Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks -I like watching programmes like this (what a surprise).

Last time I watched Superscripmers, I found myself tutting at the tv as they could have done so much better (with the advice).

I started to watch it and I'm afraid the first advice hit my usual objections.

Yes, she showed how you can use stale bread to top a fish pie with croutons .... but that doesn't help with the fact that you can have half a loaf twice a week which is where leftovers recipes fail to deliver. They work if you're using something up once or occasionally.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it's because her default projected persona is one of disapproval, disappointment and making you feel you're simply not good enough.....

Oh, I think she looks like she's laughed a lot which is normally quite nice.

Maybe I'd like her if I met her?

I do find the great British bake off the biggest turn off for baking going. I baked two cakes at the weekend and one was a flop. (I also pulled some slices of the nut brittle one i made recently out of the freezer). So one was a flop? You gotta have a flop sometimes, keeps you on your toes. I risked the dodgy sounding recipe because I knew I had a good reliable cake and the frozen one. I hate the idea I should be in ansgt and feel lack of self worth because a cake flopped. I just don't.

F I hadn't other cake I would have done as my visiting friend suggested and whipped cream and called it something suitable and proffered it with a laugh anyway. Life really does go on.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I started to watch it and I'm afraid the first advice hit my usual objections.

Yes, she showed how you can use stale bread to top a fish pie with croutons .... but that doesn't help with the fact that you can have half a loaf twice a week which is where leftovers recipes fail to deliver. They work if you're using something up once or occasionally.

Seriously, when you move, please get a freezer!


E.g. I am the only person in this house eating white bread. (No one else would ) so I buy it and put it straight in the freezer and use as toast.


Other things to do with left over bread.....

Bread is about the easiest thing to use up though, with no dietary restrictions.

Croutons for soup/salad. An individual fruit Charlotte. Seasonal variations on summer pudding or bread and butter pudding (though I am not a fan RP is ) bread pudding, (I am a fan so make it vary rarely, last did about four/five years ago!) crimps for grating or coatings, or whatever.

DH and I , before this bread thing, just don't eat that much bread, so its not an issue here.


As an aside I went off plan yesterday and are NO bread. . Ok I agree I got distinctly fussy headed so probably was struggling, but I felt 'ok' and actually, wasn't nauseous and seem to have no nasty digestive issues that have been a problem for months. So tongue stuck out at them.

And, I'm skipping breakfast, so Ya boo sucks to them.

I'm going to have vegetable sound for lunch (well cooked but with ONIONS and possibly other forbidden stuff in it) and then fresh veg juice this after noon.


I'm just going to see what happens.

CKhalvashi

hjd wrote: »

Could easily run into thousands.
I had a case, probably 25 years ago, of a fish and chip shop.
Inspector said it should be making x% gross profit, it is only making y%, so we are going to raise assessments for underpaid tax and penalties.
The inspector had decided that, for each bag of potatoes, there would be an exact %age wastage in peeling, and a very small %age loss in frying/cutting out black bits. He had stood outside the chippy counting the number of customers, he had bought lots of portions of chips and counted how many in each portion so he KNEW exactly how much profit there would be. No argument.
Totally unreasonable, but we won in the end.
I didn't find out whether he ate all the chips or had to throw them out.

We were told we should be running at a 19% GP on our contracts, as that's an average of the industry we're in.

2010-11 was 12%
2011-12 was 16%
2012-13 was 15%
2013-14 will be about 15%

No one company is going to be the same as another, and in the case of a chip shop, no two portions will be exactly the same number of chips, so the profit figures should be used as a guide only. Coincidentally, in 2011-12, our revenue jumped by nearly 30%, and we only took on 2% more staff, so the NP was VERY different, too.

Anyway, life goes on!

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I think she passed away a couple of years ago.

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, 'we' (as in fil) probably knew then. If I knew I have forgotten. !!!!!!. This is why I have to be so careful. Just as I think I am getting better for memory I'm not sure now........:o:o:o

Oh well, not likely to run in to him buying chicken feed, and he wouldn't know me even if I knew him and said hi I'm rates senior's dil. :rotfl:

I didn't realise, but it was 2012 she died (It feels more recent).
He finished & published her final book.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh, how fascinating.. Christie?? Bet jelly can work it out.

Right, so the perspective everyone has of me is an expert on serial killers...:rotfl:
No wonder I've never been to a NP meet!:D

lemonjelly

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks for the advice. That's saved me a lot of time. It sounded so posh, too, with the word Heath ....

Heath town ay posh...

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Dad and Bruv do play golf sometimes, but not seriously, and only when the weather's good. So while I don't know where the brollies come from, they aren't used to play golf.

I got new golf clubs for christmas. I'm annoyed I asked for something that I don't look like using for another 2-3 months.

(NB I asked for them, as my set were hand me downs & are 26 years old! I kept refusing to justify the cost of buying a new set myself. However a friend convinced me a good gift is something you want, but wouldn't necessarily buy yourself...)

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

I agree. I give the kids what we're having all of the time.

My son eats pretty much everything I do. He has a few odd tastes, for example he won't eat cold roast meat. He gets stuck in to salads, veggies and fruit. He likes grapes and watermelon as much as sweeties (lollies in 'Strayan).

My daughter though would live off meat and processed carbs if I let her. She loves carrots and apples but apart from that we do have to push her a little to eat veggies and fruit.

I know of 2 kids who are way too fussy about what they eat, & worryingly have got to an age where I really fail to see how their parents will get them eating fruit or veg. They have no rounded diet at all. One only eats chicken nuggets. The other, adventurous is sausage & mash!:eek: They're 5 & 7.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Similarly for my mother. It was pretty rotten when she had the chemo (and as you say, the effects got worse each time) but worth it, she's now clear of it altogether. And back to herself, in more ways than just physical. She's got her mojo back, as Austin Powers would put it. I think for a while before she was diagnosed, she was cross and impatient with herself - she didn't feel well, and was tired and lowered, but couldn't think why and wanted to pull herself together.

I remember helping a friend with the same. They snuck off to their first session. Came back. Told me there was nothing to it.
A couple of hours later...

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks -I like watching programmes like this (what a surprise).

Last time I watched Superscripmers, I found myself tutting at the tv as they could have done so much better (with the advice).

Me too! I watched it & thought "rank amateurs".

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Yes, he hates it, not much fun for him, poor love. He also feels frustrated in that he can't do anything to help, although in this case, he could and did. I think it's a lot easier to be stroppy on someone else's behalf than it is on one's own behalf, too.

I'm sure there are old wives' tales about that sort of thing. But the usual one is, "you must be having twins!". Nope. One baby (fortunately. I don't think I could cope with two at once.)

Did I mention someone I know is pregnant & has had terrible morning sickness? Everyone said "...twins!"
Scan last week - non-identical twins.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Did I mention someone I know is pregnant & has had terrible morning sickness? Everyone said "...twins!"
Scan last week - non-identical twins.

I had a quick google and apparently stats suggest an old wives tale of this terrible sickness being related to girl babies is likely, ( apparently something to do with hormones increasing nausea or something, sorry cannot remember now...) But Nd proves the minority twice .