Decluttering like a woman possessed

I have been in the process of decluttering for years.

We have got lots of DVD's and many of them have not been watched for a long time. I am a member of Love film so I have started renting out DVD's instead of buying them. I think it is much better as there are things that I want to watch but after I have seen it I do not want to watch it again/

I decided today that I would go through the DVD's and get rid of a lot of the ones that not only had not been watched for a while but would be unlikely to be watch again. I managed to get a big pile of DVD's and it cleared out one the places that were used to store them. That place is now going to be used to store computer games.

This is the pile of DVD's that I have sorted out.

I have discovered something interesting today. I was making soup and I started cutting up the onion soon after I had got it out of the fridge. Part way through the job I noticed that my eyes were not watering as they normally do. In fact by the end my eyes were only stinging a little. That is much better than normal as they are normally streaming at that point. I will try it out again but it seems that cutting the onion when cold seems to work out much better.

This is the recipe that I used:

Onion and Lentil soup

Ingredients

500gm Lentils
1 onion
1 medium sized carrot
2 ltr water
Vegetable stock
2tsp yeast extract
Sunflower oil
Whatever herbs you would like to add.

Cooking instructions

1. Put the oil into a pan and cut up the carrot and the onion into small pieces. Cook until soft.
2. Add the vegetable stock to the water and add to the onions and carrots along with the lentils.
3. Add the herbs and simmer the soup until the soup is ready (I must confess that with this soup I do not time it but I just see when it is ready (the lentils will be soft and the color will change)
4. Add the yeast extract.

I make up a lot of soup. This will easily serve two adults and three children and still have lots left (I like to keep some for meals the next day) The recipe is easy to adapt to make less. Just reduce the amount of lentils, liquid and yeast extract.

This soup is the most popular of the soups that I have made. All of my younglings love it and my stepdaughter will eat it as well (she is very fussy)