'supporting each other through really tough times'

Popperwell

GQ, I could become a fan too the way prices are rising...do you cook the whoe pie and have the second half cold the next time or do you reheat? I would make mine last a couple of meals too...

I said somewhere(I forget where)if I had room I would buy 4 Birds Eye Chicken and veg pies on offer(4)for £2 but no room in the freezer.

I'm thinking of adding to my food store again...and may risk a trip off town and call in to B&M and Poundland. Still am amazed a town the size of mine hasn't one of these stores yet.

GreyQueen

Popperwell wrote: »

I could become a fan too the way prices are rising...do you cook the whoe pie and have the second half cold the next time or do you reheat? I would make mine last a couple of meals too...

I said somewhere(I forget where)if I had room I would buy 4 Birds Eye Chicken and veg pies on offer(4)for £2 but no room in the freezer.

I cook the whole pie, Pops, they're very firmly attached to their tins. In fact, I cook 3 at a time because they require 25-30 mins at a high heat (Gas 8 or equivalent). You just take the lid off and cook them inside the tin.

My stove runs a bit fierce and 25 mins is plenty. I cut one in half, serve the half and leave the remainder in the tin. When it's cool, I wrap in clingfilm and refridgerate. I also freeze the two additonal ones I've cooked wrapped in clingfilm.

To reheat, I remove the half-pie from the tin with a rigid plastic spatula and put it in the solid tier of my 3 tier stainless steel saucepan, with the veggies underneat. By the time they are cooked, the pie is piping hot.

FB pies always bubble over their tins when cooking so be sure to stand them on a baking sheet or you'll have a lovely mess on the oven floor. HTH.

Popperwell

That helps a lot GQ and thanks...

I don't do mood swings and I slept so well yesterday and most of the night even if I did post in the early hours.

And in general I have had a good week, no offence to Mum but I have managed to concentrate on daily life and also not been looking ahead either so I see that as positive steps to my recovery.

So I am a little surprised to find today is a difficult one but I cannot really pin it down to anything in particular although lately(I know it's coincidence)when I feel like this something not so good happens...like the forms I had to fill in, like the cremetorium chasing after me about Mum and making a decision about how to deal with the final act so to as to speak...those kind of things, so I wonder if I am sensing something.

Or if its just one of those days and I have to get on with it!

I have a few things to look forward to next week I wouldn't care...the live music club on Tuesday with Andrea(its a special night...someone's birthday and there is a buffet on)Wednesday the Happy Cats playing Geordie and Celtic folk(a member of Lindisfarne is in the group)and next Saturday the Syd Lawrence Big Band.

So that will keep me busy whilst I can afford them(then again the tickets were booked ages ago)just have to find the bus fare.

Anyhow, today I'll do some tidying, a small shop and though I am trying to make things last foodwise and save money...I'm going to eat a little more today(I've had toast and Jam, coffee already)

For lunch I think I'll have a salad(better than wasting what I have in the fridge)and that chicken casserole tonight but add extra veg...and if it is a day past it's date, it's still being eaten. And I'll put it on a plate rather than leaving it in the container:)

QT somehow I missed your post, belated New Year Greetings...if I can, depends on income and how I manage when things change as it will, I may use the heating more or build up what is saved so if it needs to be on more I am covered.

Like you I'll try and do without during the Summer but if I do,thinking about it, it won't make much difference as I do that anyhow even in Winter.

I keep forgetting in approx 9 weeks it's Spring. Where did that go?

I must have had those Fray Bentos pies at some time(I think my Gran used to buy them occasionally)but that's a long time ago to remember and I was probably a child. I do remember her having that IZAL tracing toilet paper. Why I have no idea. We lived near my Gran so TBH I used to wait until came home:rotfl:

I think my memory is quite good but you know when days are much the same, I forget sometimes what day it is.

This morning it was so dark at 7.20am I actually started to think it was 7.20pm and the day had been and gone.:eek:

It was only because of what was on the radio as much as anything that I realised that it was morning.

elizabunny

Hi everyone! Nearly into my 4th week of having a slipped disc. Managed to sleep until 10am this morning (sleeping realy badly at the moment, so my sympathies to all of you who suffer in this way). Struggled into the shower and then had this awful feeling that if I slipped, there was no one around to help me. Just then the doorbell rang -wouldn't you know it. Couldn't believe the delivery man was still parked on the road when I finally got to the door about 10 minutes later! So I got my parcel after all.
DH is home at 2pm so then I will feel safe enough to move around a bit more freely -don't fancy get stuck down the garden in this weather -just heard we are supposed to be getting a baltic blast!
I am hoping for a NSD today as I won't be going out. Planning to stretch a pack of Lamb Mince into something exciting or maybe DH will do it for me.
Hugs ((())) to all those with problems or feeling unwell.
BTW we are all electric with 3 beds and I think our bill is around £960 a year. We are very cosy on this.

Uniscots97

Hello, how is everyone?

Applied for more jobs this morning and had a call saying I have a telephone interview on Monday morning! :j

On the flip side, OH has been told he's back to night shift next week :mad:, which will make me doing the tarot difficult (i.e. the phone ringing) as he'll be asleep. He also thinks that he's about to be told the work is finishing there as the work is drying up and fast. I don't think I can cope with both of us being out of work.


I had a go at making clementine marmalade, its more like clementine soup! . I'm wondering if it will actually set.

Possession

Good luck with the interview Unixgirl.
Another unsuccessful visit to the dentist for DD today, she did just about allow the dentist to look in her mouth though, and has agreed to try with gas again at the end of Feb. <sigh>

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Afternoon Toughies, it's sunny here today and the Lurcher and I finally got to walk through the woods and on to the common, it has been just too squishy on the paths until now, and tomorrow we're going to get lots more rain and maybe some snow too - oh well, at least we did that walk once this winter!!!

I went into town this morning and picked up a few things to top up the store cupboard in case we do get stuck for a couple of days in the snow, I got some dried milk powder, some plain flour, and some part cooked rolls and baguettes so we can have bread if we run short. Al*i have a kilo of porridge oats for 75p at the moment so I got two of those as well and a few tins of evaporated milk so that will see us through a fair amount of time.

Hope everyone has thier provisions sorted out just in case and we'll compare snow stories as they happen (if they happen), Stay warm and safe everyone, Cheers Lyn xxx.

nuttyp

Hi everyone, having a chill day today. Have made sausage platt for tea, using stuff from the freezer, all bought reduced at christmas. Have had to have the serious talk with OH. This having a different car thing is making me anchious. The thought of debt is filling me with worry, so today my IBS is on majorly.

OH assures me it will be no problem, he can do overtime each saturday to pay for it. hmmmmm maybe it will be ok.

With reguards to electric/gas we are on prepay due to the BR, and use around 15 on each a week. In the summer gas can be around 5 tho. Have decided to buy an extra 10 gas for next week, as the predict us in the east will be baltic.

We went to the supermarket first thing, there was a collection for the dog rescue centre. OH was very supportive, see even tho its 9 months ago when we lost our little man - all dogs seem to make me cry. I sooo wish we could have another dog, i get so lonely when im off work. MAYBE is what he says. TBH my little fog dying hurt more than my dad, and im sorry but i cant explain why. I love my dad deasrly but we werent very close, i was made to leave home at 17. Got pregnant at 19, and thats when we finally started talking . He said i would never amount to much. Maybe i didnt in his eyes.

May i ask, does anyone know much about going to university?? My youngest is 17, and next year she will be doing her level 3 health and social care. Then she wants to go to uni to get a degree in it. So she can help and support the elderly. SHe volunteers with dementia patients already. And is learnning basic sign language. Any ideas what she should be doing????

Hope everyone is ok. Huggs to all the ones that need them.

RE fraybentos pies, has anyone tried the pudding version ? The one i saw was steak and kidney.

Uniscots97

nuttyp wrote: »

May i ask, does anyone know much about going to university?? My youngest is 17, and next year she will be doing her level 3 health and social care. Then she wants to go to uni to get a degree in it. So she can help and support the elderly. SHe volunteers with dementia patients already. And is learnning basic sign language. Any ideas what she should be doing????

A friend of mine at uni was deaf and found it difficult to get a sign interpreter for classes. There was two ladies that did it, but weren't always available as one of them also used to sign on the stv (local) news on tv. As far as I know tv stations are always looking for people to sign for programmes.

Byatt

nutty, I did a H&SC degree as did 3 others in my group. It was and maybe still is, an academic degree. May I suggest she look at the social worker degree as it is a profession as well as giving more access to hands on that she may want to do. The other thing is, most go for children but if she wants to work with the elderly find a uni that will focus on that. I can't get work because of my age in the H&SC area, not sure if I'd done the SW degree if it would have made a difference, but...

one of my friends who has been working in social services but in an office environment is planning to do an MA in SW as she wants hands on (she wants to work with older people too), rather than being office based.

The 2 others, one got a job in housing and the other one is trying teaching. My degree is in itself not much use.

This is just my experience of course. With the SW degree the fact she is already having work experience will definitely help her.

So sorry about your pooch, I hope you can get another one, it does help heal the wounds even though they never replace the one that is gone.