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Intergalactic_Floozie

Days to payday: 18
Money in bank: £327.05
Money in Purse: £0.40
Grand Total: £327.45

Spends from 1330 Thursday to 1600 Friday: ZILCH!!! Hooray, 2nd non-spend day for me since I re-started my diary

Grocery Budget: £300 / £137.38
Petrol Budget: £137.50 / £32.00
Bus Pass Budget: £56.00 / £0.00
Everything Else Budget: £250.68 / £158.07

Moneysaving things to be proud of today:
1. Had a no-spend day (can't get more money saving than that!!!!)
2. Managed to avoid eating lunch and save it for another day by eating four slices of home-baked carrot cake instead (whoops).

That's all I can think of...

Am planning on doing some baking tomorrow. I'm 34 years old and have never baked a cake! Carrot cake and orange cake here I come!!!

natsplatnat

Good luck with the baking IF! ;O)

mooomin

Ooh, good luck with the baking. It's on my list of things to do before Christmas as well!

Verbatim

Enjoy your cake and let us know how it went. Yum, carrot cake.....chuck us a slice please.

Your money situation looks pretty impressive too.

Intergalactic_Floozie

Days to payday: 17
Money in bank: £297.05
Money in Purse: £8.95
Grand Total: £306.00

Spends from 1600 Friday to 1530 Saturday: £21.45
£1.45 - newspapers x 2
£20.00 - next door neighbour fitted my shower and it turned out to be a long job so I insisted he take it!

Grocery Budget: £300 / £137.38
Petrol Budget: £137.50 / £32.00
Bus Pass Budget: £56.00 / £0.00
Everything Else Budget: £250.68 / £136.62

I've set about making a carrot cake! It's this recipe: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3229/yummy-scrummy-carrot-cake
It's in the oven as we speak (been in 7 minutes) and I have to say the mixture leftover in the bowl tastes absolutely divine (me and the kids agree) so hopefully the finished product will taste as good.

However it's cost me a fortune to make it because I honestly didn't have a single item for baking! I haven't taken it off today's running total yet because I may have to pull some money over from my savings for the "investment" of cooking utensils:

Total spent: £54.18
Cooking ingredients bought: £11.28 (recipe for 2 x cakes)
Cooking utensils (zester, cake tins x 2, storage boxes x 2, grater, cooling rack, greaseproof paper, foil) = £22.88
Other food: £16.22 (v v bad)
Other stuff: £ 3.80 (2 x magazines for DS2)

Intergalactic_Floozie

Okay, so now I have written it in black and white I may as well alter my budget:

Days to payday: 17
Money in bank: £242.87
Money in Purse: £8.95
Grand Total: £251.82

Grocery Budget: £300 / £109.88 (ingredients & other food knocked off total)
Petrol Budget: £137.50 / £32.00
Bus Pass Budget: £56.00 / £0.00
Everything Else Budget: £250.68 / £109.94 (utensils & magazines taken off this - I am being brave!!!)

Intergalactic_Floozie

Report on cake: It's very nice, very sweet, very soft and moist but I think I could have left it in the oven for a big longer as it is very, very soft and crumbly. But, the kids love it so for me, that's the thumbs up cos my kids are normally dead fussy. I also didn't do a brilliant job with the icing because it's kind of run off the chuffing cake so it's got more of a glaze than a topping!

Verbatim

Well done it's the taste that counts. Is there any left?

Intergalactic_Floozie

Verbatim wrote: »

Well done it's the taste that counts. Is there any left?

Yes, there is about three-quarters of it left. I'm meant to be taking it into work for a bake-off, but I doubt very much there'll be any left!!! Am having a go at making another one today at some point. I have some bananas going black...

Intergalactic_Floozie

Days to payday: 16
Money in bank: £202.71
Money in Purse: £8.95
Grand Total: £211.66

Money spent between 1530 Saturday and 1310 Sunday: £40.16 at Morrisons
£39.37 on food.
£0.79 for a sieve

Grocery Budget: £300 / £70.51 (EEEEKKKKK!!!!!!!)
Petrol Budget: £137.50 / £32.00
Bus Pass Budget: £56.00 / £0.00
Everything Else Budget: £250.68 / £109.15

Oh dear. I did it again, I went to Morrisons "just for a few bits" without a list and before I know it I have spent £40!!!! I have got plenty of whoopsied stuff though so perhaps I wont need to go and do a big shop til the weekend which will then be 10 days til pay day so perhaps £70 WILL last me? Also I keep forgetting to use my £3 of pinecone luncheon vouchers so I still have those (DOH!)

Money saving things to be proud of:
1. I didn't buy any newspapers today (will wait til I visit mum and dad and nab theirs).
2. Bought cheap loo roll (£1.26 for 12 rolls, rather than £2+ for four)
3. Finally fitted into a size 14 top I bought in the summer. (I've lost 12.5lbs so far, next weigh in is tomorrow)
4. I baked a cake!