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RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 12-10-2025
IN today - some frozen food (assorted veg and some fruit smoothie mix), pizzas, sachets of microwave rice, pasta in sauce (mostly cheese & broccoli - not my favourite) and about 30 packets of crisps. Apparently, she has fussy kids!
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 17-10-2025
IN today a malt loaf. marshmallows, Salt & vinegar rice and oat cakes and 7 cans of pop. Also from Olio, 2 olive loaves, 4 farmhouse loaves, a fruit loaf, cobs and lots of giraffe batons. I only asked for the olive loaves and fruit loaf but she offered me all the rest just to get rid of it! That's enough bread to see me through October.
OUT yesterday - Some Doggy flea treatments.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Bren - 17-10-2025
A bag of pears.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Small chilli - 18-10-2025
One of the holiday home owners regularly over buys food every time she comes up. On her last day she appears with a bag of goodies for us. She has excelled her self this time. We had a carrier bag full of stuff. So have one of the handles broke as I was carrying to the kitchen. We’ve got lots of apples, pears, oranges, a few cooking apples, mango, butternut squash, broccoli, lettuce, chillies, spring onions, goats cheese, olives, guacamole, dark chocolate M&S biscuits, a tin of just roll croissant and a pizza ham & mushroom. That’s tea sorted.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Bren - 18-10-2025
(11-10-2025, 10:07 AM)Veggie Wrote: I''ve seen the Iceland bags offered on Olio but haven't bought one. I imagine its all fresh stuff near expiry. On the Olio site, Iceland list their halfprice food at that moment - and keep it updated as it sells out.Veggie I installed Olio and saw my nearest Iceland had sold out of Lucky dips since then they’ve only had them listed in stores 6 miles or more away. I have bought some of their half price offers so the apps been handy.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 28-10-2025
IN today - some more cupboard clearout food. A Fray Bentos pie in a tin, pasta sauce, Chinese-y sauces, pasta and lots of packets of crisps.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 29-10-2025
More cupboard clearout today.
Lots of breakfast cereal including granola, muesli & porridge oats so this will keep me in FREE breakfasts for a couple of months. Also tinned soup, condensed milk, Chinese sauces and pesto. Seem to be picking up a lot of unwanted pesto recently!Next stop was some Dog treats for Ted.
Third stop was a CD rack and two boxes, full of classical music & opera CDs, Apparently they belonged to a professional conductor (Music, not buses) who worked with Bryn Terfel, the Welsh bass-baritone.
Fourth stop was the pharmacy for a Flu Jab and, while I was there, the pharmacist said I had very dry skin and she could give me something for it - adding hastily - its FREE. Naturally, I accepted her offer.
Its been a good day!
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - JJB - 29-10-2025
Not recyling but could be classed as free stuff. A good day. I got a winter fuel payment and the solar FIT payment all on one day.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Veggie - 31-10-2025
IN more cupboard clearout stuff. The usual stuff, tinned tomatoes, chickpeas, rice pudding, refried beans, soy sauce, jar of beetroot, fruit mincemeat, tinned spinach?, pot noodles. Not very exciting but beggars can't be choosers.
RE: 2025 - Freecycle and similar Free stuff - Vinny - 31-10-2025
(29-10-2025, 09:31 PM)JJB Wrote: Not recyling but could be classed as free stuff. A good day. I got a winter fuel payment and the solar FIT payment all on one day.I had two letters together. One infoming me I would get a £200 fuel paymnt into my bank account some time soon (not happened yet though) The other letter informed me I owed roughly the same amount in tax!
