Fire Fox's Debt-Free in 2009 Diary

claire0788

I think they try to confuse people so they dont kick up a fuss and hope your confused into an insane state !

I got a copy of the statement of everything since i moved into my place and i dont even know what some of the things are ! Silly descriptions and half of it makes no sense.

Good luck

Fire_Fox

Very hungover today having spent £15 yesterday on a night out. Can't decide whether to go to Tesco tomorrow or Saturday: I need wine for my mates coming over at the weekend, and want to spend some of the vouchers that appear to be sprogging on my magnet board!!

Got some chicken stock out of the freezer for making soup - also have two nearly empty bottles of wine so may chuck that in too. On the hunt for something cheaper than the Lakeland soup'n'sauce bags that I've run out of.

Fire_Fox

Completed two IPSOS surveys in the last couple of days which will taken me to the third tenner as soon as they clear! :j Been stuck on £9 with Valued Opinions for ages. I am hopeful of getting to the 1000 points/ £30 marker with GlobalTestMarket by the end of the year - not bad to say I rarely qualify!

Just back from B&M where I spent £1.70 on two small bottles of Amoy satay sauce, Knorr fish bouillon, Colgate toothpaste AND Sainsburys 'green' all purpose cleaner!! Then spent £6 in Home Bargains on Walkers Sensations and Jonathan Crisps, Kelloggs corn flakes, Paxo stuffing, McVities ginger cakes, and some Pour&Store bags.

*Jellie*

I'm not sure I'd put colgate and cleaner in your soup but I've used a bit of wine before.
I hope the accounts make a bit more sense with time. Enjoy seeing your friends!

claire0788

Fire Fox, i still have a spare room until the roommate moves in and your food sounds lovely... :rolleyes:

Im going to be under 1000 on my overdraft really soon, nobody else is excited when i tell them this (except my mum but only because shes sick of me being annoyed at it) thats the good thing about this site. Thats the kinda thing that gets people going lol

Fire_Fox

I have just had the most irritating yet successful visit to Tesco ... According to my receipt I spent £102 on two bottles of Cava, four bottles of white wine, a black trouser suit and three large bags of food. After discounts and vouchers I paid £23 cash and received 160 Clubcard points!! :beer:

The suit was the £15 offer, so an immediate saving of £20. The customer service girl mucked up my double up, so I ended up with £20 off clothing instead of the £10 I wanted. Thought I'd see if it went through the till and it did so the suit cost -£5!! Two bottles of Cava are on half price, the four bottles of wine were reduced to clear at £2.60 each, and two jars of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce reduced to 40p. :money:

Fire_Fox

You will all be pleased to know that I took Jellie's advice!! Soup contains chicken stock, vegetable stock, a splash of wine, bacon scraps, chestnut mushrooms, a red onion, sweetcorn, the last of the soup mix and a little extra pearl barley. So that will be lunch for a couple of days! Lovely and cheap meal with my friends last night of brocolli and cauliflower bake, used up sprouting new potatoes, some frozen cheese that came out crumbly, more bacon, a tin of condensed soup, more wine.

Meal plan for the week includes cooking with some dried curried chick peas that are too hot and too stale to eat as a snack: I have frozen spinach so might end up as a vegetable curry. I also have two turkey drumsticks in the fridge which I intend to slow cook with leftover wine and strip of meat. Need to work out what to do with the many short dated cooking sauces I have picked up for pence:
Two Amoy peanut satay
One Amoy Szechuan
Two Sharwoods sweet chilli and lemongrass
Three Seeds of Change tomato and vegetable.

Also realised I have a pint of milk and four eggs that are out of date, with the crumbly cheddar and leek that I forgot to put in the soup that has the makings of something yummy!! :T

Fire_Fox

In the oven is pasta bake to my own recipe, i.e. I have no idea what I am doing!! :eek: A leek and red pepper fried off, some pasta al dente, a savoury egg custard topped with grated cheese. It looks nice ...

I also have an idea for a layered potato and onion bake using beef stock and a couple of sausages or some corned beef.

ZiggyStardust_2

Love the ideas for left over/using up food, am inspired!

Fire_Fox

Thank you! I don't think I am doing anything unique - apparently my genius concept of a potato bake with beef stock is called 'scouse'. Google is your friend. :rotfl: I also have plans for a meatloaf, using some of the Paxo stuffing I got cheap earlier in the week. Someone on the Storecupboard Challenge thread was saying they serve it sliced like a roast with Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, veg and gravy. I thought that sounded both yummy and moneysaving! :T