Tex-Mex food

Sorry to digress here, but I was wanting to put some "likes" on posts and don't seem to have the little icon to click anymore. Does it require a double-secret-probation handshake now?

My husband has to stop me sometimes when some news from back home reminds me of the disparities all over again and I find myself complaining again.  I have to remind myself that nobody owes me anything.  I'm not upset about what I didn't get.  I'm upset about the difference in how we are treated.  It's inexplicable, too.  I really do not understand, and I quit trying to.

My husband reminds me that when we have finished with our house, we will know that we accomplished all this, and got through the visas, and we completed our degrees... and we don't have debt... we did all this on our own.  My brother and sister-in-law might have the big house and the shiny cars, but they didn't achieve anything.  It was just handed to them.

But, yeah, no.  I haven't really let it go.  I try, but it's easiest to just compartmentalize it.  My family are over there and I am over here.

Well, I know which of those lives I'd rather be living! 

Sorry to digress here, but I was wanting to put some "likes" on posts and don't seem to have the little icon to click anymore. Does it require a double-secret-probation handshake now?

I still see the little hearts.... try signing out and in again? 

Sorry to digress here, but I was wanting to put some "likes" on posts and don't seem to have the little icon to click anymore. Does it require a double-secret-probation handshake now?

I haven't had the ability to "like" posts in months.  I hacked up a method by saving the link to like a post and manually changing the thread and post numbers to correspond the post I want to like.

Liking still works on my phone, so the problem is with my browser/OS, not with my account status.  I assume yours would be the same, but I don't think you have a phone to confirm that.  I use Firefox.  I don't know if I can like things using Chrome... I'll check.  Oh, yes.  Chrome works.  It's a problem with Firefox.  I'm on v.60.0.1 (64-bit).  It started before this version, as I had an automatic update recently.

Edit:

This is what I do:

Paste:

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?action=like;topic=#####;msg=#######;like

into my address bar.

Hover my cursor over the post title of the post I want to like to display the numbers for the topic and message I want to like.

Insert those numbers in the #### places in my link.

Press Enter.

I don't like nearly as much as I used to.  If you get a like from me, I'm either using my phone, or I really like what you said. 

I haven't had the ability to "like" posts in months.  I hacked up a method by saving the link to like a post and manually changing the thread and post numbers to correspond the post I want to like.

So you must really, really, really like a post to bother going to so much trouble! 

So you must really, really, really like a post to bother going to so much trouble! 

Yup!    (I'm on my laptop... I really liked that!)

Yup!    (I'm on my laptop... I really liked that!)

 

Nope, didn't work. Logged out and in, nada.

Firefox did update recently, yeah. Worked before then.

Oh, well.

As jfkimberly said, above, you can book a one-hour window with Tesco. And it can most definitely take some time to shop! I tend to go into the sale items categories and look around, and select from there, first, unless I know there's something I want specifically. A couple of your most recent orders are kept online, so you can always go back in and see what you got last time, and then click on an item to re-order. You can leave little notes for the picker on the Tesco order, under each item, if you want to. Not sure that they are always read, but at least you can specify things like "only organic" (etc.) if you are allowing a substitution. 

I'm on the "mid-week" delivery saver plan and it cost me $4.74 for all of last month (varies with the exchange rate). I can have as many deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday from Tesco as I'd like at no additional charge, as long as I order 40pounds worth of stuff to be delivered. I think it's 60pounds at Waitrose, not sure for the others.  Had Tesco deliver charcoal last week with our "shop" and had a lovely BBQ  in the little Weber Kettle grill we brought over and am still eating some of the chicken and beef we cooked. (Bought a larger amount of meat than usual, grilled it, and some is now frozen - to come out to be sliced to top salads, etc.)

We also get "points" from Tesco that accumulate and can be put towards future purchases from them or traded in for other goodies. Went to the movies to see Infinity War on Tesco points.  https://www.tesco.com/deliverysaver/?icid=dchp_groceriesdeliverysaver

I think all the chains have something similar as far as delivery - I know Iceland will deliver if you buy more than 20pounds' worth of stuff in the store, Waitrose, Sainsburys, do, too. Not sure about Morrisons (haven't seen one of their trucks) or Co-Op. (The "fresh" meat at Iceland here is not so good. The chicken I got there the last time was older than I was, judging from how tough it was.)

When we first started shopping with Tesco I ticked "do not substitute" and sometimes they did anyway. I emailed to complain and they haven't done it again.   If they forget something (only happened a couple of times) you can drop them an email and they'll reverse the charge ASAP.

For the list of "what is it called"?

Zucchini = Courgette
Eggplant = Aubergine
Rutabaga = Swede
Green onions = ... BBC says it better than I can: Scallions are often incorrectly referred to as “green onions” in the U.S. but also hide out under other aliases such as “Welsh onion” and “Japanese bunching onion.” A true scallion has a long, skinny green stalk and a white tip that doesn’t grow a bulb. A green onion looks very similar to a scallion, but has a very slender hint of a bulb, and spring onions have slightly rounded bulbs and the sharpest taste of all three. In the U.K., “spring onion” is the most common term (except the Northern Irish prefer “scallion”), but other names such as “salad onion” and “green shallot” are also used as interchangeable terms for any vegetable that resembles a spring onion. 

Oh, and if you get the munchies for Fritos, Old El Paso makes a tortilla strip that is a dead ringer for 'em and they are available at Tesco.   There was a positive stampede when someone first posted that info here. Ya could hear the sighs of contentment rising across the island when everyone got their snouts into a bag. 

I haven’t read through to the end of the thread yet, so apologies if I’m repeating information: you can *double* your Clubcard money to pay for your ‘delivery saver’ option, so essentially, your online shopping can pay for itself after a while. So say you sign up for 6 months, shop, accrue club card points, six months pass, you accrue £12 in clubcard money, you can double it and put £24 towards the payment of your delivery saver membership. Or similar. I might have gotten some details incorrectly. But it’s great that it eventually pays for itself.

I haven’t read through to the end of the thread yet, so apologies if I’m repeating information: you can *double* your Clubcard money to pay for your ‘delivery saver’ option, so essentially, your online shopping can pay for itself after a while. So say you sign up for 6 months, shop, accrue club card points, six months pass, you accrue £12 in clubcard money, you can double it and put £24 towards the payment of your delivery saver membership. Or similar. I might have gotten some details incorrectly. But it’s great that it eventually pays for itself.

I did not know this!  I don't know if mine would quite pay for itself, but it's better than one-to-one rate of just applying it to my grocery bill.  I need to sort that out!

Don't forget that those points are worth 3 to 1 when booking a ferry or the channel tunnel.  JFKimberley has no excuse for not visiting Ireland when she gets her car as there is a ferry just around the corner from her.

Personally, I use the click and collect from Tesco.  I can collect it with my car from a Tesco just around the corner any time in a four hour window.  It mostly just saves the hassle of actually walking around the aisles and I don't have to worry about the delivery timeslot. 

Don't forget that those points are worth 3 to 1 when booking a ferry or the channel tunnel.  JFKimberley has no excuse for not visiting Ireland when she gets her car as there is a ferry just around the corner from her.

Personally, I use the click and collect from Tesco.  I can collect it with my car from a Tesco just around the corner any time in a four hour window.  It mostly just saves the hassle of actually walking around the aisles and I don't have to worry about the delivery timeslot.

If I had a car, I would gladly go into the shop to buy my groceries!  I use delivery because I don't have a car.  But I really miss being able to pick out my own "fresh" produce.  What I really want to do is use the supermarkets for things like flour and sugar and other shelf staples (I'd continue to order these to save me the trip), but go to a butcher for meats and a green grocer for my fruit and veg.

Hey, weren't you looking for a Fiat Panda?  I recently drove one around for a few days and wasn't so impressed.  I mean it was all right, but so tiny and underpowered.  Also Fiats aren't so reliable.  Why not just get VW golf or something simple like that?  Or a ford escort for ultimate cheapness.

Hey, weren't you looking for a Fiat Panda?  I recently drove one around for a few days and wasn't so impressed.  I mean it was all right, but so tiny and underpowered.  Also Fiats aren't so reliable.  Why not just get VW golf or something simple like that?  Or a ford escort for ultimate cheapness.

We're not just looking for a Fiat Panda... we're looking for an old, cheap Fiat Panda Active or Dynamic.  Based on what we pay now for my husband's fuel to/from work, he calculated that if we get the Panda Active ECO and drives it most days to work, between the cheap road tax (£30/year), the low cost to insure me as a "new driver", and the high fuel economy, it'll pay for itself within a year, during which I'd start building up my no-claims.  Meanwhile, I would have the use of the car a few times a month to run errands or just "stretch my legs", and he would drive the campervan to keep it from sitting unused for too long.

We're looking for a low insurance group car that has less than 120g/km emissions and gets at least 50mpg (more is better)... We'd like to spend under £2k and it needs to be reliable.

We have seen one or two that fit the parameters, but they're too far away to go look at.  I feel like we're just going to waste money waiting for a unicorn, though...

It sounds like you've done your research , more than me certainly and I'm not that much of a pistonhead.  What about an old cheap  diesel Golf?  Those get great gas mileage and are everywhere.  No unicorn needed.