make do and mend for tougher times

Pooky

Morning toughies

Currently bright and breezy here, some ominous looking clouds but the sunshine is welcome. Just having a cuppa then out for a stomp along the cliffs for some fresh air. DH is having a stressy day so the scoot in the sunshine will do him good. He's got his at0s appointment tomorrow, well, we think. This is the 8th appointment they've made, but they're still not sure if the recording equipment will be there tomorrow, can't tell us until after 3pm! The GP faxed over a letter asking them to provide transport over a month ago but they've not done anything about it so they may have to cancel if they can't arrange it in time! What a complete shambles that company is.

Got lots of YS bargains yesterday so have made a huge batch of roasted veg soup (I'm guessing around 18 portions), got some turkey mince reduced and have added veg, breadcrumbs and cheese and made some scrummy turkey burgers (16 burgers), the ret of the veg has been prepped to have over the next few nights. £3.75 worth of YS items has gone a long way!

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If I knitted a life, it would be made out of garden twine, dog leads,bean stems and veg peelings, and I would love it because it's the life I have now and I wouldn't change a single thing!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

*starts knitting Mrs L a Life in tasteful green garden twine with a dog lead border*
- didn't go to Peebles as the RV wanted to finish digging a hole in the back gdn, he says its for the weeds but it's a very big hole .. let's just say I'm being verrry careful around him and keeping my back to the wall.
Pooky or anybody - I'd like the recipe for turkey burgers because I've got turkey mince that's been in the freezer for about 700 years because I dono what hell to do withit.
And thanks so much to whoever gave me the recipe for flapjacks, they came out lovely but my ME-addled brain decided to make them in a quiche dish and didn't grease it first. But it's amazing how much fun there is in battering hell out of a quiche dish with a knife

betony

ginnyknit wrote: »

Have just made granola as I am fed up with the price of cereal in the shops. Got the idea from the co-*ps free mag and basically chucked in everything I could find, nuts dried (hm of course) fruits, raisins, seeds and then mixed it with honey and vegetable oil. No way was I using olive oil. then baked it in the oven -filled in a gap nicely. Am now cooking some chocolate buns using an AP packet mix up. Added a bit of fresh baking powder to see if I could lighten them up a bit, so cross your fingers.

All this is , I think, a reaction to the news tonight that there will be more cuts in store, have decided I will survive and save as much real cash as I can. So when this batch is cooked everything will be switched off that i can and out will come the wooly socks and I will knit myself a life :rotfl:

I love 'healthy' cereal like muesli and oats but I don't like the prices at all. My favourite cereal is very cheap and one I make up myself. I buy the Sainsbury's Tropical Crunchy Oat cereal, £1.99 for a kg and the basics muesli, recently gone up from 98p to £1.18 :eek: and mix them 50/50. Two kg of cereal for £3.17 or £1.58 per kg. I sometimes add extra sultanas to it too. It's very tasty :drool: and easily does me the four weeks between shopping that we do.

kidcat

If I knitted myself a life - it would be quiet and understated, calming with sophistication. Nothing at all like my real life:rotfl:

Mardatha - a giant hole ey?:eek: would definitely be keeping my eye carefully on that one.

Have spent hours getting as many pictures of DD onto a USB drive (still no sign of picture box so have raided photo albums, and her facebook page!!) have three computers set up in living room and two printers - trying to scan and load, its all so complicated.

Now have to do a quick tidy up as some stupid idiot said to aunt this morning - I will have cousins littlies this afternoon so you can sleep:eek: one is 2 and a handful the other if 4 and autistic (although his mum thinks not!) so its going to be action packed I believe. Tea time should be extra fun as apparently they only eat certain things - non of which my lot eat so I foresee many different meals being cooked

DS8 has gone to visit a power station today - so apologies to anyone who mysteriously looses power today, I have spent days drilling into him not to push buttons but somehow I dont think he listened:D

mardatha

http://news.sky.com/story/995138/cameron-upbeat-despite-shock-imf-forecast

Pooky

Mad - turkey burgers that I make are an onion whizzed in the processor into tiny bits, add a handfull of grated cheese, an egg, two bread ends (blitzed up into crumbs) and the turkey mince, a bit of black pepper and a shake of mixed herbs and whizz until its all mushed together like sausagemeat.

Then just divide into portions (satsuma sized balls) and squish flattish. I freeze in layers of grease proof in a box and oven bake or grill.

The cheese adds some moisture and oooozeness but you can leave it out.

mardatha

Brilliant, ta ! xx

Hobsons_Choice

mardatha wrote: »

http://news.sky.com/story/995138/cameron-upbeat-despite-shock-imf-forecast

Don't you just love Mr Camera-on?
All of son's police leave cancelled because of the Party Conference in Brum.
Party being the operative word, he tells me.

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MAR - He who knows says you should include some barbed wire in the knitting to keep me inside it and give him a bit of peace, cheeky wotname isn't he? Who does he thinks makes the tea when he wants it? Cheers Lyn xxx. I could send you something 6' 4" and cheeky to fill your hole if you wanted him oh sorry it!!!!!