Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

MrsMoo2U

vandanfc wrote: »

Are you not shopping at Tesco ? DTD - see this thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3134600

Sadly, my nearest Tesco is 47 miles away!

scottishlass

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

The book on Make and Mend it giveaway I've bought and it's got a pattern in there for a laptop cover. Not sure what the Ipad one looks like but any chance you could make your own with some nice fabric?

Sadly no - as its a hard cover which then folds in to a wee pyramid to make a stand for it. I did however 'make' a cover for my current macbook which is pretty nifty.

I do love my Apple products and am even more tempted to get the Ipad as a 'replacement' for my Mac...um decisions decisons.

Memory_Girl

OK so Day 1 of the "Ultimate Grocery Challenge"

£100 withdrawn and £10 put in wallet (this is the milk for the toddler etc fund)

DS1 and I have "inherited" a piece of plywood that we are going to turn into a "blackboard" this afternoon to chart our progress. I say blackboard but it's going to be a "pinkboard".

If you mix a ladle of emulsion with 2 tbsp of powder grout and stir very well you get a gritty paint that when you have larded on a couple of coats and let it dry, then prime the surface (rub all over with the side of a piece of chalk and then wipe off with a slightly damp sponge) you have a surface you can write on.

Breakfast done. Some random muesli,oats and seeds converted into granola and is cooling now. Lunch is a nice spring recipe of a fairly thin lentil soup (in the winter you want "spoon standers" but in warmer weather a lighter soup is nice.

CARROT AND LENTIL SOUP

1/3 cup lentils
3 chopped carrots
2 dried apricots
1/4 tsp cumin
I garlic clove
1.5 pts water

The usual soup method for this house. Bung it in the slow cooker and blitz it a lunchtime:rotfl:

Off out with the kids to science morning - and with batteries that work ( a whole pack of duds bought yesterday)

Debating whether or not to take a flask of coffee - right!!! no debate. Make coffee, ITs Day 1 - no unecessary spendies.


MG

butafli

Morning all

New medication is working (after fighting a cold for weeks) so up for pushing myself more and the grocery challenge is added to my own "make do and mend makeover" on my home challenge - giving ourselves 3 months. We have so much stuff round the place that hopefully it will just take time and very little cash.

Bx

crickett1234

Good Luck MG....I am rooting for you down here in Nottinghamshire!

Had a lovely time last night with an appointment at the homeopath (who I beleive is some kind of miracle worker!) and then a few hours at a friends house with my godson, his 5 siblings and my godpuppy too! I put my lovely godson (4) to bed... and that was such a lovely thing to do. I went home wishing very hard that I had a baby of my own. I hope the Universe was listening.

I am determined to be more productive at work today than I was yesterday! Then I am out of here at 4, and home to do a fridge, freezer and cupboard audit, run up a menu and a shopping list and then off to do a quick shopping trip to stock up for the week. When I get home from that, I shall be reading the instruction manual for my new whizzy sewing machine (yipee! It arrived yesterday!) and then I will be having a play with it!! I also have a quick cross stitch project to do for a friend's birthday next week (I am doing a pretty tea cup as a coaster for her) and I would like to do some baking, and maybe some batch cooking. And then it will be time to come back to work. For a rest, clearly!!

tellmeitsfriday

Mum's braving two buses to come and see me tomorrow - (she insisted, I did offer to come and collect her) because she wants to make a cake.

She's a lot better than she was when she was 1st ill 9 months ago, but isn't brave enough to try new things by herself. So we're making lemon drizzle cake. I wonder if she know how bad at baking I am.

However, mu oven is a bit grubby, and we don't like our mummy's to see such things do we - so work til 4, then oven cleaning

Payroll today, lovely. That means I have to concentrate a little... JOY!

MrsMoo2U

Payday for me. Ultimate grocery challenge here I come. Menu plan done for 4 weeks. Cupboards audited, shopping list done. But first work until 4.

Kittikins

This is my day 2 of my £100 grocery challenge and so far so good, had a NSD yesterday - I'm making MG's carrot and lentil soup for lunch and will have a butternut squash thai curry from the freezer. I'm off on a girlies' drinking night tonight so that will scupper my NSD plans!

Thanks for the recipe MG, I was getting a bit bored of 'bottom of the fridge' soup so nice to have a very easy new one to try

tellmeitsfriday

Well well well - that's never happened before

My renewal premium from my current insurance company has come through £40 cheaper than any of the quotes I have got from the comparison sites!

<<faints in shock!!>>

EssexHebridean

Well done to the extra-frugal grocery challengers - looks like Froogs is doing the same sort of thing over on her blog too!

Our second freezer is now half emptied, so I need to work on getting the rest of it cleared now. Means that dinner tonight (which I was musing over the idea of making pasties or a mince & onion pudding for) might be fajita's instead. That means that another packet of wraps (bought when AF were doing their humungously bargainous offer) and some mince can come out of the freezers.........no brainer really! We're out tomorrow - but it will be a bit of a low-spend day considering - it's the Bar Manager's meeting for the Great British Beer Festival (held in London in August) - handily the meeting is held at a brewery (free beer! woo!) and they provide lunch in return for a £3 contribution (the lunch is always fab too!). We will head into London afterwards for some beers with a friend before he has to head off to get his flight back to scotland, but won't spend that much there either, so the cost will be kept fairly low. In fact, I might still make pasties later, but use them for a quick & easy tea tomorrow night when we get home instead - we might grab some chips on the way past to go with them but it will remove the temptation of going down the full chinese takeaway route cos it's late-ish and we're hungry!

TMIF that's excellent about your insurance! I'd love it if ours does that!