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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Mrs Snoodles on November 26, 2012, 01:58:59 pm
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I have to let loose to someone.
I have started on the Christmas special offer biscuit tin. Fabulously Fox's ones. Really very nice and now I can't stop. :o
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so have I :-J have eaten all the cream filled ones - OH is just going to find plain ones....:-) he thinks its unopened..... :excited:
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:excited:Mmm - know what you mean. I am a Taurean and we are real foodies. This is not helped by having lived with labradors, guinea-pigs, pigs and horses who all love their grub too and have eyes and appetites biiger than they should be with little restraint or willpower. Had thought doing my smallholding sitting and animal care service work I would lose weight with all the extra exercise, but it hasn't happened so far. I'll be kind and not send you my great recipe for Anzac cookies (cheap, nutritious but much to scrumptious)! :thumbsup:
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OH has already chomped his way through 2 boxes of Celebrations and a tin of Quality Street that he bought back over from the UK 2 months ago. He seems to have acquired a sweet tooth lately especially for chocolate. Now all we have left are 1 tin of Roses and a tin of Celebrations. At this rate Ill be buying some more over here for the festive period! A nice box of Belgians should do!
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I have started on the Christmas special offer biscuit tin. Fabulously Fox's ones. Really very nice and now I can't stop. :o
Only just started, thats a miracle. I have started and finished a tin of christmas chocolates already :(
Sally
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Thanks guys..... I feel so much better :roflanim: ...actually, even encouraged :excited:
Might even buy one of those fancy cheese selection boxes this week....mmmmmmm
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I haven't even bought any yet :eyelashes:- where's the supercilious icon, Dan? :innocent:
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I haven't bought any either. Need a smug emoticon
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I haven't bought any either. Need a smug emoticon
Not buying them and not eating them is no reason for smugness - buying them and not eating them is ;)
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I haven't bought any either. Need a smug emoticon
Not buying them and not eating them is no reason for smugness - buying them and not eating them is ;)
And you have? *raised eyebrows*
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I dare not buy any special Christmas food...unless I get my husband to hide it...ummm :thinking: not sure he is any good at hidding things, I am but then I will find and then its pointless...by the way, any idea where I "hid" my phone :innocent:
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Wine is prob in our house, if its there we drink it Hic!
yesterday took delivery of xmas plonk as 25% off, now the prob is not raiding it!
also took delivery of my xmas cake from my aunt and OH is busting a gut to cut into it too.
mandy :pig:
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I haven't bought any either. Need a smug emoticon
Not buying them and not eating them is no reason for smugness - buying them and not eating them is ;)
Even if I had bought them, I wouldn't eat them. Guaranteed. (Smug look)
Of course, being gluten intolerant and knowing that eating them would cause me pain is a great incentive. :roflanim:
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I would be in the 'Mandy' camp, not bothered about chocolate or biscuits but the wine now that is a temptation, hic :eyelashes:
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The only reason I have not eaten the xmas chocs and biccies is because I have not bought them yet!!!
Although I just chomped my way through a box of matchmakers this evening!
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....Put it this way, when I see wine racks in kitchens I am enviouse, if we had one it would have to be filled with empty ones!!!! :innocent:
Are the new tins of Quality Street, Roses and Celebrations smaller than last year, or am I getting greedy :pig: ?
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Bought a bottle of port for Christmas on offer at the Coop. We drank it within a week or two. Bought another one. S'all gone again. Won't be buying any more. Was nice though but a thick head in the morning on a couple of occasions. I love port. I shall henceforth only drink it at other people's houses.
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I love Port too but it so does the same to me, Big headache......I went for a Christmas retreat with my family and they had a bottle of sherry and cake for a welcome pressie, know one tried the sherry so I drank it, its strange as I often fancy a glass but more than one glass is always too much and makes me feel quite ill in the morning.....to me, a sherry seems a lovely Christmas drink......as a child, on Christmas Eve, mum would give me a very diluted Port and Lemonade to help me get to sleep, it worked!!!!
I still feel guilty about my Lab eating a fishermans lunch on our walkies around Gartmorn Dam......poor chap!! :innocent:
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I haven't bought any either. Need a smug emoticon
Not buying them and not eating them is no reason for smugness - buying them and not eating them is ;)
I have bought Christmas sweeties and not eaten them though. (Very smug)
They've been in the house for more than 24 hours and it's killing me (Not so smug)
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I think on reading all the posts I will leave buying Christmas sweeties until Christmas Eve!! :eyelashes:
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Good move Sandy :thumbsup:
Sally
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I bought a bottle of gin for over Christmas. One of those damned dogs has drunk half of it already >:( :innocent: :innocent:
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You have all inspired me to be realistic and know I wouldn't keep them till Xmas, so to not buy them till Xmas Eve, as usual! :D Thanks! :thumbsup:
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oooh stop it!!!!!
there are several tins of yummyness hiding behind the sofa.....don't make me go look!!!!
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I tried very hard not to open the Christmas tin of sweets but gave up over the weekend. :innocent: Christmas pies are also one of the things I cannot keep in my cupboard as they just shout eat me every time i look in the cupboard. Wine not bought yet as again we would be too tempted. Not planning to buy spirits this year as we have give up the hard stuff getting too expensive.
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....Put it this way, when I see wine racks in kitchens I am enviouse, if we had one it would have to be filled with empty ones!!!! :innocent:
Are the new tins of Quality Street, Roses and Celebrations smaller than last year, or am I getting greedy :pig: ?
Definitely SMALLER! I used to use old choccie tins as cake tins. I tried to put a cake in a Quality Street tin at the weekend and couldnt close the lid. Now, Im not a bad cook but even MY cakes dont rise THAT much ;D
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:-[ well you know the xmas drink order i had delivered in an earlier post, HAD to borrow a bottle of wine from it last night as i have a really bad cold and my piggies are going ot the butchers this week...........well thats my excuse :innocent:
Mandy :pig:
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Thirty-six hours. My OH has put them somewhere and I don't know where.
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I'm awful, if its in the flat, I eat it! Have just found hubby's secret stash of chocolate- in the freezer!
Also have started 'tasting' the sloe gin, it's got no chance of making it till christmas!
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:-[ well you know the xmas drink order i had delivered in an earlier post, HAD to borrow a bottle of wine from it last night as i have a really bad cold and my piggies are going ot the butchers this week...........well thats my excuse :innocent:
Mandy :pig:
....going to the butchers, weaners arriving, snow on the ground, pigs too happy......I can always find an excuse to borrow a bottle of wine, when it is tempting me :innocent:
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Damn you all!!! I hadn't even THOUGHT about eating the chocolate coins for the Christmas stockings.
And now, guess what i have a pile of beside me?
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A friend of mine told me that when she was growing up she didn't know that Easter eggs had two halves and a filling. Her mum was stealing her chocolate before she got it!
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I never ever stole my children's chocolate. Borrowed, maybe, but not stole.
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'Did' the shockingly expensive but amazing Lancashire bomb cheese at the weekend. It so SO soooooo good. Have brought a box of Milk Tray to replace the Foxs. 2 weeks and a bit to hold off.
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'Did' the shockingly expensive but amazing Lancashire bomb cheese at the weekend. It so SO soooooo good. Have brought a box of Milk Tray to replace the Foxs. 2 weeks and a bit to hold off.
Lancashire bomb cheese? what have i missed?
Sally
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Everything!!!! This cheese is simply the best we have ever tasted. melts in your mouth and has a big tang to it as a mid/after taste. Even my 7 yr old was impressed. It comes looking like a bomb, all in that black cheese covering material with a stringy bit attached. Simply scrummy.
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Wine here is SOOO cheap its very tempting to drink all the time (the locals have beer for b,fast!!!((v. cheap too)),)
Cheap chocky is good tasting chocky and theres a factory seconds shop not far away...I could be so fat
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Same here - if we stop at a cafe it is cheaper to have 2 glasses of wine compared to a cup of tea or large coffee. We buy wine in bulk when there are sales on but I do not think it tempts us to drink more. Maybe the long walk to the cellar under our barn up the lane helps moderate our drinking. In winter we have to plan our wine drinking and move some to the house when the weather is kinder.