Frugal Living Challenge 2011 - part 2

franticflyerSue56

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

I agree about superscrimpers, a shopping list (slaps head in wonder) why didn't we think of that!!! What did the woman say, "simple but brilliant", also where do you get all those things she put in that hand cream??? (obviously I know where she got the beeswax!!! from the bees - she probably keeps them in her sock drawer!!)

Miss empty piggy...x

Yes, less than impressed with Superscrimpers! Dye dingy undies? By the time mine are dingy, they're not worth saving! Wasn't convinced by the hand cream either! But I must remember that shopping list thingy!!:rotfl:
FFS56

patentgirl

Happy Birthday Ruby Tuesday have a great day hope you are pampered:beer:
Lovely day here and should be a NSD for me although DD3 just rung to say she has dropped her car at garage for its MOT told them horn is not working he dropped in a little gem hope its not the steering colum! hope that is not expensive as its sounds:(
have agood frugal day everyone x

silvasava

Morning All - its a beautiful day 'darn sarf' in Hampshire. Bed stripped & washing on the line mmmm - love the smell of washing dried outside I slow cooked two small whoopsied brisket joints on Tuesday. We had most of one for tea on Tuesday & I'm going to do a couple of pies with the rest today. I had a thought in the early hours (Yeah, I know) that I could do some steak & kidney pies (without the kidney as DH is not too keen) & top with a suet lid in a couple of my little plastic steamer bowls. Does anyone know if its better to freeze uncooked or steam & then freeze?
Hope everyone has a good day - I did sympathise with Miss Empty, its soooooo boring when a course/conference is no good & you spend most of the time thinking how much you could have got done elswhere - The BF sounds a gem though

LauraM65

Day 7 Frugal Living Challenge - well nearly a 1/4 of the way through the month, still had relatively no spend except for the stuff that has to go out of the bank. OH been paid today so will need to pay out some stuff, TV licence and some credit cards. May do toad in the hole for tea today will have to buy sausages though.

tumptyteapot

£15 on our fortnightly fruit and veg box and 99p on some oven gloves because tonight is my son's cooking night. He is 7 and one night a week he chooses what we have for tea and I help him cook it - stuffed crust pizza tonight from the dough left over from bread and jam tarts for pudding.

£2 on fabric in a charity shop, £20 to get my sewing machine fixed (it was given to me so that is a bargain really) £6.80 on juice and rice flour in Mr S - I didn't really want the rice flour but the assistant went to loads of trouble to find it for me so I was guilted into it.

Nearly had a panic attack this morning, had to bail out of an art workshop really fast and the only thing I could think to do to calm down and feel safe was look at clothes in a shop. I didn't buy anything though!

rising_from_the_ashes

rubytuesday wrote: »

Thanks for the Birthday wishes everyone - good job it wasn't today as I have had to buy gifts and cards for a neighbours baby, a birthday card for another neighbours little boy and then got food from Waitrose to make a change. Had a lovely rotisseried chicken but I want my oven back on! Hopefully tomorrow I will be treated and it will be an NSD!

When is yours Rising from the ashes? My son is an Aries too!

I like that word "rotisseried", I never know how to put it!

My birthday's on Saturday and DM's is the 15th! (must be an Aries thing)!;)

I have 12 birthdays in April :eek::eek::eek:so a bit of a nightmare month present wise!

Been stuck in a meeting room most of the day so glad to be home & it's still lovely & sunny.

Internet connection is playing up and keep getting chucked off:( - nevermind.

finaniciallyfitforfortys

hi all, i ve been a lurker for a while. love all the ideas. really need help for this months grocery- we only have £25/week for this wk once all bills paid. but needs healthy as well as DD (14) just had major surgery 4daYS ago.
store cupboard -
4 tins tuna
3 tins tomato soup
1 tin kidney beans
3 tin baked beans
gravy
weetabix
cornflakes

freezer-
1 pkt 10 fish fingers
frozen broccoli
frozen peas

any help / ideas would be great.
hubby works 15hrs/wk, i ve been out of work 15mths now with ill health. debt taken over by management company. there is me, hubby, DD (14) DD (6)

thanks

tumptyteapot

finaniciallyfitforfortys wrote: »

hi all, i ve been a lurker for a while. love all the ideas. really need help for this months grocery- we only have £25/week for this wk once all bills paid. but needs healthy as well as DD (14) just had major surgery 4daYS ago.
store cupboard -
4 tins tuna
3 tins tomato soup
1 tin kidney beans
3 tin baked beans
gravy
weetabix
cornflakes

freezer-
1 pkt 10 fish fingers
frozen broccoli
frozen peas

any help / ideas would be great.
hubby works 15hrs/wk, i ve been out of work 15mths now with ill health. debt taken over by management company. there is me, hubby, DD (14) DD (6)

thanks

What veg can you get hold of cheaply? Can you get to a supermarket in the evening for reduced stuff?

I think you have just enough protein but you need carbs and fresh veg. I would probably spend some money on veg, flour, oats and lentils, then you can make bread (soda bread with bicarb needs no yeast) (or hope to get reduced) and bulk out the proteins with veg. Lentils are great fillers and you can make them into a nice dahl if you have spices, or add them to the tomato soup, turn them into a bake.....

If you had pasta you could do tuna bake, you can make bean burgers bulking the kidney beans out with oats and coating in flour. You could make fish cakes out of one of the tins of tuna, bulk out with mashed potato too if you can get any.

Have you got oil for cooking?

You can make soup from the peas and broccoli. If you had veg you could add it to the tomato soup to bulk it out.

Oven chips are a doddle to make, chop them up, put in a carrier bag with a little oil and mush them around to coat then just stick in the oven.

How many days has this got to last you for?

finaniciallyfitforfortys

hi
thanks for ideas. thats aprils budget for grocery shopping- 25/wk

tumptyteapot

finaniciallyfitforfortys wrote: »

hi
thanks for ideas. thats aprils budget for grocery shopping- 25/wk

This would be my shopping list
Bread flour
Yeast if there is enough money
Lentils
Pasta
Oats
Honey
Butter
Half dozen eggs.
Oil
Cheese if there is enough money
Big pot of low fat plain yoghurt
A big bar of chocolate.
Milk

Veg - whatever is cheap, plus onions, potatos (all rounders, some big enough for baking), cheap fruit, bananas if possible, apples

Breakfasts could be porridge (with honey and bananas, with stewed apple and yoghurt etc.) Toast, beans on toast, fried potatos with scrambled egg, then you have cornflakes and wheatabix left too. If you have eggs, flour and milk you can make pancakes to have with honey and fruit and yoghurt.

I'd make 3 loaves at once and freeze 2 of them until you need them. Or make 2, freeze one and keep some dough to make pizza bases if you can get hold of any tomatos to make sauce with.

I'd make soup for lunch to have with bread, possibly with some cheese grated on top. soup can be changed and extended every day, turn it into a curry if it gets too dull.

Dinner I'd do lentil bake, lentil rissoles, bean rissoles, bean bake, pizza (nice without cheese or red sauce and just with caramelised onions) tuna pasta bake, broccoli and pasta bake (good if you have cheese). Roast veg with gravy and yorkshire puds. You can chop garlic and herbs into the yoghurt to make a nice sauce to go over rissoles.

I'd make scones or muffins (look up vegan recipes cos they don't use eggs) (depending on what fruit I could get hold of), possibly chopping some of the chocolate into the muffins. If you had apples you could make apple crumble, you could make crumpets if you had yeast. It would all depend on what veg I could get hold of. We made a carrot cake a few days ago because that was our glut.