HUGE challenge for you all!

Beki

That's amazing! Thank you SO much! xxxx

Beki

To start, i've just made a 'FREE' soup for dinner

Butternut squash - from garden
3 onions - from garden
15 cherry tomatoes - from garden
handful of sage - from garden
(used a veg stock cube - 2p and a glug of oil - 5p)

roasted the veg & sage in a bit of oil, put in a saucepan with a stock cube and some water and blitzed

serving with home made bread rolls from the freezer

viclav

Hi Beki

Good Luck with your hols!!! Ive just started trying to cut down on my shopping too

Sainsbury's have 1/3 off all nappies, wipes, baby food ect which ends today if you could get there and maybe cut your baby bill down. Pampers large packs £5.98 Sainsbury's own even cheaper

Penelope_Penguin

Beki wrote: »

To start, i've just made a 'FREE' soup for dinner

Butternut squash - from garden
3 onions - from garden
15 cherry tomatoes - from garden
handful of sage - from garden
(used a veg stock cube - 2p and a glug of oil - 5p)

roasted the veg & sage in a bit of oil, put in a saucepan with a stock cube and some water and blitzed

serving with home made bread rolls from the freezer

Well done :T especially on growing squash - we've had no crop for the last 2 years (not warm or sunny enough here ).

Penny. x

bertiebots

I know its probably way too late to help but if you can swap your phone and broadband to talktalk or sky you will save a fortune and even better do it through a cash back site ! Some are offering really good deals .We did pay over £50 per month with bt for our calls and broadband but switched and now get unlimited free landline calls and broadband for only £20 per month .....do it anyway! Why pay more than you have to! That goes for your other bills too ...and whilst you are in the process of switching you might get a little gap in payments if your lucky!

miemie

Beki
Hi i've got some disposable nappies going spare if you want them they are size 4,pm me if you want them and i will post them to you.
I'm sure you will do it, as others have said ebay anything you don't need, also if you have any vouchers from doing surveys these sell well on ebay.
Good luck
Miemie

lauren_1

You would be wanting size 3's/ large /toddlers then, how far along with potty training are you?
My ds is 2 1/2 and getting there slowly but dd was nearly 3 1/2 when she started though, its tough especially the price of size 6 nappies! We did cloth with ds from the start.

What signs is he displaying?
Will he willingly wee in the potty if he has nothing to pull down?
Where do you keep the potty?
How many have you got?
Does he have bigboy pants? Did he pick these?
Do you have a potty next to the toilet so he can copy you?
Does he have his own special bum wipes and hand wash (its a gimmicky thing but can get them from the £ shop) ?

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

Wowzer Beki that's ALOT of food! You should easily be able to feed your family for a while on that and only buuy things like milk and bread. I find the easiest way to save money on food is either not going to supermarkets at all!Going to my local village shop where the choice is so limited you'd only come out with what you went in for anyway works out alot cheaper!

I actually know someone who only ever did their food shopping in garage forecourt shops for exactly that reason (although his diet was appalling!!!)

lauren_1

princesstippytoes wrote: »

Oh I'm sorry, I thought it was Florida. You do seem to have quite a lot of food so should be able to meal plan quite well.

So did i :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Even before things like vegetable or lentil curry, I count at least 150 separate main meal servings. Then if you have fruit and perhaps HM yoghurt for breakfasts or puddings, eggs whenever the ladies oblige and porridge, I estimate you have in three meals a day, plus snacks, for the coming months. All you seem to need is perishables such as milk.

My DDs love cooked rice mixed with chopped up tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce. You could roast butternut squash/courgettes with cumin or thyme and do the same. The same works with couscous or quinoa. If you really cannot abide the quinoa when you do try it, I see no reason why the chooks shouldn't get it for dinner!

4 loo rolls at £2 should last a week (so £8 for month), say 16pts of milk at 99p/4pts = £4 (£16 for month), butter £1 X 2 (freeze in 1/2 oz slices and then it doesn't get wasted - oh, and grate your cheese finely and put that in the freezer too, you only end up taking a pinch out at a time then), toothpaste £2 for month with posh brand, £4 for a sack of spuds, £3 for a sack of carrots, 60p for bottle of stardrops, £1 for bag of washing soda, £2 for pack of tampax/towels, £2 for big bar of chocolate, £1.20 for huge multipack of basics crisps (see, I am human after all), £1 for shower gel/shampoo

That's only about £45 for the whole month, thus saving somewhere in the region of £160 from your estimated budget for 2 months.