Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

skint_chick

fizzel - your debt busting is very impressive, you must feel really proud you are sorting it out and repaying it so quickly.

Lollopybear - I make a lot of pizzas with ciabatta bread because OH likes his pizza "squishy" and they are so quick to make- I got some ciabatta's that are part cooked from Mr T - they're really long - enough to cut in 2 then split open so will make 4 pizzas. They just go in the oven for a few mins then toppings on and a few more mins til the cheese melts. I use 2/3rds ordinary cheese 1/3mozzarella. And I use passata rather than tomato puree because it soaks into the bread nicely. Soda bread also makes lovely pizzas but it can be hard to get hold of. You can freeze them once they're made too before you cook the toppings.

Brightonbelle - I just started using the soapnuts and they work really well - I can't tell the difference between them and my usual Fairy - even on duvet covers. OH's excema has cleared up too so will be ordering a big bag.

bails

Tinned toms were 19p last time I bought some and 21p for chopped - and that really wasn't so long ago! Someone tell me they're still cheaper in L1dls?
As for food prices going down, the question then is, to stockpile or not to stockpile?

[Marru, sorry to do it on here but phone not working - can I put extra columns into my spreadsheet for the savings on each category without mucking up the fancy bit?]

Masomnia, I meant to say - impressive sig! What year do you graduate? And as ever, to anyone who is paying off their debts, :T

Naomim

Hi All,

A NSD for me as I spent the morning ironing and then in-laws came over for a lovely roast dinner. Normally from a whole chicken I get about 3 meals and a couple of sandwiches out of it but not this time :rolleyes: Got enough left for DH's lunch tomorrow. At least MIL came with 6 rolls of toilet paper... maybe she's trying to tell me something about my cooking :rotfl: She bought them in the cash and carry and really liked them so gave her DD a pack and brought a pack over for us

I updated my sig last night and included the flipping £60 congestion charge fine I got :mad:

I'm also thinking about growing a few bits but I will only have a bit of patio to use so will need to do things in tubs. I've never grown anything before so I'm going to have to nip over to the greenfingered board I think and pick some brains

Naomi x

Marru

bails wrote: »

[Marru, sorry to do it on here but phone not working - can I put extra columns into my spreadsheet for the savings on each category without mucking up the fancy bit?]

Bails, just leave it as it is for now please. I will catch up this week and I am sure we can jig it the way that you need.

I am exhausted. Thank goodness it is nursery/school day tomorrow. I need a holiday to recover from this holiday...

bails

Yes ma'am, of course, thanking you kindly :T I'll just record them in my diary for now and add them with you later on. Rest up!

fizzel81

skint_chick wrote: »

fizzel - your debt busting is very impressive, you must feel really proud you are sorting it out and repaying it so quickly.

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i really have to being on this challenge means i can or should achieve it i guess if i wanted i could kick off at ex as part of the child mantance agreement being half what he should pay me for the boys was as he said he would pay everything we owed but we split feb last year and he has paid nothing to date and as far as i can tell has no plans to pay so nearly 2 years after we split nothing has been done

just means a year with nothing extra so that we can then have a better 2010 well thats the plan

MRSMCAWBER

Hi all

On the veggie front.. Im not starting any seeds until valentines day ..after starting stuff off to early and finding stuff ready to go out before the frost had gone :rolleyes:

Just spotted this..don't know if anyone else has seen it -for a free packet of seeds:D

http://www.hiddeneden.com/free-seeds.aspx

LollopyBear

skint_chick wrote: »

Lollopybear - I make a lot of pizzas with ciabatta bread because OH likes his pizza "squishy" and they are so quick to make- I got some ciabatta's that are part cooked from Mr T - they're really long - enough to cut in 2 then split open so will make 4 pizzas. They just go in the oven for a few mins then toppings on and a few more mins til the cheese melts. I use 2/3rds ordinary cheese 1/3mozzarella. And I use passata rather than tomato puree because it soaks into the bread nicely. Soda bread also makes lovely pizzas but it can be hard to get hold of. You can freeze them once they're made too before you cook the toppings.

Thanks for that skint_chick, that sounds so good. We can get soda bread at our local Mr Ts, we have that when DH makes an Ulster fry-up, just never thought of using that for a pizza base either. We normally make hm pizza using the breadmaker, but it's quite a bit off faff so mostly we buy it readymade. This is a great midway solution! Is passata the one that is in the tubes?

whitewing

Has anyone got any suitable quotes or poems that I can use for the cards I am making this year, please? Covering birthdays, friendship, anniversaries, weddings, babies and anything really. I'm in a creative mode. I thought this year I would get some good words and build cards round that. Don't think copyright will be an issue as it's only for individual cards for giving to friends/relatives.

In_Search_Of_Me

:hello: hello shaz! Lovely to see a familliar face! Can be quite overwhelming with so many new names, faces, stories...still think of you every time I hear of stockpiling!!

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Well hello there

I miss a few days and it goes mad

Hello to all the newbies:hello: Hello ISOM


Shaz

whitewing if you google "quotes" (or type - ie friendship, birthday etc) lots come up for you and you can pick for the person IYKWIM!