Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 1

minnie2

argh!!!!!!! again hubby is a nightmare - he came home and put the water on for a bath!!! after a while he went up for a bath - two mins later he came back down he said ill have a bath later i said why and he says i put the heating on instead of the water!! argh!!! so hes now put the water!!

rubytuesday

Hi Gelmc the spreadsheet is in the opening post I think.

chika

Hello Gelmc, Nice to meet you! Minnie I'm glad your dog is ok now, that must be a massive relief for you. Re the gammon, either cut it into meal sized pieces and cook seperatly or cook the whole thing at once and freeze into portions. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/162305 This is a thread about gammon in coke with a link to a rather nice Nigella receipe. I had it in cherry coke at a friends before and it was lush.

Had a couple of spendy days this weekend, but thankfully I managed to finally get some whoopsies in Mr A. Smoked haddock 50p was £4.70, 12 free range eggs 10p and some other bits of pieces for pennies. I was rather chuffed!

My landlady has finally been to fix the washing machine today, it's been broken since october and I was starting to get annoyed. Nearly fainted though when I saw she had left it on the longest 90 degree intensive wash which literally boils clothes for four hours - despite the full washbasket next to the machine, she had just put in two tea towels :mad: swear words have been said!

mooomin

Wahoo, my cashback for changing power suppliers is showing as validated on Quidco

That will be £75 quite soon and then another £75 once I've been with them for (I think) 6 months. Whoop whoop

chika

flying_fresian wrote: »

Wahoo, my cashback for changing power suppliers is showing as validated on Quidco

That will be £75 quite soon and then another £75 once I've been with them for (I think) 6 months. Whoop whoop

Well done you, I feel a bit ill, I didn't realise you could get cashback for changing supplier! Duh! I've only just changed, however I'll wait until they've exchanged my prepayment meter for a credit one and then see about changing again - mwahahahaha!

minnie2

chika wrote: »

Hello Gelmc, Nice to meet you! Minnie I'm glad your dog is ok now, that must be a massive relief for you. Re the gammon, either cut it into meal sized pieces and cook seperatly or cook the whole thing at once and freeze into portions. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/162305 This is a thread about gammon in coke with a link to a rather nice Nigella receipe. I had it in cherry coke at a friends before and it was lush.

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thank you!! will give it a look!!

youngmummy

NSD for me today yesterday i brought a teapot as we dont have 1 and tea coffee and sugar storage jars £19.98 in total. i have already undated my sig... so far so good ... got bills to pay tommorrow and will be paying off my catalogue tommorrow too. so only got sky bill and mobile bill and any food and petrol we need for the rest of the month too worry about . any spare money will go into savings, (what we have left in our purse every sunday evening will be paid in every monday !!! x

lynzpower

I do nigellas gammon in coke all the time. It works fine with the cheapest of the cheap value cola, so dont waste your pennies on "proper" coke for this as youll need a whole bottle probably!

I then slice the ham really thinly with my eletric carving knife ( a great buy makes meat stretch a lot further thna it used to!) and use it then in pasta, pizza toppings, sandwiches etc.

YUM!

cw18

Wow! Folks have been busy while I've been out (again!) But I managed another NSD, as I took over food from here to cook over there (he should have been coming this way, but wasn't really well enough to be driving)......

Bit of an 'experience' though as he doesn't currently have an oven/grill/hob, which meant I only had use of a (pretty naff) mini oven I've lent him (makes toast reasonably well) and his big-standard microwave. Jacket spuds and salmon I can do in a micro OK, but it's a loooooong time since I've used one to cook fresh carrots and brocolli !! Turned out OK though

gelmc - check the links in the first post for 'my FREE spreadsheet', and welcome aboard

rubytuesday

l.m.hart wrote: »

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/simple-white-loaf-recipe_p_1.html

hopefully this link will work, i was same with bread but its getting better, i half this recipe and put it in breadmaker on dough setting, i use plain flour as its lighter.Once the breadmaker has done its bit i knead it again pop it in a bowl and leave until doubled in size, i dont bake it like it says on hottest oven for 10 mins as i find this makes crust go too hard. oh almost forgot i put the yearst in the water first and let it activate.
as i say this method has improved my breadmaking skills.:D

Thank you so much for that link, although the dough was hard to work with it made the most delicious bread! I had no complaints unlike in the past and even garnered some compliments!:)