The only mag I have now apart from free supermarket ones is Saga. I have a lifetime subscription to this that I bought 7 years ago for about £90.00.Not surprised they don't do that offer any more as I've had my moneys worth alraedy with this.

I read all the posts every day & it all helps me keep things in my life in perspective. I don't post that often as I don't have a lot of interest to say but I appreciate that if I did want to let of steam etc I could come on here and say it.
Off to work now to look for the non existent customers.
Take care everybody.

lovelife_3

TudorRose wrote: »

I read all the posts every day & it all helps me keep things in my life in perspective. I don't post that often as I don't have a lot of interest to say but I appreciate that if I did want to let of steam etc I could come on here and say it.
Off to work now to look for the non existent customers.
Take care everybody.

Me too! Tudor Rose, this thread really keeps me on an even keel, and believe me that is no mean feat

My first order from approved foods arrived yesterday, i was chuffed to bits. I am so sad, I displayed it all on the kitchen table,took a photo and put in on Facebook!!! I got £100 worth of food for £30, can't be bad. I put the link upfor AF website and a few friends have commented that they are going to put an order in, so that's good I ordered the lime and chili chutney for 10p thinking it was for a jar, and it was 10p for 6 jars!!! It is 2 years out of date, but chutney should be alright, shouldn't it?

grandma247

lovelife the chutney will probably be ok. Check the lid for rust and the seal should be good too. It might have a slight metallic taste if any of it has touched the lid.

anguk

kittie wrote: »

Bake then halve. Scoop the insides out put in a bowl and and save the skins Mash with pepper, butter and grated cheese and maybe some nutmeg and then beat a little with a spoon. Spoon into the empty skins. Cool and open freeze. Then pack in poly bags

Thaw and grill when needed or bake frozen

My children loved these but I haven`t made them for years and never frozen them but I`m sure it will work

Thanks for that Kittie. Next time the oven is on for a roast or casserole I think I'll stick some potatoes in the bottom to make some of these for the freezer.

kidcat

Made up a couple of batches of chocolate muffins with the Big Brands mix yesterday - my advice - do not follow their guidelines for quantity of muffins made, they come out huge!! DS6 has insisted on taking one for his teacher and teaching assistant and one for his dinner lady too!! Teacher said they could all share just one and still have some left for tomorrow they are that big !:)

seasalt_2

Not sure what I pressed there but my post has gone - so if it appears again and I've double posted, I'm really sorry!

No room in my freezer for potato boats but if we ever do have any left over jackets I split them and do something similar but often beat in an egg too - just the one egg for maybe two or three potatoes - and they rise up lovely and puffy when you cook them - don't know about freezing though as never tried. Lovely as a tea/supper with salad or baked beans.

Off to patch up all the windbreak (a lot!) that tore in sunday's storm before wind gets up again tomorrow. Fortunately I have got lots of old fishing net pulled up off the beach which does a good job of mending and strengthening the now 10yr old plastic stuff. It looks a bit patchworky but I don't mind and the hedge (all from cuttings) is growing well although I was at someone else's house the other day and they have built a beautiful wooden slatted windbreak around their beautiful good quality timber vegetable beds and I was briefly envious! (Can you tell?!) Amazingly, the polytunnel survived unscathed although it too is heavily patched in the hope it will survive another season before we have to re-cover it. I have found black bale tape much the best thing for mending rips and tears- it is so sticky it is hard work to pull it off the roll and doesn't look as good as the clear tape but the repairs last much longer which is what counts.

()s to everyone who is struggling - I'm sorry I just don't have time right now to go back over the six pages I finally caught up on last night and comment individually - but thank you ALL for all the support and help there is on this thread. Makes such a difference to know you are not the only one.

lovelife_3

grandma247 wrote: »

lovelife the chutney will probably be ok. Check the lid for rust and the seal should be good too. It might have a slight metallic taste if any of it has touched the lid.

Aaw that's great,thank you :T will give a few jars away to friends and family, as it's not the sort of thing you eat everyday, probably take us another two years to finish them!! :rotfl:

I also got big jars of organic apple puree for 99p, i have got absolutely no idea what to do with these, any suggestions gratefully received

LannyLee

lovelife wrote: »

Aaw that's great,thank you :T will give a few jars away to friends and family, as it's not the sort of thing you eat everyday, probably take us another two years to finish them!! :rotfl:

I also got big jars of organic apple puree for 99p, i have got absolutely no idea what to do with these, any suggestions gratefully received

A lot of US cake/cookie recipe use this instead of butter/fat to reduce calories, so may be look at US food/recipe blogs for ideas.