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mardatha wrote: »

Coming down to visit you at xmas mrs C
I meant to say this earlier - one of the vegetable soup recipes in the "Eating for Victory" cook book is awesome. I will make that soup weekly from now on. Few carrots, a leek, couple of tatties, a stock cube and a good handful of porridge oats. It's very thick and as filling as a meal.

omg, I made that same soup this morning and we are having it tonight and tomorrow, I suddenly feel like I need a big bowl of soup and a wedge of bread, it`s the weather, I can smell autumn in the air

freeze dried veggies and fruits
http://www.healthysupplies.co.uk/freeze-dried-vegetables.html

in france and china
http://www.chaucerfoods.com/freezedriedingredient/product_freeze-dried_vegetables.php

one in evesham but they look wholesale, still no harm in asking
http://www.efiltd.com/products.asp

hereford
http://www.kanegrade.com/products/vegetable-pieces/

I got one :j:j:j
http://www.galensgarden.co.uk/shop/dried-vegetables/vegetable-pieces

fuddle

All fur coat and no knickers my lot so I reckon you're right

No WCS, no sign yet, still waiting on that police check coming back

I think the digs got heavier because I dare mocked about the Branstons :rotfl: Oh I no longer care. They obviously have their issue with me - they can't be jealous of me but jealousy, I think, is the only reason why they strive to make me feel bad to make themselves look good.

I have good days and bad days when I'm with my sister and good days and bad when I'm with my mother but when I'm with them both together... :eek:

Mrs_Chip

Oh Fuddle - just re-read my post - did not mean it quite to come across like it does - meant that it seems like it's you against them, and you are the one in the right - don't mean they are both munters!

fuddle

Oh Kittie, I adore celeriac soup. Tempted by those dried celeriac flakes


Would 100g of dried veg flakes weigh more than I think it does. £3.99 for 100g of broccoli sounds a lot.

fuddle

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Oh Fuddle - just re-read my post - did not mean it quite to come across like it does - meant that it seems like it's you against them, and you are the one in the right - don't mean they are both munters!

I dunno what a munter is but it make me laugh :rotfl: Ah, worry not. You can't offend me where my family is concerned

Mrs_Chip

A munter is a less than attractive lady - usually of the sort picked up by blokes when wearing their beer goggles!

Popperwell

kittie wrote: »

omg, I made that same soup this morning and we are having it tonight and tomorrow, I suddenly feel like I need a big bowl of soup and a wedge of bread, it`s the weather, I can smell autumn in the air

I have done some home made soup in the past but for one I'm not sure it's much cheaper for me. If I had the space in the fridge/freezer perhaps and I could use up the fresh veg that gets wasted otherwise. So I may try again. Then again I have two cupboards of tinned soup to use up.

And when Tesco's have offers on like Campbell's soups at 54p, I'm not sure I could make them any cheaper...the only thing is homemade means you can put more veg in and do more varieties. I have some lovely books with soup recipes in and I look at them and think I would so love to make that.

I know I am missing out on something lovely. Never had a peach cobbler either but would I be able to make/is it worth doing so for one?

Possession

If you had the oven on already for something else Pops, no reason not to make a cobbler. Just halve the ingredients, and use half a tin of whichever drained fruit you're using (doesn't have to be peach, I only used that because the EV tins of peaches are cheap).
It was plum crumble today and 6p custard - given the seal of approval by DS, so 6p packs it is from now on.

I was wondering what a munter was too!

GreyQueen

Fuddle, I would have liked to have seen your sister's face when you mentioned about the Branston beans being 4 for £1 at Lidl and she trying to turn it around by bragging that her's came from Sainsbugs!:rotfl:

Gosh, hope the superior ones destined for Sains didn't rub shoulders at the factory with the common ones earmarked for Lidl. She must've been spitting tacks to realise she'd overspent unneccesarily.

It's a trifle Hyacinth Bucket to care which store your branded product came from, IMO. And I've known some frightfully grand people to shop at Lidl, cooing over the prices in their cut-glass accents with glee. Getting rich is one thing, staying rich generation after generation requires wiliness and you won't find a lot of old money blinging or boasting.

I had a lovely chat at the end of a jumbly with one of what I call the county set, the posh but non-arrogant kind. Daughter of a general and from one of the biggest houses in the village. She adored a jumble sale and we had several happy minutes comparing our best-ever finds.:rotfl:

When I was a student, I spent 2 summers on the trot in a meat packing plant (I was a vegetarian at the time, too) and I can tell you that the stuff going through the slicer was the same but the "top web" (the printed plastic film which is heat-sealed to the bottom web) was changing. Oh, and the premium supermarkets were having their premium prices printed on it. It was the exact same product in different packaing.

I have been stocking up on the Common Branstons at Lidl and am feeling pretty darned pleased with myself. Have pottered on the lottie and watered a pal's greenhouse as she is away.

Right, need tea!

mardatha

I'm sorry but I thought everybody knew that Sainsbugs sell posher beans. Fuddle I'm ashamed of you, you should know this! :rotfl::rotfl:
And celeriac - wotever hell it is - sounds green and exotic so I ignorin it
WCS I closed my wee etsy shop too and am keeping the ebay one on until xmas , then closing that as well. It will help me to focus on the Home Front.
O gawd I need to stop reading wartime books