1 mortgage, 2 babies, 3 years to be MF, 4 goodness sake!- weezl's diary

weezl74

:rotfl:not been blogging for a while. Truth be told it was the first day of my morning sickness with fergus that I shaved the pigs head. Even the photos on my blog make me want to heave now!

The first post of the 50p a day thread on old-style board has loads of recipes divided into categories. HTH x

pammyj74

thanks I just saw that, will have a look
I need an idiots guide to cooking believe me

anyway good luck with the OPs

Morty_007

weezl74 wrote: »

Deefa, the chilli worked out at 43p for a generous helping

It's an enormous batch!:

2 cans asda SP kidney beans
4 packs SP mince
I large can costco tomatoes (equivalent of 5 asda ones)
3 packs dried onions
herbs, chilli, cumin to taste.

Lob all in Slo cooker, eat with jacket potato.

Shortbread for afters, whole dinner for 50p :money:

This is Brill but how BIG is your slow cooker??!! I'd just about get one of those tins of tomatoes in my S/C before it exploded all over the walls!!

And I intrigued that dried onions are cheaper then fresh ones...do you have a secret supply??

I'd love to do even a £1 a day challenge but my hubby would send me to the funny farm if I tried to serve him up fish fingers and a jacket potato for dinner. Oh that and he does most of the cooking and has little idea of how to be frugal when cooking. It's gotta be meat and veg or a "proper" meal.

I'm really motivated by your mortgage reduction over 2 years!!!! how have you managed that? almost £60000 ?? Wow. We are just starting the MFW journey and little by little we are cutting what we spend each month.

Good luck with your current challenge.

weezl74

Morty_007 wrote: »

This is Brill but how BIG is your slow cooker??!! I'd just about get one of those tins of tomatoes in my S/C before it exploded all over the walls!!

And I intrigued that dried onions are cheaper then fresh ones...do you have a secret supply??

I'd love to do even a £1 a day challenge but my hubby would send me to the funny farm if I tried to serve him up fish fingers and a jacket potato for dinner. Oh that and he does most of the cooking and has little idea of how to be frugal when cooking. It's gotta be meat and veg or a "proper" meal.

I'm really motivated by your mortgage reduction over 2 years!!!! how have you managed that? almost £60000 ?? Wow. We are just starting the MFW journey and little by little we are cutting what we spend each month.

Good luck with your current challenge.

morty my slo cooker is enormous, it's a 6.5 litre one specially for batch cooking

Mostly our overpayments have been through deciding to live frugally on just one salary instead of both of ours, to see if we could manage if after starting a family we wanted me to be a SAHM. We both took on extra work, and drastically reduced our costs. For example we've quartered our electricity costs and reduced groceries to a third of where they were in 2007.

HTH and all the best with your challenge too:beer:

wantabetterlife

Loving your new diary weezl.:D You have really inspired me to tackle our grocery bill- i estimate it must be about £300 per month :eek:- far too high!!! Goodluck with your challenge, i have also joined the MFiT-T2 challenge and have now subscribed to your diary:D

WABL

Floxxie

Fantastic a weezl diary on MFW!

I'm hoping some of your focus will rub off onto me. We live off one mediocre salary with two adults and three children but there's still plenty we could be doing to cut down so will be reading this diary for ideas and inspiration.

I always through you were a nutritionist with all your knowledge on food :rotfl:

kazzys51

hi weezle, well done ! your story sounds close to mine, please share tips ive been overpaying for 2.8 years now, how did you do it ?:beer: kx

weezl74

Hi WABL and floxxie,

Thanks for your good wishes.

Another mortgage free strategy: Homemade christmas decorations

We have some decorations, but not loads and quite a big house, so I was trying to think of festive trimmings that would be super :money:.

Salt dough christmas tree ornaments (see below) and homemade candy canes have already been manufactured, and I'm working on some eggshells painted with cracklegold paint too... So far I have made 120 christmas ornaments for £1.25

VickyA_2

They are gorgeous! Where did you get the cutters from?

weezl74

VickyA wrote: »

They are gorgeous! Where did you get the cutters from?

They were a present from DH, from a local kitchen shop, but a friend of mine got some fab bargain ones from ebay :money: