Vegemite or Marmite can be used to flavour lots of things soups, stews, I've been addicted to the stuff my whole life and of course it's handy in lent. Effie, I think you made a comment before about it being better not to watch the news, did you mean as an Orthodox person? I've hardly been watching any TV or listening to radio for quite a while now, and I can't say I miss it, but that's just because my TV "blew up". Now, I find that, I am quite behind, when people say something has happened, something major, I don't usually know about it. I think I'd hear about bad news, I'm sure I'd see it in prayer requests but other than that I'm living in some other century where the news travels very slowly.