Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

badmemory said:

I have to be honest & say that when you mentioned spag pie I went with - mush & not a favourite.  I mean tinned spag major overcooked.  It says on the tin (or used to last time I had it over 30 years ago) NOT to overcook.  I think you are very brave to actually eat it at all.

I was pretty sceptical myself, I confess, but with 13 tins of spaghetti in the cupboard figured I might as well try. Fortunately Mr Cheery is quite enjoying it cold with a bit of BBQ sauce so he can finish it off!

South_coast said:

We Buy Books might take the magazines as well Cheery, if your friend doesn't fancy them

Tried zapping them but it's not having it sadly. I'll try a shout out to Facebook friends as well. 

greent said:

As well as we buy books look at Ziffit and Zapper, Cheery. I usually find Ziffit has the best prices overall for the books I sell - but I will often split books between 2 sales sites to get the best price at both 😃

Good suggestion! I tried Ziffit yesterday but it was barely coming up with anything (I was just zapping random things, not necessarily thing I wanted to sell, so must remember to clear it before I zap anything else!)

Bluegreen143

I don’t put disappointing meals in the freezer either. They end up sitting there til whenever I defrost it then I throw them out 🤦‍♀️ I try to rescue them for immediate eating, but if I’m going to throw them out then better to do it right away than create freezer clutter 😂

badmemory

Personally I'd liquidise in a soup with chilli or curry.  Covers a multitude of sins!

beanielou

A vote for the food bin~~or the chickens. 
Toddles off.

Cheery_Daff

Fear not - I have not eaten the spaghetti bake, nor put it in the freezer, nor put it in the bin, nor fed it to the chickens 😂 Mr Cheery ate it smothered in BBQ sauce and declared it was worth making another one 😂😂

Popping in to declare a small triumph - the printer has been refusing to print for a couple of weeks now, not recognising an ink tank that had already been in there for several weeks and was printing fine before. Performed several resets, cleaning functions etc, stripped all the bits and cleaned them, but no.

About to throw it out of the window and replace, but something in the back of my head was telling me to keep trying...

Anyway, more rooting round the Internet, and it seems printers occasionally have updates which leads them to reject cartridges if they're 'compatible' not original ones... 

Removed the cartridges (bizarrely just 3, not all of them) and replaced with spares- and now the printer is s good as new 😁

Karmacat

Two very definite triumphs there!  Mr Cheery liked the spaghetti bake enough to want it again, no small feat!  And sorting a printer is great - I've had to recycle my printer, between the lack of bluetooth connection and the lack of google store-approved software for it (guarantee is invalidated if it's not store-approved) so now I have to buy another one.  First world problems ... 

Baileys_Babe

greenbee said:

Baileys_Babe said:

Cheery_Daff said:

Hmm. Spaghetti pie not a resounding success - tasteless mush in fact 😂😂 I think it would have been better to actually follow the Jack Monroe recipe I found and do it on the stove top - I think the oven has reduced both spaghetti and beans to mush.

Won't be throwing it away, but also won't be putting it in the freezer - can't be doing with disappointing freezer meals, and I know I'll just pick round it for months so might as well just eat it now and be done with it 🙄

I think this is an important lesson we need to learn, currently, we have 1 portion of turkey pasta bake in the freeze which has been being ignored by the 4 of us for months now as it wasn't very tasty when it was first made. I pledge here that I will eat it before Easter. I will think I will add liberal amounts of harissa paste and it will be fine.

Take it out of the freezer now and have it tomorrow. Then it's gone. 

That will not work with the family meal plan. One day a week is planned for each person to choose from the selection of frozen HM single portions, I will have it then 😊

greenbee

Baileys_Babe said:

greenbee said:

Baileys_Babe said:

Cheery_Daff said:

Hmm. Spaghetti pie not a resounding success - tasteless mush in fact 😂😂 I think it would have been better to actually follow the Jack Monroe recipe I found and do it on the stove top - I think the oven has reduced both spaghetti and beans to mush.

Won't be throwing it away, but also won't be putting it in the freezer - can't be doing with disappointing freezer meals, and I know I'll just pick round it for months so might as well just eat it now and be done with it 🙄

I think this is an important lesson we need to learn, currently, we have 1 portion of turkey pasta bake in the freeze which has been being ignored by the 4 of us for months now as it wasn't very tasty when it was first made. I pledge here that I will eat it before Easter. I will think I will add liberal amounts of harissa paste and it will be fine.

Take it out of the freezer now and have it tomorrow. Then it's gone. 

That will not work with the family meal plan. One day a week is planned for each person to choose from the selection of frozen HM single portions, I will have it then 😊

We expect you to report back!

And cheery needs to make spaghetti bake once a week until her stockpile is gone!

Baileys_Babe

I will do @greenbee thanks for the support 🤗

boxofpaws

Right, new follower here. Thank you for the very useful summary on page 1, meaning I can just start at page 94, guilt-free. I’m not really allowed on the Mortgage Free Wannabe part of the site yet, but this diary’s wholesomeness has irresistible.

Oh and well done on the printer, they are little beasts.