As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

mrswive

Thanks for your lovely post broomstick; sometimes it's good to stop and appreciate what we have.
I'm sitting here, warm and cosy, in my little bungalow (which is fab and I love it) listening to Nigel Kennedy, full of ChocClare's Chinese Chicken, and OH (who is also fab!) is in the kitchen making me a coffee. Right now I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be or that any amount of money would make me any happier.

Reverbe

Greyqueen Ive never had chard or seen it anywhere but as it is like spinach why not do what i do with kale.. stirfry it quick with chili flakes... I'm happy to have a plate of just that when having kale for dinner..

froogs

I do a saut!ed chard with garlic.

I'll copy the recipe from bbc food site

1kg/2½lb chard, Swiss, ruby or rainbow are fine
3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
2 red onions, peeled and finely chopped
juice and zest 1 orange
2 tbsp sunflower oil
salt and pepper

Take the chard leaves off the stalks and shred the leaves and stalks finely. Keep them separate.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan or wok. Add the onions and the chard stalks and stir-fry for 3-4 minutes until starting to soften. Add the garlic, chard leaves and orange zest and mix together. Season well and stir-fry for another 2-3 minutes until the leaves have wilted.
Stir in the orange juice and serve at once.

It's not bad, as far as eating chard goes.

hope to help

mamaninie

hello all, a small update to my bread woes. I bought the Dan Stevens/Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Bread book and it has been a revelation! I made 1kg dough and produced 2 beautiful loaves - 1 is now sliced and going in the freezer and the other is going to be half gobbled for tea and for tomorrow and the rest in the freezer as we still have a few slices of shop bought to use up.

I have abandoned the BM as a means to make bread - perhaps its my machine or my expectations of bread <shrugs> I'm going to try it for pizza dough as well as fruit breads and jam, but if I still can't get on with it then its going on ebay.

The only trouble is the time and needing to be around to put the bread in the oven and keep an eye on it. I'm thinking of scheduling a baking day/afternoon to stock up on biccies, bread, fruit loaves etc - do handbaking people do that - does it seem feasible??

ceridwen

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

I agree, money doesn't make you happy, but at least you can be bloody miserable in comfort, lol.

...not to mention possibly healthier....sits here still thinking "I TOLD my father that cataract operations don't cost much (ie about £1,000 per eye) - so why did he wait and wait and wait for the NHS to come up with the goods and have reduced quality of life meanwhile?:mad:". I said I thought he should have paid for it/got it promptly and been done with it - but nope he wouldnt....

...and yes...I know...I know...many people simply don't have that option and I do think its awful that people should have to wait for any health treatment they need.....but I DO have to be honest and admit that if I needed it/had decided it then I would have been looking towards paying for it in order not to wait and have that diminished "quality of life" meanwhile. Hence my (totally ignored....:cool:) comments to my father about "Get on and have it..."

...and this is the difference I feel between I think a lot of us accept that those who are/were middle income and got it all totally honestly and no question of trying to find ways to evade paying due tax are one thing

...and those who are high income and/or deliberately evade tax (even if its perfectly legal) are quite another...:cool:

I think part of the factors that come into the equation here are that many people actively want a "luxury lifestyle" and will take it if they see the chance to do so (eg by legal evasion of tax) on the one hand
- but others of us don't actually even WANT the "luxury lifestyle" on the other hand. I know I get frustrated personally by my own "lifestyle" - as its not quite the one I expected/decided on BUT BUT BUT I can honestly say hand on heart that I literally dont even want a "luxury lifestyle". You can keep your yachts/designer clothing/mansions - as I dont even want them. Just an "ordinary person in the street" lifestyle - without restrictions on necessities (like good healthcare and a reasonable standard of housing) is quite enough.

I think it depends very much on where one "sets the financial goal" at (ie at a higher level than one has/the level one has/a lower level than the income level would purchase).

mardatha

_pale__pale__pale_ Not looking at all the mad people eating green leaves :eek::eek::eek:
Leaves are ok for wabbits !! not people !!

flowertotmum

Hi all..

Broomstick..absolutely stopped me in my tracks and made me think hun...we rush through life without looking..well after that post i will no longer be rushing ..but i am going to sit back and look really look at what i have achieved..thank you.

Hester..thats so true..i might be financially poor but very wealthy and comfortable in other ways,and very very happy..i think now before i spend..in my past life before mse i would spend then think..i was unhappy and tbh lonely...bored,spoilt etc..now i'm a margo ledbetter turned barbara good...still have my margo moments but definately a happy barbara now..
got to go iris just banged head on the door frame..
ouch
ftm

kidcat

mardatha wrote: »

_pale__pale__pale_ Not looking at all the mad people eating green leaves :eek::eek::eek:
Leaves are ok for wabbits !! not people !!

My wabbit fully agrees in fact she thinks its a criminal offence if humans touch green leaves.

ceridwen

sistercas wrote: »

really? i didnt know this i just leave mine in a bag in the cupboard , what happens if you dont refridgerate them?

i have lots of storage jars and cereal dispensers, they are all clear plastic ones, i think the last lot i got were from l!dl. but i keep them out of sight in the cupboards

I'm just going from my memory (and not that "ceridwen Library") - but, from memory, I believe there's summat about the oils in nuts going rancid if not kept cool. Someone else may come along and tell me my memory deceives me...but thats what I recall as my "reason why". So - personally - I keep my nuts/seeds/coffee (as its "real") in the fridge.

jackieglasgow

Sammy and Butterfly Brain a lot of people I know have lost faith in Freecycle and put things on Ebay for 99p with the intent that they go for 99p simply because folk are more likely to pick them up than if they freecycle them. It also reaches a wider audience. I wouldn't go for it because of the hole, that's just waiting to break down, but do watch for 99p items on ebay, lots of people do that now instead of Freecycle.