Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

MellyB_2

Wow - that's an email that I wouldn't mind waking up to!

Also lucky you with the Skunk Anansie tickets - I used to really like them! Always wondered where they disappeared to...

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SarahNeedle1872

flying_fresian wrote: »

Whoop whoop - got up and found this in my inbox:

We have just sent a payment for £96.50 to the payment info entered in your Quidco settings.

Thanks for being a part of the Quidco community!

I also have a phone to post to Mazuma, although the money for this is going to OH as it's his phone!

I got one too today, except mine said £0.87 :rotfl:

Sx

mooomin

It is hotter than the Fires of Hell in my house - and that's with all the windows open. It's good living on the 1st floor in winter when you can benefit from other folk having their heating on, but not so good in the summer. I am too Scottish for this weather!

Anyway, Monday has been filled with Mondayness, but it's over now. Food diary will follow below. I am off to see Ross Noble tonight with OH and trying to figure out what to wear. Last time we saw him in the same theatre it was so hot in there I thought we were going to faint - and it smelled of other hot people, eeewww!! I think a dress of some kind if I have nice shoes. Lordy, I need new clothes *

*May or may not be true

Food diary

Breakfast - Special K and semi-skimmed milk (What can I say, I'm a creature of habit!)
Lunch - pea and ham soup (Home-made) with two slices of wholemeal bread, the kind with 1,000,000 seeds which get stuck in your teeth :rotfl:
Dinner - Slow-cooked lamb chops, with tomatoes, onion and mixed veg. Served with some low-fat mash from M&S (Reduced to £1!) which had cabbage and spring onions in it and was very yummy.
Pudding - fruit salad (Apples, strawberries and banana) onto which I did pour double cream, but Rome wasn't built in a day and all...
Snacks - Apple, Hula Hoops and strawberries

I think I may have gotten my 5 A Day today

I am going to have to make some more soup either tomorrow or Wednesday once the pea and ham runs out as soup for lunch seemed to stop me getting hungry in the afternoon.

No other news, need to go and raid my wardrobe!

tomtombeanie

hi fresian, hope you are having a good time at the show & it's not too hot in there...

i am now much more sorted than i was this morning & i have dug out the sausage casserole recipe...i think i found something similar somewhere on here ages back & adapted it to suit...

sausage & bean casserole in the slow cooker

some sausages - amount varies depending on how many you have & how hungry you are! - browned and halved (i bung mine in the oven for about 20 min on 200 whilst prepping the rest)

peppers ( i use frozen, fresh also work fine)
onion (as above)
tin baked beans
tin of chopped tomatoes
1 veg stock cube made up in correct amount of water (about 450ml?)
glug of worcestershire sauce
herbs to taste

bung it all in the slow cooker. high for about 5 hours or low for longer.

very vague i know, but just chuck in what you have. keep an eye on the stock cube/water ratio - you don't want it too watery. could also chuck in porridge oats to thicken nice with courgette if any lurking in the fridge.

i serve with boiled rice usually, it freezes really well so i usually do my batch with about 8-10 sausages so there is a bit extra for the freezer. hope it's a hit (it's my kids favourite meal) - glad you're still enjoying the chili x

MissKJ

flying_fresian wrote: »

All I did was this:

I had slow cooked ham in about a pint of water with a veggie stock cube in it.

I took this stock and added another pint of veggie stock to the soup pot into which I threw:

Three tatties, peeled and cubed
One onion, chopped
Leftover sweetcorn (About a third of a Value tin)
Loadsa peas (About a third of a bag)
Chopped up gammon leftovers

I just brought it to the boil and simmered for about fifteen minutes then blended it to within an inch of its life when cool. Yummy!

That's about as professional as I get when making soup - throw things in, boil and blend

See that was pretty much what I did. Wrong peas? Or perhaps it was leaving it to go a bit cold before wizzing, it looked rather like muddy water with bits in it, so I didnt wizz. Ah well, try again in colder weather!;)

MissKJ

Quote very vague i know, but just chuck in what you have. keep an eye on the stock cube/water ratio - you don't want it too watery. could also chuck in porridge oats to thicken nice with courgette if any lurking in the fridge.

Oh there are some items lurking in my fridge too. My daughter wanted me to buy an aubergine, becasue it looked pretty. She still hasn't tried it as I don't really like them and don't know what to do with them other than moussaka, and that is a winter thing. It is looking less and less pretty each day.

Any-one????

mooomin

MissKJ wrote: »

See that was pretty much what I did. Wrong peas? Or perhaps it was leaving it to go a bit cold before wizzing, it looked rather like muddy water with bits in it, so I didnt wizz. Ah well, try again in colder weather!;)

I just used frozen peas...no other suggestions from me I'm afraid I'm still learning to cook really

mooomin

flying_fresian wrote: »

Food diary

Breakfast - Special K and semi-skimmed milk (What can I say, I'm a creature of habit!)
Lunch - pea and ham soup (Home-made) with two slices of wholemeal bread, the kind with 1,000,000 seeds which get stuck in your teeth :rotfl:
Dinner - Slow-cooked lamb chops, with tomatoes, onion and mixed veg. Served with some low-fat mash from M&S (Reduced to £1!) which had cabbage and spring onions in it and was very yummy.
Pudding - fruit salad (Apples, strawberries and banana) onto which I did pour double cream, but Rome wasn't built in a day and all...
Snacks - Apple, Hula Hoops and strawberries

And two slices of cheese on toast when I got home as I laughed myself hungry again

Ross Noble was excellent - my laughing muscles still hurt It was good to get OH out of the house as well :T

Today I am off to work (Boo!) but have got a load of washing ready to go out, one in the machine and dinner is defrosting for later. It's either chilli or shepherds pie. I call it Freezer Surprise

No other plans really, just getting through another hot day. Happy Tuesday all!

The_Golden_Goose

Happy Tuesday back at ya F_F!

May you have a very productive day. I sat at the home PC surrounded by bits of paper and tons of admin. I cannot be bothered to even make a start on it. I used to be super organised and used to stay on top of my filing really well, I guess its been a slippery slope, and Mr GG being, at times, a complete messy slob does not help. I find bits of paper on the floor, coins on the stairs, wrappers on the kitchen floor, screwdrivers left on the work surface, sunglasses left on top of the sofa. He is so random and so untidy and then has the cheek to whinge at me..... wont bore you with the details.

Anyway thanks for letting me unload - feel so much better.

I'm off.

Ta Ta.

LOL.

Swinstie73

Hi Flying-Fresian,

Just came across your diary - will take me a while to catch up but I will subscribe. I too am too Scottish for this weather - it's been murder today! Good excuse not to get much housework done, ha!

Have a nice nite x