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

SDG31000

Meme30 by no stretch of the imagination am I a wonder woman. For a start I don't have the thighs for hot pants :eek
Although I can pull off a tiara when required
I've made DH help and would normally have DS2 helping as well, but he is a snot monster today. It's a good job I stocked up on tissues yesterday.

Memory Girl I've never heard of mince and onion rounds. Would you mind posting the recipe please?

Well I have made 3 lots of cakes so far and DH is making lunch which means sausage sandwiches. I still have to make chocolate cakes and ice those and the vanilla ones. I think I'm going to be caked out for a while after this. Here's hoping I have time for a bath.

Take care xxxx

stiltwalker

meme30 wrote: »

To top it all DH will come home from work and sit on his backside cos he has been at work.:wall:

I know this one!!! I wonder sometimes what he thinks I've been doing at home all day - sitting on me 'arris talking to you lot probably! We once had a row where I said I didn't always feel terribly supported and maybe he could do a little more to help out and with a straight face he replied that he was a very supportive partner as he didn't go off to the pub at the weekend! It seems the chaps he works with are a little unreconstructed and that this counts as supportive! Doesn't help that his Dad is the last generation and he literally didn't do anything to do with housework, cooking or kids so the fact that he does anything makes him a modern man! Good job I love the man isn't it!

Bit of a washout here - the street party has had to migrate into the village hall as it's gnatting it down - we weren't planning on going anyway, we went to the Jubilee gala yesterday so not party poopers but our village has just gone totally OTT with a couple of events each day for the whole 5 days!!! If it clears up a bit we may go out this afternoon, otherwise I shall get some work done for my ongoing module and some revising for my exam on the 14th. :eek:

Must go and tweak the Mr T order for tomorrow (invested in the new prepay delivery thing so can get deliveries whenever rather than just picking the cheapest slot - yay!!) as I cheated and went and got supermarket easy dinner last night as I had been putting furniture together half the day (New sofa bed from Ikea thanks to a WTC lump sum as they'd underpaid and new bedstead from Mr T thank to double up) and while I was there I picked up a couple of things that were on my list. also like to check the offers the day before delivery is due to see whether there is anything suitable for the store cupboard.

MG I have to 'fess up that I've nicked your Armageddon cupboard name for my understairs but sadly mine is nowhere near as tidy as yours - one day I will get it organised - maybe when they invent 36 hour days!

Have a good weekend everyone.

grandma247

here is one basic cooking site

boultdj

fuddle wrote: »

thank you meme30 i'll have a look

I am terrible for going at things with all guns blazing MG. The good people on the thread will tell you I was missing in action from the thread for a while as frugal living was getting too much. I do think I expect too much sometimes. I'm a trier, I'm proactive but also can get very frustrated and heavy on myself if things don't work out.

Oh, the mince base has my eye! If I could master that I can do anything at the drop of a hat.

Did you say you had a thread elsewhere MG?

She's gone off line, but yes her thread is on the debt free diarie's page, also if you click her name it bring's up her home page which is her blog and you can find load's of recipe's, for food, cleaning product's and craft idea's, sorry I can't do link's:o but I'm rubbish on the 'putor.

mardatha

Fuddlefuddlefuddle - slow doon pet I used to be like you, but I crashed. I still keep letting things go, lately its the soap making taking over and I couldn't be a$$ed to keep up with the menu plans and the Aldi shops etc. But I will circle round and come back to it.
I do love mince hamburgers and meat balls.. but prefer them in lamb mince. I've started getting meat from the butcher in a village up the road a bit. Asda is coming to me today but in a mad fit of being healthy I didn't add any sweeties so I'm not excited
The sewage soap is now fixed and gorgeous, and I got a nice wee Goth order from fleabay which always makes me smile because I love the colours.
Need to have a spring cleaning day sometime in the next decade as I was silly enough to go into the kitchen with my glasses on. MISTAKE! :eek:

mardatha

SDG a mince round is a steak pie thats a mince one- and round!

Memory_Girl

boultdj wrote: »

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She's gone off line, but yes her thread is on the debt free diarie's page, also if you click her name it bring's up her home page which is her blog and you can find load's of recipe's, for food, cleaning product's and craft idea's, sorry I can't do link's:o but I'm rubbish on the 'putor.

Thanks hon - was off running the boys to their Grannies as Grandad had a day off tomorrow and they are going seal watching.

But now - the mince is calling .................... come be creative!!!

And after a spa evening for MG I think - or maybe just a pot of tea LOL

MG

fuddle

Imagine what my head was like before I started the tablets :eek:

I'm alright don't worry, just a thinker. I opened the cupboard door, saw the mess and wrote it on the list for tomorrow.

My coffee table, on the other hand, is allowing me to chill and enjoy the strokes of the paint. I'm thrilled as it's looking so good. I'm just hoping the clear varnish we have in the garage is ok as it's yonks old. :cool:

Kids are upstairs watching Shrek. I'm about to get properly ready as DH is taking me to Aldi for the shop. I second Magnum washing liquid. It's brilliant! I didn't know about Fairy being demoted. Although it was demoted in this house a long time ago! :rotfl:

BitterAndTwisted

Eh, I'm a terrible sceptic where washing-up liquid is concerned( among many, many other things). I've never been convinced that because it's is thick and makes loads of suds that it's any better at cleaning than anything else. They add thickeners to make us believe that we're getting something more concentrated than it really is and foam and suds won't clean anything. Therefore I buy whatever is on special offer. Like the twofer I got at the pound shop a while back. If they hadn't burned down the local Aldi in last summer's riot I could have popped over to buy their Magnum gubbins. I'm also missing their Super 6 fruit and veg.

It's overcast and raining here today, and feeling a tiny bit chilly. If I wasn't so skint I'd have half a mind to pop the heating on for a bit, so I've put a fleece on instead. I can't tell you how irksome it was to have to drag one out of the storage-boxes I'd stashed away. I stupidly believed that I'd not have to see them until some time in the autumn. I can't believe that only a few days ago it was boiling-hot here and I was floating around in a sleeveless vest.

I should be stripping the bed and washing the bed-linen but as it's not suitable drying-weather I've lost the will and am having an extra cuppa instead. I might do some comfort-baking later if I can be @rsed

Byatt

Well, it's a special day, no not the Jubilee but my wedding anniversary, :rotfl: or it would be if I was still married in the eyes of the law...36 years...:cool:

I treated myself to a pot orchid, in Mr T's it was reduced from £10 to £2! Nothing wrong with it, so well chuffed.

Plus some strawberries from the local car boot, 2 huge punnets for £3.


Raining off and on here.

Is Aldi's washing up liquid the same as Lid£'s?