BUDGETS.....who needs them....ME
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| 51 | soak over night then high on crockpot and leave 4 to 5 hours, drain and bag them up. greg.n.michelle - 2007-06-24 17:22:00 |
| 52 | kobs washing powder do you have to use hot water to wash your clothes with this mixture. I made a similar one years ago & the clothes had a slimey feel unless I used hot water. It may not of been exactly the same. roseann48 - 2007-06-24 18:49:00 |
| 53 | roseann48 u cud always put the amount in hot water to start wif then wash in cold water if worried bout it but i just stick in machine in middle and let it go its fine. fluffylinda - 2007-06-30 22:41:00 |
| 54 | bumping any more fluffylinda - 2007-07-03 21:27:00 |
| 55 | Holidays & presents holidays always sem so long away when we plan them and like that they are here....so when you have done the planning start buying a $10 petrol voucher each pay day and that way when you do get to go away you dont have to worry about continuosly filling up.....another good idea is to keep a present box in the spare room or wardrobe were ever and if you see something for $2 or on a great reduced special grab it and though it in your presesnt box come time for a bay shower or one of the kids comes homes and says mum i need a present or ? birthday on saturday the first thing yo do is check the box, I do this for xmas i get the $2 savers from Avon talc & deodarent , roll on bubble bath etc etc a necklace or 2 and im stocked up that way if something unprepeaing springs im orginised kob - 2007-07-05 07:20:00 |
| 56 | we rented out in the country for around 9 years. lived on invilids benefit due to my husbands bouts with cancer. we started from scratch in alot of ways. mark barted his plumbing skills for materials (with our local farmers) so that we were able to build a huge greenhouse. we then barted and gave away excess produce but i bottled, made relish's, sauces etc. we also were able to have a good vege garden. life has changed now as we are Salvation Army Officers, but we still have a tunnel house and small garden, but plant veg with the flowers as well! timetable - 2007-07-05 08:31:00 |
| 57 | contd will be running "dollars & sense" cooking class' in a couple of weeks and as well as the recipes, menu's and shopping lists, also giving a voucher for a vege garden starter kit. even if folk live in town, you can still plant veg around the flower garden, in pots or grow bags. companian planting is really good as no cemicals used! try hooking into the nearest fruit and vege auction house. they usually have a "cash only" section within their set up, so that way you can buy at cost. also farmers markets if they are in your area. bottle as much as you can, it keeps soooo well!!! buy 2 - 3 more of each of the specials, if you can, cos when it's winter you can cut back on the groceries. God bless! timetable - 2007-07-05 08:38:00 |
| 58 | can't visualise - it's frustrating! I find it really frustrating trying to visualise what people have made! I've just found somewhere you can put good size photos and the description of what you've made together, and run a discussion with your mates at the same time. There's a new Food Community Board on www.kiwifamilies.co.nz and it has a seperate topic area for money saving tips. It's much easier when you can see what people have created! burmac - 2007-07-06 16:50:00 |
| 59 | This is a great thread I have been very lucky lately a friends son works on a farm and they are fussy with what meat they eat so he brings me all the offal when they kill their meat, There is good meals to be made with the kidneys, lambs fry and stuffed hearts etc. onestaple - 2007-07-08 13:36:00 |
| 60 | greg.n.michelle Can you post your curry pumpkin chickpea crockpot dish please, I need a quick cheap pumpkin recipe that is not soup. Have chickpeas frozen in freezer (and kidney beans). garrick2 - 2007-07-08 13:47:00 |
| 61 | greg.n.michelle would love that dish also thanks fishheadsoup - 2007-07-08 14:05:00 |
| 62 | This message was deleted. michellew3 - 2007-07-08 17:05:00 |
| 63 | You can make hummus with chickpeas and it freezes very well jenner4 - 2007-07-08 23:06:00 |
| 64 | I will post tomorrow night due too the hour I have found this....there are afew crockpot meals to be made with beans will search them out cheers. greg.n.michelle - 2007-07-08 23:49:00 |
| 65 | im all for bottling and freezing and still do it even tho our financial situation has changed from what it was, but i remeber watching my gran and my mum bottle so its obviously in me somewhere as well......i go and hunt a big doris plum tree(same one each year)for jam & sauce)my plum tree are really now for the birds the have become to watery and i find all efforts to bottle them are a failure, a friend grows beetroot and a big grocery bag full costs me 2 jars bottles(bargain, never give my agee jars tho always a sized equalivalent), pumpkins on the side of road stalls at 5 for $1 are a good bargain cut up and free flow in bags then freeze its perfect for those month when they are so dare, great for stews or steaming or roasting but cant be boied they go to mush.... kob - 2007-07-09 07:03:00 |
| 66 | cont carrots potatoes, peas beans as well get fone even spinich & silverbeet can be cooked and frozen i put nests onn a baking tray and freeze then transfer them to a bag, i love nothing more than sitting back and looking at my achievements, and if you have a disater, reinvent it into a savoury dish or a pudding, we quite often have runny plumsauce in our stews etc cause it didnt thicken properly, or a pastry flan where the jam is abit sour so spread on flakey pastry and srinkled with sugar and baked makes a orsum cheap pudd with cream or icecream, or even on its own with a hot choclate kob - 2007-07-09 07:05:00 |
| 67 | the other thing that i do is to buy the catering tins of tom paste and make up my own homemade pasta sauce. bottle it and use it for the base covering of our homemade pizza's. i put it in stews and cassaroles as well. get the tins at bin inn. God bless all and have a great day!! black ice here today and very unsafe under foot!! ya gotta love southland - we sure do!!! timetable - 2007-07-09 08:47:00 |
| 68 | Timetable That sounds a good idea, but how about giving us your recipe please , promise I will try it jenner4 - 2007-07-09 10:07:00 |
| 69 | Chickpea curry from A Holst in the crockpot book, cook in a fry pan oil 1 large onion chopped 2 cloves garlic chopped 1Tbs chopped ginger 2-4 tsp curry powder2-3 tsp cumin powder,... cook till onion transparent add spices stir for afew mins, add to crockpot. peel slice 400grams kumara add to crocpot pot add 2 bay leaves 2-3 cups cooked chickpeas 1 400g tin tomato's 1/2 cup cooking liquid from chickpeas or chickstock. put on lid cook on hig for 4 hours or low for 6-8 hours sit in garam masala and add enough salt to bring out more flavour. 5 mintues beofre serving stir in baby spinach leaves , They wilt very fast. greg.n.michelle - 2007-07-09 16:26:00 |
| 70 | both Alison Holst and the Joan Bishop crockpot books have a good selection of bean casseroles or meals with beans greg.n.michelle - 2007-07-09 16:27:00 |
| 71 | just kicking this for touch LOL kob - 2007-07-10 15:39:00 |
| 72 | Hey kob.. was just wondering what washing soda is?? and also would I be able to mix up the washing powder in smaller amounts (ie) 1 T lux flakes + 1 T washing soda per cup of water or something? itsirk - 2007-07-10 16:26:00 |
| 73 | washing soda is what they used to use in washing water and bath water to make the water softer, cause alot of dam water and spring water was very hard and so they added that to it to make it softer.....and in your reply to your question about the soap powder you sure could make amaller quantities of the soap powder up go by what you would use.....good luck kob - 2007-07-11 06:45:00 |
| 74 | Bump on last page pixiegirl - 2007-07-16 16:18:00 |
| 75 | hi all more great ideas u maybe cud see if someone wanted to split washing liqiud with u or give abit away so people cud try it i really like it and have heaps left over for making next lot fluffylinda - 2007-07-17 22:00:00 |
| 76 | welcome timetable firstly how is ur husband as it seems u talking bout him in the now (please dont be offended)im a single mum who loves gardening and teaching my only son ryan how to grow things like veges he loves it and so do i i am thinking bout building a plastic house where did u get ur ideas from fluffylinda - 2007-07-17 22:07:00 |
| 77 | bumping for us hi bumping along dont want to get lost.. fluffylinda - 2007-07-18 22:58:00 |
| 78 | its me bumping again dont want to get lost into the darkness of trade me pages fluffylinda - 2007-07-19 23:01:00 |
| 79 | Bumping Bump pussycat16 - 2007-07-20 16:06:00 |
| 80 | hi all u people must be bugdeting right now ill check tomorrow nite cheers fluff.. fluffylinda - 2007-07-20 20:38:00 |
| 81 | This message was deleted. baby011 - 2007-07-21 13:01:00 |
| 82 | awesome idea's :) Will try out the washing powder,sounds good.I can remeber washing windows with wet crumpled newspaper as kids,must try again and see if it still works,used to come up a treat. crystalmoon - 2007-07-21 22:22:00 |
| 83 | Last night I made 6&1/2 litres of liquid soap for my bathroom dispenser by dissolving 2 bars of sunlight soap (cost about $1.20)in boiling water. Now that it it cold it's about the right thickness (I filled a bunch of larger milk bottles while it was still fairly hot). That means it will cost about 5 cents to fill my 250 ml liquid soap dispenser. weimar - 2007-07-22 07:32:00 |
| 84 | Hi Weimar Did you grate the soap?? Did you then put the dissolved soap into 3 x 2 litre milk containers and top up with water?? Is the consistency of 2 bars to 6 litres similar to normal flowing soap??Would love more info as we go through so much of the stuff. Thanks in Advance toadfish - 2007-07-22 09:39:00 |
| 85 | was too lazy to grate it so just put the 2 bars into my stockpot with about 3 litres of boiling water (a couple of kettles full) and let it sit while I went shopping. When I got back I sort of scraped the jellied soap off the clocks with a fork, turned the element on low and reheated it and just scraped the soft stuff a couple of times until the blocks had fully dissolved. Then I topped up the stockpot with moe water and hoped for the best. All very scientific!!! Turns out the pot holds 6&1/2 litres, and the consistency ended upsimilar to flowing soaping soap. Grating the soap would speed up the process probably. weimar - 2007-07-22 10:14:00 |
| 86 | more recipes yipee i will try that as i am itchy think its the $2 shampoo im using as handsoap keep bumping friends.. fluffylinda - 2007-07-22 22:36:00 |
| 87 | you can do that wirth your little soap ends as well microwave all the ends until soft and remould in muffin/patty tins you can even colour with food colourings if you want to leave to set and you have solved the problem of all the ends on the shower floor......or just add them to a kiwifruit bag and tie with string to the washhouse tap and that way they use the soap without leaving the soap lying around the tub and over flowing the washing machine kob - 2007-07-23 06:46:00 |
| 88 | goals my goal for 1 day off in the weekend is to DECLUTTER that way all rooms get a good bed pull out vacumn i do the cobwebs and declutter and that way i get a box of goodies to list on here and also contribute to the rubbish dump by cleaning the rooms BOY its amazing what accumulates and hopefully the school will let me have another amnistie cause even the G has been left school for almost 1 year i still manage to find text books hanging around so ill give them back today BOY 9.13 am and 1 room done already kob - 2007-07-24 09:13:00 |
| 89 | buy stuff off TM!!! I make a list every month or so of things I'm running out of that I'd like to keep buying (ie rather than buying a cheaper option)or larger items I'd like but can't afford (bookshelf, storage boxes, duvet etc) and then search on TM for them... eg usually use budget skincare but got some off TM, for $16, that is $50 in shops. I price them first so I don't make the mistake of getting 'auction fever' and bidding too high! nunesy - 2007-07-24 11:07:00 |
| 90 | bump for kidsmakes3 uli - 2007-07-24 18:40:00 |
| 91 | woops too close to the abyss pixiegirl - 2007-07-31 17:49:00 |
| 92 | too good to lose bev00 - 2007-07-31 18:19:00 |
| 93 | bump this was almost on page 4 kob - 2007-08-05 17:23:00 |
| 94 | bringing us back to page one hi all fluffylinda - 2007-08-05 20:56:00 |
| 95 | Oven Cleaner Hi Everybody guitarman525 - 2007-08-05 22:25:00 |
| 96 | This message was deleted. deanna4 - 2007-08-06 11:19:00 |
| 97 | vinegar? Hi Deanna4 guitarman525 - 2007-08-06 13:28:00 |
| 98 | Hi all! sorry I've not visited for a while, it's been flat out here! My hubby Mark is great!! has had no new tumor sites for over 8 years and we are now Salvation Army Officers in Gore - love it ta bits!!! Re pasta sauce recipe: I put the large catering tins in my stock pot with around the empty tin full with water, a good nob of butter, a good dash of worshire sauce, salt and pepper and about a heaped tsp of raw sugar, diced onion and capsican, 4 - 6 cloves of crushed garlic. Stir till it comes to the boil and keep adding water till you get it to the thinness that you like. throw in a GOOD handfull of whatever fresh chopped herbs I have - parsley, thyme, oragano etc and let it slow roll boil for a good 5 min. (stir so that it dosent catch) bottle in hot jars and seal. any that don't seal will, if you pop them with their lids and screw bands on, into the oven (150 deg cel) for around 20 minutes. i always check my seasoning before i bottle. God bless and have fun! wind getting up i think we are in for it! timetable - 2007-08-10 13:20:00 |
| 99 | hi timetable great to see u back glad ur hubby is great thanks for the recipe will try it soon cheers fluff.. fluffylinda - 2007-08-12 21:13:00 |
| 100 | What a fantastic thread! I have now made a concerted effort to watch my pennies - I knew this was exactly the right place to come, Thank you! solo2 - 2007-08-13 21:37:00 |
