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I have had various breadmakers, a morphy richards one, a cookworks one and a breville one. The breville one was the best one, until my daughter bought me a Panasonic SD 257, and ive got to say its brilliant, i use it every day and wouldnt have any other kind now. It is easy to use and never fails to...

I too bought a cheapo one from westfalia, thinking that if it turned out to be the best gadget i'd ever bought i'd invest in one of the big excalibur models (couple of hundred quid) but i've got to admit ive stuck with the cheap one. I have mainly used it for drying herbs and tomatoes to pack them i...

I regularly make this kind of thing, especially as our local farm shop usually has netting sacks of carrots or onions for about £1.50. They are not usually top quality standard but for that price who can complain. In the supermarket you would probably get a small plastic bag with about 6-8 carrots o...

Have you seen the price of the new spam fritters?????? £1.99 for 4, and they are small, (well the same size as a thin slice of spam from a tin). And that was in netto, dont know how much they are in the not so low cost supermarkets

Shell, believe you me it took a VERY long time to get hubby to let me have the 2 ive got, he hates anything like that, (truth be told i think hes scared of them) He wont go out to give them any food or water and certainily would never attempt to go into the run to get the eggs, hes a right wuss. He ...

Yesterday my daughter took my 2 grandsons to feed the ducks on the pond whichis on the old pit site which has been made into a wildlife area with fishing lake etc. Theyd only been gone about 10 minutes when the phone rang, They had found a massive 2 storey rabbit hutch, (we have a rabbit & guine...

Hi, good luck with the planting & the new chickens, i got a couple a few months ago & its one of the best things ive done, i know ive moaned & groaned about having to go out in the minus temperatures we've had lately to feed, water & clean em out but when i go out & collect my 2 ...

Hi all, i received a free trial of soapnuts off the internet a few weeks ago but wasnt too impressed. they didnt seem as good as i'd thought theyd be, I decided to have a look in local health food shops and have found a fairly local supplier who will order them for me as i need them, I have picked t...

Glad the pastas getting better Rosendula, like i said ive had loads of failures! same with pizza bases from scratch, some days they are perfect & other days they cant even be cut with a chainsaw :( I think a really good pasta flour helps as well, the stuff from the supermarket sometimes gives go...

:lol: Rosendula, you are just like me, i want everything yesterday. If i decide i want something i usually traipse off and buy it from the first place i see it and end up seeing it later at a lower price! you can guarantee that now ive just paid £8.99 for "not on the label" I'll probably f...

We too havent done an actual shop since the BIG food shop the week before xmas. We are having loads of "use up" meals, eg today hubby had fishfingers with the remnants of a bag of frozen mixed veg, some mash and homemade parsley sauce. daughter had mash, beefburgers with some leftover froz...

I bought a pasta machine when i first got married (20+ years ago), tried it once, couldnt get the hang of it and it dissapeared a few years later in a house move. Decided to become more selfsufficient last year, more home bread making etc and decide to have another crack at pasta. I placed a wanted ...

Been working quite a lot lately but have managed to find some "me" time to read some of JS's book. I think i made a very good choice. There is some really useful info in there. Also had a quick glance through the "precycle" and found some brilliant ideas in there. I had loads of ...

oh right, not too far then. we've got cooplands here, infact popped in yesterday after work and they've started doing these huge slices of bread toasted with a very thick topping of cheese & fresh tomato, they are lovely, just a bit filling, wish i could get my cheese on toast to taste like that !

Delias, "how to cheat at cooking" - enough said....... - last year dad thought he was doing me a favour. Thats why this year i got money ! bless him