Fresian's Final Push...Mooooving Towards Freedom

mooomin

One last question before I go to work....

I have seen a breadmaker on Tesco Direct for £40. I like the idea of making my own bread and knowing what goes in it, but don't want to spend money if I won't use it.

Does anyone else make their own bread? How easy is it? What ingredients do you need? How do you slice it thin enough for sandwiches without making a mess?!

Primula

Just a quick post to say hope you're feeling better now, and good luck in your new job too Fresian.

taka

Ouch! Get well soon!

flying_fresian wrote: »

One last question before I go to work....

I have seen a breadmaker on Tesco Direct for £40. I like the idea of making my own bread and knowing what goes in it, but don't want to spend money if I won't use it.

Does anyone else make their own bread? How easy is it? What ingredients do you need? How do you slice it thin enough for sandwiches without making a mess?!

I have a morphy richards one and love it! Mine has a timer so I often measure out all the water, oil, flour, salt, sugar (or honey), sometimes milk powder and yeast (and anything else I fling in there like sun dried tomatoes! ) set the timer overnight and wake up to yummy fresh bread in the morning! :drool: The only thing is it is so yummy it disappears fast! It doesn't keep as long as shop bought either so if I'm not going to eat loads I'll freeze half a loaf and chomp through the other half.

Haven't managed to work out how to cut it evenly Mine are very randomly sized slices!

There are recipes floating around on MSE for no knead bread if you want to try that rather than spend £40. My breadmaking skills are terrible so a breadmaker was the only way I could produce a loaf that doesn't resemble a brick! :rotfl:

beanielou

Hope you are ok.

mooomin

beanielou wrote: »

Hope you are ok.

Thanks Beanie!

I'm feeling a bit better now. The crippling pain is gone thankfully and I dragged my sorry @ss into work this morning. I ended up leaving at half two though. I was sleep deprived and just couldn't concentrate on anything. I'm going to get an early night tonight (have had a power nap already) and hopefully that will sort me out.

I have a doctors appointment on Monday to see my GP and they will hopefully refer me for the scan that the out of hours doctor recommended.

On my "to do" list for tomorrow is to call our work benefits scheme. I think I still have BUPA cover until the end of the year and I want to find out if I'm still covered and if this would cover gallstones removal rather than waiting for the NHS. If my excess isn't too big I might do that. I have had BUPA for years but never, thankfully, had to use it so I have no idea how it works....

In "every cloud has a silver lining news" just after I got into bed this afternoon the door went and it was the courier with my LEGO Harry Potter game Mr Fresian is back home tonight, with a donated TV from some friends, so I will be playing Quidditch by tomorrow. Woo!

beanielou

Every cloud has a silver lining indeed.

5*shopaholic

glad you are feeling better
every cloud does have a silver lining xxxx

angelicmary85

flying_fresian wrote: »

One last question before I go to work....

I have seen a breadmaker on Tesco Direct for £40. I like the idea of making my own bread and knowing what goes in it, but don't want to spend money if I won't use it.

Does anyone else make their own bread? How easy is it? What ingredients do you need? How do you slice it thin enough for sandwiches without making a mess?!

This isn't going to be very helpful but I seen a post on a board somewhere that someone had posted up a link to a breadmaker that was only £13.99!! Does that make any sense at all?!

I had a NSD today!

mooomin

Money

A NSD for me yesterday

PAD/Spends = £79
Groceries = £67.54
Entertainment = £19.91
Purse - Whatever was in it yesterday!
Outstanding loan = £1409.97

Mr Fresian is home (Hurrah!!) and was very gracious when he got back - setting up the Xbox and letting me play Harry Potter for an hour :rotfl: He's a nice man really! I've offered to take him to the cinema this weekend to make up for it

mooomin

£2.01 spent so far today - I was meant to be meeting a friend for lunch but she cancelled on me so I had to nip to Tesco and buy something instead :mad: I did sidestep the Meal Deal (tasty sandwiches but very high fat) so a bap and some sliced turkey instead. I'm meant to be eating low fat food until I have my scan and they figure out what's wrong with me. Bah.

I got my Clubcard vouchers through yesterday and have swapped them for Pizza Express vouchers again, for when I'm able to eat tasty things again When the voucher comes through that will be £40 that we have available to spend, and the last time we had that to spend there we ended up paying about £5 ourselves for dinner :rotfl: Mr Fresian is already looking forward to it!!

MSE Folk in Englandshire.....I'm going to be in Chester and Leeds/Halifax at various points this month. Does anyone fancy a coffee?