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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2010 15:48:27 GMT
There was an evil, and relatively cheap cigarette on sale in Britain in the 1970s which finally put me off smoking. I've a vague idea it was called Extra. not heard of that, but i do recall one time as a student we had run out of good drugs, and so decided to smoke antibiotics, using the powder from inside the capsules. that wasn't very noice at all, and put me orff antibiotics for life. Stick to illegal drugs, if anythink, theyre much more tasty and ammenable.  |
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Post by Patrick on Nov 24, 2010 15:49:39 GMT
Own brand cereal has come on in leaps and bounds in the past twenty years. I remember buying some Safeway Corn Flakes years ago only to have to feed them to the birds or something - because they tasted like blotting paper and soaked up milk in a similar way. Nowadays even Aldi's offerings taste like the big brands - not to mention proving how over the top the likes of Kellogg's prices are.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 24, 2010 16:06:08 GMT
Goodness, that is a grand offer Weyland, but if we are tightening our belts, how can we get there? I'll send the company jet.  Or, for those who don't like to fly, the limo . . .  LV-426 would've been a quick mopping up excercise had those to beauties remained fully crewed and operational... ...Twin "Republic Electric" RE700 gatling canon with 1700 rounds, twin 20Mw "Boyars" PARS 150 phased plasma cannon with 1000 rounds...and that's just the M577 APC *sighs wistfully* AH |
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Post by Patrick on Nov 24, 2010 16:10:17 GMT
What did Horace say Winnie?  |
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Post by Patrick on Nov 26, 2010 0:04:40 GMT
Incidentally. Does anyone here know, or have you worked out recently what you actually spend on food per week? Or general spend on everything is per week? It's a little dull, but fairly fascinating exercise.
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Post by everso on Nov 26, 2010 0:33:09 GMT
It's difficult to say what I spend each week - it varies quite a bit. I reckon I probably spend about £350 a month. I buy quite a bit of fresh fruit and veg. That also includes wine and beer by the way, also laundry and cleaning stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2010 2:05:57 GMT
Incidentally. Does anyone here know, or have you worked out recently what you actually spend on food per week? Or general spend on everything is per week? It's a little dull, but fairly fascinating exercise. ABOUT £30-£50 QWUID. DEPENDING ON WHAT IM DOING. And it aint austerity.its necessecity. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 26, 2010 10:07:08 GMT
Incidentally. Does anyone here know, or have you worked out recently what you actually spend on food per week? Or general spend on everything is per week? It's a little dull, but fairly fascinating exercise. ABOUT £30-£50 QWUID. DEPENDING ON WHAT IM DOING. And it aint austerity.its necessecity. I don't know what we spend on food REALLY. I mean, I know what my weekly or fortnightly (depending on how it goes) bill is for the big shop, and that probably averages out about £60 or 70 a week for myself, my man, my at-home daughter, and several of her random friends and boyfriends who seem to eat stuff out my fridge en passant. But then, yesterday Gothboy was bored at work so took me out for lunch, and QOTT was in town so she popped in for lunch too, and that was £40 for 3 lunches in the pub (it wasn't even that nice.) And if we order takeaway once a week that can be between £20 - 30. Plus my tuna crunch sandwiches from Greggs are probably about £10 a week, plus whatever the other 2 have for their lunch. So lunches could be another £30. Then there's the odd bottle of ginger here, the odd I-can't-be-arsed-cooking-go-to-the-chippy nights, etc. If I tried hard and did all my own cooking from scratch, I could feed us for about £30 or £40 a week, but life's too short to do that whole taking-homemade-soup-into-work-for-lunch thing. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 26, 2010 10:09:04 GMT
Weird 'though, isn't it with food. One person would probalby require at least £30 a week for food, but you can feed 3 or 4 people for £40. The economies of scale on food are so great.
Maybe we should set up communal kitchens in our streets and make it really cheap.
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 26, 2010 10:19:36 GMT
Incidentally, I am increasingly cooking and freezing.
One, because it's far cheaper to have home-cooked than takeaway or processed but also because, two, I refuse to put on more weight and diets are really a waste of time. I know from experience that if I go on a diet (and I have a good one I use) I can lose about a stone in a fortnight, and then I put it back on again the next month. But I'm buying into all this 'Cook yourself Thin' thing where you don't diet, but you home-cook.
Also, home-cooking is the only way I can really get vegetables into my diet as I hate them. But if they're all mixed up in a curry or chilli you don't notice. I've recently started making my world-famous chilli a vegetarian one. Nobody has noticed that the chilli doesn't have meat in it any more which is . ., interesting.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Nov 26, 2010 10:24:52 GMT
Diets just send your body into "famine mode"...as soon as you start eating anything extra again, your body starts hoarding fat.
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Post by Patrick on Nov 26, 2010 16:37:22 GMT
Maybe we should set up communal kitchens in our streets and make it really cheap. You should run that one past Jamie Oliver. ;D |
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Post by everso on Nov 26, 2010 18:12:18 GMT
Actually, I didn't include fish & chip night (usually about once a month) and "eat-out night after a particulary hard day at the coal face of babysitting" (probably about once every 3 weeks)
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Post by everso on Nov 26, 2010 18:15:03 GMT
Riot, are you good as gold about labelling the food that you freeze? I always think to myself "I'll remember what's in this container" but never do. Consequently, often I'll tell Mr. E. that we're having chilli for dinner and he gets presented with Spag Bol.
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Post by riotgrrl on Nov 26, 2010 20:09:16 GMT
Riot, are you good as gold about labelling the food that you freeze? I always think to myself "I'll remember what's in this container" but never do. Consequently, often I'll tell Mr. E. that we're having chilli for dinner and he gets presented with Spag Bol. But they're different colours . . I can tell by looking. In the frozen chilli you can see the beans sticking up in the top like rocks in the sea. Bolog is less vivid/purple red and more orange/red. Curry is more yellow. I do try to stick labels on with sellotape, but sellotape doesn't freeze well so they fall off. I don't want to write on the tubs, like my Mum used to, because it doesn't always wash off so you end up with 3 different things written on the same plastic tub. I think this is an important issue, and I feel a bit ignorant on it, so we should seek the counsel of the Stubbie wise . . . best way to label your frozen meals stored in plastic tubs peeps?  Please??? (I learn so much on this board.) |
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Post by everso on Nov 27, 2010 0:59:53 GMT
Yes, sometimes I can tell the difference, but sometimes I really think I have the correct thing and then it isn't.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to pull myself together and start labelling. I have a sheet of self-adhesive labels and when I freeze, say, a bolognaise sauce, I put a freezer bag with ties inside a bowl, pour the sauce in, tie it up and stick a label through one of the ties so it becomes a kind of tag. Once the sauce is frozen I take the bag out of the bowl. We had spaghetti bolognaise this evening as it happens and it WAS spaghetti sauce that I'd got out of the freezer this morning.
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