How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

HariboJunkie

Shegar I used to buy that paper too and stopped for the same reasons. I subscribed to "Grow your own" a few years ago and now just reread the old issues according to the season. My MIL passeson 2 other gardening magazines to me every month including all the free seeds as she doesn't "do" seeds.

Re other magazines, I use my clubcard vouchers to subscribe to Prima, Good Food and Country living and don't buy any other magazines now.:money:

I also received 50+ Glossy home mags from freecycle recently which it will take me a while to wade through.

All this has saved me a fortune on what I used to spend when we were renovating this house and garden.

ceridwen

Re banks at risk - have given my memory a hammering as to which ones are most implicated in the Irish debt problem and its just come up with the memory of having read which they were and thought "Not mine then...." and it went straight through in one ear and out the other.

Have found:

http://econriskgirl.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/banks-exposure-to-irish-debt/

and thought "Yeah...that sounds pretty much what I read as I very vaguely recall" as to the British ones mentioned..

(ie RBS and HSBC).

<walks off thinking "I am not going to be popular in some quarters - for going straight up against the Great Myth of Confidence here....."....>

SunshineBear

I don't know if anyone is interested in this but I make a Chick pea Dahl which costs very little.

1small cup red lentils
1 medium onion
1 small hot pepper
2 cloves garlic
oil
spices: (these are all powders) 1 teaspoon cumin, 1ts corriander, 1/8 ts cardamom (Ground down), 1/4 ts cayenne, 1/8 ts ginger, 1 ts salt, 1/4 ts pepper.
Tin Chick Peas
water
spinach

Cut the onion and gently fry in oil untill golden brown add the garlic and small hot pepper (chopped)
Add the spices and continue to gently fry for 5 mins. (this releases the flavour)
add the lentils and take off the heat for 5 mins (this allows the lentils to soak up the flavour)
add water (aprox 2-3 times the amount of lentils)
Add the drained tin of chick peas (or pre soaked dried ones)
Keep stiring, leave it on a low heat untill you have a consistancey of stoggy porridge (or however you like it)

If it sticks to the bottom simply turn off the heat and leave for 10 mins and stir.


This freezes well and is best served with chupatties, rice or naan bread. Or all of them.

I have an equally delicious recipe for Potato curry if anyone is interested.

mardatha

It wasn't a tin-hat type who told me though. Anyhow we will see. I just like to keep an ear to the ground !

shegar

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Shegar I used to buy that paper too and stopped for the same reasons. I subscribed to "Grow your own" a few years ago and now just reread the old issues according to the season. My MIL passeson 2 other gardening magazines to me every month including all the free seeds as she doesn't "do" seeds.

Re other magazines, I use my clubcard vouchers to subscribe to Prima, Good Food and Country living and don't buy any other magazines now.:money:

I also received 50+ Glossy home mags from freecycle recently which it will take me a while to wade through.
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All this has saved me a fortune on what I used to spend when we were renovating this house and garden.

Yes I will miss it to start with cos ive been buying it for about 7 yrs now.......I must admit I do love the wildlife page in there each week................oh dear im getting withdrawal symptoms already just thinking about not buying it....or perhaps I should do a prescrition for it,:cool: that works out £1.00 per week so that would be half price.........;):j....I use to love having the home mags when we first moved in here, for ideas... but those mags are just glossy, most of the readers homes you see are like show homes, and mine is to live in......I cant keep cream carpets cream, not with 2 small dogs, and a wheelchair ...... and I cant ask guests to take their shoes off, thats rude to expect that, so I settle for tiles and laminate floors........so those mags are not practical to look at..........thats my excuse for not buying them anymore.............

hornetgirl

Magazines - I pick up the free ones in M&S and John Lewis. I did have a Prima subscription using clubcard vouchers but often found I hadn't read the last one before the next one arrives.

Organisation - or lack of - has always been my downfall, so I was delighted when meal-planning netted me a small saving this week. I'd planned one meal with mashed potato and another as fish pie, topped with mash. Having them on consecutive days meant I cooked all the spuds on day 1 and kept those for day 2 in the fridge. OK, only a small saving on gas, but it all helps

rachbc

The thing is rumours cause doubts, which cause loss of confidence which cause panic which cause collapse - and thus rumours of financial instability become self fulfilling prohpecy...

Personally I'd need something a little more reliabe than a US survivalist website to start worrying.

ETA yes please potato curry recipe - yum!

lostinrates

SunshineBear wrote: »

I have an equally delicious recipe for Potato curry if anyone is interested.

yes please! As some here know, I love potato curry!

Seakay

would love to see the potato curry recipe as well, SunshineBear, I'll be trying the dahl shortly. Thank you very much.

charlies-aunt

My sympanthies on the dental work GreyQueen - I was there today myself for further work . . .

Been doing a lot of reading on here but not much else as been vey busy weeding and planting at the allotment over the weekend and evenings. Lots to do and plan for but its lovely - have a real sense of fulfillment

Beginning to seriously think about some kind of self employment - I find my job soul destroying . . . its all about hitting targets, marketing, soundbites and spin - all style and no substance . . . . . :mad: . . .

Things are getting very scary with the nuclear threat in Japan and the shinnaneggans in Libya . . . . it seems strange that there is money to fund missions over there but not to fund our police force properly!

On an OS note - it was day 2 of slow cooked corned stew tonight - well stretched out with carrots, swede, onion and pearl barley - properly lovely it were!