Fire Fox's Debt-Free in 2009 Diary

Fire_Fox

Mr. Fire Fox has just refused to eat pak choi, put cheddar on his beef in Szechuan sauce (), announced he is off work for two weeks starting Monday and going to his mum's for the first week!! :eek: I feel a wine night coming on ...

vodkabarbie

Hi Fire Fox, enjoying your diary and the talk of cooking! Really inspired to cut my spend in the supermarket even more.....as far as I can with Mr Vodka, he needs some of his food favourites or there will be mutiny

Fire_Fox

Loving your username Vodkabarbie, with Jellie you could make vodka jellies *drifts off into a fantasy* :cool:

Mr. Fire Fox is like Mr. Vodka I think, at one point we were buying chocolate, nuts, branded cereals, crisps, cakes AND biscuits every week and they'd be gone in two days!! :eek: Started shopping every ten days, then every two weeks, bought more own brands, rotated what I bought (nuts OR crisps, cakes OR biscuits), bought ingredients instead of sweet stuff .... but most success has been through shopping on my own!

Fire_Fox

Call me slow but ...we have a B&M in Bradford centre! I have lived here just under three years and I never saw it before. :rolleyes: I was very restrained and only bought two Sharwoods sauces at 10p each, two bottles of my usual Schwartzkopf shampoo (£2) and a huge dark Toblerone for Mr. Fire Fox at £1.50. Also picked up my prescription and some female essentials spending another £8.50 in total.

Made mushroom pate this afternoon (two manky red onions gone!), to which I added too much soft cheese. :mad: and French onion soup this evening to try out the free beef bouillon paste. The soup has ended up very sweet as I cooked the onions so long: think it needs Mr. Fire Fox's chefs flourish!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Call me slow but ...we have a B&M in Bradford centre! I have lived here just under three years and I never saw it before. :rolleyes: I was very restrained and only bought two Sharwoods sauces at 10p each, two bottles of my usual Schwartzkopf shampoo (£2) and a huge dark Toblerone for Mr. Fire Fox at £1.50. Also picked up my prescription and some female essentials spending another £8.50 in total.

I've only ever been in once. I might have to venture in for a second time!

Fire_Fox

Our B&M is nowhere near as good as Home Bargains, but it is near Wilkinsons which I visit regularly.

Insomnia is sometimes a good thing ... realised at silly o'clock this morning that the obvious way to use up fresh basil was to boil some pasta, throw in an out-of-date jar of red pesto, and wrinkly cherry tomatoes and yellowing spring onions. :T I think I must buy too much fresh veg as I seem to spend a lot of time rescuing it!

*Jellie*

I'm liking the Vodka Jellies idea!!
I'm finding it difficult with OH wanting crisps and snacky things etc. When I was single I just wouldn't buy them. Now not only do I buy them but I eat them too :eek:

Fire_Fox

I think we are living parallel lives, Jellie!!

I ate (obsessively) healthily before Mr. Fire Fox, but have now put on three stone through eating rubbish ... I firstly cut costs by shopping less frequently - he eats all his junk food in two days and then it's gone. Did discover Mr. Fire Fox will eat breakfast cereal at any time of the day and as much fruit as you bring into the house, so we have milk in the freezer, a cupboard full of Nestle cereals (cos they are wholegrain) and two bowls full of fresh fruit.

For real rubbish I buy Smartprice biscuits, the ingredients for baking cakes, dark chocolate or cheap chocolate peanuts and raisins, and whatever branded crisps are on offer. If he wants Pepsi and milk chocolate he buys his own. I also buy stuff on offer and hide it ... have you got a Home Bargains? We still spend FAR too much money on this stuff but definitely less than we were.

If you come up with any other sneaky tricks please let me know!!

claire0788

Pound shop is good for sweeties and crisps... Not that I buy junk food....:p

I got 12 packets of monster munch crisps for £1 because it was 9 with 3 free. Bargin ! Needless to say I bought 3 bags worth lol

Fire_Fox

I seem to be on a freebie mission! Yesterday I applied for a 'hippo' for the toilet from two websites; today I joined the Simple VIP programme (PM me your e-mail address if you are interested as I get £1 for referrals) and Team Green Britain for 100 Nectar points. Surveys have been a bit rubbish this week - only a handful of points from GlobalTestMarket. :mad: