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OS or not or just tight?

angie_baby
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Everyone at work has just had ready roasted chickens for lunch with salad. After we had eated i told one of the girls not to throw the chicken carcass away, as i will take them home - lots of wierd looks from everyone. :rotfl:
I had to explain that i want them for chicken stock. I think everyone at work thinks im poor now!!

So would you take the chicken carcass home with you?


Angie
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  • lucasmum
    lucasmum Posts: 324 Forumite
    Definately OS!!! Its all about using what you've got (or can get your hands on!!) and not wasting things. Plus much better for you than the powdered stock.
    I would take it home the chicken!!
  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
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    angie_baby wrote: »
    Everyone at work has just had ready roasted chickens for lunch with salad. After we had eated i told one of the girls not to throw the chicken carcass away, as i will take them home - lots of wierd looks from everyone. :rotfl:
    I had to explain that i want them for chicken stock. I think everyone at work thinks im poor now!!

    So would you take the chicken carcass home with you?


    Angie

    Definitely :T I have everyone in my office "feeding" my empty lunch box with peelings and cores for my compost heap ;)

    Penny. x
    :rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:
  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
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    Yes, I'd take the chicken carcass home too. with the spiralling costs of food bet it isn't too long before they change their tune!
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
  • purpleivy
    purpleivy Posts: 3,674 Forumite
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    Not if they were the bones they had chewed LOL!!!!
    [SIZE=-1]"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad"[/SIZE]
    Trying not to waste food!:j
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  • angie_baby
    angie_baby Posts: 1,640 Forumite
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    purpleivy wrote: »
    Not if they were the bones they had chewed LOL!!!!



    :rotfl: :rotfl: My office manager wanted to know if i wanted his, after he had chewed them.
  • angie_baby
    angie_baby Posts: 1,640 Forumite
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    Im hoping that if my boss thinks that im that poor he will give me a payrise!!
  • Uniscots97
    Uniscots97 Posts: 6,687 Forumite
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    angie_baby wrote: »
    :rotfl: :rotfl: My office manager wanted to know if i wanted his, after he had chewed them.


    lol, I think I would have politley said "the day I ask for the bones you have already chewed then you can call me tight, other than that I'm just sensible".

    :o
    CC2 = £8687.86 ([STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE] )CC1 = £0 ([STRIKE]£9983[/STRIKE] ); Reusing shopping bags savings =£5.80 vs spent £1.05.Wine is like opera. You can enjoy it even if you don't understand it and too much can give you a headache the next day J
  • THIRZAH
    THIRZAH Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    At our WI Christmas dinner a couple of people took home leftover turkey "for the dog" -although I 'm sure one of them doesn't have a dog.As far as I'm concerned if someone can use up leftover food then it's much better than binning it.

    I try to keep a plastic bag in my handbag just in case. DD even bought home the nachos she got in a restaurant "meal deal" recently and had them for her lunch next day.
  • saving-grace
    saving-grace Posts: 284 Forumite
    Nigella Lawson said in one of her early programmes that she brings chicken carcasses home after dinner parties to make stock (don't know if I believe her.....)
  • floss2
    floss2 Posts: 8,030 Forumite
    saving-grace wrote: »
    Nigella Lawson said in one of her early programmes that she brings chicken carcasses home after dinner parties to make stock (don't know if I believe her.....)

    She's from a good financially-minded family, and was born into a religion that is renowned for watching its pennies, so I would definitely believe her!
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