What's your non OS guilty secret?

Evie74_2

Another vote for frozen yorkshire puds from me too. I've tried to make them thousands of times and they always end up like biscuits

And I buy ready made puff pastry and filo pastry. I have no idea how you would make filo pastry yourself, but I bet it's time consuming and fiddly!

Evie

Waxy_Bean

ready made pastry (haven't yet found a way of making pastry dairy free which the supermarkets do - DS is allergic)
frozen chopped ginger and garlic
gravy granules
all sorts of ready made condiments (cos they last longer than homemade IMO)

twinkle_star_2

Hi Waxy Bean,

Are you trying to do normal shortcrust or puff pastry? I always make dairy free shortcrust type pastry (I'm vegan) and I just use TREX (vegetable shortening) or dairy free spread such as Pure or Vitalite or a mixture of both.

Puff pastry I buy frozen because it's way too time consuming to make at home for the rare occassions that I use it.

prettypaula

i've been re-budegting and thinking about where i can cut back further to pay more off of our debts...

one thing i cant give up is having my nails done.. i work in a coporate environment and as such personal presentation is highly important... i have coloured gel overlays which essentially are like permanent nail varnish... every 5 weeks or so this costs £28.

it saves me about 2 hours a week in painting them and a fortune in nail varnish/remover/cotton wool.

not very OS but an essential really for my lifestyle...

how about you?

quintwins

sausage casarole packet mix (mine tastes nothing like it) and sky

tea_lover

Heating! I always feel the cold and would rather not eat than have to turn the heating off.

welsh_mummy

Sky and Kettle crisps (which I stock up on when on offer)

CRANKY40

Fizzy pop. I have tried to give it up and failed.

Any

My OH would never give up the Sky (inc sport package!!, so really the full works). I am not sure I would, due to him saying resolute No I never thought about it deeply.
Obviously would we loose jobs then we would, but not just because it is not OS.

I wouldn't give up restaurant eating. I like eating in the pub/restaurant at least once a month.

And dishwasher.

shelley_crow

Lush products (when I can afford it) and that's about it. Sky was a luxury too until recently but it was getting too expensive.

I'll never get rid of my tumble drier, it might use a bit more electric but I love fluffy towels