Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

Florenceem

I need a landline for broadband to use on our pcs.

Lindlou

You might find you don't.  I have broadband but I don't have a landline. I'm sure many people are the same. 

flamingo747

My concern with that is thar if there's a power cut we might not be able to make calls, our signal can be iffy. I love the idea though, we get 20 spam calls for every real one!

Gem-gem

By 2025 there will be no landlines running through a telephone cable. They will all be run off the broadband cable. I have been informed. 

Not sure what people without cable / broadband will do?!?

Gem-gem

DH bought home 4 x 750g packs of chicken reduced down to £1.50 each and three quarter priced gammon joints.
One pack of chicken I cooked today as a curry, whilst cooking tonight's dinner plus a quarter priced gammon that will be sliced for sandwiches and gammon, egg and chips dinners and frozen. (Maximising my oven being on) . Another pack I split up into smaller portions and labelled as stir fry and the last two packs, I bagged up in larger quantities to turn into 'Nandi' style chicken or 'hunters' chicken. This way we will get more servings out of the chicken. 

Most of the curry will also be frozen. I like to have some homemade emergency ready cooked meals in the freezer.  I have steak and kidney puddings, lamb curry, chilli-con-carne, lasagna, other left over lamb waiting to be turned into a pie. It stops the need for expensive ready meals and take-always when I am too tired to cook or for DH when I am away helping / caring for my Mum. Plus it doesn't have added sugar or 'non-foods' to make it last longer. 

Gem-gem

Does anyone only eat food that is in season? Does that make a difference to the purse strings? 

Primrose

Gem-gem said:

Does anyone only eat food that is in season? Does that make a difference to the purse strings? 

We try to but I think our sensitivities have been blunted by so many years  of having access to non seasonal foods all the year round. Until recently we grew many of our own veg so we're pretty aware of what is seasonal.  

This morning I did have one of my favourite seasonal treats for breakfast   - a plate of home grown sun ripened cooked fried tomatoess.  I can only indulge in this treat for a precious few weeks of the year.  I can hardly bear to eat a winter ourchased supermarket tomsto these days   I,m sure one,s taste buds learn to become more differentiating over a period of time.

Gem-gem

Primrose, I agree that your taste buds change. After growing our own sweetcorn we can no longer eat corn on the cobs from the shop or veg stall. They taste revolting. Also, as you say about tomatoes - the ones that we pick are much sweeter and packed with more flavour. 

Siebrie

Gem-gem said:

Does anyone only eat food that is in season? Does that make a difference to the purse strings? 

I have a set limit of how much I'm willing to pay for fruit (€4/kg or 50cents per portion), veg (€3.50/kg) and meat (€ 11/kg). This means I buy fruit and veg that is cheap at that time, and that usually means it's seasonal. Not always; for instance: a large pineapple (€2) is 8 to 10 portions, and so is way cheaper than apples and pears at €4/kg (which is around 80 cents per apple/pear). I'm in Belgium, which is apple-and-pear country!

Primrose

I subscribe to a couple of monthly magazines by post & occasionally need tiny envelopes for storing our own saved veg or flower seeds.  

I find thst by carefully cutting, up, folding and sellotaping  wide strips cut from such A4 size  envelopes I can make lots of little free seed storage packets. By folding the paper with any printing on the inside, there,s plenty of room for writing the seed name on the outside of the pack.