Reading material for a night or two / myLot

Rockingham, Australia

February 16, 2025 7:04pm CST

I spent a few hours helping my sister-in-law tidy up a room. I brought home a few things which I’ll look through then forward them on to the charity shop nearby. Among the items I brought home were these Cordon Bleu magazines. I can’t imagine I’ll keep any of them but they will be interesting to leaf through. Nowadays, it’s easier to go online for recipes or cooking tips. I kept a few recipes books last time we moved but most went in the donation box.

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Greenery8

@grenery8 (15203)

• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)

17 Feb

this was before online sites, nice.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Feb

Being able to find things online changed so much about our lives.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

19 Feb

@grenery8 Everyone wants to know all about you now it seems.

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Greenery8

@grenery8 (15203)

• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)

19 Feb

@JudyEv it really did. and sites are nicer, faster but i feel they ask for too much of our personal information. for one train or bus ticket there, they need my adress and phone number. i mean...

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (72885)

• United States

17 Feb

Cool! If you see something good, let us all know! (Note to you: we Americans don’t consider anything made with Vegemite “good.”

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

17 Feb

That is a major sticking point between our friendship - Vegemite.

Actually, I only ever had it on bread or toast. I can't even recall any recipes that use it.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (72885)

• United States

17 Feb

@JudyEv — fair deal: you don’t push Vegemite on me, I won’t push fried okra on you.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Feb

@FourWalls It's a deal!

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Always smiling

@allknowing (143045)

• India

17 Feb

Wish you came over and took away some books from here. There are loads and I do not read any more

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Always smiling

@allknowing (143045)

• India

17 Feb

@JudyEv Whoevere takes over will do the honour of either using or disposing of the best way they think. I have written a post on what clutter I have You may not have seen it Looks like the time zone factor. But I get to see all your posts.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Feb

@allknowing I'll try to check it out.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

17 Feb

I think you once said there are no charity shops there. The ones here have shelves and shelves full of books. Such a waste of paper really.

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@DaddyEvil (144571)

• United States

17 Feb

The last time we moved, Pretty donated all the recipe books I had except for one that I'd handwritten... I still use the recipes in that book once in a while.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

17 Feb

I have a recipe book with hand-written recipes in it too. I use a lot of the recipes in it. I was careful only to put in what I knew I would use, even if only occasionally.

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@DaddyEvil (144571)

• United States

17 Feb

@JudyEv My recipe book has the recipes I made all the time when Pretty was growing up.

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Manuela Lopes

@nela13 (58825)

• Portugal

17 Feb

I have some recipes books too but nowadays we can find everything online.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Feb

I guess some still like to use recipe books but I've got rid of a lot of mine.

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Manuela Lopes

@nela13 (58825)

• Portugal

19 Feb

@JudyEv I still use mine but I also don't have many.

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Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (42190)

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17 Feb

I dearly love cookbooks but I don’t want any more of them. I did get rid of some I didn’t really use when I moved last time. Like you said, there are tons of online recipes as well that are so easily available. I do have my old favorites!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (349436)

• Rockingham, Australia

18 Feb

I went through my cookbooks and if there was only 1 or 2 recipes that I used, I wrote them out. Then I donated the books.

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Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (42190)

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18 Feb

@JudyEv I have shared a lot of mine with family who seemed glad to have them. Cookbooks are no good to anyone if they aren't used, so I was glad to share them.

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