Live on £4000 for a year - Part 3

BlueFleur

I've been really good today, stuck to the menu plan and only spent £1 from my pocket money fund Everyone at work buys their lunch, so I'm weaning myself off by taking in most of it but buying a drink etc. Next week will be a maximum of 50p and the week after I hope I've grown enough will power to stop spending!

It feels like midwinter here, so I'm going to make good use of my half price hot chocolate

Janey51

bails send your OH north and we will plan our quest

Janey51

jumble-bee I think a WWII project sounds wonderful :T
My Mum lived in Hull during WWII and the stories she tells about how they managed with rationing are really interesting.
I think there were a lot of hoes about on the allotments then....and even in gardens.
Particularly garden sheds

Frugaldom

Oh woopy woo... just to make the day completely fabulous, we now have absolutely torrential rain that's bordering on hailstones, thunder and lightning! I'm !!!!!!!! down in case I get fried! At least I managed to get all the washing dried before the tiny bit of dry weather and 'sunshine' disappeared again. B, Bails, the highlight of my day was seeing the free money. Next stop, Premium Bonds draw tomorrow, I think?

OptimisticPair - welcome to wacky planet Fruga

Catch you all later, after the storm. Janeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.... get in off your roof! It's a Scottish summer storm, not a tornado alley twister! :rotfl:

JAMIEDODGER

done really well today. spent just over £7 on food and cleaning stuff.

dinner was pasta and pesto. yum. ive done and inventory of the freezers today and am going to be using as much of that as i can into this weeks meal planner, hopefully keeping this weeks food bill down as much as possible.

had a friend round this afternoon, was nice to have a natter.

sophiesmum - yes i will miss them when they go back to school but i think for the first few days i will just enjoy the peace and quiet lol

minirolo2004

Afternoon all

Nyk - That is indeed the one and only Eurofighter - believe me, they are spectacular when I'm controlling them. They are designed to be aerodynamically unstable so that they can be thrown about the sky with ease. I used to be based in Norwich, when the Jags were still flying, and it was incredible to see and hear them. The noise especially is exhilerating! (even more so with he Typhoon)

I'm even luckier now, to be based at the home of the beloved Red Sparrows - we get a free air show every day almost!

I won't be going up to Leuchars myself, but, I always try and make the Waddington one..and, if I'm not busy at work, I'll try and volunteer for Fairford.

I'm glad Monday is over - busy week ahead! Hope all are well

Optimisticpair

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

yip i saw that supersizers!

in a few weeks they are going to be drawing recipe books with wartime recipes - vinegar cake and grilled pigeon etc. This week we are making ration books n staining them with coffee to age them (bet the irony of using coffee to do that will be lost on them through :rolleyes: )

and next week we are making model allotment gardens out of pebbles and plastacine

Sounds fun and very useful lesson on what used to be called Domestic Science or Home Economics. It was tea I heard for ageing documents from a 'Lovejoy 'episode I think . I've been given fried or grilled pigeon but it was fowl (sorry) anyway I don't recommended it, the thing was tough as old boot leather but casserole might be acceptable fodder.

redglass_2

Jumble-Bee wrote: »

in a few weeks they are going to be drawing recipe books with wartime recipes - vinegar cake and grilled pigeon etc.

Our local WI market still offers vinegar cake. It tastes fine - you would never guess it had vinegar in it. Some of those WW2 recipes are pretty frugal, too...there are instructions on how to bottle fruit without sugar, or make 'honey' from parsley, sugar and vinegar. 'Tastes and looks like heather honey,' say the instructions. Hmm, I wonder...!

Brighton_belle

Nyk, you are not entirely alone - growing up with a father in aviation and 2 older brothers,and in the wind dependent flight path of concorde, we always ran out side if we heard her going over and it was a thrill every time, ditto, at the other end of the scale bi planes & spitfires, AND we grew up within spitting distance of the Farnborough airshow so got a bi annual plane fest there too:D . I had a brief peried of making clocks 10 yrs ago and did a mean 2ft x 1 ft spitfire with perfect markings/paint camolflage. Never did get to play with dolls:rotfl: .
I've got a great A3 2nd WW poster in my dining room:white writing on bright red that reads "Don't Panic and Carry On."
Got tasks done in town and went on great charity shop browse in nearby Seaford. for a treat. OH spent 99p on a florescent waistcoat so now looks deliciously like a man in (almost) uniform:D . I bought a leaf green teapot.
Did spend on tea and pecan slice but had the benfit of being inspired by the shops shelving - piping uprights and rough sawn planks. Very simple but looked really good. Quite fancy that as OH had a zillion 2nd hand books in storage elsewhere. Must research the piping uprights.
No knead bread on the rise. Going to try cooking it in the remoska.
Taka - is that otter inspired?:D
Sophies mum - thinking of you all and hoping you are all together as a family tonight.
Marru - lovely to hear you so bouyed up by a good weekend and your conclusions re health/diet. Good luck with the start of your course tomorrow. Good times ahead.
I've had minced pidgeon in a filo wrap dusted with icing sugar (a Moroccan restaurant). Most delicious starter I've ever had.

Optimisticpair

Brighton_belle wrote: »

Nyk, you are not entirely alone -

Indeed not alone, I love aircraft too . One thing I have missed for years is being on a flight path where I used to dash out to see show aircraft but I will soon be living in a low fly zone again . I am going to have a shot at painting them to sell as soon as I finish the xmas present for my MIL (a cross-stitch cat picture to go in a basket of cat stuff).

People are sounding a bit perkier today, that's good.