Tesco Discussion Chat & Grabbits 11+ Xmas/New Year Edition

DaisyDuck

I don't know anything about rules etc or what happened last night but can I just say that last week Locarr v kindly gave me a £10 of £50 M&S which if he/she hadn't posted on here I wouldn't of seen !

Caz is collecting the other codes and if I hadn't seen them on here I wouldn't of known and they would've just sat inside my box until the boys lost them and I threw them in the bin ! I think its good to know if we have things that might be of use to some people!

Sorry tho if its against the rules !

lutzi1

Beki88 wrote: »

Evening all.
No T's for me today, my DD is ill again She has conjunctivitis and is rather grizzly. Had a bit of a break down this morning, the last 2/3 months have just been one thing after another (a lot more than I have posted on here about) and I am so fed up of it. Really wishing I hadn't volunteered to do christmas dinner as that is just another stress for me.

Beki, to make things easier, a couple of suggestions. Firstly, did you know you can make roast potatoes in advance, then freeze them? Boil your potato chunks for a couple of minutes, then drain, put some flour in the pan, put the lid back on and shake to roughen them up a bit. You can either then freeze them like this and cook from frozen, or to save some time part roast them, cool and freeze and then roast quickly again on the day. Those bags of prepared veg are v useful, just stab the bag and cook at full blast for three or four mins in the microwave ( and are often reduced - again, just bung them in the freezer). If you can get some of those big foil roasting tins, that will help save on washing up. Try not to stress - there's so much to do, and it really annoys me that we women are supposed to approach Christmas like an exam, and we've failed if we don't get 100% on the sprouts!

Westvleteren

BAILEYS6904 wrote: »

Dont mind at all, I'll even bring my own cat to kick.....

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That's the spirit

BAILEYS6904

Westvleteren wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That's the spirit

Thats not what the cat said

LadyLeenie

Good morning you nasty,horrible little lot :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:x

locarr

BAILEYS6904 wrote: »

Westvleteren wrote: »

There is always one in the family, that doesn't want to get into the spirit of things, So you can be our official cyber family grump :rotfl: If you don't mind that is?

Dont mind at all, I'll even bring my own cat to kick.....








....to all animal lovers out there, I would like to point out that this a joke, and no animals were hurt in the posting of this post (or summat)

I had a cat once....








Mind you I had to swerve to get it!!:rotfl::rotfl:

nikkilala_2

LadyLeenie wrote: »

Good morning you nasty,horrible little lot :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:x

Morning Leenie, Just seen Happys lucozade stash, hope you were proud of your grandson!!Was quite impressed with him;)

kadison

lutzi1 wrote: »

Try not to stress - there's so much to do, and it really annoys me that we women are supposed to approach Christmas like an exam, and we've failed if we don't get 100% on the sprouts!

I was listening to Paul O'Grady on the way back from Brum yesterday and he had a very good way of looking at it...

"IT'S JUST A ROAST DINNER! You can do it for 2 or 22, there's no need to stress, if you have more people you just do more sprouts, so don't worry about it!"

HTH

Issyc

lutzi1 wrote: »

Beki, to make things easier, a couple of suggestions. Firstly, did you know you can make roast potatoes in advance, then freeze them? Boil your potato chunks for a couple of minutes, then drain, put some flour in the pan, put the lid back on and shake to roughen them up a bit. You can either then freeze them like this and cook from frozen, or to save some time part roast them, cool and freeze and then roast quickly again on the day. Those bags of prepared veg are v useful, just stab the bag and cook at full blast for three or four mins in the microwave ( and are often reduced - again, just bung them in the freezer). If you can get some of those big foil roasting tins, that will help save on washing up. Try not to stress - there's so much to do, and it really annoys me that we women are supposed to approach Christmas like an exam, and we've failed if we don't get 100% on the sprouts!

I didn't know that you could prepare roast potatoes in advance. i'm going to give this a go. Thanks.

Beki, I've already prepared my sprouts, carrots and swede for Christmas day. I've peeled them, blanched them then frozen them to reduce the amount of time I'll have to spend in the kitchen. HTH. x

LadyLeenie

nikkilala wrote: »

Morning Leenie, Just seen Happys lucozade stash, hope you were proud of your grandson!!Was quite impressed with him;)

Including the clip strips,he has been well taught :rotfl::rotfl:

How on earth did I get that tittle "Happy`s Grandmother" :rotfl: