Frugal Fresian's 2010 Adventures

Intergalactic_Floozie

flying_fresian wrote: »

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

The blue one please!!!!!!!!!!!!

*loves mumof4*

:iloveyou::iloveyou::iloveyou::iloveyou::iloveyou:

From her username she appears to be a mum of 3 (chortle)

mooomin

macgirl wrote: »

Well done on being under budget - you rock! :A

Nearly had a canary this morning as I had £1 less in my current account than I should (And how MSE is it to notice that!!) It was an overdraft fee (BARSTEWARDS) from when I was on holiday last month as I slipped into OD for one day - took money out in the morning but didn't replace it from the other account until the next day. Grrr....

I thought that £1 had put me over budget but I still have a few pennies to spare :rotfl:

Plans for today:

Post Office - Ebay bidder finally paid up :j
Find cheque book for Mr F's speeding fine (Have taken the money out of his bank account for it)
Washing - its been piling up all week as I just couldn't be arsed. Time for action.
Cook dinner - we have a gammon joint defrosting which is 750g and it will be for myself, Mr Fresian and our old lodger. The battle will be ensuring that there is leftover ham for Pea & Ham soup for tomorrow's lunch as they could easily demolish 750g of gammon themselves *pines for eye-rolling smiley AGAIN*

For now though, I'm going to finish my FV (downloaded the toolbar last night and it's ace, tells you how long it is until you need to harvest!) and sit in front of the tennis with some breakfast.

mooomin

Intergalactic_Floozie wrote: »

From her username she appears to be a mum of 3 (chortle)

She's had another one since she joined

Intergalactic_Floozie

flying_fresian wrote: »

She's had another one since she joined

A-ha, KNOW THY READER!!!!

Silaqui

Well done on the stretching! I do it myself with mince, I usually buy the 1kg packs of mince but rather than batch cooking and storing the food, I split the mince into portions and freeze it so I can cook from scratch each night. Takes up less space in my teeny tiny freezer and it also means I don't have to eat reheated stuff, I'm not really keen on it. And I don't think I'd know what to o with myself without cooking each night, it really winds me down after work!

How do you all make the porridge oats work in the food? Every time I've tried it it's given the food a really 'dusty' flavour, I've tried adding more water, tomato puree, passata, herbs but I can't get rid of it? Do you have to use more expensive ones rather than value? (I can't see why it would make a difference tho). Maybe it's all in my head... I do use lentils though!

xx

DedicatedDFW

Hi F_F,

Congrats on being within budget for January :j

I will be posting your vouchers Monday - never have time to do anything these days but it is on my list .

I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to have a copy of your super spreadsheet - just with headings obviously not spends! It seems a great way to keep track of the pesky disappearing pennies.

Have a nice Sunday off - oh How did the job application go?

mooomin

Silaqui wrote: »

How do you all make the porridge oats work in the food? Every time I've tried it it's given the food a really 'dusty' flavour, I've tried adding more water, tomato puree, passata, herbs but I can't get rid of it? Do you have to use more expensive ones rather than value? (I can't see why it would make a difference tho). Maybe it's all in my head... I do use lentils though!

I use one handful if I'm cooking with 500g of mince, two if I'm cooking with a full kg. Anything more than that makes the texture too porridgy I'm using value oats at the moment and they seem fine, I actually prefer the texture of the food with these as I had used the posher oats (with the man in the kilt on the box) but didn't like how the sauce tasted.

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to have a copy of your super spreadsheet - just with headings obviously not spends! It seems a great way to keep track of the pesky disappearing pennies.

Have a nice Sunday off - oh How did the job application go?

Not a problem, just PM me your email address. Do you use Excel or OpenOffice? I have a copy in Excel that I got from cw18 on the forums, but have adapted for OpenOffice.

Job application is half-done, I just need to tidy it up a bit. It's not due in until Friday though. Only thing worrying me is that it's outside of Edinburgh and if I got it I would probably have to buy a cheap car, making the DFD unlikely. Much to think about!

Intergalactic_Floozie

Ohhh FF - there's no such thing as a cheap car!! *Floozie - bad experiences with a Ford Mondeo and a Citroen Saxo*

mooomin

Intergalactic_Floozie wrote: »

Ohhh FF - there's no such thing as a cheap car!! *Floozie - bad experiences with a Ford Mondeo and a Citroen Saxo*

Our last car (Now thankfully departed) only died when I was driving. The sodding exhaust came off twice while I was driving - on one occasion a woman handed it to me when I got out of the car as it had fallen off as I entered the carpark :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I do miss it sometimes though when I'm hassling my car-driving friends to take me to Tesco!

The fact I would need a car is the only thing making me wonder about this possible job....

Silaqui

Aw no that must have been so embarassing! Thats the problem with cars, the cost doesn't half mount up. Whats the travelling like between the new job and where you are, would a train/bus pass be suitable? Although you already have a bus pass don't you, I guess you've thought of that.

I'm going to make flapjacks this afternoon, was the recipe you used the other week just a basic flapjack one (e.g. butter, syrup, oats) or was there some amazing secret ingredient that I shouldn't be missing out on?!

xx