freeze well (and that you yourself don?t grow) are on special, buy plenty, as long as your family likes them. Just make sure you freeze them on the day you buy them! Tips For Saving Power If you live in a relatively temperate climate (frosts but no snow) and don?t have a fireplace or wood burner, you can help keep power spent on heating down to a minimum by wearing good thick thermals (top and bottom) under a tracksuit?and I mean the type of thermals a mountaineer would wear, with a fleecy brushed lining. Damart (who have web sites in UK , US , Australia and New Zealand ) are the only people I know who make these, but there must be other manufacturers. Search any of the Damart web sites for "double force" if you don't know what I mean. Add a knitted thermal hat, thermal socks and slippers and gloves with no fingertips. If you?re working at a computer, or sitting reading or doing other sedentary work, and are still cold, you can do what I do?shove a hot water bottle up your tracksuit top. If you use electricity to heat your house in the evening, make sure your heater has a thermostat. If you are elderly and therefore need your home warmer than is comfortable for younger people, there are ways you can keep warm without having the thermostat so high (or the fire consuming logs as fast as you feed them into it) that it drives