What is all this sachet business?
Oats in a sachet?
Why?
How hard is it to put a big spoon into a bag of oats and scoop some into a bowl?
Put some water or juice or milk ontop and zap it in the microwave for 1 minute 40.
You will have perfect porridge.
If you want it fruity, add fruit..
Syrupy, add syrup.
Next thing you know, they'll be selling you pre made
mashed potato
Ice
Custard
Gravy
cut up raw vegetables
chopped nuts
Oh yeah,they already do..
Lemmings buy them because they like paying for air and tap water.
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Hooray the UK are finally going to charge 5p on a carrier bag.
How many people will now go around picking them up when they see them flapping in the wind?
Ofcourse teenagers and students will still get one every trip and dump it in the park or by the river with their junk in but then kids and young people have grown up with far too much money.
I remember when it was lucky to find a pop bottle in the bushes because if you took it to the shop, the owner would give you the deposit money for it.
The reason kids now have a drinking ,drugs or smoking problem is too much money.
When you are confronted by a group of 13-15 year olds outside an off license or tobacconists and asked to buy them fags or booze, you no longer wonder where on earth they got that sort of money.
Today's kids are so spoiled with pocket money that they will struggle their whole lives to live up to the standards of income they perceive their parents can afford.
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I am back to running .
We have been for three weeks now, 2 nights a week.
I am so glad I kept up the jumping rope because it has kept my stamina up and getting back to running is quite easy despite not having done any for about a year.
Wednesday 18 September 2013
Monday 9 September 2013
Better homemade vegan cheese
If you have read any of my other recent food type posts you will know that I discovered I have a milk allergy so have been trying very hard to find alternatives to dairy foods without breaking the bank.
Hooray I managed to make a much more cheese like cheese on my second attempt.
It grates and slices and looks like cheese.
It is softer,like a very firm mousse,not hard and crumbly but it is good on pizza or sandwiches or crackers and I even secretly made Quiche with it and nobody commented that the cheese tasted funny.
The recipe is from reciperenovator.com
1 C cashews
1 1/2 C water
4 teaspoons agar powder
OR
4 Tablespoons agar flakes
1/4 C nutritional yeast
1/4 C lemon juice
1 Tablespoon onion powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Soak cashews for 4 hours and then grind em up or just used ground cashews like I did without the soaking.
Boil water and add agar simmer for 5 mins stirring.
Put everything into a blender or food processor and blend it smooth.
add any herbs or whatever(I didn't) .
Oil a bowl or tub to shape your cheese.
Pour in the cheese and let it cool.
Put in Fridge when cold enough.
I did this exactly as above and have a yellow,almost cheddar coloured cheese.
You could add a little bit of tomato paste for oranger cheese or cook a carrot before using the agar in the water.
I might try some hickory smoke powder the next time.
I don't think the cup sizing matters because it is just to get the proportions of the larger amounts right.
Half of this amount lasts me a week so I cut it in half and freeze the second bit.
It thaws out well and keeps its firmness.
Hooray I managed to make a much more cheese like cheese on my second attempt.
It grates and slices and looks like cheese.
It is softer,like a very firm mousse,not hard and crumbly but it is good on pizza or sandwiches or crackers and I even secretly made Quiche with it and nobody commented that the cheese tasted funny.
The recipe is from reciperenovator.com
1 C cashews
1 1/2 C water
4 teaspoons agar powder
OR
4 Tablespoons agar flakes
1/4 C nutritional yeast
1/4 C lemon juice
1 Tablespoon onion powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Soak cashews for 4 hours and then grind em up or just used ground cashews like I did without the soaking.
Boil water and add agar simmer for 5 mins stirring.
Put everything into a blender or food processor and blend it smooth.
add any herbs or whatever(I didn't) .
Oil a bowl or tub to shape your cheese.
Pour in the cheese and let it cool.
Put in Fridge when cold enough.
I did this exactly as above and have a yellow,almost cheddar coloured cheese.
You could add a little bit of tomato paste for oranger cheese or cook a carrot before using the agar in the water.
I might try some hickory smoke powder the next time.
I don't think the cup sizing matters because it is just to get the proportions of the larger amounts right.
Half of this amount lasts me a week so I cut it in half and freeze the second bit.
It thaws out well and keeps its firmness.
Free mobile phone use,broadband use and cheap texting
I have been looking at my mobile phone usage and decided that I could use Ovivomobile for their freedom package.
I didn't like Orange,they messed up all the time.
The website was buggy and they charged an arm and a leg for data use if you didn't top up your phone every month which I never do,so my credit would whoosh away just for a quick look on a search engine taking only a minute or two.
I already have samba mobile for free broadband on my computer.
[[UPDATED TO ADD OVIVO HAVE NOW GONE OUT OF BUSINESS SO DISREGARD THIS BIT MARCH 20TH 2014 ]]
OVIVO supply a sim for £15 and when it arrives and you put it in your mobile phone, it adds £15 of credit so basically the sim is free.
Then you are allocated..
For free each month
Then when your allocated free credits are all used you can still call anyone else who is on ovivo for free or if you are wanting to call other numbers you can top up with real money or just wait for the new months free credits or just go for one of their paid for tariffs which are quite cheap too.
If you port over your existing number by requesting your FREE PAC code from your old supplier they give an additional £3 of credit.
You shouldn't have any trrouble getting your PAC code as they must give it to you by law in the UK.
They also do an ovivo data sim (750mb free a month) which I believe is £15 with the same amount added to your account as credit.
You can have as many sims as you want as you pay for each one so you could have 2 dongles to get 1.5gb a month or two sims for your phone (would have different numbers of course)or two phones and get two lots of the free phone credits.
If you use your phone a bit more than I do and have an older phone knocking around, this would work out very cheap indeed over a year...
2 phone sims, £30 one off payment would give you every month
300 mins talk time
500 texts
1gb of data
2 Data sims ,£30 one off payment would give you every month
I have been waiting to change to OVIVO for a while because I still had about £7 credit on orange but then I found FISHTEXT which is an online texting thing. You can pay for the texts with mobile phone credit (eat that,orange) and allocate your mobile number when joining.
Then you can text from your PC or using the app on your mobile and the texts are 2p
International texts are very cheap .
They give you 20p credit (0.30euros) for joining so you can try it out (10 standard uk to uk texts)
Texts to other FISHTEXT members are free using the PC or a wifi signal on you mobile or the free data from ovivo and their app is very low data usage anyway.
Any replies go to the mobile whose number you have used for your member number.
You can also pay to have a phone number online without needing a mobile phone at all.
The texts are cheap and they can be used internationally with a price guide being shown for each option and length of text when actually texting.
So for a bit of hunting around, I now have a free monthly mobile 'rolling tariff' with £18 of credit
Plus a £5.20 credit on Fishtext
(£23.20 for the cost of £20) a 16% profit :P
without the Fishtext add on credit £5 it would have been £18.20 for the cost of £15 (a 21.33% profit)
These two things would be ideal for a student who must pay for their own phone and internet.
If you and your friends joined FishText the texts from your pc would be free according to their bumph.
Join Samba mobile to get free broadband to use with it or additionally.
Join ovivo and have free texts and calls and mobile data
Get someone to buy you the samba sim an ovivo phone sim and an ovivo data sim (750MB free a month) for your birthday or xmas and you will have lots of free broadband and phone data.
Get yourself a copy of joikuspot for your phone and use the phone data to get wifi on either a tablet or PC
Log into samba mobile website whenever there is free wifi available (maybe in a takeaway or cafe,a library with wifi,uni) and watch the adverts to keep your account topped up with data.
Use the dongle or your tethered(joikuspot) phone to run skype so you can instantly message your family at home when you are away. The messaging bit of Skype uses very low data.
Then if after all that, you still run out of calls and texts etc, you can still have your family ring you,because phones work both ways and you don't pay to accept incoming calls or texts,only outgoing.
Incidentally, I have been topping up my SAMBA SIM every day by watching the adverts I haven't used the data much, we got it for our ten day trip away in the spring (I think I bought it at the end of Feb for £1 using a code from moneysavingexpert and used an old dongle I unlocked free)when it was used daily and it has been used about 3 or 4 times when the home wifi was being glitchy. (about 2gb usage all together maybe)
I have 7.8gb sitting on it waiting for my next bigger outing.
If you were going to be off to uni next year and bought a sim now or asked for one for a present, you could accrue a lot of data on it in the time you are at home and avoid paying for the internet when you are away
If you want to get yourself one, you can click on my referral link here to save yourself £2.50
http://www.sambamobile.com/Signup/BecomeMember?memberKey=0x5C0A8DD4F4DDB8E7FC6D4BD659FB8AD5
And the sim will be £2.50 instead of £5 or a dongle with a sim will be £22.50 instead of £25
I haven't got a referral to share for OVIVO because it would be my name and phone number which obviously I'm not going to broadcast to strangers on the internet.
Fishtext is also not really a referral based thing. click here to get to their page or just search the name
I didn't like Orange,they messed up all the time.
The website was buggy and they charged an arm and a leg for data use if you didn't top up your phone every month which I never do,so my credit would whoosh away just for a quick look on a search engine taking only a minute or two.
I already have samba mobile for free broadband on my computer.
[[UPDATED TO ADD OVIVO HAVE NOW GONE OUT OF BUSINESS SO DISREGARD THIS BIT MARCH 20TH 2014 ]]
OVIVO supply a sim for £15 and when it arrives and you put it in your mobile phone, it adds £15 of credit so basically the sim is free.
Then you are allocated..
- 150 mins of talk time
- 250 texts
- 500mb Data
For free each month
Then when your allocated free credits are all used you can still call anyone else who is on ovivo for free or if you are wanting to call other numbers you can top up with real money or just wait for the new months free credits or just go for one of their paid for tariffs which are quite cheap too.
If you port over your existing number by requesting your FREE PAC code from your old supplier they give an additional £3 of credit.
You shouldn't have any trrouble getting your PAC code as they must give it to you by law in the UK.
They also do an ovivo data sim (750mb free a month) which I believe is £15 with the same amount added to your account as credit.
You can have as many sims as you want as you pay for each one so you could have 2 dongles to get 1.5gb a month or two sims for your phone (would have different numbers of course)or two phones and get two lots of the free phone credits.
If you use your phone a bit more than I do and have an older phone knocking around, this would work out very cheap indeed over a year...
2 phone sims, £30 one off payment would give you every month
300 mins talk time
500 texts
1gb of data
2 Data sims ,£30 one off payment would give you every month
1.5gb data
That is very cheap over a year when compared with the yearly PAYG tariffs of other companies.
Of course the longer you use it for ,the cheaper it would be .
So if your uni course was 3 years and you bought two sims of each kind(£60 all together) ,it would be £20 a year for phone and internet.
They don't provide the sims or phones in that price plan .
You can pick up very cheap unlocked phones and dongles on ebay or ask family for their spares.
Ovivo sims work in Nokia's symbian phones as well as apple and android and window phones.
The only criteria seems to be a phone that can get 3G and needs to be unlocked.
I have been waiting to change to OVIVO for a while because I still had about £7 credit on orange but then I found FISHTEXT which is an online texting thing. You can pay for the texts with mobile phone credit (eat that,orange) and allocate your mobile number when joining.
Then you can text from your PC or using the app on your mobile and the texts are 2p
International texts are very cheap .
They give you 20p credit (0.30euros) for joining so you can try it out (10 standard uk to uk texts)
Texts to other FISHTEXT members are free using the PC or a wifi signal on you mobile or the free data from ovivo and their app is very low data usage anyway.
Any replies go to the mobile whose number you have used for your member number.
You can also pay to have a phone number online without needing a mobile phone at all.
The texts are cheap and they can be used internationally with a price guide being shown for each option and length of text when actually texting.
So for a bit of hunting around, I now have a free monthly mobile 'rolling tariff' with £18 of credit
Plus a £5.20 credit on Fishtext
(£23.20 for the cost of £20) a 16% profit :P
without the Fishtext add on credit £5 it would have been £18.20 for the cost of £15 (a 21.33% profit)
These two things would be ideal for a student who must pay for their own phone and internet.
If you and your friends joined FishText the texts from your pc would be free according to their bumph.
Join Samba mobile to get free broadband to use with it or additionally.
Join ovivo and have free texts and calls and mobile data
Get someone to buy you the samba sim an ovivo phone sim and an ovivo data sim (750MB free a month) for your birthday or xmas and you will have lots of free broadband and phone data.
Get yourself a copy of joikuspot for your phone and use the phone data to get wifi on either a tablet or PC
Log into samba mobile website whenever there is free wifi available (maybe in a takeaway or cafe,a library with wifi,uni) and watch the adverts to keep your account topped up with data.
Use the dongle or your tethered(joikuspot) phone to run skype so you can instantly message your family at home when you are away. The messaging bit of Skype uses very low data.
Then if after all that, you still run out of calls and texts etc, you can still have your family ring you,because phones work both ways and you don't pay to accept incoming calls or texts,only outgoing.
Incidentally, I have been topping up my SAMBA SIM every day by watching the adverts I haven't used the data much, we got it for our ten day trip away in the spring (I think I bought it at the end of Feb for £1 using a code from moneysavingexpert and used an old dongle I unlocked free)when it was used daily and it has been used about 3 or 4 times when the home wifi was being glitchy. (about 2gb usage all together maybe)
I have 7.8gb sitting on it waiting for my next bigger outing.
If you were going to be off to uni next year and bought a sim now or asked for one for a present, you could accrue a lot of data on it in the time you are at home and avoid paying for the internet when you are away
If you want to get yourself one, you can click on my referral link here to save yourself £2.50
http://www.sambamobile.com/Signup/BecomeMember?memberKey=0x5C0A8DD4F4DDB8E7FC6D4BD659FB8AD5
And the sim will be £2.50 instead of £5 or a dongle with a sim will be £22.50 instead of £25
I haven't got a referral to share for OVIVO because it would be my name and phone number which obviously I'm not going to broadcast to strangers on the internet.
Fishtext is also not really a referral based thing. click here to get to their page or just search the name
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