• bacon@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Overnight (our night) there have been strange reports coming in from agricultural hubs around the world. Cows and similar bovines appear to have all at once changed their signature “moo” sound, puzzling farmers, biologists, and even physicists. The sound these bovines are now making has been described as follows:

    spoiler

    GOOOOOOOONseeGOOOOONseeGOOOOOOON

    Edit: it appears that birds capable of producing human sounds have also begun what can only be described as a chant

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Mission for the morning. Queue for the closing day sale at the best pie shop ever. ‘Tis an utter tragedy.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Out of curiosity I googled “Melbourne pie shop closing down” and… wow, so many! Too many in the past few years 😢(My local is hanging on, but business rental prices in my area have skyrocketed and a lot of shops that have been there for years have closed. Including my beloved computer repair guy who’d been there since 1986 or something.)

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        These guys it’s both rent and ingredients. They refuse to use shit and would apparently have to charge $14 a pie to keep as is 😿

        • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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          17 days ago

          That’s tragic but also understandable. Working in elite food environments and having a partner who was a chef opened my eyes to a lot of things. If the integrity of the ingredients is paramount to you then it’s so hard to compromise for the sake of $.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Victory! Well mostly. They are out of almost everything. Anyone not already in the queue will be disappointed.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don’t spend that much and it’s great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who’s getting what.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      17 days ago

      Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!

      When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they’d waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I’d been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼‍♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I’d get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone’s birthday I’d lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I’ve probably never eaten so well lol.

        • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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          17 days ago

          Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one an under appreciated skill.

          I found a ripping deal on ham this week and bought quite a bit of it and made really nice sandwiches out of them and couldn’t be happier.

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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            17 days ago

            It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.

            A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don’t have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don’t have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against “leftovers”).

            • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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              17 days ago

              Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?

              I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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          17 days ago

          I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.

          I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I’d use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.

    If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I’d do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you’re at

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    My only regular shift that they cancelled would’ve ended at 10. It’s 11 and I just woke up. So nice to not be waking up at 6 on a Sunday.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Very slow start to cleaning today but I’ve cleared out a lot of junk hiding in the kitchen (years of plastic packaging that I meant to throw at redcycle, old teas and boxes of nuts) and tidied under the sink which is the one set of cupboards I know they’ll check with good reason.

    Off to meet friend and try to keep spirits up…

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Alright, lamb shanks are in the slowcooker! Excited af about this. Never had them at home before. Well, except for the frozen pre made ones.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    I’ve got a few pretty politically conservative types in my extended family. Mostly we’ve always been able to have decent conversations but more and more it seems like the information they quote is so different from the information I see about the world I don’t even know where to start. No …I don’t think Trump helped the American economy last time but I don’t even want to start to explain why I think that. And no we are not being held back by Greenies … I just can’t even find common ground.

  • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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    17 days ago

    Argh. Woken up late and have to make the transition back to early wake up tomorrow.

    Save me!

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    17 days ago

    Why do people feel the need to use their most loudest voice possible when they are outside and only a couple of metres away from each other?