A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

katieowl_2

gailey wrote: »

watched richard corrigon hunger show on current tv other night was exploring poverty and foodbanks within uk was very interesting.Even working people need food parcels and some parents skip meals so they can feed their kids hubby said so sad we considered such a wealthy country but I feel as if we in decline. Everyones moaning they poorer or struggling. I kind of think of uk as a pyramid where more and more people are falling to bottom with few at the top.
Unsure what more needs to be done at moment lots of people rely on charities to get by.

I've just found out that our local branch of the Trussel Trust Foodbank is run by one of DD's new Welsh Friends parents. I thought about dontating for a long time (was a bit wary as it is a church thing and I have my own issues with that) but decided 'being the change (you want to see in the world)' was more important. You can find a list of the products they include in their emergency hand out on line. I decided to call first and see if they were short of anything in particular. The first time it was sugar, OJ and long life milk. This week it was cereal and tuna. I figured it was more help for them to be able to make up a complete 'ration' than to just randomly take the same stuff.

Also my friend has the results of the autopsy on her cousin. He died of his cancer...it must have been a lot worse than he'd let on to the family IMHO, I suspect with his own dad being ill, and her OH leaving this summer, he didn't want to lay anymore on them but at least she knows now so all the arrangements can be made. I hate seeing her so sad

And dentist says not just filling fallen out, a bit of tooth is broken off, he did a temporary filling, and says it's very deep...would I like root canal or tooth taken out? Lovely choice. He wanted to do it Friday, and I said NOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Appointment booked for early jan

Kate





Kate

lizzyb1812

Bobbykins wrote: »

Greyqueen - love the idea of a new religion evolving. Were I not against organised religion on principle, I could easily become a devotee to such an attractive cause.

ORGANISED? The deity of this new "religion" by her own admission, has overflowing carp in her palacious pad, er fish tank (and if I was organised I'd know how to do strikethroughs, which I can do in Word but not in threads.)

But if GQ is reading, can I be put down as silicone bakeryware manager please? I love my inherited from granny tins but my muffins turn out so much easier in my sky blue silicone muffin pan.

Triker

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

ORGANISED? The deity of this new "religion" by her own admission, has overflowing carp in her palacious pad, er fish tank (and if I was organised I'd know how to do strikethroughs, which I can do in Word but not in threads.)

But if GQ is reading, can I be put down as silicone bakeryware manager please? I love my inherited from granny tins but my muffins turn out so much easier in my sky blue silicone muffin pan.

Quoted from another poster who explains it better than I...

Hiya - before the bit you want to cross out, type [ STRIKE ] (without the spaces). Then after it type [ /STRIKE ] (again, no spaces).

Or, just highlight the bit you want to cross out and click on the button that looks like an S with a line though it.

Like this --->

lucielle

GQ, I do so love your posts and think yippee she's posted.
L

Softstuff

GreyQueen wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:LMAO, I'm not the deity, that's our very own Softstuff, high heidin of the recipes.

I keep telling my husband I'm a deity now, if it wasn't for the house being stuffed full of baked goods he'd be packing me off to the funny farm. I was never the popular one in school, so it's lovely to have a high priestess and all.

2 batches of mincemeat drops, 1 of marzipan drops and 1 of spiced cookies done today. Tomorrow is the great mince pie bake off (the rellies like them rather a lot so I have to take enough for eating on the day and enough for half a dozen each to take home).

May you all eat cake today at some point (GQ, I think I'm adopting that as an official saying!)

xx

Memory_Girl

Triker wrote: »

Loving the pressure cooker, anyone else got one?

Me - and after the kids its what I would take in a fire.

This week I have used it to make:

Tablet
Clootie Dumpling
Grapefruit, lemon and lime marmalade
St Clements marmalade
Lentil Soup
Scotch broth
Mealie puddings
Stovies
Sticky Toffee Puddings
Braised Red Cabbage
Millions of gnocchi


Not all to eat right now - but to store in the freezer to use up over the holidays.

Normally it is used to make meals out of beans n stuff from A Foods. HM felafels, hummus, curries, dals and soups.

Nothing takes more than 20 minutes so I figure I am saving masses on fuel.

MG

Hardup_Hester

Hi all
Another one here who loves your posts GQ, & Triker I have a pressure cooker & 3 slowcookers (they were given to me) & a remoska & a cupboard full of baking trays, loaf tins & cake tins etc. I'm always inflicting my baking on my workmate as hubby doesn't eat cakes or biscuits.
Hugs Hester

fuddle

Me too. GQ is my morning fix

I feel really bad this morning. Bad because my littlest one has constipation. I know why, it's because I have fallen into the £1 pack chicken burgers, spaghetti in a tin malarky. The shift from pulling in our belts that bit further has ruined all our diets. I'm a bit lost and a bit confused as to how I have lost my principles so badly. From now on, even if we have to go veggie most the week, our diets will be chocka with veg. I'm so cross with mysef.

In my defence, it has been incredibly difficult getting around while DH has the car for work. I have the Coop and the Coop is stupidly expensive, even for just veg. Come January, when he changes jobs and I have the car there is many a place not too far that I can visit bi weekly. So much easier for me, and cheaper (if I go to places where I can get all I need in one place and not use a lot of petrol)

But today will have to be a coop day. It's finding ways of getting veg into children too, I struggle with that but today we're off to buy carrots, cucumber and tomatoes to dip in some garlic dip and then I'm going to roast a pheasant (wish me luck!) my father in law left us a few weeks ago to say thank you for our hospitality.

Next to the Coop is the library so we'll nip in there for the children some books and I to look for veg based cooking and soup books. I'm not stupid. I have a lot of the tools - have been making cottage/shepherds/fish pies for years but found the ingredients were costing more and more. I moved from that kind of meal to the cheaper 'chuck in't oven'. Still, no excuse. You can live healthily on a tight budget so I need to educate myself on cooking meals around that subject. I've known that I need to do that for sometime. I just shifted in the opposite direction as a way of coping now I think. Drat.

katieowl_2

Fuddle things like beans and lentils are really high in veggie fibre too and still everso cheap. I read somewhere once that baked beans on wholemeal toast was nutritionally almost perfect (a thought that has comforted me for years ) and also jacket potato skins are good fibre.

Kate

short_bird

Living_proof wrote: »

How would you feel to be the one to be giving out the bad news if redundancies or severely shortened hours was afoot in your organisation? Would you give the news prior to Christmas to stop people overspending (in terms of their new status) or would you leave it until the new year and let them down after they had had their fun? Me - I would rather know at the first available opportunity, but I am not quite sure what I would do if I was the management member who had to dole out the truth at this time of year. What do you think?

Coincidentally, I was reading this on Monday
http://www.askamanager.org/2011/12/is-it-okay-to-fire-someone-close-to-christmas.html
and it looks like there's no good time. Knowing that you're going to go at some unspecified time in the future does help as you can get your ducks in a row. However, it does lead to so much speculation and gossip that it's not the best of environments.

Anybody else watch the hoarding programme last night? Brought tears to the eyes at more than one point.