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Out Of Date Chicken Livers

I got the pack out of the freezer last night to defrost and I've just gone to start making late when I've noticed the sell by date - Dec 2014!! They look perfectly fine but I can't check smell as I...

Smowball

Found A Brilliant Recipe/shopping App!

It's called YUM(yummly ). Full of hundreds of recipes, you just click and save the ones you want and then it lets you sort them into breakfasts, dinners, sides etc. Can narrow down and put in a...

Maydup

Best Before

I got to the back of the food cupboard this morning, as you do on a Bank holiday Monday, and found instant custand, instant semolina and a crumble mix. They are all best before April 2016. Any reason...

hammerman

Mobile Phone Use.

Wife looks after a care home and she has imposed a mobile phone ban on the staff as they are abusing the use of them. Some of the carers have kicked up a stink saying they should be allowed to use...

maggiebee

Vegetarian

I have invited a friend for a meal but have just realised that they are vegetarian. I'm no great shakes at cooking at the best of times so am looking for a simple but tasty meal. Any suggestions very...

diddlydo

Bt Technical Department

Anyone else fed up with getting Indian voice from "BT technical department" saying there's a problem with their broadband? When I tell them to stop wasting my time they hang up! (One even said to me...

jourdain2

Travel Times And Distance Needed.

Hi, all. We haven't had a holiday for nearly 3 years. We can go for a week from 17/9 with small dog in tow. We've found a cottage in Tarbert, Argyll & Bute, which fits the bill and is available. We...

10ClarionSt

Olympic Coverage By The Bbc.

I think the coverage has been the worst I can remember. It's been pathetic. Diabolical. If you haven't got cable or satellite, you mainly get presenters just talking and hardly see any action. A...

Smowball

Name Three Foods You Absolutely Couldn't Eat.....

Even if someone paid you because you find them so revolting! Mine would be: Olives Squid Brussels sprouts Bleugh bleugh and double bleugh!!...

ethandron

Dine In For A Tenner On Again

Just been and snaffled two Empire Pies, two lots of garlic mushrooms, a passion fruit roulade, and a couple of slices of lemon tart. Two bottles of Merlot completed my basket. Not bad for £20 :)...

Butterbun

Olympics Tennis.

Del Potro has knocked out Djokovic. Shock..horror.. Del Potro seems to be back to his best. Djokovic was the top seed. He left the court in tears....

queenofmean

Foil Containers

I've been buying meat and it's frozen and I plan to cook it up and put it in Foil Containers and Freeze so that I have meals for over the winter. My late mum did this but used freezer bags but I find...

bednobs

Peeling Boiled Eggs

i make egg salad most days, and have peeled plenty of eggs over the ast year. How come some peel really easy and others are totally messy? is there something i can do to them to make them always easy?...

ethandron

Virtuous Me

I just defrosted my big upright freezer, took me all of less than an hour. Why oh why don't I do it more often. Don't know how you do yours, but I used a couple of bowls of warm water, a hair dryer...

diddlydo

Windows 10 Updates

Is it possible to stop automatic updates for Windows 10 and if so, how?

mikey4444

Circle Line From Paddington

I was up in Town this week and found I couldn't go straight through to Kings Cross from Paddington, on the Circle Line, without changing at Edgware Road. I used to be able to. Does anyone know why ?...

ToraToraTora

Blackberries.......

just had a delicious punnet of blackberries from ASDA, every one delicious. Took me back to when as kids we'd go picking them from the brambles and occasionally I'd get one as good as the ones in my...

Tilly2

Windows 10 Help Please.

I am going to download it today. Is there anything I need to be aware of or scared of? Does it just download by itself? Can I just go away and leave it to it?...

mccfluff

New Potato Glut

any idea on what to do with them, my friend gave me a load fresh out the garden but I'm not a bit potato eater and I've run out of ideas i've had, pot salad, steamed, sauteed, thrown at the cat,...

ladyalex

Kidney Beans....help Please

I am trying to clear out my cupboards but amd too mean to throw stuff away. I came upon some dried kidney beans in a jar. I have no idea when they were bought, but we are talking years rather than...

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