over spend and over eat

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Skint_Lynne wrote: »

What are you doing differently Jo, have you written a meal plan out? It's amazing if you don't go to the supermarket with a list, you end up chucking all sorts of crap into the trolley:rotfl:

Speak later,

SL x

Lynne, I have not written out meal plans (yet) but I am checking the cupboards and fridge more often now and always check to see what I need before i go shopping. In the past I just used to say, mmm think i need flour, only to find on my return i had a full one in the cupboard, that sort of thing. I am much more A**a savvy, went shopping with OH last week and i was very good, I didn't buy anything i didn't need. Also eating at work and using there food (shameful i know) but we are allowed too and it means, I don't have to have junk in the house ( i just eat works) :rotfl: although there isn't a lot, as our menu's at work have to balanced meal. but there is crisps, biscuits etc if the lads want them ( and the night-shift) of course.

Hows you doing

Jo x

bluejeans

Kmac_Edin wrote: »

Want to come do my filing here??? I'm really bored of it! xx

:rotfl:I think i may take lads out for a drive in the bus this afternoon. We have a mini bus. But as i say it wild n windy here, so it will bee a drive out not a get out of the bus run out. We will buy ice creams or something at the other end. Other wise it will be watching a movie or something and i cant st still that long and will end off, doing one of there rooms .

Jo x

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LilMissEmmylou wrote: »

gosh had to hunt for this thread today! Lynne hope you enjoyed that ever so naughty fry lol, i looove making soup, what sort are you making? I know its a bit bad but i also love to make dumplings with my soup yyyuuuuuuuummmmy!

free me 2 yrs OMG lol thats dedication! You will NOT be writing it in another 2 yrs, this thread will be kicking your !!! if you are lol

Hiya Emmylou, I subscribe to this post, so i just go straight to my cp and click on it.

I love soup too, )and dumpling in it) though try not to have the dumplings too often :T

Jo x

bluejeans

Skint_Lynne wrote: »

Forgot to ask Emmy,

What sort of soup has dumplings in it, I have heard of mince and dumplings but not soup, I am intrigued, please tell me how you make it.

SL x

Hiya Lynn omg you never had dumplings in your soup, I gotta come up and show ya. MMMMm delish. We in "geordie lad" make broth. Please tell me you make broth Lynn.

Jo x

bluejeans

Puzzledbubbles wrote: »

Thanks for the support guys!!!

I would love to start making soup but not really sure where to start - does anyone have an idiots guide???

Also if there is a way to make it like tinned (so OH will eat it too) then that would be great!!!

We went to Legoland today - we used a BOGOF voucher from Tesco and had an amazing day - only thing is i could not convince OH to take a packed lunch so we ate a lot of very expensive rubbish (he has been a darling and is paying for everything with the extra funds he has raised by selling some of his things)

Blue - do you remember i said i had £40 to last me until pay day (which is this friday)??????????

You are going to be so proud of me - i have £34 left!!!!!!!!!!!

OH has been buying some of the general rubbish i would normally buy but ive not splurged on anything and now its less than a week to go and im quietly confident that i will be able to cope.

Also all of this walking that you have all been doing has inspired me. Has anyone got any idea of where i can get a cheap (but relatively accurate) pedometer from - ive been trying to start using the Wii fit again but havent got the motivation to get up that hour earlier than i need to while im still poorly (off for ultrasounds on my Kidneys on Friday) but was thinking if i can just increase the walking more then at least its more exercise - only problem is i need some numbers to do it if that makes sense.

Puzzled xxx

WOOOOO HOOOOO HIYA PUZZLED, FAB TO HEAR FROM YOU. I was just about to get all the gang together and do a "search and rescue" for ya, Because don't think you are hiding somewhere, we cant find you, WE WILL track you down. Well done on the only £6 spent, nice one. i need to get tips from you. How did you manage that ?

Pedometers, I have tried a few and I am not impressed with them. I just measure the time i am walking. While you are poorly I would advise not , doing any counting steps and trying to improve on it, you may push yourself too much. Just walk around until you are all sorted and then get your head around , improving and pushing yourself a bit.

I miss you when you go away, stay and have some fun with us, even if your not up to healthy eating or exercising at the moment. I have said it many times before. Exercise in a BIG NO NO for me I HATE IT. Just keep posting and chatting. Hey I have laodza information and advise the best i can,but I don't always follow it myself or I would not be on here. So try and post even if you not up to "doing" OR BE WARNED WE WILL COME LOOKING FOR YOU.

Puzzled what part of the country are you in. i am doing a map if where we all are, then going to try and get it to you all, somehow.

fab to hear from you Puzzled and yes I WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER KICK UP THE b*T IF YOU START SLACKING ON YOU POSTING.

Jo x

Jo x

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Now its confession time "JUST HOW BAD IS THIS" As most of you know, on my nights off I go to my Friends house at 10pm, to help her put her OH to bed as he has MS. I get paid on average about £126 a month for this, depending on how many nights i go. Well friends OH died on Friday. Now I am not at all sad about this, as he told me many times over the last few weeks that he wanted to "go". He was totally dependent on us to wash him, dress him, toileted him, clean him up, feed him etc. So I am fine that he has moved on.

Now the confession. I said to other half. Well at least I don't have to go out every night at 10pm, I can go int he bath, get my jarmies on, have a glass of wine and the winter is coming on, so i can stay in OMG how bad id that and thats not the end. In the next breath i was saying and I'll be £126 a month down OMG OMG OMG. I am soooooo wicked to have these thoughts but they just popped into my head, couldn't help it.

Jo x

Kmac_Edin

Jo

Dont feel bad for thinking that, its surprising how much of an extra stress doing something like that is. YOu are bound to miss the extra cash and certainly we all know that the money is not the reason you were helping your friend out with her OH.

You are a caring person Jo, and dont feel bad for saying that.

My mum passed away 4 years ago after a very short but nasty battle with a rare form of bile duct cancer. She was in the hospital and by the time the end came, I was distraught but a tiny part of me was relived that she was finally at peace and also that she was no longer being a "burden" on the family as that was her greastest fear. She didnt want to be dependant on anyone in life or in illness.

Dont feel bad, we all think things like that when someone close to us passes away. Part is genuine relief and the majority is the human way of coping with loss. xxx

icka

Hi Girlies

Jo I didnt tell anyone honest , I leaned in very close when I read what you ate.

About your friends OH Im terribly sorry for your loss, but we all need to realise about death is sometimes it is a happy release, especially for the person who is ill. Nobody wants to be left in a position that their dignity is taken from them. So we need to thank god for taking them and helping them to be free from pain and suffering. You thoughts about the money, would be the same as every one of us would have also thought. This is the DFW board and every one of us counts on all the income we have.

So please do not feel bad honey it is 100% natural. I will pray for his soul and his family and may he RIP

Skint_Lynne

Hi Everyone,

I have passed the first stage of my interview for the welfare officer's job, so I've to go a week on Thursday for the 2nd stage of it. I am quite excited about it, I so hop I get it.

Will check in later to see what's happening.

SL x

LilMissEmmylou

waaaaaaaaaahey well done Lynne!!!

Jo how sad for your friend, but as you said he wanted to go anyway so is perhaps better for him in the long run to be somewhere better. Try not to feel too bad x