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sean
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'd always regarded Sarah as the woman least likely to buy mushrooms in plastic packaging. The Latin means even good Homer nods sometimes (can't remember the author), and roughly means that even the wisest make occasional mistakes.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sean wrote:
I'd always regarded Sarah as the woman least likely to buy mushrooms in plastic packaging.


But I thought that's how they grew? Isn't the plastic part of the fruiting body?

Sarah D



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 05 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Same old problem with the organic bit - organic in packaging, or non-organic in a paper bag - in this particular outlet where I bought the mushrooms. The farm shop doesn't always have them. I do try and buy stuff in the biodegradable pakcaging which goes on to the compost heap.

I am no saint, but do try to avoid packaging where possible, and have been known to rip it all off and leave it in a heap at the checkout.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 05 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I just looked at the price, and haven't bought any this week! And that was for non-orgnaic. A button mustroom box on the shopping list this week, I feel!

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 05 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Go for the pringles, much better!!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 15, 05 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Got to finish the packet first! No more soap till I've eaten them all! Did you get the soap out of the mould OK?

alison
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 15, 05 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Easy, The day after I made it, I just sliced the bottem off the tube, and then with the rolling pin, I pushed it through. Sliced the soap and put it away to cure.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 05 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's what I wondered - I had to demolish one of my moulds to get the soap out (it was made from half a cardboard drinks carton, so wasn't too much of a loss!) I might buy a plastic dainpipe and tape a cap on so its reuseable. I can't scoff a whole tube of pringles every time I run out of soap (especially as I want to do them for pressies this year!)

alison
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 05 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Put the word about, if you really can't eat that many.

I have been sitting on the instructions for ages and have collected all the tubes we ahve had since then (not that many).

I did try and set up a masterclass somewhere else but others thought it was inappropriate, and I had even asked the lady from country life to come and run it.

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