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

redlady_1

I always get a meat box from my mother but this year I asked for veg as I have plenty of meat and am trying to eat alot more veg.

Feel my pain please, I have been roped into doing a 4 hour zumbathon!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus, I wont be able to move tomorrow. Wish me luck as I am off to get jiggy. Still its in aid of the hospice so I dont mind. What they would give to get jiggy I bet is priceless.

rinabean

gardenia101 wrote: »

Got to love fleece - I wrap myself up in a fleece balnket before crawling into bed with a hottie bottie - lovely. Real bummer to have to get up for a pee....

I know what you mean, gardenia. I got through last winter pretty well in an unheated flat by layering up 'til I looked like the michelin man and drinking pots and pots of tea - but the two together, well, not fun! Still, it was warm (for a rather OS value of "warm"). And if I'd had to escape out the window for whatever reason, I'd certainly have bounced!

Good luck, redlady! :T

nannygladys

I feel really hopeless, I have very few tins, and the heating is on full blast as it was soooooo cold when I came home from work, and I have people staying tonight (thats my excuse and Im sticking to it for tonight!) Right tomorrow when they have all gone I will switch heating off, get fleeces off the beds and chairs and wrap myself up, oh and I think I will buy a few tins, any suggestions for good old staples???? PS I do have plenty of toilet rolls, washing powder etc, I was very OS and bought all these on offer, have enough to last me about a year!!!!!!

Frugalista

I have just been and counted up my Fray Bentos pies - 15!!! :o

I bought one a week when they were £1 each in Mr A. OH tried to object - but the way prices are going up, I figured it was worth it. He has had to agree now they are £2 (and more) each.

They are tucked away in my larder with the 60-odd tins of baked beans and two full trays of tinned tomatoes :cool:.

mardatha

fuddle wrote: »

You know yesterday Mardywotsit when you said other people think this thread is about hysterior? I have very little in the way of tins! I feel vulnerable :eek:

oh my god!!! :eek::eek::eek: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Gigervamp

the_cat wrote: »

I too have less than my usual quota of tins...... but money off coupon in Telegraph tomorrow for Lidl. Works out at 13% off after taking into account the cost of the paper so I'm going to restock. £60 is a lot to find all at once at this time of the year but worth it imo due to doom/gloom and even if that comes to nothing, there is the small issue of snow and flu season. It makes me nervous not to have a fair whack of food in the house!

The most we've ever spent in Lidl is £45 and that shocked me! But, I've been eyeing up that coffee machine that's on special next week and my mum sent me some money for xmas. I think I may be buying a paper tomorrow. :cool:

D&DD

:eek::eek::eek:
Ladies.. I am in a state of pure and utter shock...tinned pies !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I keep looking at those because I used to have them quite regularly when we first got married for a quick dinner but keep talking myself out of buying them,but seeing as everyone else has got some they can't be that unhealthy..right???????:D:D
*off to amend my Tesco order*

I have just taken delivery of 72 rolls of andrex via amazon and am really tempted to splurge on a dozen jars of vegemite :rotfl:whoever told me they did bulk packs is very naughty

My boys have just given up opening cupboards in case they get hit by flying foodstuffs

Gigervamp

The problem with those tinned pies is that when you dish one up, the family say "It's not as nice as yours".

But, I do think they're worth buying when cheap to put in the store cupboard.

And I forget who mentioned it earlier, but thanks for saying about using the tins as cat dishes.

oldtractor

Same with bread. I started to make bread and now they wont eat shop bought.

imogen-p

mardatha wrote: »

Need your help here old stylers ! Woke up with this bottle in my head (Nooo not that kind of bottle!) and want the name if anybody knows it.
It was bath stuff, a glass bottle not plastic, oil or bubbles. it was very thick concentrated dark forest green and smelled of pine. it was quite expensive (to me anyway) and was heavenly. This is going back a bit, to the days when I had money. So we're talking pre-history here. I think it was a French name but not sure. Does anybody know what I'm talking about ??

It's not a glass bottle, but Weleda is green and piney.