50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

we have been helping decorate and clean at my brother's house before his tennants move in tomorrow. A 12 hr day, so I'm well and truly knackered!!!!!

:beer:

Love Weezl x

.....cor....steps back in amazement.....after all that decorating in your own house......errrr....Weezl....where do you find all that energy? All tips welcome:D

shaz_mum_of__2

Loocyloo

teasets sound nice Mr A were selling little pink boxes with a cat on for £1.50 here this week would be nice with some shredded paper in to put set in

Ther is a pic on another thread will see if i can find it


Pleased everyone had a busy day we did to putting all furniture back in kids rooms..............well my job was more supervisory...LOL

Really pleased with the cost all the decorating,carpets new bedding etc for 2 rooms was just over £300

Stuck to grocerey budget too by having shopping delivered (free with code) and by using up all the meal remnants in the freezer

I even remembered to order snacks and drinks for me to take as packed lunch for uni ............................i will stay out of the diner......

Its first proper day with lectures tomorrow i am excited ...............i should get my graant payment then too

really need to do some work in the garden(pull up all the dead tomatoes and beans etc) but will have to wait till wednesday now

doing a HM pizza today for lunch with pasta and salad and prepping something for the next 2 nights tea too as time will be tight ,it's been a while since i had to be so organised

All have a great day

Shaz

BASHFUL_2

LIZALOO your life sounds exactly the same as mine, I too am in my early 20's. and enjoy the same things you do, so you're not the only one :-)!!!

Anyways Ive just flicked through and havent caught up, Im hoping the lovely mrs m will be here to rescue me. I have your stuffing recipe at home on a word doc but I am not at home, I have flicked through the old thread and cant find it. Please please post it again!!!! I will be forever in your debt!!! :-) Hope everyone os well in Weezl land

weezl74

Morning all!

I think it'll be another good spend day here at Weezl Towers...

Breakfast- me- porridge and sultanas, got the oats for free, so 2p for the 20g sultanas:money:

Mr Weezl, 2 slices of toast (left over from holiday food, which came out of our annual holiday budget- and remarkably did 5 days away for 2 people including food fuel and fun and accommodation for under £250 :j:j:j)

and a little bowl of muesli 3p

Lunch is a southern Indian style meal at my friends house. (her OH is from southern India). It's quite fiery, vegetarian and lots of rice and lentils. The main difference to a lot of our meals would be how he likes the Sambal/dahl.

I would say mine is often the texture of a chilli con carne sauce, or just slightly wetter. They have it more like a thin soup consistency that you mop up with rice and idli.

It's very nice anyhow!

dinner is due to be leftover Chinese (lovely brother sent us home with the rest of the Chinese last night!!!) and I shall cook some rice to go with it so 10p total:T:T:T

day spend for the two of us, 15p!

Good times!

All the best with your busyness.

Shaz, really hoping for you that Uni goes well this week;)

Love Weezl x

cw18

bashful - is this what you're looking for?

BASHFUL_2

thankyou so much cw18 you are a life saver!!!! x x

ZoeGirl_3

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Quinoa is lovely IMHO. It makes a lovely pilaff- I just cook it according to instructions, using veggie bouillion rather than water. I add chopped onion, courgette and mushrooms about halfway into the cooking time. My personal favourite is to then serve with some cashews or sunflower seeds stirred through with a drizzle of olive oil. It's also nice if you substitute some if the cooking stock for a tin of tomatoes and add some chilli flakes.

Hope that is of use to someone!

Ohhh that sounds yummy, I won some organic Quinoa and haven't quite known what to do with it, so thanx :T

Just catching up and saw the Weezls are back so hi and hope it was a good holiday, at least there are some people out there who budget on holiday lol.

I am off in January next year for a little over a week and people think I am crazy because we are going to be staying in a tent ... :eek: still it be good times.

jtb2412

Shaz ....... hope you have a really great week at Uni ! You must be really excited :j !

Weezl .... well done on the free grub ! Think I might have to start attending more courses at work just for the buffets ! lol

Me and DS (who's 8) are just off to the dig your own farm for the veg for next week (really cheap, probably because you have to dig it out of the ground yourself ! lol)

Have been to the carboot this morning looking for a slow cooker but alas, couldn't find one (they did have several small ones but I want a biggie !)

Will be doing a lot of cooking this PM as I've finished the pond area (thought it might take me today as well but the kids helped me and I got it finished yesterday ..... pics are here if anyone wants a nose http://aolpictures.aol.co.uk/galleries/brwnmicha?backState=prevPage%3D/ap/myAlbums.do%26state%3DalbumId%253D25430.1799.1221994975449.1

Hope everyone is enjoying the lovely weather.:beer:

cw18

I've spent 2 hours this morning mowing our front lawns..... and my back is now suffering, which leaves me in a predicament as the back lawn (which is as much again) still needs doing something rotten! But the green bin is full until they empty it tomorrow morning, so not as if I can do anything unless I borrow someone else's bin anyway

We 'took on' a gardener at the start of the season who already did for next-door-but-1, and he was also booked for the house between us. The agreement was he'd be here once every two weeks, but I think we've seen him a total of 4 times :eek: And a number of them were after 3 or 4 weeks due to 'problems with car', 'problems with the mower' and 'injury to an eye which meant he couldn't drive'. I know the weather's been against him a bit, but he hasn't been for eight weeks !!!!!!!!!! You can image what the lawns are like now !!!!!!!!!!

Doesn't help that our lawns are all on slopes, and hubby bought a mower with swivel wheels -- so everytime it hits an angle or a bump it jumps and wrenches my back Think I'm going to trawl the sales for a petrol mower on 4 fixed wheels as soon as I get paid (30th), as I'm not prepared to rely on anyone else next year -- and it shouldn't cost me anywhere near as much in fuel in we've paid the chap when he came. And the gardener isn't an "allowable" expense according to Benefits Agencies (even though neither of us can really cope with doing it and the mower is too temperamental to make son attempt it) so has to be found out of what would otherwise be our food budget. So that should gain me an extra £5-7/week.

And I may try a barter system of some sort with the two neighbours as I know they both want to find someone else (next door have baby twins and the chap works hospital shifts, and next-door-but-1 is a single Mum who works full-time and doesn't own a mower).

ashia_2

Hey all, go weezl on the fab spends...15p..wow!

Well, I got sent home from work with my flu-y-ness, went to bed for about 3 hours and have got up to have lunch, which is pizza, and a sprite 3G. Had to go to the pharmacy for proper medicines...should I count this in my grocery budget? Its not exactly what you'd call a grocery....but I haven't any money of my own left til payday on friday, maybe I can convince oh to pay me for it....hmmmm.

Hope everyone else is having a happy, healthy, Sunday