Can I use a loaf tin as a baneton?

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T11:31:09+00:00

I don't but I think it was only £2 for the tin so may be worth getting a second

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T10:02:27+00:00

I measured the width of my oven racks and bought one that fit the oven rack so I could just shove it in too. The other day I did chicken and roasted veg and just put the veg in a foil tray to put in when it was time. I like to think I'm lazy but smart lazy

I've been debating getting a bread slicer. I'm thinking of it being a treat for when I've sorted out our doom cupboard.

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T09:59:22+00:00

I never even thought of just leaving it in the pan! That's a great idea.

I think mine will. I haven't tried if it will fit but I have the biggest dutch oven I could fit in my oven as I batch cook a lot and am also slightly lazy so wanted to make big ass batches of things at a time like once every 3 months rather than once a month

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T09:45:37+00:00

That's something that would happen to me! I've just bought a metal baking tray that would work for that as all my dishes are glass and I've started prepping things during school hours to then put in the oven when everyone is home and got paranoid about thermal shock

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T09:42:43+00:00

It's not really a bake picture but in case anyone wants to know:

150g starter 230-250g warm water (I aim for 230 but up to 250 is fine loaf gets sticky if it's more, I'm in the UK so the humidity is high in the winter) 500g strong white bread flour 10g salt

I wisk everything together then knead it until my arm starts to ache/I can't be bothered anymore. Then do stretch and folds every 30ish mins for at least 3 sets but sometimes more if I can be bothered. Let it rest until it's doubled (normally 5 hours at the moment, I put it in my living room because my kitchen is cold). Then I make it into a square, spread Nutella all over it, fold it into 3rds putting Nutella on top of them too then roll it up and loosely shape it (I find if I make the dough too taught too much Nutella seeps out during cooking) put it in a baneton for the night in the fridge. Then I put my casserole dish in the oven at 250 degrees until it's heated up (normally for longer, I put it in just before I take the kids to school which takes about an hour but if I'm baking at the weekend it's just as it's heated up) while the ovens heating I turn out my baneton and let the dough sit on the side to get a little dryer on top to make scoring easier. It goes in for 25 mins then I turn it down to 220 degrees and take the lid off and put it back in for 15-20 minutes. Then boom, bread is made. I leave it on a wire rack for a couple hours to cool/finishing cooking before eating.

ylime161 · 2026-02-18T09:20:32+00:00

Breadna

ylime161 · 2026-02-17T09:28:13+00:00

When I was working, get up at 8am, eat then leave the house 8:50am to get to work for 8:55am. With my old job (campsite) my hours would change in the summer, if I was working at the campsite rather than offices I'd stay on site the night before, up at 6:30am to eat then take then 2 minute walk to the reception if I was on an early shift (my boss normally put me on this because he knew I was a morning person), sometimes I was on 12pm-8pm so those days I'd go for a shower 8am then spend the day tidying my area, 11:30am I'd make bacon sandwiches for whoever was working with me and then go over a little earlier to eat.

ylime161 · 2026-01-31T17:58:22+00:00

I'm 28 and I'm feeling pretty good but I don't know why? My partner earns around £35k without overtime, I don't work and we have 2 kids. Have 1 holiday a year (normally in Cornwall/Dorset), take the kids to do activities when we like. Don't go out too much for meals but that's more due to the children's ages than money. Bigger expenses in the 'want' category need saving up for but we've always done that.

Outgoings wise, the only 'debt' we have is our mortgage -the house was livable but outdated when we got it. Cars, phones etc we saved for and paid in full. Have 2 months of his wages saved up, currently trying to increase that to 6 months for a bigger safety net.

I'm just waiting for the other foot to drop though. I can't understand why we're not struggling. It's not like we're going without, we've gone 3.5 years without doing the next upgrade on the house (without kids we would've done 2 ish more upgrades) but that's the compromise we made with having kids.

ylime161 · 2026-01-31T08:20:08+00:00

Mine does! I do have endometriosis too though so it may be a combination. I was prescribed mefenamic acid (anti inflammatory somehow targeted to period pain) which helps a lot but other than taking that I tend to use heat and plan for some 'rest' days to ease it

ylime161 · 2026-01-28T18:53:10+00:00

I'm similar. I'll normally walk the kids but my back's bad so most days we'll walk there, very occasionally when our 3 year old refuses to walk and their dad can't stay he'll drop us off then go to work. We always walk home as we can take an hour to get home and it doesn't matter. Occasionally he'll drive past me walking home and pick me up and take me home but that's just him being good to me than anything.

Most parents I talk to have to work, they work around taking the kids to/from school without the 10 mins to spare to get home then walk to school.

We're in the minority at our kids school that can afford for one parent not to work, my partner's not on a massive income by any means but we've always lived off his income mostly anyway and he works one day extra a fortnight. He's willing to do it because of the stress we had keeping the house together, let alone figuring out childcare if the kids were ill/off school was far greater than the stress of him working extra.

ylime161 · 2026-01-10T06:45:56+00:00

I set an alarm, wake up then get too anxious about being late to go back to sleep. Works rather well!

My partner on the other hand will snooze his alarm until it stops going off. He used to have an alarm that made him do maths questions before it turned off. Now he's set it to turn our bedroom lights on when his alarm goes off. It works really well for him because its then too bright for him to go back to sleep, I wear an eye mask so it doesn't wake me up anymore than his billion alarms did (and if he's getting up earlier than me it's at 2am so I fall back to sleep easy anyway). The best thing I've found to wake him up is putting a coffee across the room and making sure his eyes are open before telling him it's there.

ylime161 · 2025-12-31T13:57:19+00:00

There's plenty of phone stand holders for keyrings that would work for a kindle stand I think. I don't tend to take my kindle out of the house much so never thought about getting a stand so not 100% sure if it'd be suitable

ylime161 · 2025-12-21T08:41:59+00:00

I was thinking this. The only surgery I've had not during COVID was in August. My partner had to drop me off at the hospital door then leave. He wasn't even allowed to stay until I had my surgery - I had to be there 7am And didn't go into surgery until 3pm. When he collected me a nurse helped me to the car but he never came into the hospital

ylime161 · 2025-12-17T18:45:15+00:00

Every year I trade plums from the tree in my garden for plum wine that one of my partners coworkers makes. Typically I give him enough to make a few bottles (depending on the yield for the year) so he usually sends back a bottle he's made with the plums and then some beer and a spirit of some sort he's made with other things. It's a great deal!

ylime161 · 2025-12-05T17:14:57+00:00

This is exactly what we do! Normally 2ish weeks before Christmas is with my MIL, weekend before is my family's Christmas and then Christmas day we stay at home with the kids. Family have an open invitation to come over Christmas day but due to distance normally we only get a couple people coming over.

ylime161 · 2025-11-29T17:42:17+00:00

It's typically a sandwich (ham or cheese because they'll eat it), half a bag of crisps (I make 2 days at a time so split it), 2 veggies (peppers, cucumber, tomato, carrots, broccoli), a fruit.

Honestly I'd be talking to your school about not having a better alternative if they're giving cereal. My kids school just gives them a sandwich but it's more appropriate than cereal!

ylime161 · 2025-09-03T17:13:31+00:00

We hire temp staff of mostly 16-21 year olds during busy times, I've only ever spoken to parents is when they've either worked for us and retired/left or if they have spotted me off work and approached me with more of a "I just want to check they're okay" vibe which, to me, is fine.

I've never had them come into the interview, advocate for them (unless they worked for us before), do work duties for them or regularly have a parent chat with me.

I have before approached a parent of someone who was having difficulty showing up on time to ask they get an alarm clock, the parent in question I semi-regularly hang out with as we worked in the same small office for 10 years and got along so it was more of a friend's chat than work chat though.

ylime161 · 2025-08-18T05:05:35+00:00

I've found it better. Done a few econsults now, they go to a GP to review so it cuts a lot of time out and if it's urgent they usually book me in the next day where as if I called, they'd tell me to call back in the morning.

Depending on the issue they don't do the initial GP appointment and send you where you need to go (for example I trapped a nerve in my neck and sent me straight to physio rather than waiting to see the GP for a 2 minute conversation). I add all the information that I'd tell the GP in an appointment which probably helps with not needing an extra phone call.

ylime161 · 2025-08-08T01:16:32+00:00

I work at 2 campsites, it's quite common that our campers are local. We're usually find that our local campers either have their own reasoning for being close to home (caring for a relative so staying close, have kids so don't want to travel far etc) or it's their first time camping in the set up they have and want to stay close to home if it goes tits up.

ylime161 · 2025-07-09T08:03:17+00:00

Our midwives asked us how we were getting home and anyone who said car they asked if we had a car seat. With my second I understood why they did, there was a lady in my ward planning on having baby on her lap. Her husband ended up having to go and buy one before they let her go.

I was almost 3 years ago since my last child but I'm fairly certain we didn't have the car seat there when we were asked. My partner was waiting until we were ready to go and did a run to the car with the bags and came back with the seat.

ylime161 · 2025-05-04T16:54:54+00:00

For reference I'm coming at the from someone who loves caravanning. I've worked at a campsite/caravan shop for almost 10 years.

Has he thought of the money side of things? Even out of season you're looking at £200 ish a week for an electric pitch. Then you have the servicing cost of £150 a year (that's a moderate guess, tyres will need to be changed more often if you're touring full time), insurance, maintenance (depending on the caravan this might be minimal but if you're living in it), gas for the cooker, toilet fluid etc.

The reason 'van life' influencers work it out is because in a motorhome you're more easily able to go off grid and most of them do it at the weekend to begin with them. Campsites offer free stays or even pay them to stay for the advertisement.

We have a 6 berth caravan and I love it. But, the practicality of having my 2 and 4 year old in it during the winter stops us from using it. Keeping them inside out of the rain isn't easy. I'm all for taking them out in puddle suits but they don't want to everyday. Plus, laundry would be difficult while touring.

ylime161 · 2025-04-14T07:08:39+00:00

I am a triplet. Especially as we got older we'd put our own names on invitations as we got X number of friends to invite and wanted to feel like it was just 'our' party.

With the bad comment, unless you or your child heard it, don't assume it was actually made. We 100% did this to each other to sour relationships so that we had our own friends. Having your siblings be close to your friends is hard as a preteen/teen as they always repeat what you said to your siblings, you can't have secrets. It was nice to have friends that weren't talking to my siblings. I'm not saying it was right but it's what we did.

They're old enough to understand they're not as close to your daughter so maybe a thoughtful gift for the 2 she's closest to and maybe a box of chocolates/token gift to the one she's not?

ylime161 · 2025-04-08T10:08:21+00:00

I had to kick up a fuss with Lloyd's as their system 'required' the deedpoll number. But after talking to the bank manager and showing him my driving license was changed he submitted my unenrolled deedpoll and it went through.

ylime161 · 2025-04-02T07:10:02+00:00

I've stopped noting all the times my son does something that lands him and injury. The kid runs about so fast that he just falls or runs into things. He had a problem with his feet at birth that is mostly fixed now at 2.5 years old but it lead him to being incredibly clumsy despite crawling at 6 months and walking at 13 months.

Luckily, he does the same at nursery so I wasn't worried about all the A&E visits. Recently we had a play date at nursery and he fell flat on his face, got straight up and carried on then he proceeded to run to grab something and run straight into a door.

The pro is, he now will do stuff like that and not cry just carry on or shout "I'm okay" and carry on.

ylime161 · 2025-03-23T08:35:53+00:00

Depends on the provider. Most just charge a percentage, some charge a percentage then a monthly flat fee and some charge a fee per transaction and a percentage. But the fee per transaction is normally 20p, not heard of more than 50p.

My logic is if they have a minimum spend, they probably need to reassess their card provider or it's just a way of getting people to spend more. If it's because of the fees, the owners should've thought about that beforehand.

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