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Hmmm? - they are also selling Snickers (Case of 48 x 48g Bars) for £18.72?Please don't anyone tell my Mum this!!! ;o>
Ohhh buggeration! ... they are even cheaper on Amazon!My Mum is now banned from looking over my Shoulder for the foreseeable future!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "... one with no Chicken, no Mince, no Bisto, no Oxo Cubes, no Porridge Oats, no tinned Fruit, no tinned Tomatoes, no Eggs, no Carrots, no Apples, no Bananas, no Salad Cream, no Weetabix, and no Cheese! ;oOWhere the hell has all the salad cream gone? Why on earth would people bulk-buy salad cream?
We've never had shortage of eggs around here. Then again, the town is surrounded by egg factories (what some people still quaintly call "farms"). No shortage of any of those other things, either, apart from salad cream. I was glad to be able to get peppers again today, and bread flour (wholemeal only).
I dunno, Gordon? ;o<One of my most favourite ways to use up any cold leftover boiled Potatoes is to make up my Mum's Recipe for Potato Salad.
You roughly chop up the Potatoes, add some Colmans Classic Mint Sauce and some Heinz Salad Cream, stir it all together until all the Potatoes are evenly covered, grab a big Spoon ... and then run off with the Bowl and refuse to share it with anyone else! - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I dunno, Gordon? ;o<One of my most favourite ways to use up any cold leftover boiled Potatoes is to make up my Mum's Recipe for Potato Salad.
You roughly chop up the Potatoes, add some Colmans ..."
I leave out the mint sauce but add a chopped boiled egg.
I have found the solution to my Dad's Porridge Oats shortage though ;o>I've been automatically Googling Brand Websites since the Lock-down to see if they have decided to set up any Online Shops and I'm delighted to report that Mornflake is selling through their own Website and is also selling at very good prices too ...
https://www.mornflake.com/shop/
... I've just ordered Mornflake Creamy Superfast Oats (4 x 3kg) for £15.80 ... and because the Order comes to more than £15 there is no Delivery Cost to pay on top ... YAYYY!!! ;o>
That'll keep my Dad in Oats until Christmas ... Hee, Hee, Hee!!!
Lez wrote: "I leave out the mint sauce but add a chopped boiled egg."Oooh? - I must admit I really do love the Mint Sauce bit - but I'm prepared to give the chopped boiled Egg idea a try out as well, Lez ;o>
Another long day here ;o> ...x Nighty-Night x Sleepy-Tight x and very Sweet Dreams to all x
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I have found the solution to my Dad's Porridge Oats shortage though ;o>I've been automatically Googling Brand Websites since the Lock-down to see if they have decided to set up any Online Shops a..."
I have to admit that when the train pulls in to Crewe station past the Mornflake factory and I see the massive silos of oats I have often wondered where they all go, as I so rarely see Mornflake packets on supermarket shelves. I'd thought they must sell a lot to the catering sector (hotels, etc.). I hadn't thought of direct-to-customer online sales.
Hope your dad enjoys his oats. [ahem]
Honestly, my Dad just never stops with keeping on with going on about needing Oats and always having in bags of Apples (for chopping up and lightly microwaving) so that he can add them to his Breakfast! ... on and on and on and on!!! That's when he ever lets up on trying to get me into a panic over Toilet Rolls, that is! ... and we have around about a good month's worth of those too ... yet he's STILL utterly fixated on us needing more because he is absolutely convinced that we are about to run out any day now!
Once every week or so, we have a very kind Neighbour that comes by to ask if they can fetch us anything from the Shops while they are there - and he actually stands behind me wringing his Hands and looking so pathetic that it would almost break your Heart! But I don't like to rely on any Neighbours for anything more than just a couple of the most essential things because I worry about them putting themselves out and at an increased risk to their own health by doing so - so I am constantly making sure, via the Internet and bulk buys, that we have more than enough in of just about everything we need to last us all!
Oats! ... Apples! ... Apples! ... Oats! ... !
I'm starting to feel like I'm trying my best to keep a flippin' Shire Horse fed here!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Honestly, my Dad just never stops with keeping on with going on about needing Oats and always having in bags of Apples (for chopping up and lightly microwaving) so that he can add them to his Break..."I'll join your dad's special club. I eat oats and an apple everyday (but separately)!
I'm betting that you don't use a Bowl the size of a small Bucket though, Helen?!! ;o>Dad eats like he is fuelling up like an Athlete ... then falls asleep in front of the TV with a Pen in one Hand and a Newspaper Crossword in the other. Mum and me often sit making bets on which one will drop, slide off his Knee, and hit the Floor first! - LOL!!! ;o>
If the Olympics would only make this a Sport? - he'd win us all a Gold Medal!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm betting that you don't use a Bowl the size of a small Bucket though, Helen?!! ;o>...."Actually, they're pretty big, about 20cm wide. I have large portions of porridge, soup, granola etc.
No, I'm not a chubster.
Well, you've clearly found what works for you ... x ;o>I have to hide stuff or my Dad will be well on the way to his 3rd meal by 10am. And he also has another huge Bowl of Oats and Apples and a generous sprinkle of Ground Ginger too just before he heads upstairs to go to Bed at night as well!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Well, you've clearly found what works for you ... x ;o>I have to hide stuff or my Dad will be well on the way to his 3rd meal by 10am. And he also has another huge Bowl of Oats and Apples and a g..."
Good for him. Oats are V good for you.
Even recommended for people with anxiety because they impact seratonin levels.
Yes really!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Well, you've clearly found what works for you ... x ;o>I have to hide stuff or my Dad will be well on the way to his 3rd meal by 10am. And he also has another huge Bowl of Oats and Apples and a g..."
I eat at breakfast time, mid morning, lunchtime, mid afternoon, evening meal & again later on before bed. 😀
I know how good they are supposed to be for you, Serial, but my Dad has always been, and still is now, renown by all for being one of THE most miserable people on this entire Planet! - LOL!!! ;o>
Helen The Melon wrote: "I eat at breakfast time, mid morning, lunchtime, mid afternoon, evening meal & again later on before bed."See? - it definitely works for you, Helen! I've been sneaking several spoonfuls at a time out of his Bowl and back into the Box when he is not paying attention and he's lost over 6 stone now without him even knowing that I was doing it.
He reckons that it's all down to the imaginary exercise that he thinks that he does! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "I eat at breakfast time, mid morning, lunchtime, mid afternoon, evening meal & again later on before bed."See? - it definitely works for you, Helen! I've been sneaking sev..."
6 stone!
Crikey
Well, that's what happens when you are already overweight by a good couple of stones and then you develop a severe Heart Condition and go on to have a Stroke followed by becoming increasingly disabled through Osteoarthritis in your Hips and Spine ... and you sit around a lot more, you barely exercise anymore, and you eat reasonably healthily but nevertheless over-eat on portion sizes at every Meal time, I'm afraid.He easily put on lots of extra weight that only helped to make all of his Health problems even worse - and so I've been giving him ever-so-slightly smaller amounts over the last 4 to 5 years now and Mum also tries to keep him active every day by getting him doing easy enough Jobs around the House to stop him from just sitting around doing nothing but Crosswords or dropping off to sleep all of the time ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Well, that's what happens when you are already overweight by a good couple of stones and then you develop a severe Heart Condition and go on to have a Stroke followed by becoming increasingly disab..."Good on you, Suzy, You must have done his health the world of good.
Not really to be honest with you? - he will always be ill due to the severity of the Heart Disease that he has and he barely survived his Major Stroke back in 2013 and has gone on to have several smaller ones since then. Permanent damage has already been done and has led on to him having Vascular Dementia - and not even having two successful Hip Replacements in recent years has helped improve on his very limited Mobility issues all that much - but at least they have helped him to be in far less pain now on walking, sitting, and lying down so it still all been worthwhile and a huge blessing ;o>
We always eat very well - but we do tend to eat too much - and as someone who is even more physically disabled than my Dad is I also have to be extremely careful with my intake too as I can all too easily manage to put on extra weight as well! ;oO
I'm SO jealous of Helen and all of her Meal times right now - LOL!!! ;o>
BEDTIME! - YAYYY!!! ... I've been online almost nonstop for over two days now in trying my very best to put together some kinds of plans for my Mum's 80th next Friday.She is typically saying that she has got no expectations at all of anything special happening and that it will only be just another day after all and not anything to plan for or to worry about it?
Every finely attuned and wise Son and Daughter surely knows though that that all Google Translates into ... "I might be saying to you that I'm genuinely really not at all bothered and I may even put on a brave face about it all on the big day itself - but you know only too well that I'll actually be incredibly hurt, absolutely devastated, and get very depressed about it too if my Birthday really does turn out to only be nothing more than just another day!" ... LOL!!! ;o>
I have Flowers on order through our favourite Florist who is thankfully going to be open and is hoping to be receiving fresh Flower Supplies first thing on Thursday morning, some emergency food supplies on standby in the Freezer all ready to knock up a really nice last minute Meal should we not be able to book any delivery of a special Takeaway ... and I think that I might still possibly be about to get a really beautiful Celebration Cake made up for her as well?!! ;o>
I bought my own Birthday Card for her months ago now but had not realised that Dad still hadn't got one yet and so I've managed to get him alone this afternoon while Mum was walking Mitzi and had him just about focussed for long enough to choose one from off Amazon - where I have got a Free Trial of Prime running on my Account at the moment - so I'm hoping that this will mean it really will be arriving first thing on Monday or by Tuesday to Wednesday at the very latest.
Dad was typically all too easily distracted by all of the other Recommendations that were showing up on the Pages and soon became far more interested in wanting to be looking at Lawn Mowers instead! - but I was ready for that happening and had picked out and put five Cards into my Basket all ready for him to look at and he thankfully chose the one that I had also thought was the prettiest one with the most loveliest words in it ;o>
I'm completely and utterly shattered now though so ...
x Nighty-Night x Sleepy-Tight x and very Sweet Dreams to all x
Serial wrote: "Blastronaut wrote: "Aunty Acid? Reckon I spent many-a-night with that lady back in the summer of winter ninety-twelve the first... or sumfink. : )"Is this a flashback situation"
Indeed. Tho I could be getting Aunt Acid mixed up with her older sister Shrooms. Not quite identical twin sisters but remarkably alike in some respects.
Suze was talking about the woofer driving the car so... yep, definitely shrooms. : )
For what it's worth, I too have a huge bowl for my serials. Very fussy with me serials too - I put three different types of serial in and always in a certain order. Maybe that says more about my mental health than my size but... well, I'm a tad short of six foot (alright then, five-eleven) and weigh around seventeen stone. That'd be fine if I'd been hitting the steroids (well it wun't but ya know what I mean) but I haven't. I'm a fat basket.
Do you vary your serials, Blastro? The Archers one day, Emmerdale the next? 😃😃
Have Hot Milk with Coronation Street and Cold Milk with Doctors? ;o>
Blastronaut wrote: "Suze was talking about the woofer driving the car so... yep, definitely shrooms. : )"To be absolutely honest with you, Blastro, Mitzi is not very good at all on Three Point Turns and is pretty rubbish at Parallel Parking too - and I have to put the Brakes on for her because her Legs aren't long enough so her Feet won't reach the Pedals ;o>
Ha ha very good Lez! D'ya know I don't think I've ever listened to The Archers? Dunno if that makes me odd or cool. Or just bloody uncultured.No milk beverages for me Suze, despite the huge intake of it with my serials. Not keen on drinking the stuff. Odd eh?
My Dad carries excessive weight very well and fairly evenly enough which means he has always got away somewhat over the years with being so much heavier on the Scales than he actually looks to be. His ongoing issues with Blood Pressure and Joint Pain have become slightly less troublesome to him now for losing the weight - but the biggest issue was that I couldn't help to get him as comfy or easily manage to turn him over in his Bed during the time of both of his Hip Replacement Surgeries because he was becoming far too heavy a weight for me to be able to cope with.
Although I'm (thankfully) still reasonably flexible - I'm definitely not as strong now as I always used to be.
Blastronaut wrote: "No milk beverages for me Suze, despite the huge intake of it with my serials. Not keen on drinking the stuff. Odd eh?"Over the last 10 years I've suddenly come to develop some sort of an intolerance to having too much of it, Blastro. I won't ever give up on it in Drinks if I can help it - but I find I do have to be careful not to carelessly indulge in having too much Dairy all in the one day.
If I have some Yoghurt on a Fruit Salad and then also have some Cheese (and Ohhh Boy!!! do I LOVE Cheese!) as part of another Meal, I invariably get severe IBS pains within a few hours of doing so and end up in needing to take Buscopan to deal with it over the next 12 to 24 hours.
Mmmmmmmm Cheese!!! - Ohhh, it is just SO worth any pain though!!! ;o>
ARRRGGGGHHH!!! - my Dyslexia is driving me crackers at the moment!I write, read, re-read, and then press 'Post' ... then read it all over again a minute later and think ... "what the Hell? - I never wrote that?!!" ... LOL!!! ;o>
Have to agree re' cheese, Suzy.How Vegans live without is a testament to their stubborn superiority complex.
The problem for me is that it is SOOOOOO addictive! - LOL!!! ;o>I'll have it one day ... and it's just like an On Switch has been pressed?! ... because every Meal after that becomes ... "Oooh, let's just have a bit (and for 'bit' read 'a lot') more Cheese with that too!!!"
suzysunshine7 wrote: "The problem for me is that it is SOOOOOO addictive! - LOL!!! ;o>I'll have it one day ... and it's just like an On Switch has been pressed?! ... because every Meal after that becomes ... "Oooh, le..."
There's a whole world of Cheeses out there.
There's a Cheese Shop I try to keep away from in Tralee, amazing cheeses and not cheap. Divine cheeses, and you can sample before buying :0
https://www.facebook.com/thecheesesho...
Nope! ... not looking ... not looking ... not looking ... OOOOOOOH?!! ;oODamn! - I just HAD to look, didn't I?!! ... (*wanders off towards the Kitchen*) ... ;o>
Did you all know that today is? ... World Naked Gardening Day!!! ;oO
Was there ever a better time to stay indoors under a Lock-down than there is today?!! - LOL!!! ;o>
i prefer imported cheese - get mine from 'cheeses of nazareth'.
GROAN!!! ... he's definitely back, folks! ;o>
Ahh..Good ol' Fuzzy Bear & his awful jokes! lol! :-)
Tech XXIII wrote: "i prefer imported cheese - get mine from 'cheeses of nazareth'."I also prefer to cross the channel to get my hamburgers. I go to Burgers of Calais.
Okay, I admit it ... I had to use Google to try and work that one out, Gordon! - LOL!!! ;o>
This made me laugh out loud when I came across it on Facebook today ;o> ...
Forgot to say on various threads when we've been discussing home hair cuts.... everyone's hair looks fine to me btw....so far!Keeping it music related:
Everyone seems to be moaning on and on about the length of their Hair - but I don't honestly think that really is their biggest issue or their very worst fears being realised, do you?I actually think it is far more to do with their Roots showing and no-one being able to get away anymore with claiming that their fresh-out-of-the Salon Colour and Style is all entirely natural and with making out that it takes them absolutely no effort or time at all to always look so fabulous! - LOL!!! ;o>
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suzysunshine7 wrote: "Okay, I admit it ... I had to use Google to try and work that one out, Gordon! - LOL!!! ;o>"
Hope you found it, Suzy...
The joke was Bill Bryson's, though.
I did and learnt about something new too ... thank you, Gordon ;o>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bur...
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