[wighty]

Please Aunty, I was going to go the geeks at PC World to learn how to do a  'quote', we've tried by experimenting on our own but failed dismally.  Â£25 for 15 mins.  I only wanted to quote part of a post.

[DD.]

Hit the 'quote' button above the post you wish to quote. Anything you don't want to appear, highlight & delete.

Then carry on typing your reply.

Click 'preview' to see what it looks like, then 'submit' if it's OK.

[poultrygeist]

The important bits are within the [quot]and [/quot] (mispelled) at each end of the quote. Make sure they are still intact and if you accidentally delete them, just type them back in.

[iwantanallotment]

That's more or less what I do Derek.  Gravey granules are disgusting after that.  I use Knorr stock cubes - even top chef's use them  :roll:

Same here, Aunt Sally. Gravy is always Oxos/Knorr (depending if meat or poultry), meat juices, veg water & flour. My nan gave me the recipe many moons ago, it had been her mother's recipe too, and we all loved having dinner at Nan's just for her gravy - we didn't care what else we got
And for soups (turkey & sweetcorn, chicken & leek etc) it has to be Knorr cubes. BUT, saying that, Aldi's 29p for 12 chicken cubes are good too, and very like Knorr! I made a wonderful turkey gravy with them this past Sunday, and a very tasty soup the next day.
NOT so for Tesco's own :pukel: They were nasty and not worth the saving.
As for cheap brands, Asda's economy "Smart Price" sausages are now 16p for 8  :shock:  Won't vouch for their quality, though! Only Richmonds here - no chewy bits  

[dereklane]

no chewy bits

(I feel like I've sold out with all this quoting...

The chewy bits are the only bits that come from an animal - that's how you can tell you got a meat sausage and not a veg one

[DD.]

Only Richmonds here - no chewy bits  

They're the ones that fill your roasting tin with an inch of fat if you oven cook them!

I'll NOT trade down from our local butcher's sausage!

[compostqueen]

I buy good bangers for my B & B.  Sausages which have taste     Thankfully there are some very good ones to be had.  I search for sossies everywhere I go. Sad but true  

[crowndale]

i'm a bit of a snob too and for beans and tinned spag it has to be heinz, same with ketchup, the others just don't taste the same.  soaps are usually branded but only becoz i have tried most types and found persil and fairy to irritate the least (sensitve skin!).

[Gwiz]

I'll NOT trade down from our local butcher's sausage!

I'm 100% with you there.
our local butcher's sausages are far better than anything I've tasted from the supermarkets.

[jazzbyrd]

Lidls copy of the Twix chocolate bar are great ~ cant remember the name but they are in a red packet!!:thumright:

Jazzbyrd

[Oscar Too]

Make your own baked beans!!!?**!!!!

Honestly, you'll never eat tinned beans again.  

Soak your dried haricots overnight, cook til soft, fry an onion and some garlic, add the beans, add a tin of toms (chopped or blended), some curry powder, a bit of spicy sausage, tbs of treacle, bake in the oven for an hour or two.

OK it's more faff than opening a tin, but they taste good!

[dereklane]

I do homemade beans too, and more or less the same way, minus the sausage and curry (nice touch though), and they are great. They taste like a meal you're happy to call a meal, rather than a poor substitute when you can't be bothered.

But, the soaking/cooking takes a while (though if you're organised, the soaking doesn't really factor in).

[DD.]

I don't normally do this, but I was starving hungry, so went to the corner shop & bought a pack of W**l's sausage.

Cooked 4 of them in the oven.

Drained off 33g of liquid fat.

Gone off me breakfast!

[fluffybunny]

Interesting (albeit in a daily mail type way) article on the cheapy sossies etc:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1024764/The-battle-bangers-Asdas-2p-sausages-rest.html

Personally I buy mine from the local slaughterhouse, I know full well that they put all the end bits from decent cuts of meat in there, not all that mechanically recovered stuff.

I have traded down washing powders to ecoballs now, much better,  cheaper and you can do shorter, cooler washes so all round a winner!

[herbiegrowsbananas]

soaps are usually branded but only becoz i have tried most types and found persil and fairy to irritate the least (sensitve skin!).

Try Ecover, I've got really sensitive skin  :roll:  and it doesn't affect me at all!!!! Plus it lasts forever!!!!!!!!!