How To Be Old Style

Edimew

I just pull out the water tank when it's full. Ours must have some built in cooling device or something.

Gingham_Ribbon

Ah right. Ours is an ordinary washing machine with a condenser attachment.

Edit: Doh, I keep getting my words jumbled up at the moment. I (of course) meant tumble dryer. :wall:

rosieben

Edimew wrote: »

I just pull out the water tank when it's full. Ours must have some built in cooling device or something.

Same here, I save the water for the plants. TD stops working when the tank is full. As its warm water I've thought about using it for washing up or cleaning but not sure its advisable as there may be fibres in it?

katmad99

MATH wrote: »

The easiest way to be truely OS is to spend 18 hours a day reading and posting on this board while your house goes to rack and ruin and your children grow gaunt with hunger.:rotfl:

so true!:rotfl:

moanymoany

I used to bulk cook and freeze, but I haven't for ages. I do buy some frozen veg, but not a lot. I still consider myself a dedicated OS money saver.

I buy packs of quorn mince - frozen - make up a big batch of mincy stuff and make spag bog the first day and a cottage pie for the next. You can buy soya mince that is dried and strange looking, but with lots of other stuff it comes out OK. The mincy stuff should keep well in the fridge for a couple of days. I do the same with casseroles and stews, one batch will feed us for two or three days. I just make sure to reheat well for 20 minutes.

Cans are great. Value tomatoes, peas, red beans and lots of other stuff are triff and time saving. Also, you can buy frozen veg and keep it for a couple of days in the fridge. The use by dates on meat are often for several days ahead, check for the longest you can find.

When I was newly married - back in the late 60's - I would buy a chicken for Roast on Sunday. Monday it would be cold with chips (HM of course), Tuesday the rest would be curried and Wednesday was soup. My friend thought I was extravagent not to make it go another day.:rolleyes: Boy, was that OS! I only had a fridge and even now have a small freezer.

Veg keeps well, roots in the dark and greens in the fridge. Just because it has wilted, doesn't mean it's not edible. I keep cabbages in the fridge for a week and only cut off what I want to use.

It's just practice, you'll get the hang of it. A few hours on the threads will get you into it.:T

MrsTinks

I have a fridge freezer which is a little bigger than you have but I used to have a studio flat with the tiniest fridge and icebox ever! So I know what you mean... I wasn't very OS back then because there was just me and I didn't really have a proper kitchen (Babybelling and microwave... that was it... and the kitchen... best described as a broom cupboard...) so I was very wasteful as I rarely bothered with proper cooking...
Looking back I could have done more but it really would have required a proper cooker Onions keep for quite a while, spuds ditto. In fact a lot of veg will keep quite nicely. As mentioned then cans are very usefull if you have little or no freezer space and then save your freezer/icebox space for meat.