The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

candlelight_2013

Oh Mar, you don't know what you are missing lol!!

I will say though I am with you with the kale.

gailey_2

floss2 wrote: »

Gailey, cheesecake recipe!

Use a loose-bottom tin if you have one (makes it easer to get out!) and line with cling film.

1/2 packed ginger biscuits, crushed, mixed with 50g melted butter/marg. Spread over base of tin. Put into fridge to chill.

Mix 1-2 packets cream cheese with grated lemon zest, lemon juice & about 2 tbsp icing sugar. Beat til soft.

Spread cream cheese mix over biscuit base.

Top with either raspberries, lemon curd, grated chocolate or drained mandarin oranges.

Thanks not sure will be good.

tried but dont think used eough biscuits to cover tin and doesnt seem to stick well together(biscuit) base

its done its in fridge but doesnt looklike shop one.

costs

shopped at tesco

value lemon curd 25p
value ginger biscuits 26p
value soft cream 46p
1 lemon 30p.

total £1.27

hoping hubby like it

used quiche tin no pop out bottom quite large one.

had no clingfilm used greaseproof paper instead.

was hoping get it costs £1 or less.

just hoping nicer and maybe slightly bigger than shop brought one.

good to try new recipes.

take my mind off things

might do cherry flapjacks tommow,

fancy doing hm rice pudding. but unsure how.

jem132

After today i am very worried about ds9 attending the unit.
I am not sure they can manage so many kids as we were sat in our meeting several children escaped running around out side and on the road witch I find very unsafe. Of course with the kind of place that it is all the others want to follow the kids were climbing back in through windows and then back out. I left at 2 in a taxi with my ds leaving a hour early.

I really do think this is unacceptable that so many staff were running around after children escaping.
The lady from cams was there she said he's definitely not autistic well that's one iv never heard them say he's not. So what is he then

Popperwell

Oh Jem,
How worrying is that. Wish I could think of a solution or suggest where to go next. If others have said "Its Autism" and today someone says otherwise, someone is right/wrong so who is it?

Sounds as though they are failing quite a few parents/children.

Pasta no, not a fan but I have eaten it and more so now...for most of my life my only contact with it were tins of Heinz spaghetti/hoops/raviolli and that was not very often.

shegar

mardatha wrote: »

I think Tuna smells like cat food and nothing could ever make me eat it!

My thoughts exactly mar, I hate the smell of fish , its dam right boring tasting too , never fills you up and always seem "full of water" to me .....................uhh:eek:................Never eaten pasta or spagetti , cant bear the thought of putting it in my mouth , the thought of it makes me gag ....:eek: Hate the smell of spice , chilliies , garlic, etc ....

Im a steak kidney pie with veg girl, apple pie and custard......:D Yep im plain boring when it comes to grub................Sheila

ArthriticOldThing

My parents thought I was just being difficult because I hated tinned salmon and would not eat it - might have been because my father would mix it up with skin and bones included:eek::eek:. Have always preferred tinned tuna until recently when I seem to be going off that as well. Much prefer the fresh fish.

And pasta was unheard of in our house - the only rice we saw was in rice pudding - my parents maintained until they died that both were foreign - therefore inedible - food:mad::mad:

Hester I have pm'd you.

Have been told this morning that I should apply for some kind of benefit help because of my arthritis and the problems I sometimes have with getting out. Always thought was not worthwhile as there are a lot of people much worse than me and I can - usually - manage but will investigate.

Sorry about your dog Princess. I grieved for such a long time when my sheltie died. They are part of the family and its hard saying goodbye. :( I'm not allowed to keep animals where I live and I miss the company and love of a dog.

Its dark and miserable here but at least we are not surrounded by fog. Yesterday was like living on an island as we are on a hilltop overlooking the river and could see nothing past the fence!:D:D

kidcat

Jem if you are not happy with him there then dont send him. If you have concerns about safety you are well within your rights to keep him away while the lea find a satisfactory place. You can ask for home tuition while they figure it out.

monnagran

Hi!

Gailey: You are just going through a very bad time but it will pass sweetie, honestly it will. I know just what you mean about living in an affluent area. I brought my family up as a single Mum in a big house (falling down round my ears) surrounded by solicitors, bankers, company chairmen etc. Their children had all the latest and best of everything whereas my two had home made and second hand clothes, their first bike was a sort of mongrel, made out of two old ones that someone was throwing out and I couldn't afford to run a car so we walked everywhere. Guess whose house all the neighbourhood children came to?

Jem: I would be worried out of my mind and furious if I were you. Fancy leaving a young child alone in a sort of prison. And how is he going to get social interaction (is this the new buzz word?) kept apart from everyone with his lunch being pushed through a window? It's crazy.
Home educating sounds good but it is the most enormous commitment. Here the Home Educators get together to share the responsibilities. They call on all their various skills to keep the children busy and take it in turns to have a 'day off' regularly. You might ask around to see if there is anything similar in your neck of the woods. It used to be called Education Otherwise and the children I have come across who have been home educated have all been interesting, self-confident and happy people.

Well, I cooked my lunch for 60 today. 2 people came to the kitchen to help but we had no washers-uppers and only one waitress so we all pitched in and did everything. Lasagne, salad and French bread followed by a wicked sticky toffee pudding and ice cream went down well. But I felt exhausted afterwards.

I also grew up without the benefit of pasta. We did have macaroni but it came as a milk pudding. I wasn't interested until I made friends with an Italian family. Oh! My goodness! Mama's lasagne was a revelation. I've never tasted anything so delicious. It was obviously the authentic herbs that made it so special and I still dream about it.

x

Mrs_Chip

I would be grateful for a bit of info about hemp. I don't have arthritis, but I am starting to get the first signs I think - the odd swollen and tender joint in my fingers.

I love anything spicy, garlicy, chilliy, preferably all three :rotfl:. My father would not eat the spaghetti bolognese I made, but did eat his home-made pork vindaloo, which would blow your socks off!

Possession

Oh Jem that sounds a nightmare, definitely not right. Doesn't sound safe for the children or the staff to be dealing with that level of escapes. I would create merry hell. If you had other agencies meeting there with you, did they witness it all too?