Budget food/living

didn't the forum used to have a weird aversion to raisins?

#noob

how about a fish head muesli?

^^ back when we were kids, yo..

i was thinking the photo showed after the meal rather than before !!!

the presentation is a bit lame but its genuingly nice and not that unusual. the crispy skin with the salt in it
does it for me.

here is a more professional version:

Dont know if its been mentioned, but Risotto. Got me through most of the last month...

I think I cracked the system. Perpetuum mobile of food chain.

http://i.imgur.com/Y6BoNPT.jpg

I just ate two cheesy beef patties from First Choice Bakery in Brixton... I won't need to eat for a week...

bet you will anyway

obvs

two cheesy beef patties

It's like a scene from West Indian porno.

La surconsommation on Vimeo

Grim

No point lying and saying that's in any way gonna stop me eating meat, but two things blew me away. First is every time I harden myself up enough to go into a super store, it always decks me out how much FOOD there is in there. Like...where does it come from? Especially the meat which has a short shelf life. So much, so often, and this is just one store!

The second is the infrastructure in that video is astonishing. The mammoth sized centrifuge looking mother just feeding and collecting...

If anyone's seen (I haven't read it) Cloud Atlas, this video reminded me of the bit where he leads her into the factory to witness the re-cycled butchery.

I wonder how long before we're all Soylent Green...

Anyone got any good chicken liver recipes? I love those little buggers, but feel they have more potential. I have Chorizo too.

I coat chicken livers in semolina (flour and egg first) then shallow fry.
I'm sure you could fry off some chorizo first to colour and flavour the oil before frying the livers.

That's pretty much what I usually do. Fuck it, why ruin a good thing.

Any tips on keeping the house warm on the cheap over the winter? We're going to try to hold off on using the gas heating until Novemeber.

We live in an old building with wooden windows, so will fitting that foam insulating tape help much?
I saw adheisive screening you can buy enabling you to cover whole window sections entirely. Are they effective?

Properly lined heavy curtains or wooden shutters are very effective, although only when dark obviously.

Any tips on keeping the house warm on the cheap over the winter? We're going to try to hold off on using the gas heating until Novemeber.

We live in an old building with wooden windows, so will fitting that foam insulating tape help much?
I saw adheisive screening you can buy enabling you to cover whole window sections entirely. Are they effective?

Duct tape. Seriously. Duct tape every hole you can see or imagine seeing. Stand in drafty areas and duct small animals into any gaps! Such a change from a year before of ice cold drafty living.

I saw adheisive screening you can buy enabling you to cover whole window sections entirely. Are they effective?

Surprisingly, yes. I looked at that stuff and thought 'what is this bollocks clingfilm?' but then one of my housemates bought some and stuck it up and the house went from being like a freezer to merely being like a fridge. It's a fucking faff to put up properly tho (at least, I found it a faff, but I am pretty impractical) and if you balls it up it doesn't work so great or comes loose from the window frame.

Properly lined heavy curtains or wooden shutters are very effective, although only when dark obviously.

Good idea. The problem is, we have very high ceilings and 7 sets of windows (2 of which are bay windows), therefore very expensive. Although it would definitely be a good investment. if we actually owned the place and weren't just renting it.

Ask your landlord if they'll fit it? Play the "I have a young daughter and I don't want her getting ill" card.

I've seen a lot of people use what you're describing on boats with single glazed windows to reduce condensation so they must have some worth.

American article but a few useful tricks

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/5-ways-to-insul-37643

You can lay sting along the gaps of your wooden floor, this is good in a rented house because the string will weather and not be a noticeable thing when moving out. I have done this before and it made a reasonable difference.

...although my mother later laid underfloor heating when I had left home..

Fine wire wool is good for draughts. Pack it into the gaps between the skirting and the floor boards if you have bare floors. I have huge single glazed sash and case windows. I have laid a strip of duct tape across the flat surface where the bottom window crosses the top window. It stops some of the draughts as evidenced by less flappy curtains. This is not very scientific but helps a bit.