50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

loumac

Right caught up again at last.....

CONGRATULATIONS WEEZL AND ACETATE MONKEY! :j

BELATED BIRTHDAY WISHES ISOM!

Just to add my bit, Weezl although I've only been reading through the summer hols and will no doubt fall off the radar when I start teaching again next week - you have been a true inspiration. You (and everyone else that posts on here!!!) have helped me and my OH to re-evaluate and start to really change our food shopping/cooking/eating habits - hopefully saving us lots and lots ready for our trip to NZ at Christmas.

Thank you all - I'll try and read up on how you're all doing.

Weezl, look after yourself and Ferg and definitely definitely up the budget just a little! :rolleyes:

Lots of love, luck and happiness.

Laura

got-it-spend-it

I love the idea of a laundry room and determined that when we convert our garage part of it will be one! OH thinks I'm mad but I'm determined.

I don't think it being upstairs is any disadvantage at all, as you say much of the washing belongs up there anyway....

cw18

Our last house had solid fuel C/H as we moved in -- but the previous owner had given all the fuel away to her friends as we'd already said we were bringing gas into the property as soon as we moved in (had only be laid to the estate a year earlier) and converting the C/H.

So I scrubbed out the coal shed and white-washed it. When the sparky rewired the house (had to be done as it was a condition of the mortgage, and was completed before we moved in with 3 kids including a baby born 11 hours after we completed the purchase of the house) he added a double socket into that shed. (There was already power in the sheds for lights, and one other already had plug sockets, so not a big job). I then got a plumber to come and extend the external water supply (already present for an outside tap and the toilet in the third shed) to the ex-coal shed. That then housed my washer/dryer (later replaced by separate machines) and my small chest freezer. The kitchen (which was a reasonable size anyway) seemed huge once it didn't have to house those appliances.....

I miss my utility shed The house we have now has a bigger kitchen, but it seems much smaller as the appliances are all now back indoors!!

weezl74

thanks for all the laundry room thoughts! AM thinks it's a bit of a crazy hormonally driven whim, so I'm going to get him to look at all your sensible replies!:rotfl:

Just saw this bargain for snacking (can you tell I'm planning the shopping today?) And thought it might be useful to some of you, £2 for 2 kg so 10p per generous 100g serving. With a couple of pence worth of sugar syrup drizzled over, and a film off the telly, a bargainous night in! :money::money::money:

meanmarie

Weezl...I think that the upstairs laundry room is a great idea, you will have room for several airers and your ironing board so all that is out of the way of the rest of the house...go for it.
To reassure you on the subject of leaks, when my DS1 lived in Holland the washing machine and clothes drying area was at the top of the house...second floor, there was, for want of a better word, a tray about 10cm high into which the washing machine sat, I presume to hold at least some of any overflow of water...sure something the same can be bought in UK...or AM might use his ingenuity to concoct an MS solution.

Keep well

Marie

MRSMCAWBER

ooohhh MeanMarie

genius idea ...what about using something like an old shower tray?(obviously with the plughole blocked :rotfl: )...sure AM can come up with a better idea mind lol

nicki_2

weezl74 wrote: »

wow good blog find shaz! She's had loads of kids, I'll read up and see how she manages!;)

These are my latest thrifty find for trying to offset any piles that might be coming my way, at 15.84p per serving, I think they're a good brekkie option for me and Fergie!



£1.98 for a kilo at the moment, if anyone's[strike] bunged up[/strike] interested to know!

I have a jar of them in my fridge right now. I use them to make spiced prune cake Sneaky way of getting DD to eat them.

cw18

nicki wrote: »

I have a jar of them in my fridge right now. I use them to make spiced prune cake Sneaky way of getting DD to eat them.

Any chance of the recipe please? Would it work as an alternative to malt loaf (which all the family eats when I have a bit of spare cash)?

I know none of us really eats enough F&V, and I doubt any of us get enough fibre -- but none of us like prunes either (I've tried to figure out how to sneak them into our diet before, but with no success!)

ashia_2

Can I second the vote for the recipe? I think it sound yummy (yep, got that sense from three words). We're in the same low f and v and fibre boat...and if it can pretend to be malt loaf that would be even more uber-fab

Softstuff

weezl74 wrote: »

wow good blog find shaz! She's had loads of kids, I'll read up and see how she manages!;)

These are my latest thrifty find for trying to offset any piles that might be coming my way, at 15.84p per serving, I think they're a good brekkie option for me and Fergie!

Prune piccy

£1.98 for a kilo at the moment, if anyone's[strike] bunged up[/strike] interested to know!

Weezl, check out the fibre content of dried dates compared to dried prunes. Having recently "suffered" thanks to so much medication, I went hunting for fibre filled cheapo goodies. Bananas are great, but my biggest surprise came when I looked at prunes. They're touted as the most useful food for that, but it turns out dates contain more fibre (and over here, were cheaper!)