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What our flying start friends are doing in the community x
13/11/2022

What our flying start friends are doing in the community x

05/11/2022

Lol had to share this! X

Anybody get stressed about Christmas Dinner ? Read this from a Sheffield butchers .

Pattersonโ€™s Butchers Sheffield

๐Ÿ˜‚Just in case anyone is stressing about Christmas Day..............! ๐Ÿ˜‚
Here's my top tip
๐ŸŽ„Christmas Dinner....
I have concluded that the inevitable stress of Christmas dinner is created by adverts, supermarkets and TV chefs...
It's a Sunday dinner for goodness sake!!!
The only difference is that you are allowed to open a bottle of wine before you open the kitchen curtains. ๐Ÿท๐Ÿท๐Ÿท

๐Ÿ™„We do it quite happily 51 weeks of the year but can we the consumers be trusted to manage by ourselves on one day of the year...apparently not!
Here goes...๐Ÿ’“

1. Turkey... It's a big fecking chicken that's all, 20 minutes per lb plus 20 minutes at 180 degrees - jobs a good un! Get yourselves a meat thermometer ยฃ3 off the Internet poke it in the offending bird if it says 75 degrees or over its cooked!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

2. Stuffing - regardless of what Jamie Oliver says you do NOT need 2lbs of shoulder of pork, onions breadcrumbs,pine nuts and a s**t load of fresh herbs to make stuffing....( no fecking wonder he's bankrupt if thats what he spends to make stuffing!)๐Ÿ˜œ
What you need is Paxo and a kettle!! If you wanna liven it up squeeze 3 sausages out of their skins and mix that in with your Paxo before cooking ๐Ÿ˜‰.

3. Gravy - Jamie Oliver is copping for this one aswell....
Bisto Jamie.... All you need is Bisto!
I ( nor anyone else I know) has got time on Christmas Eve to p**s about roasting chicken wings and vegetables, adding stock and flour,cooking it for another half hour, mashing it all up with a potato masher and then straining the whole sorry mess to make gravy ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ 

4. Vegetables...๐Ÿ† Never mind faffing round shredding sprouts and frying them with bacon and chestnuts to make them more palatable... If you don't like them don't buy and cook the fecking things!! If your family only eats frozen peas then that's good enough!

5. Roast potatoes... Yes I part boil mine then roast them in goose fat but Aunt Bessie also does the same ๐Ÿ˜‰.

6. Trimmings /Christmas pudding and the like.... Aldi or Lidl!
(oh and while we're on the subject of pudding- if birds custard is what your family likes on the wretched thing then that's fine - you do not need brandy butter /rum sauce etc or anything else that costs a fecking fortune and takes 2 hours to make!)

7. Family....
Children.. Feed the little blighters first separately, if they only want turkey with tomato sauce - fine leave em to it, it doesn't matter. Once they are fed bu**er them off to play with their Christmas presents so that YOU can enjoy your dinner in Peace!

Adults... Anyone that can manage to get their sorry arse to your dinner table is also capable of helping to serve up/ sort the kids out/ clear the table /wash up /dry up etc.

And Finally.....
NO ONE.... And I mean no one APART FROM THE COOK IS ALLOWED TO GET PI**ED AND FALL ASLEEP BEFORE THE WASHING UP IS DONE!!!
Rant over ๐Ÿ˜‚
๐ŸŽ„Merry Christmas!๐ŸŽ„

Cheers ๐Ÿท๐Ÿท๐Ÿท

Anyone looking for a cheaper version of the ninja. We rarely use the oven since buying ours, definitely cheaper to run. ...
05/11/2022

Anyone looking for a cheaper version of the ninja. We rarely use the oven since buying ours, definitely cheaper to run. I cook our Sunday roast no problem x

What a bargain for any Harry Potter fans! X
04/11/2022

What a bargain for any Harry Potter fans! X

Well who knew?! But it could be a bit messy when I'm eating it out of the jar...... ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚ X
03/11/2022

Well who knew?! But it could be a bit messy when I'm eating it out of the jar...... ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚ X

So the criteria is a bit broader this time around.  Have a look to see if you qualify for the ยฃ200.00 Winter Fuel Suppor...
02/11/2022

So the criteria is a bit broader this time around. Have a look to see if you qualify for the ยฃ200.00 Winter Fuel Support scheme. x

The Welsh Government Winter Fuel Support Scheme will be open again this year. Eligible households can claim a one off ยฃ200 payment from their local authority to provide support towards paying their fuel costs.ย 

Some useful tips here, those wedges look "banging" as my kids would say! x
02/11/2022

Some useful tips here, those wedges look "banging" as my kids would say! x

Resources for families and children

02/11/2022

Some helpful tips, I suspect we are all already doing this.... share some of your own ideas :)

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Not entirely convinced that these are quite ยฃ1 but they look good and still cooking on a budget! :)
02/11/2022

Not entirely convinced that these are quite ยฃ1 but they look good and still cooking on a budget! :)

Discover our five favourite midweek meals that are delicious, nutritious and all under ยฃ1 a portion.

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