All the small things - tell me what you have done to be MF today

linz

Recently we have,

OP'd the two council tax payments we aren't currently paying,

Switched phone and internet from plusnet to virgin as TCB had an offer thwt worked out cheaper,

saved £50odd by shopping around for buildings and contents insurance and not going with the renewal price,

planted loads of veg and herb seeds for hopefully free food in summer,

lunches made the night before and plenty of batchcooking on Sundays for cheap and easy weekday evening meals,

Submitted meter readings and learnt that we'll be paying £10 a month less from April,

Watching the MPG and trying to drive more economically,

£3 from a p!nec0ne survey into OP jar,

JimLad

linz wrote: »

lunches made the night before and plenty of batchcooking on Sundays for cheap and easy weekday evening meals,

What kind of meals do you batch cook?


A while ago we were spending an hour on sunday and peeling / chopping all the carrots, onions and mushrooms for the weeks meals and sticking them in lunchboxes in the fridge for quick easy access.

linz

JimLad wrote: »

What kind of meals do you batch cook?


A while ago we were spending an hour on sunday and peeling / chopping all the carrots, onions and mushrooms for the weeks meals and sticking them in lunchboxes in the fridge for quick easy access.

well if we've had a Sunday dinner we'll portion up leftover meat/veg. Sometimes we'll cook a big curry/chilli/spag bol /stir fry and save the leftover to have with rice, noodles or pasta. Sometimes a gammon stew in the slow cooker or even just droopy veg in the slow cooker to make a hearty veg soup with home made bread from the breadmaker.

It's normally me who eats this stuff as I work away 3 nights a week so I often take food with me to save cooking in the evenings.

Like the idea of preparing the veg beforehand. We also chop and freeze fruit or veg that looks like its about to go bad as we don't like to waste food. Then we'll make fruit crumbles or some sort of soup/stew

turtlemoose

Today I:

• Took lunch to work (Jacket pot, fruit)
• Declined a tempting trip to the shop with a colleague (I would have spent needlessly!)
• £1 cleared on £co
• bought a ticket for Friday's euromillions :cool:

usa1

I brought a Network Rail Card to save a 1/3 on my off-peak travel for £30.00

Winter_Jasmine

Today we cooked a nice meal at home for DH's birthday instead of getting a takeaway or eating out. I tried drying the washing outside too but a combination of mist and bonfire smoke meant I had to resort to the tumble dryer!

Shortie

Evening all

Hope you don't mind me joining in? I've not been overpaying my mortgage yet but plan to, hopefully as of this pay day but nit sure if my SA tax savings will eat up all spare cash this month (desperate to get the savings for that out of the way)

But, in the meantime, as it's important to focus on the small thingss to keep the big things ticking over...

1) Mr Shortie and I put up the barrier fencing stuff up in tbe back garden to et some privacy between us and next door which saved on labour
2) Rescued the asparagus bed from the escaping strawbs which I've planted up to give a friend
3) Last top up shop of the month to keep us from take outs / lunches at work etc
4) Bought a super expensive (lol) pack of value choc digetauves to take to a friend's tomorrow instead of a more expensive big bag of dorittos

Shortie

Oh yes, aaaaand.....

- We are going to the £1 cinema tomorrow with the boys. Will take our own juice and sweets with us
- An hour or two in the nearby softplay (free as we have membership)
- Already made lunch to take with us - YS rolls with cheese & pickle, YS Chelsea buns (half each) and YS snack scotch eggs

JimLad

Shortie wrote: »

Hope you don't mind me joining in?


4) Bought a super expensive (lol) pack of value choc digetauves to take to a friend's tomorrow instead of a more expensive big bag of dorittos

Everyone is welcome and I hope you have fun :-)


Tesco Dorittos are just as good! Try grating cheese over them and putting them under the grill for 2 minutes. LUSH.

JimLad

Doing a few hours overtime after work today. Time and a half! Did 5 hours last week too!

Youtube earnings are up to £40 this month so far (before google take their cut)! Combined with the £50 from last month i will have enough for a payout! woop!