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Jul 2019
1:33pm, 19 Jul 2019
20,962 posts
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Red Squirrel
Potato or sweet potato wedges are good crisp replacement. I rub them with spices and olive oil before roasting.
Also, own-made dolmades and oven-baked felafels.
Rice balls.
Sliced tortilla.
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Jul 2019
6:16pm, 19 Jul 2019
441 posts
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Jenelopy
We don't really entertain because our house is currently cold and messy (and I am a bit antisocial!). If we did, how about:
1. carrot sticks and hummus (a little bit more effort, but not a lot)
2. nuts (from bulk buy bins)
3. fruit (e.g. grapes, cherries)
4. politely (or otherwise!) tell people to wait until dinner and not spoil their appetite
(when we were on holiday earlier in the year, I'd get really annoyed with my FiL opening crisps and snacks things while I was cooking dinner, even if I said it was almost ready. How did he know my cooking was going to be so bad that he needed to fill up on junk first?)
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Jul 2019
6:37pm, 19 Jul 2019
42,367 posts
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Velociraptor
Sympathy, Jenelopy! My mother is an absolute rascal for having a wee biscuit here and a wee scone there and picking and shuffling at her plate and claiming to be "full" at mealtimes then being back at the biscuits five minutes later.
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Jul 2019
8:30pm, 21 Jul 2019
16,420 posts
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EvilPixie
Ok random one
My dad recently died and is being buried.
How would you organise an environmentally friendly funeral?!!
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Jul 2019
8:41pm, 21 Jul 2019
28,495 posts
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halfpint
Sorry for your loss EP. I’m afraid I can’t answer your query.
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Jul 2019
8:53pm, 21 Jul 2019
16,421 posts
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EvilPixie
Thing is as a burial you can "put anything in the coffin"
Whereas cremations have some restrictions eg no shoes!
The funeral director showed us loads of coffins including some natural ones
But it did make me ponder
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Jul 2019
9:47pm, 21 Jul 2019
20,863 posts
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Lizzie W
We have a natural burial ground locally where you can have a tree and stuff.
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Jul 2019
9:57pm, 21 Jul 2019
28,648 posts
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LindsD
There's one near my Mum.
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Jul 2019
10:31pm, 21 Jul 2019
6,077 posts
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WA
My fil was buried in something like a wicker coffin, in a natural burial ground. He has a tree, but no headstone.
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Jul 2019
7:00am, 22 Jul 2019
9,763 posts
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SarahWoo
I have ordered milk to be delivered in glass bottles  It will be very nostalgic.
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