Need Calming Down and Help

Hannah_10

If you're gonna get 6 pints and make it last a while then buy it in 2 pinters and freeze what my sour in the mean time.

£18.49 is loads, all you need is a few top ups you've got a store cupboard.

Surviving poverty's all a matter of attitude, chill out and you'll be fine.

Also food banks are getting really common nowadays, they're places that will give you free food, one week at a time, if you have a genuine need. If there is one in your area then the churches will know, phone the most popular looking church and ask them. Christianity's hardly my cup of tea I will admit, however they're not superious about it and even a church-run food bank will assist anyone regardless of faith so it's another option open to you.

Now is also a fantastic time to put a card up in the local shop advertising yourself as a babysitter (any night when your hubby/mum can watch yours of course). Most mothers are a lot happier with a grown up mum babysitting than a spotty teenager so with any luck you'll soon get £20 of potentially very easy money.

Toonie

Have you got enough margarine/spread for sandwiches and baking? Otherwise, well done on what you've found.

EllieA_3

Toonie wrote: »

Have you got enough margarine/spread for sandwiches and baking? Otherwise, well done on what you've found.

I should have i have 1/2 tub of olive spread for sandwiches, and stork and real butter for baking.

Hannah_10

Also breaky... fruit porridge.

This sounds grim but it works and even small kids will eat it (if it's got sugar in).

Stick one level cup of oats (value brand ones actually work better) in a tub or saucepan with 2 level cups of water and 1/2 cup or more of any of the fruit listed below- I've tried them all, they all work. Leave it in the fridge overnight and microwave it or warm it on the hob in the morning. Stir in sugar to taste (strictly no salt) and serve.

Dried: Apricots, raisins, papaya, pinapple, figs, prunes, sultanas, mixed fruit, glace' cherries, cranberries, dates.
Fresh: Apple, pear, peach, plum, strawberry, blackberry, cherry, raspberry, grapes.
Tinned: Peach, pear, strawberries, prunes.

What doesn't work: Melon, banana, citrus fruits, any pinapple except dried, passion fruit.

So if you haven't got them already maybe add a value bag of oats and a value bag of currants to the list.

Spendless

You've also got the 84p left in your purse, so around £19.33 in total. I'd also echo getting milk in smaller size bottles & freezing, so you don't have any go off.

BTW - Do you have enough petrol in your cars (or bus/train money) to get you to work ofr next week and a half?

maryb

With what you've got in the freezer and a bag of rice you could make several extra meals of risotto and that microwaves really well next day for you and DH. You could also make rice salad for lunchboxes.

Milk is cheaper at Iceland (and Lidl or Aldi) than just about anywhere - £1.10 for 4 pints which means 8 pints works out cheaper than £2.25 for a 6 pint bottle. If you want to make sure it won't go off then fish out a couple of old milk bottles from the recycling wash them well and decant half of each bottle to freeze.

Iceland are doing two loaves of bread for £1.50 at the moment and they are also usually very cheap for cheese.

MrsBartolozzi

I really don't want to put a dampener on things as you do seem to be doing so well, but I didn't want you to get your hopes up too much.
In my experience most places - the Post Office and banks only buy back foreign notes, not coins so you may only be able to change a smaller amount of money than you anticipated.
On an aside though, I've seen people selling currency on ebay - just odds and ends left from their holidays so you could maybe look into this instead for the coins you have left.

Good luck, I do wish you well at this challenging time, I'm sure you will do it!

Spendless

The US do $1 notes so I'd assummed that it was currency in notes the OP was talking about.

spendingmad

Glad to help with the forgein currency suggestion - I have changed back $18 and 10euros this morning and got £17.81 back at Thomas Cook. they took the $1 notes not problem :j

I bet, like me, you feel loaded now!!!

I am going to go to Tesco tomorrow evening and buy some petrol and hopefully whoopsied bread and bananas with my clubcard vouchers (not the best way to use I know but needs must)

I am doing banana muffins for breakie at my house as hubbie normally has ham sandwiches which is WAY too expensive this month

Good luck with the rest of the month - You will be fine x