• tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    15·
    10 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

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    15·
    11 days ago

    Oh seagooon

    We wish you would come back soon

    But hope you are enjoying your vacation

    Enforced by internet enshittification.

    But come back soon…dear 'goon.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    14·
    10 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
      10·
      10 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
        5·
        10 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.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          5·
          10 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.

        • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
          4·
          10 days ago

          Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one is 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
            5·
            10 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
              4·
              10 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.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    13·
    10 days ago

    Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.

    Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:

    Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    13·
    10 days ago

    Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats…I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don’t even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      6·
      10 days ago

      Ninigh. You gotta do what you need to to recharge. That’s often more important than the "should"s we tell ourselves to do.

      I’m gonna watch Fisk at 8pm and then call it a night too and do most of the cleaning tomorrow.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    12·
    10 days ago

    Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️ piratical cat plushies

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    11·
    10 days ago

    I finally got to see GardenWorld in person (been an online customer for years)

    ...my GOD

    It’s farken insane. 10/10 highly recommended

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    11·
    10 days ago

    I have some work to finish up before tomorrow but I am seriously thinking of just having a shower and going to bed. I am so tired today.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    10·
    10 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.

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
    10·
    10 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

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    10 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?

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    8·
    10 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
      8·
      10 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
        9·
        10 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
          4·
          10 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
      7·
      10 days ago

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