Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

lilac_lady

I got a whole chicken from the Co-op yesterday for £1.79. I squashed it into my slow cooker and now have enough cooked chicken to feed a football team (if it was a 5-a-side one).

I also paid 80p for 2 oranges as I really wanted them and didn't want to go to a big supermarket on a Saturday. Not so clever but sometimes you give in.

I hate shopping at the week-end and am not too fond of it during the week either so I don't mind having lots of NSDs in a month. It must be harder to economise if you love shopping.

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

My elder son was famous for weird words when he was wee. One day he told me his pal had "twinkles"... my horrible evil wee mind jumped to things like "scabies/nits etc and I shoved him in the bath with a pint of Dettol.
Turned out he had "freckles"...:D
Then the day he came home from nursery and declared they had seen "a Pog". That stumped me until I found out they had tadpoles andddd
a frog :rotfl:

Priceless! :rotfl:

Gaileyb, you know nothing shocks me over here anymore! I'm pretty sure Ireland being small and poor used to get a lot more EU benefits than UK ... could it be something to do with that I wonder. AFAIK, the EU stocks was stuff bought by the EU to keep dairy prices at a certain level and would have been chucked if not given away. The thoughts of food being chucked always horrifies me but I am no economist.
And yeah, we bailed out the banks and now all the ordinary folks are paying for it. But really it's not too bad IMHO. Maybe it's because you get used to whatever is thrown at you.

The funny thing is, after all this talk of free cheese I have had a lot of cheese today ... on my potato boats and then grated over my yummy bottom-of-the-fridge veggie sauce and pasta. All very yummy and I always feel pleased with myself when I manage to make homemade stuff. I need to plan meals for the next week ... am hoping to keep grocery spends low this month.

So .. am quite happy now; tummy is full, kettle going on in a mo, fire keeping me toasty and I feel even cosier listening to the wind and rain outside. Plan is a bit of rubbish telly and knitting. Speaking of knitting, Iheard on Countryfile that wool prices that the farmers are paid has gone up quite a lot. Perfect excuse to stock up on yarn now before the increases get passed on to us!

Lindy_-_Loo

I dont make the boys eat what I've given them, DS1 usually eats most of it now but as long as they eat two spoons they ca have fruit or a yoghurt. I couldnt leave them hungry, my parents did that and I didnt like it. I generally dont give them food they dont like, although tonight it was sausages - they didnt eat it but had one spoon. Trouble is they dont like much, wont eat burgers or fish, sausages, anything that doesnt look 'normal', pies, mash. I have managed to get them to eat chips once a week and DS2 has only just refused mash this week. Everything is cooked from scratch apart from 2 nights when they have nuggets maybe so me and OH can have something different. DS1 has strarted to eat the chicken off the chicken, he will peel a small piece off and eat it. DS2 would just eat spag bol but im scared he will go off it, DS1 went thru this stage, he only ate rice or pasta. It will get better but Im sick of cooking and it going to waste and DS2 is so skinney!

After sorting the bedroom today it has been decided that Im going to use my birthday money at the end of the month to get a de humidifier so it gives us 3 weeks to read reviews and check prices.

Its freezing here definatley our coldest night

katholicos

lilac_lady wrote: »

I got a whole chicken from the Co-op yesterday for £1.79. I squashed it into my slow cooker and now have enough cooked chicken to feed a football team (if it was a 5-a-side one).

I also paid 80p for 2 oranges as I really wanted them and didn't want to go to a big supermarket on a Saturday. Not so clever but sometimes you give in.

I hate shopping at the week-end and am not too fond of it during the week either so I don't mind having lots of NSDs in a month. It must be harder to economise if you love shopping.

Well done on your bargain chicken:T

I don't like weekend shopping and i don't much like weekday shopping either. Sometimes it is unavoidable but I prefer not to have to if i have a choice. Thank goodness for online shopping

starsandmoon

Have had a thrifty day today. Went to a car boot in St Helens and got my daughter loads of Next clothes for £4. All looks new/hardly worn and is long sleeve tops and combat style trousers with lining so cosy for winter. One lady I bought stuff off was saying how much she spends on her 3 daughters and it hardly gets worn then she goes to the car boot and gets a couple of quid but some of the clothes were really expensive. Think she needs to not buy them as much perhaps.

Really wanted to buy dinner out in the nice pub nearby but it would have cost £20 so made do with a drink and pack of crisps and did a roast when we got in with whoopsied chick.

The car boot was packed, one of the sellers said not a lot were buying and many want stuff for next to nothing. I dont mind paying £1 fora pair of trousers that cost £12 new and look new. Happy now as daughter has plenty of winter clothes now plus a pink sparkly top for Xmas. Just hope her feet dont grow for a bit as recently spent £35 on Clarks school shoes and trainers and that was in the sale!

bluebag

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Years ago, now I must be going back twenty at least, there was a butter and also tinned beef (Mince and stew I think) mountain in the EU. I remember my parents and my gran getting their butter and tinse of meat.

Yes I remember that now you mentioned it. Tins of stewed steak if I remember rightly. My mum made pies out of it cos it has a bit of a 'tin' taste.
She wouldn't waste tho me ma, she would find some way to make it edible. She makes frugality an art form.

I When I was young she would tale me to stand, wet to the bone in the freezing rain at the meat market for just the right meat package to do us for the week, we stood there that long the guy would always throw some sausage or bacon in free. Hard times.

Fruball

Oooooooh forgot to mention that I went out with a friend (with my kids and hers) for lunch today and she insisted on paying!!! Bless her

I have looked after her son overnight a couple of times, but know she will return the favour so there was really no need, and I told her that, but she paid anyway :A

We were good with the kids drinks... Got them pub blackcurrant cordial with water, rather than fruit shoots, so the kids drinks only cost 20p each :T but DD2 drank hers fast... then looked at me in a most disconcerning manner, held her hands over her mouth (still staring at me) and puked into her hands :eek: She has been fine ever since so must have been the cordial, altho the other kids had it and were fine. And she ate her roast beef with all the trimmings with no problems... Bless her, she is only 4 and a half but knew puking in the restaurant was prob not good manners :rotfl:

kidcat

Lindy loo I have decided to ask my parents for a dehumidifier for Christmas - everything in my bedroom feels damp and thats with heating on, and yesterday clothes from one of the kids drawers felt damp too, so when they ask what to buy am going to mention it to them.

Fruball

Oh... Katholicos... How is your Dad? Mine has an upset stomach and is very weak still from the strokes... and thin Breaks my heart. Hope your Dad is doing ok xxxxx

Fruball

kidcat wrote: »

Lindy loo I have decided to ask my parents for a dehumidifier for Christmas - everything in my bedroom feels damp and thats with heating on, and yesterday clothes from one of the kids drawers felt damp too, so when they ask what to buy am going to mention it to them.

I wouldn't be without mine now. I wish I had the spare cash to get another one for downstairs.

I can even dry laundry as I keep mine in my built in wardrobe (size of a small shed!). I just hang the washing up on hangers, and by morning its all dry and I don't even have any putting away to do