Chest freezer and bread maker!

[Gem]

Ahh I'm so excited!!! The OH's parents have just given us a mini chest freezer and bread maker! I have had real issues the last few years because I have had increasing amounts of produce but no space to store it but this year things will now be different! I have a pantry in my new place and now a chest feezer! Cant wait til the harvest and scrumping season!!!

I know this seems like a bit of a silly thing to get excited about but last year I gave away so much produce - courgettes, beans, soft fruit, tomatoes. Anything that didnt have a very long shelf life and it was such a let down after all the work put into growing it in the first place!! So WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Chest freezer!!!


Not so excited about the bread maker but the OH has said he will have a go and I know a few blokes who have become addicted to bread making after a few attempts so fingers crossed for lots of home made bread that hasn't been made by me!

Happy times

Gem

[lazyspice]

Hubby gave me a breadmaker for my birthday a few years back and was very apologetic as he couldn't think of anything else I wanted! I swear it's the best and most used pressie he's ever given me

[Thomzo]

Wey hey, lucky you A friend gave me a rusty, tatty old freezer a couple of years ago and it's just brilliant. Now it's always full with either produce from the garden or bargain meat from the supermarket.

I've had my breadmaker for several years and couldn't live without it.

Zoe

[Gem]

Haha, yes the bargin section at the supermarket will be a lot more interesting now I have more freezer space. I always see lots of piles of the same thing on offer but if you don't have a freezer you have to resign yourself to eating the same thing for a week!

[Jessiebean]

I think it is a very good thing to get excited about personally. Much more interesting to me than football which gets a lot of people very excited.
(is the football over yet?)

[Carltonian Man]

Lucky you, I love our breadmaker. Olive oil bread with fresh rosemary....

[Millymollymandy]

I couldn't live without my 2.5 freezers and sometimes need even more space. It's not just for produce but also for all the special offers on free range chook or fish or the rare occasions British lamb is here on special but you have to buy 1/4 of a sheep. My breadmaker is brilliant as the only alternative is to drive a 6km round trip to a mini market to buy a baguette - it's nice baguette but I don't want that kind of bread every day.

My latest birthday pressie is an ice cream maker.

[MuddyWitch]

Getting excited about a chest freezer is perfectly normal...ask my kids! I did when we bought our first one, I was so chuffed I kept it spotless for months!!!

MW

[Gem]

Lol, just goes to show the difference between people and 'ish' people. Conveying my excitement about this to friends was met with head pats and 'ahh cute, Gem is excited about a freezer' remarks.

Roll on harvest time!

[MuddyWitch]

Most thing that excite me still illicite those responses...except here!

I'd hate to be 'normal'!

MW

[pumpy]

We aquired our large chest-freezer from Freecycle 2 yrs ago & is still going strong. The guy who i collected it from apologised about it's outward appearance. I said i only want a working freezer, not a focal point!!!!

[yvette]

The trick with the breadmaker is to cultivate the idea that its terribly technical and not really suited to the female mind...and then, with any luck, your partner will step in to show you how its done, and take on the breadmaking! Worked for me.....

[Cloud]

The trick with the breadmaker is to cultivate the idea that its terribly technical and not really suited to the female mind...and then, with any luck, your partner will step in to show you how its done, and take on the breadmaking! Worked for me.....

That's so cruel!
Not that I can talk, as I've never mastered the bread maker, and my partner make fiendishly good bread day-in day-out with the same beast that regurgitates inedible boulders for me.

[Gem]

I have been promised bread this weekend so fingers crossed!:)