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

In_Search_Of_Me

aww welcome tinypawz..is that your child in the avatar? gorgeous!!
Hello pepys...hugs for you shaz and keep us posted re the trapped nerve. Having a quiet day here and feeling shattered after a heavy week. Jusp pottering; wont get dressed and off to have a read in bed with my new leccy blanket that I am in love with!!
Does anyone have a fabby recipe for soup for my friend who has PND - something nourishing to give her extra oomph....I did debate a carrot one but thats a bit naff...something treaty me thinks! Ideas asap please as I'll make it while I'm with her tomorrow!

tinypawz

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

aww welcome tinypawz..is that your child in the avatar? gorgeous!!

Yes ISOM, that is my little girl! she is mixed race, me-white Irish, ex -black Zimbabwean. I think she is gorgeous too, but I am very biased.

jtb2412

Hi everyone ! Hope you've all had a great weekend (we had MIL and FIL here so busy busy !)

CW18 - really well done on the average meal spend, you should be very proud !

Ceridwen - nice to hear about the square foot gardening adventure ! You'll not look back, I promise ! (says she who has more or less her whole garden dug up to raised beds ).

weezl - hope all is well with you, how many weeks are you now? (just being nosy )

tinypawz - hello !! - this has got to be the friendliest thread on here so pull up a chair and join in (hope you've got a bit of spare time on your hands ! :rotfl:

ISOM - sorry to hear you've had a heavy week. I think if I had a leccy blanket i'd have hibernated weeks ago !


Hoping to get back to the allotment and finish sorting the garden this weekend coming. Had relatives down the past two weekends so other things have taken a back seat.

Managed to have a pre-Xmas sort out in DS and DD's bedrooms over the school hols and put lots of things on freecycle so feeling I've at least done something a bit constructive ! lol

MIL helped me make my first Xmas cake over the weekend so i'm confident I can do the rest of them without event (I was worried about burning them !) Will be interesting to see how the marzipan and icing go ! :rotfl:

Kids had a great time on Halloween, carved out pumpkins (one grown by MIL specially) and me being my usual frugal self, saved all the pulp from the home grown one and made a pumpkin pie which was wolfed down by one and all !

Did my monthly storecupboard online shop (a week later than usual which is great news !) and picked up my meat order from the butchers (who knocked 10% off the price so saved even more money there ! :T )

It's DS birthday on Weds so we're off out for a nice meal but i'm paying using clubcard vouchers so it shouldn't cost us much, if anything at all (just drinks I think).

Kids have a 'teacher training' day today so can get tidied up after the weekend with their help and maybe get some Xmas pressies wrapped .

Hope you all have a lovely day xx

shaz_mum_of__2

Very quiet on here hope everyone is OK been busy with Uni etc but still living frugally there seem to be some good deals at the moment so my stockpile is growing

Shaz

weezl74

jtb2412 wrote: »

weezl - hope all is well with you, how many weeks are you now? (just being nosy )

Hello jtb, it's 23 weeks now! feels like it's going past quickly, but is v enjoyable, as have generally been very well.;):D

ISOM, are you selling chutneys at work too? wondered if along with your jams and wrapped in sellophane in a wicker hamper, your condiment fans at work might buy hampers as christmas gifts? Reckon you could make a pretty penny

shaz, I have been a bit quiet:o, mostly due to having extremely early nights after work! Fergus is curtailing my ability to surf, and eating up my geeky brain! (but I have lots of new obstetric facts in my brain now!!!) But I have been missing you all, so I'll persuade myself to come on and post even if I have no frugal facts or recipes. I guess I worry about being too chatty and going off topic! :eek: Also, shaz, your soaps are lovely, they make my skin feel all soft! Have you posted the link to your recipe?

Love to you all,

Weezl, AM and Fergie the frugal foetus xxx

In_Search_Of_Me

I did consider it weezl but am short on jars at present...also dont know if I have the energy tbh! Going to try and have a frugal christmas and make pressies and think that will probaby be enough to be gettng on with on top of work and college. Finished my latest cushion today and will upload piccy when its fully finished (the back still needs to go on!). Its not perfect but getting better. They loved the baby mat - will have to do a piccie with him in situ as long as they are ok with him being so publically cute!!
As for the leccy blanket...dont know how I managed without one. I am seriously in love with it..weezl if you have one get it out...its heavenly...honestly thing I will be reading more as tend to do this in bed and will even more now as will be so snuggly!!

Sian_the_Green

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

As for the leccy blanket...dont know how I managed without one. I am seriously in love with it..weezl if you have one get it out...its heavenly...honestly thing I will be reading more as tend to do this in bed and will even more now as will be so snuggly!!

I was going to strip my bed to put the electric blanket on but it is a bit of a pain as I have a cabin bed and we have a communal hot-water-bottle-fill-up-session every night in my house. 10 mins on the pjs whilst you do your teeth, 10 mins where your feet would go and then into bed to cuddle up to it, ah, it warms my heart to think of it. Especially for those of us who haven't got someone in bed to warm our cold feet

Cornishpixie_2

Afternoon all, I'm a bit of a Lurker. This site is addictive, was up this morning making lemon and carrot marmalade before anyone else was awake. Feeling a bit smug, because: A) Almost completeted Xmas shopping, coming in under budget. and B)My xmas fund owed me £5 because I bought DD interactive cubes for £5 at MR A, with grocery money. So with this I bought River Cottage cookbook from Smiths using discount coupon, downloaded and printed from here:D Ofcourse feeling a bit like a naughty school girl and checked to see no one I knew was in the shop.:o :rotfl: Thanks all for this great site receipes and tips are fab:T

shaz_mum_of__2

hello all

nice to see you weezl ,pleased you liked the soaps i have been a bit lax with soapmaking at the mo mostly due to the cost of oil,the veg kind not the middle eastern barrels

The recipes were my own so no links i am afraid but i could let you have the recipes if you are au fait with the process

I worry about safety for people who don't understand the process i must admit i cant even get the fragrance bit right i always feel soft but the smell doesn't linger the orange and poppy seed one i sent you ........did the colour fade mine have but its still OK to use i like the massage the bits give especially on my sore neck and back

was diagnosed with Sponylosis last week so just getting to grips with the fact it's not going to get better perhaps worse but at least i don't need an op which was my biggest fear i have a phobia about anaesthetic

Pleased that fergus is not causing you too many probs except tiredness .......................get used to that :rotfl::rotfl:


Anyway frugal brekkie here broken mandarins 1/2 a 12p tin and some plain yoghurt

i bought a kilo tub of onken bio yoghurt at Heron (frozen food) for 49p!!
its been yoghurt with everything

Found a local greengrocer sells 3 bunches(10 small ) bananas for a quid so 3.33p each

Last nights tea was 3 walls hot and spicy micro sasages(£1 for 6 at mr M) cooked and sliced thinly on the diaganal added to 2 packs of mr T value tom and herb pasta &sauce(22p?) when added a little leftover cream it was delicious and filling it seved 2 greedy people

Have a nice day ,i have an essay to finish for uni and terrified i have misunderstood the question


Shaz

Savvy_sewing

Hello, Tinypawz just put a link to the first challenge on my thread. Now that things have gone from bad to worse. pennypinching is probably going to have to be a necessity not a want!! So I hope to find some time to read, and think that grabbing a note book and pen would be better for me, as the twins and DS have managed to destroy all of thier laptops, and computers and are currently viing for mine. Mind you having just read that, perhaps it should remind me that actually no they cant use mine or it will end up the way of theirs. I cannot afford to feed us, how can I afford to fix thier computers, and mine. I would be lost to the world without mine!! Mmm. sorry I digress. Lots of reading for me to do.
Thanks for the inspiration to read on!!