Thank you OS and everyone - Merged

skystar

Trow wrote:

What on earth is elephant polo??

http://www.elephantpolo.com

Quasar

Brava Caterina, sono con te! :j:j:j:j:j

grannybroon

No need to rub in the rugby score you lot - we are Scottish and proud of it!!!

GB xx

MrsTinks

OH says "that should have NEVER been a try!!!" (I think he was on about England being given a try when a foot/knee went down outside the line before the ball went down or something...)
After that he sulked for a bit and ate loads of home made pizza and other goodies and cheered up again lol
He only takes it personal because the Scottish coach used to teach him rugby when he was at school

skint_spice

Hi

I just wanted to say thank you - I spent £58 pounds in the supermarket today and it felt like a fortune! in days gone by before reading all your tips and recipes I would have thought that was a good week.

In my defence lots of it was suncream and I'm not going OS on that!

*niptuckfan*

Afternoon all!:o

I am a long time lurker and have just recently signed up. I love all the OS tips and am slowly getting into it.

Well today I went to the next town to ours its quite a well to do posh town so dont really go but today as I wanted out of the house and into the sunshine I decided to hit their shops (charity shops that is) I got loads of bargains, along with finally being able to get soda crstals and stardrops from little chemist (cant wait to try them out!) :T

Then i decided to pop into M&S (its not a shop I ever go into but I have a pal who raves about it) as I am making a speacial tea tonight for hubby - Well I walked all around the shop with my basket and put it back and walked straight back out - I could not bring myself to pay their prices 2 pots of cous cous and veg for a fiver Im sure I can make that for about a pound!!! £4 for strawberrries

Anyway the sun is still shining here, I am away to prepare an OS meal for hubby then get back out in it hope you are all having a nice day xx

niptuckfan

Hardup_Hester

Well done, welcome & good luck Niptuck, I'm sure you will soon be as addicted as the rest of us
Hester

Bogof_Babe

Hiya Niptuckfan, and welcome to scroogeland .

I don't think you can live near me (our weather isn't great today and yours is) so I don't have to worry about extra competition for the charity shop finds! I spent about six hours last week browsing in about eight of them, and was well pleased with my finds.

As for M&S food, I couldn't agree more. Except for their Crispbakes, it nearly all seems well out of a careful shopper's league.

Keep up the good work! :beer:

daisyroots_2

I often go into M&S to laugh at the prices, too. And all that packaging ! Two baked potatoes (washed) in polystyrene tray, covered in plastic, then they put it in a plastic carrier bag ! Just outside my local M&S is a great fruit and veg stall: lovely cheap stuff, not much of it wrapped - AND the stallholder is in love with me (he told me again last week!) You never get the chance to work the flirting muscles in M&S

spaghetti_monster

bread baking! :beer:

I decided to have a first go at bread making the other day. And especially thanks to Thriftlady's recent thread (adventures with bread dough??? Can't quite remember...)

Anyway, for the basic recipe I followed Jamie Oliver as he gives a lot of instructions.....

So there I was - made a kind of mountain of flour on the sideboard, with a crater, poured in some liquid....then I think I was meant to make some hand-swirling thing to start the mixing....
But perhaps was a bit too enthusiastic as my mountain had a landslide, there was water and flour everywhere, me trying frantically to get it all back together from all corners of the kitchen (it looked like a whole playgroup had been at work there!)..:o next time a bit more gently I think!

Anyway (from 1 bag flour) I made 2 medium pizza bases for that evening. Plus 4 more in the freezer. Then yesterday morning hot rolls for breakfast (OMG with butter and honey, delicious!!). Then I made some things from above mentioned thread:
dough balls baked with a little butter/sugar/cinnamon
and dough swirls with cheese/sunflower seeds
which we took on a hike and polished off way before the end!

So thanks for the inspiration I will definitely be doing this again (and possibly in a bowl this time rather than freestyle on the kitchen sideboard!:rotfl: )

Alex x