Mooooving Into 2010 - Bovine Adventures In Budgeteering!

moo2moo

Ooh a cunning plan Baldric. I have an edible recipe for cheap curry involving chickpeas, more chickpeas and the odd onion. Still experimenting with other beans, will keep you posted.

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Congratlations about the job F_F, glad it has all worked out for you
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mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Ooh a cunning plan Baldric. I have an edible recipe for cheap curry involving chickpeas, more chickpeas and the odd onion. Still experimenting with other beans, will keep you posted.

Hmmm....I have never cooked a chickpea in my life.

Muppet-proof instructions please!

moo2moo

Chickpeas are OK as long as you like slightly nutty flavours.

Part 1:
400g dried Chickpeas 65p for a 500g packet from Mr T. Soak overnight then boil and add at end

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Part 2:
8 value cooking onions 25p (or 3 normal sized onions like what posh people buy)
1/2 a clove of garlic 10p
2 apples 25p ish

Fry the above then add everything else and stir for 10 mins

2 tablespoons of dried coconut
3 teaspoons curry powder
1 can tomatoes 35p chop
Handful of sultanas 20p (I've got big hands)

Stir in chickpeas. Slap in slowcooker for 8 ish hours

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

8 value cooking onions 25p (or 3 normal sized onions like what posh people buy)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mooomin

SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »

Have to say I'm very impressed at how you can do all this and still leave the house on time in the morning!

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turfy6 wrote: »

Im impressed by that too! I get up at an ugodly hour every day for this household, and then by the time I get back in after dropping everyone off and walking the dog, grab some breakfast and just about get to the shops for 10 am:eek:

There is a military-style routine for it.

Alarm goes off at 6.15am :eek: and I head right through to the kitchen to make coffee and feed the cats while the kettle is boiling.

Drink coffee, make PAD and catch up on any threads from the day before.

Sit and do competitions until about 7.25am/I just can't take it any more.

7.30am - 8am shower, apply make-up, tame hair

8am - 8.30am - eat breakfast, play bingo on BingoPort, make lunch/flasks up.

8.35am - think "Oh hell, I'm late" and run for the bus :rotfl:

If I have to be in for eight I can fit all this in from 6am - 7.30. I'm still not sure how. Maybe I'm a Timelord....

moo2moo

Thats a remarkably calm start to the day. Mine goes a bit like this:

ungodly early (usually between 3:30 and 4:30am) decline OHs amorous advances and refuse all offers of caffiene
5:50 turn off alarm 1 and go back to sleep
5:55 turn off alarm 2 and fend off dog
6am - 7am load washing machine, consume 2+ mugs of coffee, surf t'internet doing whatever I'm awake enough for
7am wake DDs, grab shower
7:05 wake DDs again. Locate clothes
7:10am wake DDs again. Make lunches
7:15 threaten DDs
7:20 feed DDs porridge
7:25 go in search of clean shirt and tie for DD2 to replace the ones shes invariably fed porridge to
7:30 release chickens, give dog medicine, mutter to children about getting a move on
7:35 supervise teeth cleaning and the putting on of shoes and coat, brush DDs hair
7:40 scream at children whose shoes have vanished into thin air despite having been spied attached to their feet nano seconds earlier
7:41 leave house, get into car
7:42 return to house for missing tie, PE kit, homework etc.
7:45 arrive at work on time (in my wildest dreams)
7:50 actually arrive at work
7:51 hide in cupboard. Slap my wet unbrushed unruly madly curly hair in pony tail and start day

tomtombeanie

moo2moo - your post reminded me of Adrian Mole's account of his school coach trip - did anyone else ever read that?

mooomin

Evening all!

I had a good shop tonight at Morrisons, which is welcome news as the freezer is bare at the moment. I need to inventory tonight so that I can write a decent list for tomorrow.

Today I bought:

Warburtons bread [strike]£1.29[/strike] 9p :j
Bread rolls [strike]62p[/strike] 49p
Onions 45p
Cheese £1.81 (1/2 price)
Hula Hoops x 2 packs of 7 £1.20 (1/2 price)
Meatballs [strike]£3.50[/strike] £1.90 (2 packs of 12)
Beef gravy x 2 [strike]£2.78[/strike] 30p
Sweet & sour sauce x 2 £1.06 (1/2 price)
Chocolate digestives 60p (1/2 price)

So, the only full-price thing I bought today was onions, the rest was either whoopsied or on offer. Well done me!

Total spend = £7.90

Also bought milk today - £1.30

SarahNeedle1872

flying_fresian wrote: »

There is a military-style routine for it.

Alarm goes off at 6.15am :eek: and I head right through to the kitchen to make coffee and feed the cats while the kettle is boiling.

Drink coffee, make PAD and catch up on any threads from the day before.

Sit and do competitions until about 7.25am/I just can't take it any more.

7.30am - 8am shower, apply make-up, tame hair

8am - 8.30am - eat breakfast, play bingo on BingoPort, make lunch/flasks up.

8.35am - think "Oh hell, I'm late" and run for the bus :rotfl:

If I have to be in for eight I can fit all this in from 6am - 7.30. I'm still not sure how. Maybe I'm a Timelord....

moo2moo wrote: »

Thats a remarkably calm start to the day. Mine goes a bit like this:

ungodly early (usually between 3:30 and 4:30am) decline OHs amorous advances and refuse all offers of caffiene
5:50 turn off alarm 1 and go back to sleep
5:55 turn off alarm 2 and fend off dog
6am - 7am load washing machine, consume 2+ mugs of coffee, surf t'internet doing whatever I'm awake enough for
7am wake DDs, grab shower
7:05 wake DDs again. Locate clothes
7:10am wake DDs again. Make lunches
7:15 threaten DDs
7:20 feed DDs porridge
7:25 go in search of clean shirt and tie for DD2 to replace the ones shes invariably fed porridge to
7:30 release chickens, give dog medicine, mutter to children about getting a move on
7:35 supervise teeth cleaning and the putting on of shoes and coat, brush DDs hair
7:40 scream at children whose shoes have vanished into thin air despite having been spied attached to their feet nano seconds earlier
7:41 leave house, get into car
7:42 return to house for missing tie, PE kit, homework etc.
7:45 arrive at work on time (in my wildest dreams)
7:50 actually arrive at work
7:51 hide in cupboard. Slap my wet unbrushed unruly madly curly hair in pony tail and start day

Brilliant! Mine is more along the lines of:

0645 - alarm goes off.... snooze button
0650 - alarm goes off.... snooze button
0655 - alarm goes off.... snooze button
0700 - alarm goes off - finally get my sorry but out of bed!
0710 - I get in the shower, invariably DS wakes up! I get dressed
0730 - Get DS out of bed, get him washed and dressed.
0745 - Downstairs, make lunch (sometimes!), put washing on
0800 - try to convince DS that he doesn't want to watch tv/play in the garden/get his train set out and run out the door to nursery then work.

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