Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

Lynplatinum

Evening all

My DS2 is now plastering and has knocked all the old plaster off the hall wall - ergo it is traipsing everywhere - no matter how careful we are!! Bless him he is working v hard :T as he has stripped one room and has done all the filling and bonding - just skimming to do tomorrow!!

Result YSing in Morr!sons! Large white loaf for 9p!! Yes, a full white tin 2Lb loaf for 9p!!! Bagels 32p. Large Pitta breads for 9p for 6. Strong cheese (8oz) for £1.69!! Wow!!

Make do - tuna fish cakes with last YS spring onion + left over mash this made an excellent lunch with salad.

Mend - we are getting there with the walls

minimise - another trip to the tip (honestly!!)

Tomorrow final skim of plaster on little bedroom!! It will be exciting to see how good it could look!

Re waste of veg - I did not see the program but I all ready knew about this from friends of mine who are in the farming world. It is horrendous! They get these snooty buyers with massive incomes and no respect for the people working the land and how hard their lives are. They only care about their profit margin and the look of things! :mad:
Nite all

silvasava

Ages ago on another thread someone posted that they'd bought a sack of carrots that were meant for horses as they were mishapes and cheap - what's the matter with this country when good food gets thrown away and we have food banks - grrrr
Grey day here so I feel a baking day on the agenda. I need to stock up on Chilli for the freezer and I've seen a parkin recipe I'll try. My mend will be DS1's jacket with a tear by the pocket. Not sure what the minimise will be though
Have a good day all x

Siebrie

Last night I made do with ingredients for a recipe: YS pie crust from the freezer; I didn't have pesto, and the sm did not sell it (I didn't go on purpose, I just looked when I visited anyway), so I replaced it with some olives and feta cheese I had leftover from the weekend that needed using up (the olives, not the weekend ) I added some dried basil, and we had a lovely Greek-leek pie.

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Siebrie well done:) thats the way to do it if you haven't the ingredients replace with something else. Often I will do it ,especially if the recipe says to use something that I either haven't got in store, or wouldn't buy as I don't like it.
Only 9 more squares to knit for my DGS 'blanket' rain is a great inducement to stay in the warm and dry and knit

Cottage pie from the freezer tonight I think (using up as much as I can, rather than buying more in :)

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

Things are still mad here, but I've been doing a bit of making do on the food front. I managed to use up some bendy veg in a chilli which I doubled for the freezer for when things are even busier in the coming weeks. Last night I used up a sprouting spud to make a really nice cheesey potato bake, which I'll definitely do again. My knitting is going very badly. I need to take out several rows and start again as I've made a mistake. I've made more progress on the rug, but it is time to cut more strips, so I'll do that this weekend and get them in my basket downstairs. I'm very slow at it.

As for wonky veg, well, I'd love to see them going back to selling bruised apples for cooking and to see us as a society treating food with a bit more respect, donating excess production, but there isn't as much profit in that. Tossing the wonky stuff is just an excuse to justify throwing it out because it keeps supply at the level that is most profitable. Will consumers buy the bag with the straightest carrots first? Probably some of them, but the frequency with which I see people in the SM just walk by and grab a bag, never checking to see what it looks like suggests they could shift it if the oversupply didn't eat into their profits. I'd also like to see a shift in packaging. I know some packaging helps make transport more efficient and thus sometimes saves more resources than it uses and other packaging helps reduce spoilage, but a lot of it is just absolutely pointless. I particularly loathe single aubergines in a plastic wrapper at Aldi when so much of their other stuff just has a sticker on it for scanning. Why on earth does it need the plastic? It would also be nice to see scales in produce sections more often, so you could buy what you need of the single stuff.

Siebrie

I'm making do with tights at the moment! This morning I found that one pair of tights had developed a hole, and while I put on another pair, I tore a hole into it I cut both damaged legs off, and am now wearing 2 pants with one leg each.

silvasava

Sebrie - will keep your 'elementals' nice and warm! used to do that many times when cash was short in my younger days! Always used to buy tights in the same colour or boil them all together in an old saucepan so they all came out the same shade. Didn't realise I was MMMing then - just cash strapped! Only wear tights now in the winter under jeans & they're thick ones I've had for years
I've found a couple of balls of baby 4ply when sorting my sewing cupboard so I'll crochet a snuggle blanket for my friends impending grandchild. Baby's due near Christmas so should have time to finish by then.
Another grey day here so going to 'do' the upstairs & try to have a bash at getting rid of some of the old paperwork
Have a good day all x

silvasava

For those who are interested:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/supermarket-food-waste

This is a petition against the waste of 'misshapen' fruit & veg

fuddle

Siebrie wrote: »

I'm making do with tights at the moment! This morning I found that one pair of tights had developed a hole, and while I put on another pair, I tore a hole into it I cut both damaged legs off, and am now wearing 2 pants with one leg each.

Now that I like stored in my mind for if and when I need it

nursemaggie

I signed the petition silvasava. I hope is is not the one I also signed last week on Change.org.

One reason for the lack of taste is the taste has been bred out with the breeding for cosmetic fruit and veg. They are not mis shapes they are natural, the way they were meant to be.

FPK, I have been knitting for 65 years but I still pull knitting out you get very fussy the longer you knit. I just think I still have it to knit without having to buy more yarn. Earlier this year I pulled two cardigans out because they came out too big. I did the tension square and it measured the right size but the pattern still came out so big I could wrap them round me nearly twice.