Kleeneze/Lakeland catalogue stuff

Look! Look at all the tubs!

And a house for garlic. Not for onions or peppers, they've got their own houses for sale.

The stuff in these are amazing, serioulsy, things your gran would have!!

We have the omelette maker in the office. It's tiny and messy. Think we've used it once. It's now gathering dust next to the Potato sack and Garlic House. I find if you look at those catalogues for long enough (usually whilst having some quiet time on the lav) you'll want to buy more things. Just me? I'll get me coat.

I would consider the micorwave egg poacher as I'm usually cooking for myself and HATE washing up, rather that than a pot and other faff to make a poached egg (which never works anyway!)

I do on the other hand love Lakeland far too much for someone of my young years!

I didn't buy one, but I have one!!! Mummy used to be a tupperware party lady!

Have never once actually used it for making omelettes though!

me too

*has a weekly visit to the local one*

some of these are tiny, what would you put in them?!

Doesn't every one just reuse the plastic boxes their take away comes in?!

Ive got a couple of things from lakeland but baking stuff like tins or pie dishes. dont have any gadgety/lazy things!

Never heard of Kleeneze but Lakeland is fab! I like to wander around their stores just having a good old poke around! MIL is getting me a heated airer for my birthday (for drying clothes on).

I will admit to owning a garlic/onion canister, garlic sits in the top and the onions have their base in the bottom. I also own an inordinate amount of Tupperware, I love the stuff. I also own this: /15854/bag-master-food-bag-holder-stand and use it in the winter for my soups!

MIL has every single one of the useless fruit things, like strawberry hullers and pineapple corers and the cherry stoners. And she uses them all!!

I love Lakeland! ❤️

I know. If you use the olives for scale, those green ones on the right are too diddy for anything except a grape or two.

Mrs Bass - I don't use the tiny tupperwares as I just think... if there's only that much left I'll just blimmin' well eat it! Might explain the podge on me... MIL uses them though and tupperwares up the tiny leftovers like if she grates a bit too much cheese.

ETA I lie... I have one tiny tupperware containing some spices from my grandma. Technically though she GAVE me the tupperware with the spices already inside so it doesn't count.

The tiny tupperware thing i use for salad dressings if im taking salad to work!!!

Hoped you'd be on board too!

*is subscribed to them on Facebook*

I buy far too much from Lakeland although my brother works there so hello staff discount!!

Ive got a thing for bananas, its like a yellow bag and you keep bananas in the fridge with it so they keep for longer. My Mum gave me it. Load of shi*e. Only used it one bloody things went black.

My Mum has nearly everything from the range. She's such a gadget sucker. Some sort of potato thing that makes a spud into chips...

They are just the right size for meals for a one year old. The next size up is an ideal meal size for a toddler? So I have loads of them but don't use the smallest ones anymore as she uses the enxt size up, so may shortly have them for sale if anyone wants them??

I have the potato sack which is currently housing vodka with raspberries in it.

I LOVE owt like that. Im such an old lady, although don't buy much.

You are a damn fine looking old lady though?

Not bad for 80 ? But you would think it- sat here in my cardi and floral slippers. Oh and those little tubs are handy for dips, oils and bread etc, single portions of pasta sauce (use to make and freeze batches when lived on own)

I don't have an omelette maker, but I did have a poacher. It was great! But it blew up in the microwave and the plastic broke so couldn't be used. ☹️ Sad times. I hate trying to make poached eggs on the hob, they always go wrong. Now I am wothout the microwave poacher, I don't have poached eggs at home ☹️

? Hello new best friend...

Little T has some of those for his lunch boxes - they actually fit a load of grapes. I also do things like cheese cubes and biccies etc

I love these catalogues. At uni we would frequently order all manner of crap for each other- such japes!

either way, I liked this one best;

Useful thing from Lakeland - a battery operated bobble remover for bobbly jumpers. It works.

A rubbish thing from my MIL - a plastic net thingy that is supposed to make your oven chips crispy. I've never tried it but it looks sh1te.

Ooo actually that's a good idea for packed lunches!

My Nan's kitchen is the next best thing to Lakeland...She has EVERYTHING!!!!! ?

is this not called "The Chippy"?? I never make chips at home. lol

I actually got a Kleeneze book yesterday, I want soooooo much kitchen gadgetry!

Yep 20% plus loads of freebies and they have a 'charity list' and it's basically people bringing stuff back saying its broken or they don't want it, it gets checked by tech guys and all the staff get what they want. We got one of those blow up driers that cost around £60 for £2 and it wasn't Even taken out the plastic wrapping by the customer. She just decided she didn't want it!!

? Do you mind me telling you I love you? £2? Fab!

Not at all!! it's brilliant and my mum worked there for a bit too. Although our kitchen is filled with every Lakeland gadget going! Even things I'm not sure quite what they do!!

I'm SO jealous. I really want to work for Lakeland. I think I would be in heaven.

For those of you moaning about poaching eggs on the hob try Poach Pods from Lakeland:

They float in the water and only take a couple of minutes. They do unfortunately look like tits on your toast - the pods are rounded on the bottom and sometimes the yolk goes down to the bottom so resembles a nip!

I love Lakeland - the Ipswich store is in a beautiful old building (supposedly haunted) that's all up & down with little rooms and they seem to rearrange the store regularly so every time I go in there I have to go round the whole store and end up getting far more than I went in for.

I can also recommend their cling film wrapmaster:

You don't get the film clinging to itself or end up with a crushed box.