Old Style Christmas Preparations for Christmas 2013

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The wheat to use for making 'Wheat Bags' is whole wheat berries, you can buy them from health food shops and they are usually reasonably priced. You can use them in microwaves and the recommendation is to lightly damp the bag every 10 or so heats as the wheat gets very dry with the repeated heatings and can catch fire if you don't ever damp down the outside material. I like to damp the bag in the morning after I've heated the bag and leave it to sit all day as that gets a bit of moisture into the inside grains of wheat and makes it safe. It's nice to put a few drops of Lavender Oil on the bag occasionally as it helps you relax. Hope that's useful, Lyn.

starlight29

Thanks so much for the xmas cake receipe I will be on the look out for value fruit from now on I seem to over feed mine it ended up wet !
Today I have bought my daughters christmas present ive sold some bits and bobs on ebay and with the money I saved up in my paypal account I bought her a mobile phone also from ebay feeling quite pleased with myself I enjoyed it felt like getting a free xmas present



Starlight

mum2one

starlight29 wrote: »

Thanks so much for the xmas cake receipe I will be on the look out for value fruit from now on I seem to over feed mine it ended up wet !
Today I have bought my daughters christmas present ive sold some bits and bobs on ebay and with the money I saved up in my paypal account I bought her a mobile phone also from ebay feeling quite pleased with myself I enjoyed it felt like getting a free xmas present



Starlight

No probs, I do cheat and instead of peeling and zesting an orange and lemon, I just get a tub of the dried mix peel, does the same job.

Sounds like your getting oragnised on the money front x

CountingPennies

Mum2one thanks for that! Will write it out and keep list handy in my purse and cross off as i go along. When do you start soaking your fruit and making the cake?

xx

mum2one

CountingPennies wrote: »

Mum2one thanks for that! Will write it out and keep list handy in my purse and cross off as i go along. When do you start soaking your fruit and making the cake?

xx

I usually do my cakes in September, usually give the fruit a couple days soaking 1st xx

Possession

Nice to see you OMO, feeling Christmassy?

Own_My_Own

Possession wrote: »

Nice to see you OMO, feeling Christmassy?

Sadly no. I have ds' birthday on Tuesday and dds in 4 weeks. As soon as they are over I will start again, although I actually only have about 6 or 7 gifts still to get. They are all seasonal things that I can't get until December. 2014 Calenders etc.

I am finding it hard this year as last Christmas was so terrible. I spent the day alone in my pjs eating Pringles. Didn't even have a roast.
Ds has asd and spent most of the day in his room playing a new Xbox game and dd was invited out.
Then I came on here and got attacked by a very nasty troll. Lots of lovely posters stood up for me, but it still wasn't nice. The troll got pprd shortly afterwards.

But this year will be different I have no idea how but it will be.

Having said that I really do love Christmas.

Own_My_Own

Just checked and I have to get -

2 selection boxes
1 box of M&S biscuits
1 2014 calendar

Bar that I have finished

nicki_2

Thanks for the reminder about the cake. I need to find my recipe which is somewhere in my mound of "to file" papers

mum2one

don't know if it is any help, but Lakeland had the tins of half prepared jams and marmalades at buy one get one half price
Strawberry - £2.99 (in my opinion its awful - like a puree theres no real strawberry pieces)
Lemon Marmalade - £2.99 (1st time we'e trying it)

Orange Marmalade - thick shred - £1.99 (lush - normally add some brandy to the mix)

Orange Marmalade standard shred £1.99 (lush - adding whisky this time)

Each tin makes about 6 x 1lb jars of marmalade (just add bag of sugar and water) xx