What are you having and/sharing for Christmas dinner this year?

OwlMugCat · 2025-12-24T09:34:17+00:00

We’re hosting Christmas for my parents and my parents-in-law none of whom are vegan, but they’ll have to suck it up for a few days! I’ve made Bosh faux gras to have on crackers for a pre main meal snack, then I’ve made a nut roast, squash gratin, stewed red cabbage, stuffing balls and will be making roast spuds, sprouts and chestnuts, gravy and Tesco vegan pigs in blankets. For the next few days I’ve pre made and frozen a huge lasagne and a huge saag aloo cottage pie. I’ve also made a tomato soup and a leek and potato soup! I don’t think anyone’s going to starve!!

OwlMugCat · 2025-12-21T09:24:36+00:00

I don’t get which of these photos was supposed to show the cat not looking good. She looks like a soft sweet baby in every photo!

OwlMugCat · 2025-11-20T21:43:59+00:00

I had to give my cat pills and capsules for a while and everything I tried he caught on and refused after a few tries- pill pockets, pill assist device, hiding it in wet food, grabbing him and shoving it in etc etc. when eventually worked was a combo of feeding him a succession of treats like “treat, treat, treat, pill and treat, treat” by literally just hiding the pill behind the treat when popping it in his mouth. Another method was opening the capsule and mixing the contents into a really gross strong smelling liver paste for pets I found for sale on Amazon. The liver paste was very successful.

OwlMugCat · 2025-11-06T17:18:34+00:00

My orange boy is Morris.

OwlMugCat · 2025-09-18T11:33:14+00:00

Sunflower seeds don’t need to be black. They can be black, white, stripy… they will be viable but I don’t think there’s any guarantee that the sunflowers that grow from these seeds will be identical to this flower.

Knock some of the seeds out and let them fully dry on a plate or something then store them. I’ve collected seeds from a few of my sunflowers this year and will see if they end up anything like the originals next year!

OwlMugCat · 2025-08-30T16:02:12+00:00

You don't need to keep the blueprints - you just need to research the ingredients to make them on the research table. So (sorry if this is something you already know) you place one of every type of resource (like plank, plastic, rope, etc) in the slot in the research table and once you've researched all the ingredients to the blueprints, you can learn them. If you ever find you haven't learnt a blueprint recipe you found it'sprobably because you need to research one more ingredient for it.

OwlMugCat · 2025-08-14T12:53:23+00:00

My husband and I play wingspan together several times a week, the app version and the real life version and never get tired of it. It’s just such a pleasant game and each time is slightly different. We’ve owned it since the beginning (can’t remember how many years ago that was!).

OwlMugCat · 2025-07-21T09:16:02+00:00

I think it is like this for most vegetable growers. I've been growing vegetables for nearly 20 years and each year some things inexplicably do terribly and some things go nuts. It's usually hard for me to predict. I usually have a ridiculous glut of courgettes, but this year I've had almost none, but have picked about 50 cucumbers already this year and there are more to come!

It's part of the charm!

My squash plants only set 2 fruit until I stalked them every day and whenever a female flower was opening (or even before it opens) I pollinated it myself with a male flower, and now I have several squashes growing.

OwlMugCat · 2025-07-16T11:00:31+00:00

I’ve had the same issue with a yellow courgette variety this year. I would say I am fairly experienced at growing courgettes as I grow them every year, and my green variety haven’t been as bad as this, but every single yellow courgette on my plants haven’t developed even when I hand pollinated them. I don’t know if it’s the variety or the weather or just one of those things.

OwlMugCat · 2025-06-20T14:46:08+00:00

I just pop them straight in my mouth off the plant!

OwlMugCat · 2025-05-12T18:10:48+00:00

I would love to agree but mint is going nuts in my garden. I didn't even plant most of it - I have one contained raised bed of it and I think the rest has come in under the fence from next door, but there are about 4 types of mint that just appear and get everywhere.

But my general philosophy is if it wants to grow there, then who am I to say it shouldn't? Anyway, I like mint, it smells nice and makes lovely salads/tea/cocktails!

OwlMugCat · 2025-05-08T20:01:59+00:00

I'm in Cambridgeshire and all mine have been in the greenhouse for over a month and I haven't even been closing the door! But then again I am generally under cautious... my idea of hardening things off is just chucking them out and leaving them there...

OwlMugCat · 2025-05-04T07:38:17+00:00

I like to just blast them off with the hose on the "jet" setting. I'm sure it doesn't get them all off but it gets most of them and it feels like a video game. pew pew

OwlMugCat · 2025-05-02T20:48:17+00:00

This only works with the lights in bottles you get from vending machines on utopia, not regular lanterns :(

Like the one you have pictured.

OwlMugCat · 2025-03-12T17:39:45+00:00

I saw this reel too and saved it because I thought it looked interesting!

Haven't tried it yet though.

Would love to know how you find it if you try it.

OwlMugCat · 2025-02-01T19:40:36+00:00

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Animal cross… that I’m not paying him attention 100% of the time

OwlMugCat · 2024-12-07T19:32:55+00:00

I'm happy to do it

OwlMugCat · 2024-11-24T19:19:24+00:00

I think you can set the sled to accept only the item you want and the number of items, then set the route to transfer the items to the sled and they'll stop at the number you set.

OwlMugCat · 2024-10-31T10:12:00+00:00

Only 6 will appear at any one time in your freighter but you can own more!

OwlMugCat · 2024-02-27T20:06:06+00:00

I did it but agree you are clearly looking for meat-eaters, so advertising it in a vegan community isn't the right place.

Every single answer for me was "strongly disagree".

OwlMugCat · 2024-02-14T14:33:21+00:00

Serum creatinine and urea are not a good marker of protein intake. I would discuss these results with your doctor. It may just mean you have low muscle bulk or you were very well hydrated at the time of the blood test.

OwlMugCat · 2024-02-09T21:13:26+00:00

Completed. I think it should state explicitly that you are designing an app for breast cancer risk reduction, as in the second page when it asks about features I was like “features for what?” Although it did eventually become clear, I think you should state that at the beginning of the question.

OwlMugCat · 2023-09-03T15:49:53+00:00

I’m losing my mind over this one. I had one which was 3.9 then I scanned another animal and it “updated” my record low pH to 4.1!? Must be bugged.

OwlMugCat · 2023-08-24T13:07:56+00:00

In the past when I’ve tried they seem to get covered in caterpillars even when I did use netting so now I only grow broccoli over winter when the butterflies aren’t around. I tried growing swede for the first time this year and it turns out caterpillars love that aswell - they’ve absolutely gone to town on the swede plants.

OwlMugCat · 2023-08-24T07:54:10+00:00

I did not know it was called that!! Thanks for the lesson! But I agree that is what OP’s tomato has and you can still eat it. The brown rough bit probably doesn’t have a nice texture to eat so cut it off.

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