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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Doesn’t look very pretty - but tonight we canned up 13 jars of cat food for our ginger one! He’s actually looking really healthy on it - the vet calls him “well made” LOL. The winter fluff is also coming in thick and floofy! So - stinky job, but appreciated by the smallest member of the house

13 jars of tan coloured cat food sitting in a cardboard box

One ginger cat sitting curled up on a pale green blanket on a bed

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Got loads of chillis left over from my food collection. Got two bags in the freezer so debating what to do with this treasure? Whatever - it’s going to be a spicy day 😝

Shallow cardboard box with fifteen bags of mixed chilli peppers inside

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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debi58.bsky.social @debi58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grrr! Did all the research before my youngest went off to Uni - course, accommodation and support! Everything was going perfectly. Sadly one of his profs is an anti-vax, climate denying Trumper transphobe …. So looks like it’s going to be a long year!

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Busy day here at the Croft! But I did manage to get one batch of dehydrating in. One bag of frozen peas - into one jar. I don’t do peas as a side but as an ingredient & I hate random peas falling out in the freezer. So a solution to one of the annoying things in life LOL

One pickle jar three quarters full of bright green dehydrated peas

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Teaching the bairn to make toad in the hole for Sunday dinner! My test yorkie is looking FINE!!!

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Zoli Aswad Osaze @zaswadosaze.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fragrant hour on the Croft today … stripping a stash of thyme that has been run through the dehydrator. Not a lot of yield - but it’s another thing that doesn’t need to be bought from the crofts coffer! And the smell - oh my goodness!

Workstation on a pine table - to strip and collect thyme and transfer to a glass jar … being kept company by a YouTube video on an iPad

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh the horror!!!! Scotland is willing to come and teach you to ceilidh ??

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last success of the day - 500g of basil salt! TBH there is more here than I will use in a year so once I am sure it’s very dry I will decant it into three or four smaller jars and gift them to my friends. It’s amazing stuff on a tasteless February tomato - really makes it taste like summer

A jam jar with an orange lid filled with pale green basil salt

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s a bit of a production but today saw two new litre jars go into the store. A mirepiox and a holy trinity as the base for so many dinners over the next year

TWo one litre jars of mixed, dehydrated vegetables. One is mirepoix- carrots, onions, leeks and the other is Holy Yrinity peppers, onions and celery

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh my goodness - just when I thought I was on top of this weeks freebies a pal dropped these off! Thirty pears looking for a good home! Now I still have ten jars of canned pears in the Cantry … so I think I will throw these into the slow cooker and make pear and cinnamon butter instead!

30 pears in trays of four in a cardboard box

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leftover chillis strung up to slowly dry in a south facing window. Got a freezer stash already so happy to wait for these to dry out and store longer term. But doesn’t it look festive? LOL

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How wonderfully green is the basil salt going into the dehydrator today? Smells like a face full of summer!

Three trays of a dehydrator with bright green basil and salt mix speed on it

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Busy day on the Croft dealing with some leftover foods that need preserving. Basil will be made into basil salt. Thyme will be dehydrated as will the carrots and mushrooms. Chillis will be strung onto thread and hung in the window so slowly dry out for chilli flakes and seeds for next year!

Kitchen surface covered in bags of basil, thyme, chillis, mushrooms and carrots

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still processing the 15 kilos of organic carrots I scored for FREE! Top and tail. Chop into 1cm dice. Blanche & ice-bath then into the dehydrator till bedtime. 14 kilos will make a little over 1.5 litres of dried bits, that’s the big jar at the back. Now to keep an eye open for next project.

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yesterdays prep for winter here on the Croft!! Six coleslaw mix, 5 salsa, 5 lemon green beans & 3 balsamic beans. Oh - and a quarter jar of chopped carrots in the dehydrated soup mix jar. Hoping for more veggies in the charity collections soon x

Pine table with 21 jars of canned veggies and tall glass jar with some dried carrots

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Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Local lady got these delivered by mistake. Amazon said - keep the wrong ones! Wrong ones are now in my store … about three years of tonic to go with the endless bottles of gin I have accumulated. MERRY XMAS ABODY!!! Lol

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Taken all morning - but I’ve managed to find a deal to switch from Scottish Power onto a long term fix (Sept 2028) It’s a bit more - but less than the 20 % plus it’s going up in January. Why is this so fecking complicated???

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Showing you how the free food I scored over the weekend ended up being just about a whole jar of dehydrated bits. So much easier to store on the shelf for cooked dishes through the winter & TBH you can’t even tell they have been dried Saving the pennies so I can have more people at my table x

Table full of fresh veggies in plastic bags

Dehydrator trays filled with chopped up veggies

Two jars half filled with Broccoli and cauliflower mix and another of diced carrots

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had an amazing night requesting on Olio. I requested one of each veg and got all of them as no one else requested them. So today is all about preserving this bounty for the winter to come! RRP was £22.63 BTW

Half a table laid out with bags of spinach, cauliflower and broccoli, green beans, carrots and rice noodles

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You have no idea how “erratic” my cycle would have been if you’d have asked me to do this: 9 day cycle 30 day cycle 3 day cycle 77 day cycle Absolutely fecking NOT!!!

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LIDL special this week - and for me this is special!! 2 x 300g of sock wool which is enough to knit six pairs of socks this winter! Just £3.99 each - so £1.33 per pair of socks. Cosy ties for everybody!!!

Two large 300g of sock wool - one variegated green and one variegated pinks

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ok - it’s freezer day!! All freezers (three of them) need to be defrosted and cleaned. All food needs to be listed and everything returned. All random fruit to be removed and turned into jams and cordials to clear out some space - and boy, there are sooo many bags!

Corner of a box filled with puff and filo pastry

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So young guys in vests at the next table at our cafe are talking about “alpha”, “beta” males and “cucks. So these twatwaffles believe that gender is on a spectrum …. Right? RIGHT??? So that makes them “allies” - think I will join the conversation just to make their heads spin LOL

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now I want to go get a forge and an anvil …. xx

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Aran cable cushion all finished ready for a visit up at my youngest’s halls tomorrow. They saw a picture and loved it … so I made it as a “room warming” present. It’s so squishy!

Cream Arab cushion cover - all heart shaped interlocking cables.

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My local ,grumpy, antisocial (ok, downright fucking rude) butcher has decided that a wee pot of beef dripping is going to be £8 this year! And you cannae make stovies or skirlie without dripping! So I have caved and bought these abominations instead - £1.20 instead of £8.00 - but “the flegs!”

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dehydrator has been working overtime these last few days - 2 recycled mayo jars jars worth! 1. Mirepoix - onions, carrots and celery 2. Holy Trinity - onions, celery and peppers Packed for our Uni bound student for the days where she wants to cook but doesn’t have the energy to chop.

Two Recycled mayonnaise jars - one filled with mirepoix (dehydrated onions, carrots and celery) and the other with Holy Trinity (onion, celery and pepper)

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Meanwhile - over on Facebook!! Poor wee soul only has 34 pals … LOL

Fake message request on Facebook from “Elon Musk - as if!!

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Five wee random jars of Bramble and Apple jelly. Brambles growing through my fence - apples are windfall from a neighbours tree and one kilo of sugar from my Storecupboard. Tastes just like my granny’s - tempted to make custard at lunch so I can stir in a dollop!

Five random recycled jars filled with dark purple Apple and bramble jelly with on blue and white dip bowl filled too

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pretty pretty!! Bramble and apple juice ready to be turned into some random pots of jelly! Prepping for winter here on the Croft

A tablespoon of dark burgundy coloured fruit juice framed by a stainless steel pot with a litre more

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

650g of brambles from the fence edges of my garden. Think a bramble and Apple jelly might be nice this autumn? Or something else? What do you think?

Pile of dark purple brambles in a pale grey bowl

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Prepper gold! Scored a cast iron fondue pot that runs on meths or alcohol … for a QUID!!! Why so cheap? Cos the cast iron is rusted and it’s “useless” Useless my bahookie - a scrub with vinegar and a new layer or ten of seasoning and this will be like brand new!! YAY!!!!

Rusted interior of a black cast iron fondue pot

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Prepping again - more carrots for mirepoix jars! Falling into a sweet spot of getting a job done before work every day. That way I have “won before I have begun”

Stainless steel dehydrator filled with finely chopped carrots

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Prepping for today - one large carrier bag of the weirdest shaped peppers from a pals greenhouse. He sells the pretty ones and I get the mutants LOL What the heck does it matter when they are chopped up and dehydrated - right?

Dehydrator filled with chopped mixed peppers

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Celery day - five heads unclaimed last night from the charity collection so starting off the refill of my mirepoix jar. … and a Storecupboard audit to see what needs to be topped up for the season to come! Yup - I am prepping!

Chopped green celery stalks on a dehydrator tray

Two trays of bright green celery leaves on a dehydrator tray

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Skynet day peeps! We are all fucked aren’t we?

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@daibhi.bsky.social so happy to see you go back to school buddy!! Loving this new future for you xxx

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Made salsa today for my youngest heading off to uni. 9 x 500 ml jars should keep him Snacking a good while LOL. And - pricing it up in Tescos it’s £30 he doesn’t need to find from his budget too!

Two bowls - one filled with peppers and onions the other with cherry tomatoes

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Home from hospital but still feeling rough as on the antibiotics. Did manage to put up 14 jars of spicy pickled green beans today though! They are kind of like pickled jalapeños in sandwiches and tacos and we love them

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

On Monday all the doctors at our local teaching hospital moved up a year … Today I attended A&E and after an X-ray got whipped into maxillofacial dept for a quick op if I would do it on a nerve block. Head yin wanting to show the newbies something gory and impressive LOL PS It was very gory!

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Elainecolliar (Still Yes) @elainecolliar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My boy is off to Aberdeen Uni!! And if you know the physical battles he has every day you will know how amazing this is for him!! Happy Day xx

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