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2tonsils I can safely say my BMI is not muscle:rotfl:It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!0
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Afternoon everyone, I am really enjoying how frugal the wartime food is proving to be. It is easier with just the two of us to cater for and this weeks main items are a Haslet which was surprisingly simple to make and I can't taste any difference to a commercial one and this will give us sandwiches all week with a variety of Home Made Chutneys to ring the changes. The other real money spinner is a Raised Pork Pie the main ingredient of which is 1 lb of Pork Sausagemeat and the pie makes 8 to 10 servings, so that will be the bulk of our meals this week, with different veg/salads and pickles. The Pork for the Haslet was on offer at A*di for £1.49 per lb and the Sausagemeat was YS at the C*op for £1.25. I still have all of our early potatoes in the freezer, having cooked them earlier on as they were not keeping well and I froze the bulk of veg, green beans , tomatoes, broad beans etc. that we produced and have them to dip in to. We still have leeks, parsnips, sprouts and cabbages on the allotment and beetroot in the polytunnel. All in all I've parted with very little cash this week and we're eating very well. Cheers Lyn xxx.0
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Please:),tell me more about wacky chocolate cake, sound's like my kind of food:D
Here you go, got the recipe from a yahoo group, so can't credit original cook.
WACKY CHOCOLATE CAKE
1½ cups pl flour
1 tsp bicarb of soda
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp cocoa
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp vinegar
1 cup water
Oven 160°C/ gas 3
Sift together first 5 ingredients
Make 3 wells in flour mixture
Put oil in 1, vanilla in 1 and vinegar in the last.
Pour the water over the top.
Mix until just blended
Bake in a 9” square or 2 x 1lb loaf tins for 40 minutes.
My self & hubby; 2 sons (30 & 26). Hubby also a found daughter (37).
Eldest son has his own house with partner & her 2 children (11 & 10)
Youngest son & fiancé now have own house.
So we’re empty nesters.
Daughter married with 3 boys (12, 9 & 5).
My mother always served up leftovers we never knew what the original meal was. - Tracey Ulman0 -
Hey, 2tonsils, sounds like your BP/ pulse is similar to mine. The only time I was put under for a general anaesthetic, I was on the trolley with a monitor on my finger and the anaes (can't spell it!) was fretting because my pulse was 49. I'd had no meds at that point.
I pointed out that my resting pulse is normally 40 per min so 49 wasn't anything to worry about. Brother, our Dad and his Dad are/were the same. I've had my BP done in an A & E and the nurse obviously didn't credit her own eyes and did it 4 times in sucession until I deferentially said that I was losing sensation in my hand, and could she please take the pressure cuff off.:rotfl:If my pulse gets up into the lower end of the "normal" range it feels like it's racing to me.I'm probably officially dead, just haven't noticed yet.
I've had a minor triumph with a Tosco voucher on something already half-price and one of my regular cashiers complimented be. I have an affable relationship with some of the staff in that store and am well-known for bargaineering. If it hasn't got a YS it prolly isn't going home with me.
I shan't be doing any of these intermittant fasting diets as I'm under endocrinoligist's instructions not to skip meals, have even been told better not leave the house without a snack as blood sugar can be a bit unstable. I find protein suits me a lot better than too many carbs.
I've dropped back from 16 st to 15' 12" in less than a week and will keep on with very slow progress. My core diet is officially good but it's the extras which are causing the problem. My plan is to ditch the extras and watch the poundage slide off slow and steady.
I have to do it that way as I'm not well enough to go into a major exercise regime, although I was gardening yesterday and the muscles along the backs of my legs are letting me know all about it. I would like to re-acquaint myself with my abdomimal muscles. I can do sit-ups but the spare tyres get in the way a bit.
All this talk of food has made me peckish, must go and sort something out for tea.
PS if anyone wants to know, Lidlly had blueberries at 79p/ 125g at the weekend. Nomnomnom.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »Afternoon everyone, I am really enjoying how frugal the wartime food is proving to be. It is easier with just the two of us to cater for and this weeks main items are a Haslet which was surprisingly simple to make and I can't taste any difference to a commercial one and this will give us sandwiches all week with a variety of Home Made Chutneys to ring the changes. The other real money spinner is a Raised Pork Pie the main ingredient of which is 1 lb of Pork Sausagemeat and the pie makes 8 to 10 servings, so that will be the bulk of our meals this week, with different veg/salads and pickles. The Pork for the Haslet was on offer at A*di for £1.49 per lb and the Sausagemeat was YS at the C*op for £1.25. I still have all of our early potatoes in the freezer, having cooked them earlier on as they were not keeping well and I froze the bulk of veg, green beans , tomatoes, broad beans etc. that we produced and have them to dip in to. We still have leeks, parsnips, sprouts and cabbages on the allotment and beetroot in the polytunnel. All in all I've parted with very little cash this week and we're eating very well. Cheers Lyn xxx.
Do you please have a recipe for the haslet Mrs L as this is one item I have been wanting to make for a while.
TIAMy self & hubby; 2 sons (30 & 26). Hubby also a found daughter (37).
Eldest son has his own house with partner & her 2 children (11 & 10)
Youngest son & fiancé now have own house.
So we’re empty nesters.
Daughter married with 3 boys (12, 9 & 5).
My mother always served up leftovers we never knew what the original meal was. - Tracey Ulman0 -
Thank you mama67£71.93/ £180.000
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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »Afternoon everyone, I am really enjoying how frugal the wartime food is proving to be. It is easier with just the two of us to cater for and this weeks main items are a Haslet which was surprisingly simple to make and I can't taste any difference to a commercial one a.
Post the haslet recipe please....we love haslet and it's cheap as chips on the deli counter, would it be cheaper still to make?
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I don't really know what my resting pulse rate is - probably don't rest enough to find out
but I, too, usually have to have BP taken several times for the nurse to believe it. Last time I had it done it was 90/48 but that was a little while ago. I had some problems after I had DS (gynae so won't go into detail) and the emergency midwife nearly had me blue lighted into hospital at 3 in the morning until I told her my blood pressure is usually that low!:p
One of my dietary things is to cut out alcohol (unless I have to fly somewhere, which is a possibility), which I don't think I will have too much trouble doing. I would love some ideas for some non alchoholic alternatives though - I can't drink too much coke as it keeps me awake, fruit juice is fattening, water is dull, can't stand the J2O type things so what do people drink when they go out?I wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Hi TIA it is so easy and really economical. I made half the recipe for the two of us
Lincoln Haslet
2 lbs minced pork
1 onion chopped very small
12 oz of brown bread
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground white pepper
1 teaspoon dried sage
Tear the bread into pieces and soak with water. Squeeze out as much moisture as you can and then in a big bowl put in all the ingrediets and squish them together very well with your hands until completely and evenly mixed. Put into a loaf tin or pie dish (I used an enamel pie dish) and bake at 350deg F/180 degC/ 160deg Fan for one hour. Leave to cool in the cooking tin until completely cold before turning out. Keep fridged and enjoy
Hope you like it, Cheers Lyn xxx.0 -
I've never even heard of haslet......"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.0
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