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A cooking help thread has now been created

 

Got a problem?

 

Got a set of ingredients and no idea what you could conjure up with them?

 

Need advice on how exactly to cook $weird-vegetable?

 

Got a dead simple recipe that others might be able to source the bits for?

 

There are plenty of us on EduGeek who do cook and are used to making meals from what is left in the fridge.

 

Here is the thread to help you.

 

Ready? Steady! Cook!

 

 

 

EduCook: The Cookery Help and Ideas Thread

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Most of the pubs/eatery's in my town are offering home delivery of meals.

One pub is selling off its canned items and providing a give and exchange service.

You bring an item in that you dont need and can exchange it for another.

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Not even @mikeprice is old enough to remember doing that!

 

 

 

I would just like to point out that I am by no means the oldest person on this site

 

some quite active people were born before me

 

no names given because I am not that stupid (STOP IT - DON'T SAY IT!!!)

 

 

 

and anyway - why is my name getting mentioned so much all of a sudden??????????

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One pub near me is looking to offer fruit and veg delivery - presumably the food industry supply chain isn't quite the same as domestic.
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How???

 

It isn't taxed like it is in the UK. Although that price I quoted was very cheap. I usually pay around $1.30 a litre (around 65p). The price does change like the wind. The most I paid was $1.55 a litre (around 77p).

 

Generally tax is lower here. VAT (we call it GST) is only 10%. Beer is taxed quite heavily - its more expensive than the UK. Wine isn't and it's much cheaper than the UK. I live in South Australia where most of it is made so you can get some good prices.

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Somebody in staff room just said as from monday we are all to be classed as child care providers, not educators.

Is this correct ?

 

That's more or less what teaching staff here have been told.

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On food shortages, lots of veggie "meat" substitutes are getting hard to find. I wonder if this is meat eaters having to make do or veggies stockpiling. If the latter and eventually supplies run out but there are still meaty alternatives, will principles be compromised?
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and anyway - why is my name getting mentioned so much all of a sudden??????????

 

You should enjoy your

 

 

No time to check the vid or lyrics, but IIRC Sheep on Drugs were NSFW (as if the name wasn't a clue).

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One of the pubs here is now decanting draft beer for take away. Also selling wines and soft drinks

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Ohhh which pub? If I remember correctly you're not that far from me!

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There are unusual things driving shopping at the moment.

 

1. People need more food at home than usual. They’re not going out to work/school/socially so they’re not eating out or using the toilets while out (so many toilets are closed now) Consequently they need far more food, loo paper and soap at home.

 

2. If you have the misfortune to have 1+ young men in the household, including ones sent home from university, the volume of food needed just increases on an exponential scale.

 

3. Some people are just idiots or are profiteering by flogging loo roll on eBay.

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Somebody in staff room just said as from monday we are all to be classed as child care providers, not educators.

Is this correct ?

 

That's more or less what teaching staff here have been told.

 

That's what teachers and TAs have been told here

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If you have the misfortune to have 1+ young men in the household, including ones sent home from university, the volume of food needed just increases on an exponential scale.

 

cf. Young ladies and toilet paper. :peep:

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Staff and year 7 are forming a guard of honor for the year 11's when they leave today, things like that really make it more real..

And although we are coming into work next week we have been told that its one day at work then one day at home for our team of two.

Worried that we could end up both being ill, but as our head of IT services has been told until it becomes clear that the school site is in total lockdown.

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That's what teachers and TAs have been told here

 

Mmm so I could be asked to do "childcare" ?

 

 

Allready "turning" a bit here. Some staff saying not coming in monday.

 

People talking about how they will get time owed back if they have to work over holidays.

 

Teacher said currently they would not get paid if they took time off to look after kids (with a non-corona virus illness)

Head suggested (joking ?) that if they say symptoms are cough and temp they could claim coronavirus and get paid

 

I do worry that once the chancellor announces support packages later today people will abuse it and / or make fraudulent claims

 

Early days I guess but the history doesn't bode well: Breaking the law during World War Two

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Key Workers list We are under Education as 'support and teaching staff'

 

Only took an actual crises for people to realise we exist.

Only took an actual crises for people to realise we have systems in place for this very situation.

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Couple of articles caught my eye at lunch:

 

1) It seems like that old "Blitz Spirit" wasn't entirely as great as people like to think: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33566789

2) In Yorkshire it seems a novel system (that has been suggested as potentially dangerous) has been set up to let people know who is/isn't self-isolating: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-latest-covid-19-pickering-colour-coded-card-green-red-use-the-telephone-a9413341.html How long before we see the return of the packet of OMO in the Window?

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