Live on £4,000 for a year - 2009, Part 3

taka

Shaz...
Pic 1 and 2) look like plums
Pic 3) Guelder Rose maybe?

Sorry I'm not much help really am I ... :rotfl:

shaz_mum_of__2

taka wrote: »

Shaz...
Pic 1 and 2) look like plums
Pic 3) Guelder Rose maybe?

Sorry I'm not much help really am I ... :rotfl:

you are really as others have said the same it's nice to have confirmation!

Nyk - i understand its just a shame the site is so big now that finding all the useful information for beginners is harder as its so spread out ........................but not to worry they will all soon be addicted as us and trawling through back threads:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Shaz

thriftylass

thriftylass wrote: »

Good morning,

I'll just pop in briefly and will catch up properly tonight.
Just had a thought while walking to work. BF borrowed a few quid of me yesterday (again-:mad:) and that made me realise I probably haven't spent as much as in my signature. I have to check my spreadsheets, but I think the months he borrowed money I didn't put it in the spreadsheet and then when I noticed the let's say £100 difference between my bank balance and the table I put it down as fritter money, stuff or night outs . Can't wait to get home now and double check, but I'm pretty certain I made that mistake a few time and this should bring my spending totals down

See you later

Nope, had my hopes up for no reason, apart from one month I already accounted for BF borrowing, so only £50 difference but at least now I double checked everything and my spreadsheet numbers add up, i.e. food + bills + "rent" + savings = money earnt, whereas before they didn't quite and I had overspent. Have to get my numbers down though and save more !!!!!:A

Frugaldom

Does anyone know what's happened to 'Gastronomy Economy' programme? I thought it was 21k a year grocery family this week Can't find it in listings and all we have is athletics on TV

Just completed workout 2 of week 4 on the C25K challenge, now making chicken curry with rice for dinner, will max out on cheap carbs and then grumble that I don't lose weight. :rotfl: Half rations next week again, I fear. Saves on the grocery bills though, despite my spending more today in Ald! :rolleyes: Just can't keep this place going in milk, fruit & veg - or donuts! :rotfl:

Back to catch up again soon.

Brighton_belle

nykmedia wrote: »

Does anyone know what's happened to 'Gastronomy Economy' programme? I thought it was 21k a year grocery family this week Can't find it in listings and all we have is athletics on TV

Just completed workout 2 of week 4 on the C25K challenge, now making chicken curry with rice for dinner, will max out on cheap carbs and then grumble that I don't lose weight. :rotfl: Half rations next week again, I fear. Saves on the grocery bills though, despite my spending more today in Ald! :rolleyes: Just can't keep this place going in milk, fruit & veg - or donuts! :rotfl:

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is that another clue Nyk to the fatter and er... fitter...:D (ps, no room to talk here - just succombed to trousers the nest size up today:o. A bargain at £6 though)

I think econ gratron is just postponed a week for the athletics Nyk: bbc site says episode 3 next wednesday

Back properly tomorrow for a proper catch up of every one's news

Frugaldom

Brighton_belle wrote: »

is that another clue Nyk to the fatter and er... fitter...:D (ps, no room to talk here - just succombed to trousers the nest size up today:o. A bargain at £6 though)

:rotfl::rotfl:Couldn't resist the jam donuts when I went into C0-0p with DD this morning and then when I got to Ald!, they had a reduced section of bakery - think I spent almost £2 on snowballs, crumpets, scones and donuts today - how rash was I? :eek: To compensate, tonight's curry was from yesterday's leftover chicken and a 4p jar of curry sauce from SM's & my trip to A$da last Thursday.

Weather hasn't improved heretoday and now we have no TV signal, so it's probably just as well that Eco-gastro programme is delayed by a week. :rolleyes: Poor running buddy has no TV or mobile signals at all over at her house, though, so I should be grateful we have TV. However, my sim card has died because it's had no signal since moving here. I obviously didn't take it out of the area often enough to keep it in working order RIP little mobile number that I've had since 1998.

PS: Frugal living + cooking from scratch + batch cooking + baking + preserving = weight gain. Why have beer with your curry when you can have homemade champagne? YUM!

sophiesmum_2

Good [STRIKE]evening[/STRIKE] morning frunchkins:D
Great result on the foraging shaz :j had a stressful day yesterday family wise so have just destressed in my usual way by heading for the kitchen to create something:p
The cooking apples materialised as promised today, along with a freshly caught trout :eek: for OH. Mum gave me runner beans and a cabbage from her garden, and I managed to pick another 2lbs of blackberries earlier in between visits to see my dad.
The trout is now in the freezer:D, beans and cabbage in boot of car and gone to work with OH:rotfl:and the apples and blackberries added to the rest of this weeks blackberry harvest and now made into jam:D








12lbs of fruit, cup of lemon juice and 12lbs of sugar and I now have seventeen asorted jars of apple and blackberry jam and six half litre "le parfait" jars full which may get used for pressies at xmas. Total cost of all the above = £3.18 for the sugar (costco)
Can't wait to see them stacked neatly in my new preserve store room, how sad is that:rotfl:

Savvy_sewing

Gosh so much jam, makes my 4 1/2 jars look a bit meagre. But they only cost me the bag of sugar. First time I have made jam, so I hope it works, as no gadgets to make it with, just the pressurecooker as its the heaviest based pan I have, and timings from the recipe. The jars were old jars, from the cupboard, so they will prbably not seal, but I sterilised them in a hot oven, and put the lids on while the jam was hot. ???
Time will tell I suppose. I doubt if it will last very long anyway. If it tastes OK, it will be demolished instead of my marmalade for breakfast I will have jam.

cheerfulness4

Mooloo wrote: »

and put the lids on while the jam was hot. ???

I've always wondered that, too. Do you put the lids on jam and chutney while it is still hot/warm or wait till its cooled down?

Love this thread btw, even tho I'm a bit of a lurker, and am getting us prepared for joining in in January.

cw18

I made some blackberry jam last year..... put the lids on while hot, and the 'pop' button on all of them depressed as it cooled meaning the seal is complete (as I understand it).