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

Skint_Lynne

sewbocushions wrote: »

I've only got £26 for food for the rest of the month and I've spent double my (£17.21) for 'other' things already! My problem is that i've re-joined Slimming World as I have LOADS of weight to lose and I don't know how to feed myself on their suggested food plus the 2 kids on £26 a week!

Hi Bo,

I think that slimming world can be done of the 4K challenge. My dad does slimming world and there are lots of things you can eat, especially on green days, eg, baked potatoes and beans, pasta with hm tomato sauce etc.

I would have a look at their website as it has a lot of good recipies on it. There's a password every week to get in to look at the menu archive. Just ask your slimming advisor what it is. HTH xx

Also with regards to feeding yourself and the kiddies on £26 per week, trawl through old style and all the recipies on here, there's even a thread where someone managed to feed themselves, husband and 2 kids on £20 for the month!!

angelatgraceland

Well Im getting a free microwave from a Freecycle member tomorrow-I had 2 people offer so Im glad I asked! Both are old but working and thats good enough for me! Glad I asked now as hubby has been nagging me to buy one.
Found the thread where Dan of Approved Foods chat-for anyone who would like to find out a lot more about the company.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1282695&page=39
I had a call from him today to tell me a couple of things were out of stock but I was at work. Im very impressed!
Somehow I think I will be a regular visitor to his site.
So-no spending today but I will be doing my shopping in Lidl and Mr M tomorrow when Im in the area to collect microwave-all one trip.
Took HM meal to work today and DH asked me if I was "posing" with my home cooking????????????? Whatever next! This is the NEW way of posing! I cooked it myself. No packaged nonsense. No cheap mass-produced rubbish for me! Dentist was only £28 for roor filling xray and extraction. I think somehow we will have the rest of the bill next time? Sounds too cheap to me!

purplevamp

Not sure if anyone's mentioned but I've justed turned on Channel 4 - The Hunt for Britain's Tightest Person. The Welsh man who gaffer tapes his shoes and remelts candles deserves a :T . Not tight imo, I'm going to catch the beginning of the programme on Ch4+1

JAMIEDODGER

Im really struggling to keep up with the thread during the week! So hugs and well done's for everyone who needs them:)

A small spend here today, few bits of food from the local co op. More expensive than tesco but if I went there, I would end up spending more, Total spend today: £5.89! Will update signature...

save-a-holic

bails wrote: »

Can I ask for some help for any natural/homeopathic remedies you may know of for the (mostly) women's problem beginning with a c? I've just been prescribed my 3rd lot of antibiotics in a short space of time - is there any other cure in conventional medicine :rolleyes: - and I simply can't take them as my immune system is already severely weakened by the last two lots . This may seem off topic but please trust me it is very relevant to my finances, my Health and Wellbeing costs are 5k+ a year as it is and if I go downhill these costs will go up plus I won't be able to work.:( Thanks so much for any advice you have (know about the cranberry juice) and will pop off to see if I can find out which one of you was talking about homeopathy the other day.

My mum suffers from this regularly and she uses Potassium Citrate Solution which is sold in bottles behind the counter at Boots the Chemist.

candygirl

bails empty your inbox hun, for more advice;)

Sarah147

Evening all, thank goodness it is Friday, this week back at work has absolutely killed me. I am so looking forward to a luxury of a lie in tomorrow and if anyone dares to wake me they will not know what's hit them :rotfl:

I have the house to myself all weekend so am really going to make the most of it. I am going to have relaxing, long baths until my skin wrinkles. I am going to enjoy the peace and quiet and catch up with some reading (really wanting to start the 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book) and I am going to watch some DVDs I have been trying to get around to watching for ages, and watch trashy telly like Celebrity Big Brother.

I am also going to put some time aside amongst all this hectic activity (!) for list making. I want to get myself organised this weekend. I want to meal plan for the week and, especially, get my lunches sorted as I have been eating rubbish at work and it is going to catch up with my body before too long. I also want to get all my online banking sorted and get my "challenges for 2009" file up to date. Lists, lists and more lists... sounds like the perfect weekend for me and my fellow list-o-holics and stationary fiends :rotfl:

I also want to keep on with the decluttering, but suspect that might be a next-week job! This weekend is all going to be about ME. For a change.

Marru

Ummm, I think Bails is busy trying to convince my DD to go to bed

I didn't manage to catch up with the Head of our unit today but did manage to write one application letter and sent it to be checked to our careers advicer. Three more applications to go before I admit the defeat and start looking for accounting work.

2ndtimearound, you have answered your own question. If you consider your life as that piece of marble and that statue what you want your life to be then you need to eliminate everything that doesn't contribute to that end result.

I am really tired and still lots to do before I can retire for the evening. I really hope my DD has settled down without any trouble.

Boo, I missed both the Tightest man programme and the second part of living without money. Need to wait until they are available on catchup.

Now I will wish you all good weekend...

Marru

angelatgraceland

purplevamp wrote: »

Not sure if anyone's mentioned but I've justed turned on Channel 4 - The Hunt for Britain's Tightest Person. The Welsh man who gaffer tapes his shoes and remelts candles deserves a :T . Not tight imo, I'm going to catch the beginning of the programme on Ch4+1

Well I missed the beginning cos guess what? I was on here! Mmm the welshman went too far for me-I couldnt live with hime either. The woman with the toilet rolls-3 sheets for a no2! Well sorry-but I like a clean botty!
Otherwise I think shes much like me but far more excited about it all-Im just not an excitable person! Great programme tho-def one for us!

cw18

I've had an NSD today -- need to check my diary and receipt for the past week and update my totals so far this month, but I'm doing pretty well for me :T

Baby sitting for DD again tonight !! We had a bit of a 'do' about the fact she's supposed to be watching her money (and is already going away for the weekend leaving me with the girls in a fortnight), so the compromise -- given this is for a work colleagues leaving do -- is that I won't be babysitting for an evening out again until at least the middle of next month.

But things are looking up for while I am babysitting..... our Internet & phone takeovers happened yesterday, and I can now connect to her network on a wireless connection instead of using elder DS's dongle, meaning the 'net is working much faster for me I couldn't hook up to her old one as the modem had a weird connector that wouldn't go into my laptop (she's still on a desktop) and it didn't have wireless capability as it was just a modem rather than a router.

Now I've just got to hope that having run the necessary tools to get on to hers hasn't corrupted my settings for home! I'll find out when I get back at around 2am I guess