make do and mend for tougher times

born_blonde

And if I freeze garlic and oil it kills two birds with one stone as we get through an awful lot of garlic!

midnight_express

Re free prescriptions - it needs to be income based JSA to qualify

Popperwell

born_blonde wrote: »

fuddle my current favourite is the Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten but I also enjoy this website http://recipespastandpresent.org.uk/index.php

I have that website on my PC and have posted links to it a few times...;)

mardatha

Anybody know the shelf life of olive oil in big containers?

Popperwell

mardatha wrote: »

Prescriptions are free here and have been for years - I dono why the hell they aren't down south! So unfair.
Thinking the wartime cookery books wil come into their own this winter - with the shortage of fat and meat they had then.

Trying not to be too political but just about anything that you hear on the news often says a scheme is coming to an end in England but not in Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland and we just accept it...The Cold Front Scheme is ending in England but something similar will continue in the rest of the UK...

Popperwell

Pooky wrote: »

I use atrixo for my hands, non greasy and smells lovely.

I was amazed as I walked through town this morning to see people with lots of shopping bags from a well known department store that has a sale on today. The amount of people sitting in/outside the cafes was astounding too - I seem to be the only one who can't /won't spend £3.95 on a pot of tea (that's not even nice Mr S basic tea!)

Ah well at least I know I'm looking after me and mine.

Got DH a decent funeral shirt for next week, such a shame as he's got suits and shirts all stored away from his office days but he's put on three stone being so immobile and can't fit into any of them. Luckily we looked in a CS before going anywhere else and I paid the grand sum of £2.99 for a shirt that looks as though it's never been worn. He wanted a jacket too but as he'll be in his wheelchair it would all bunch up, I've persuaded him a jumper will suffice.

I had a quidc0 payment in I'd forgotten about and used it to stock up on more cat food, just need to order a sack of parrot food and the winter coal and I'm done.

Isn't it funny how all the old products we remember from years ago seem to come back into the their own, such as Atrixo Mum's favourite face cream was Ponds Cold Cream.

Money goes nowhere does it(well we knew that)I was in Morrisons yesterday and I saw a pensioner who you just knew was struggling(hardly anything in her shopping basket)but she did buy one box of value teabagas 27p. Still that price in Tesco's...for now...

No good for a funeral but nearly all my shirts are long or short sleeved from CS now and I just look for large I have one white shirt and that was bought for a funeral as was one jacket. Now I see jackets for 99p in the CS so may buy a couple there and then I can afford for them to be altered. I probably should buy a couple of white shirts though...for funerals(Can't think of another reasons for having jackets/white shirts)then again not knowing anyone now...I doubt I'll have many funerals to attend(except my own)

Or unless I am forced into work because they say I am fit(though I know I'm not)

I had to get rid of three lovely jackets that had become too small for me(or I had become too larger for)I have to go for 42" chest.

Yet I am still losing weight and having just gone for 36" waist on the trousers, even they are dropping off me...will have to invest in a belt...or eat more...

kidcat

Its all so depressing isnt it. Am feeling really low today, no reason in particular, maybe its the weather but I just feel a serious sense of foreboding and really down.

Maybe its because school want a meeting about DS14 next week to sort him going back with "support" but I really dont want him going back at all - having listened to their promises before I dont believe them nor do I think DS will cope. But how to handle it I dont know, I thought we were set for a tutor to come in but apparently school are fighting it and saying they havent been given a chance!:eek::eek:

Popped into Mr T to collect some school socks (DS8 seems to eat them) and looked at buying some bits of veg I needed - walked out again when I saw the prices, no way I could afford that at all. Obviously a sign of whats to come.

katieowl_2

mardatha wrote: »

Anybody know the shelf life of olive oil in big containers?

About 2000 years I think? http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwreck-amphorae-food-italy-120808.html :rotfl:

I dunno mardywotsits...I don't think it goes off really.

Kate

2tonsils

Hi all, Fuddle suggested I might like this thread so I have come over to join you from Greece. Things are certainly tough here now and likely to get worse this winter.

Off to read the previous postings...if I am not back by Christmas send out a search party and make sure they have chocolate rations with them!

mardatha

I'll carry the choc rations. You can trust me
Fuddle reading on that fab cooking site - the Delrose Rose Hip Syrup facotry was in Wallsend, near you!
Ty owl, I'm going to get more oilve oil in Costco on Monday.
We've got a hurricane coming tomorrow night according the RV who heard ir from the neighbour... winter here we go eh!