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

babyblooz

The plums are from a tree thats about ten years old and it was a cheapy buy from Netto!. It's only really had plums on it in the last four years and we seem to go a year with very little, then the next year it goes berserk.

The plum sponge is so easy to do! I use a large baking tin, half the plums and sprinkle with a little sugar, then top them with any victoria sandwich or sponge cake type mixture. I used 8oz of margerine, creamed with 8oz sugar, four eggs beaten with a splash of milk and one pound of self raising flour. I add a desertspoon of baking powder to the flour to give it a bit of ooomph and a teaspoon of vanilla essence to the milk mix. Whack it all in for about three quarts of an hour to an hour, at around gas 4/5 but it depends on your oven really. I actually made two lots in the oven at once to save on the gas.

I have chickens so tend to have a glut of eggs that need using up if my mum and dad are away on holiday so I make it in a huge tin then slice it into portions and freeze in those ten for a quid containers with lids that you get in poundland. My widowed step dad loves his puddings and custard so he gets some of them and the rest go in the freezer. Later on in the year I have a friend who donates apples from her garden and another friend who donates gooseberries from hers so I do the same with these fruits and we can eat well all year round really! No good if youre on a diet though!

Oh I forgot to say we are in Yorkshire and our plums must be the early type. My friend lives up the road and his don't come good until September.

mardatha

Jackie, I was on the phone to SP re my elect last week, asking about other tariffs, and the capped charge is so high that I think there must be another increase coming within a year. It's the only reason I can think of it.
Re knitting needles try Freecycle or Gumtree.

mardatha

Annie, I think living on kale would be the fastest & only way I'd lose weight ! I@m in amood today because of the failure of the sausage & leek & potato thing yesterday. It doenst help that the RV keeps asking the cat why somebody hasnt learned to cook after 45 years of practice :mad:
I think foraging and using scraps will be the way to go - but anything green and limp tends to make me puke!:D

paidinchickens

wmf have you tried the Mr S value brand hot choc.........it is my fav even better than the posh ones and it is quite cheap (under 50p in our store)

paidinchickens

mardatha wrote: »

Annie, I think living on kale would be the fastest & only way I'd lose weight ! I@m in amood today because of the failure of the sausage & leek & potato thing yesterday. It doenst help that the RV keeps asking the cat why somebody hasnt learned to cook after 45 years of practice :mad:
I think foraging and using scraps will be the way to go - but anything green and limp tends to make me puke!:D

If green and limp makes you puke I won't post a pic of me with a hangover :rotfl:

juliettet

redlady_1 wrote: »

I have also been investigating the possiblity of a decent suit, not just something from M and S but a really good one. Evenutally, like it or not, I will have to invest in one so I went to Austin Reed. Jesus!!!!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Think I will wait for the sales. :rotfl:

Redlady_1 I am currently sitting withe 7 year old suit trousers from Jaegar. Sale of course! Nothing to touch them.

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doh my long post vanished:

I have decided to grow a bit of kale outside my back door as you can`t beat having something close by if the weather gets bad. I have tried 3 kales so far and a variety called starbor is the one I have chosen as I have it on the allotment. It is small and compact and doesn`t run riot and is very hardy, so I am going to grow 3 in a 6 sq foot raised bed and I`ll put carrots in between. The other ones I have (or had )are called pentland brig (very big) and red russian (big and hardy but far too big). I like the idea of popping out a few feet to get a leaf or two

annie123

mardatha wrote: »

Annie, I think living on kale would be the fastest & only way I'd lose weight ! I@m in amood today because of the failure of the sausage & leek & potato thing yesterday. It doesn't help that the RV keeps asking the cat why somebody hasn't learned to cook after 45 years of practice :mad:
I think foraging and using scraps will be the way to go - but anything green and limp tends to make me puke!:D

I'm sure yesterdays meal tasted better than it sounded:D

I was just thinking it's almost foraging time. I need to dehydrate more stuff for the winter, no room for a freezer here.

And to reread the avoid using gas and electricity threads again.
To think that the original one started in 06.........if I'd have known then how things would be now, I'd have sold up and moved to a desert island. Warm, sunny, and camp fire cooking
Can't afford the flight now!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/247646

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1458207

annie123

kittie wrote: »

doh my long post vanished:

I have tried 3 kales so far and a variety called starbor is the one I have chosen as I have it on the allotment. It is small and compact and doesn`t run riot and is very hardy, so I am going to grow 3 in a 6 sq foot raised bed and I`ll put carrots in between. The other ones I have (or had )are called pentland brig (very big) and red russian (big and hardy but far too big). I like the idea of popping out a few feet to get a leaf or two

Do any of them taste nicer than the others?

jamanda

Seeing the gas and elec prices going up today makes me feel all smug because I got those fleeces for the curtains yesterday when everybody thought I was weird. It is so nice to be with others who are also weird!

(We're not as daft as we look, are we? - Well, are we?)