So much to save for

isla_red

I'm still thinking about the chips! :rotfl:

Little_Miss_Red_Head

I ended up with a fish butty but it was so nice;)

On the money front went to the supermarket today spent £90 but have fully stocked cupboards, freezer and fridge so hopefully won't need to spend much if any more this month

isla_red

Now you just have to be creative when the cupboards run low. The meal plans on here are really useful.

Little_Miss_Red_Head

The plan for today is to sort out the meal plan for at least the week hopefully a bit further and resist buying any rubbish for the next 4-6 weeks.

isla_red

Good luck! I'm sitting here looking in the cupboards trying to resist the urge to pop to Sainsbury's. I don't need to go and I know I'm being lazy. French toast it is!

Little_Miss_Red_Head

Still haven't got round to sorting out the food plan but will do shortly - I love Sainsburys, I went on money supermarket and did a typical shop to check we were shopping at the right supermarket for us and it was over £30 cheaper at Sainsburys than Asda or Tesco!

Today has been very productive my OH has done really well saving up and we realised the 0% interest was about to run out on the credit card we have so today we've paid off £800 leaving £256 and he has cleared his Burtons card of £300 and something so in one day alone we've (I talked him into it - savings interest isn't as much as credit interest etc etc) cleared over £1000 :T

isla_red

Yay that's brilliant! Well done you guys

Little_Miss_Red_Head

Thank you, we feel better about reducing our debt by so much - even if it means the savings are down to almost nothing, but its better in the long run. Done two weeks worth of meal planning and we should still have plenty of food left so its all looking good

isla_red

Nice one! :T

Successful weekend for you then, well done!

Little_Miss_Red_Head

Got off to a good start with the meal planning and because we made so much the first night we had enough for the night after so everythings been moved on a day


Quidco money arrived in my account today so thats another £14 to keep me off my overdraft limit! Daren't spend any money though as I'm not sure how much my maternity pay will be this month - I started maternity leave the first week of February and haven't had two pays the same since! Totally confused but on the plus side they've all been more than I was expecting!

I've still got six months of maternity leave left and I'm already dreading going back to work:( -so much so that I've even looked at how to register to be a child minder so I can look after my own little girl for a living I must be missing something because it seems a lot simpler than I thought it would be -needs a lot more thought.