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10 October 2023
The cost of living crisis
Hello friends, welcome back. Everything is fine here and I'm lucky to not have any big bills lately. The cost of living crisis seems to ...
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16 June 2020
Valuable and useless vegetables
We're learning hard lessons lately. The ongoing drought and coronavirus have taught me that to be resilient enough to bounce back time ...
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25 March 2020
Simple and cheap meals
Potato pancakes AKA kartoffle puffer, Hanno's favourite. Judi asked the following question on Monday so I've racked my brai...
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15 January 2018
Food shopping, organising recipes and menu plans
January, week 2 in The Simple Home This is another of those topics where there will be vast differences in the way all of us do things. ...
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24 August 2016
How to cook
Most of the work I do here at home is food related with cooking, preserving, baking and growing taking a good slice of my ordinary days. It...
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17 August 2016
Organising and managing your food
Serving good food from your own kitchen isn't just one thing, it's many. And it doesn't happen once, it's part of your ordi...
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15 August 2016
Building up a list of old-fashioned, favourite recipes
When I was growing up we rarely went out to eat. I remember dad taking a saucepan to the local newly opened Chinese restaurant once. The sa...
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27 June 2016
Being self-reliant in a connected community
I've been wanting to review our financial situation for a while now and when the Brexit referendum came up with a surprise "leave&...
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28 March 2016
Routines and menu planning
Sunday morning 7.30 and I'm trying to re-establish my routines. They used to work well for me in the past but were abandoned when I was...
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