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

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

I make mint tea and lemon balm tea. Pick sprigs , wash under the tap, shove in the teapot along with one weak teabag, and make tea as normal. Lovely!

I dont even bother with the addition of ordinary tea (which I hate actually...). Just use a few lemon balm leaves and Bob is your uncle/Fanny is your aunt:)

You can add a slice of lemon to squeeze and/or a teaspoon of honey if required.

mardatha

I'd have fainted! (answering the lady who found cupcakes in Sainsbugs at £7!)

lostinrates

My most common home tea is very simple, a sprig of rosemary, a dash of lemon juice or peel if I have some handy. Its lovely and clean tasting in the morning and is good for bad breath.

I love the sound of cardamon/rosewater tea. I usuualy add cardamon to hot milk for bed time drinks, (makes it feel expensive/exoctic/luxury without adding heaps of calories) and soetimes even add it to porridge. I like mint tea but it can feel a bit samey. I'm going to try these to improve my brew.

ceridwen

Hmmm...while we are talking about drinks....

I like throwing some nutmeg into pretty much anything I can find an excuse for...so bought myself a special teeny little nutmeg grater a while back. Its sitting languishing in a kitchen drawer - as I feel a bit nervous of trying to do my own grated nutmeg....errr...I guess there's no "advance preparation" of a nutmeg that I would have to do is there? Just grab my toytown grater and get rubbing? (sorrees to ask an Idiots Guide question re this....:o).

I think a bedtime drink of hot milk, honey, fresh nutmeg and a sprinkling of carob (which is what I use instead of cocoa/drinking chocolate) might be RATHER nice:p:D

GreyQueen

Well, it's another day of flawless blue sky and strong sunlight and the weather forecast has just said it'll be in the low twenties with a possibility of a couple of showers this afternoon. I can't believe I'm grumbling about hot sunny weather but after 2 months of almost no rain things are absolutely dire.

I'm continuing to save water from the flat if it's not too mucky and spent a jolly time last night baling most of my bathwater into 4 pint milk bottle containers which I'll bike to the lottie after work. It'll ease the pressure on supplies off the standtap up there and as I'm on a water meter, I've paid for the blessed stuff. I'm sure some people up the lotties think I'm bonkers as I could just use the tap but they don't live inside my head with all the waste not values.

Hey, it makes me happy, but not as happy as waking up during the night and hearing the hissing of a good rain storm.

Had to laugh yesterday when I pulled up my unmentionables and the elastic parted company with the rest (v.v elderly knicks and too knackered to be mendable any further). Now, this is apparently a character test for us ladies; Do you, if you have to junk a pair of drawers, toss them clean or (ahem) used? Mine will be laundered before they go in the bin bag but then, I never claimed to be entirely sane...........:rotfl:Seriously, I once had my rubbish stolen, presumably by someone who thought there might be something of value or perhaps to try ID theft. Whereupon they learned 3 things about me: I shred everything, I buy a lot of things with yellow stickers and that I recycle.

Sorry to have lowered the tone. I shall take myself off elsewhere on the interweb for a while, probably into Zero Waste Home.

Have a good day, y'all.

lostinrates

ceridwen wrote: »

Hmmm...while we are talking about drinks....

I like throwing some nutmeg into pretty much anything I can find an excuse for...so bought myself a special teeny little nutmeg grater a while back. Its sitting languishing in a kitchen drawer - as I feel a bit nervous of trying to do my own grated nutmeg....errr...I guess there's no "advance preparation" of a nutmeg that I would have to do is there? Just grab my toytown grater and get rubbing? (sorrees to ask an Idiots Guide question re this....:o).

I think a bedtime drink of hot milk, honey, fresh nutmeg and a sprinkling of carob (which is what I use instead of cocoa/drinking chocolate) might be RATHER nice:p:D

Just grate it. I've alsways just grated it, and the little graters make it much easier. I actually have too little graters: I already had one, but got a flat one rather than a box one free with some nutmeg at some point.

Nutmeg IS delicious.

VJsmum

Erm, can i just get this straight GQ, you wash your drawers before throwing them in the bin?? :eek:

Do you dry and iron them too??;);)

Who do you think will see them:p

flowertotmum

Morning ladies..i am in serious shock..£7 for cupcakes:eek:..are they mental..or the person buying them has more money than sense...
Anyway on the subject of herb teas..i do 2 ..dandelion tea..for the vitamins and general pick me up..and nettle tea to help ease my monthly...i add honey to both..the dandelion one is not too bad but the nettle one..tastes nice smells a bit though..hold my breath and swallow..:D..so far so good though..both seem to be working..going to try mint tea..sounds lovely.
Just a quickie from me this morning i'm busy busy busy...
love to you all..
ftm

jackieglasgow

I wash my (not very) smalls too before I chuck them out

anguk

It looks like things are going to get tougher, according to the news on the BBC British Gas are warning us of higher energy prices this winter. :mad: I struggled to afford to keep us warm this winter so goodness knows what it's going to be like especially if next winter is long again.

In the UK, the forward wholesale prices of gas and power for delivery in winter 2011/12 are currently around 25% higher than prices last winter, with end-user prices yet to reflect this higher wholesale market price environment," the statement said

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13331606