As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

flowertotmum

Hi all...hello to all the new ladies too..welcome..

Dee..aww hun (((hugs)))..i have lost lots of so-called friends..the playgroup incident springs to mind..my HM cakes were not good enough..my family think i am having a mid-life crisis..however i am happy actually very happy..my life has done a complete flip and i am loving every minute of it..i make cards for family if they bin it they bin it...at least they got one...ungrateful lot..weird how they all laugh at me and what i'm doing..shoes on the other foot when they find out i have more jam than Hartleys..more cakes than MR Kipling,fresh eggs and more fruit and veg than you can shake a stick at...strange how they want to know me then..i have never given them any..mean i know but true friends and my older girls come first..at least if the cack hits the fan i can live on my stores and not pay through the nose..you keep going girlie and do your own thing..

Right what i did today..had to go to dentist for a filling...so i was high as a kite and laughing all the way through..on my way home my front brakes froze on my bike..so even going down hill i had to flipping pedal..my thighs and calves are killing me..my lip and face were so saggy from the injection i looked like quasimodo..i just had soup for tea..and that dribbled all over...my mouth is only just getting back to normal...

I did 3 loads of washing and got that out this morning..all dry and ready to be ironed(doing that in a minute)...hubby went to the lotties and brought back another lettuce..very nice..

Making all my pastry up tonight as its baking day tomorrow whoo-hoo..got some ground rice and i'm am so going to make a cherry bakewell with my cherry jam...

Got hubby a free fathers day card from that funky bird place..and thats my day...not very exciting but relaxed and simple.

GQ..i am sooo glad your back..i love reading your posts.

Saveabobortwo..you crack me up.

have to go..the pile is calling me to be ironed.
take care
ftm

JIL

I think I got into a little bit of debt when i first got married as a rebellion from my mothers ways, she was frugal and would only shop once a week and once it was gone it would not be replaced until the next shopping day which was always my dads work payday. We all looked forward to Friday lunchtime when we would come home from school and mum had been shopping and there were a few treats, usually a ski yoghurt and some crisps, which would be gone by Friday teatime!!! She was always careful with her money and still is to this day.
We go for Christmas dinner every year and my children although in their twenties still love going. None of her plates or cutlery match, she brings the plastic garden chairs in from the garden for us all to sit around the table, usually with a few spiders still attached. We drink our wine (usually lambrusco) out of old babysham glasses, she ties string to cheap chocolates and hangs them on her tree. She wont buy napkins and uses kitchen roll, she makes a jelly for dessert. We have garlic bread as a treat with our turkey!! Various presents we have received over the years have been an over the bath holder (used), a silver shoe horn, a battery operated shoe polisher, a roasting turkey tin, a rolling pin, tins of hairspray and pairs of tights.
Many years ago it really bothered me but I have come to realise that is just how she is and I love and accept her for that. As someone on here has already said its whats in your heart that matters.

LittleBrownFrog

Dee - if I were you, I'd still make her a present, I probably wouldn't go to the party though. dh's family find it very odd that we choose to live 'like this' - the reality (for us) is that we would rather 'do without' a lot of the things that they regard as essentials in order for one of us to stay at home with the children full time - that's more important to us at the moment. You're the one with the responsible attitude towards your money and resources, if they're living off credit then pretty soon they're going to hit the 'no more' wall & then they'll be needing all the help you can give them.
{{hug}}

saveabobortwo

then that sings to the dog ;)iv always done it sung chatted played hide and seek ball games and he absolutely loves it he is a little jack russell and a dear little dog one of the family hi paidinchickens do you like the national lampoons christmas vacation too ?an absolute classic movie hilarious i like their auntie too when she wrapped the cat up and the boy says can t wait to see what iv got i like people like that auntie because they have depth and character and are fun unlike some people who spend all their time !!!!!ing about other people.do remember the scene where they chopped their own christmas tree down and the girls eyelashes froze together absolutely classic i watch that film every christmas and it makes me laugh:rotfl::T

saveabobortwo

and found a bargain and saved some money i looked today like that cath for a big bag of gold but not found 1 today i keep searching to furfill my quest got go now hubby done tea tonight bout time i had a release from the cooking ball and chain yum gammon steak whoopsies39p tin of pineapple mash and peas louise:rotfl::T:A:)

Charis

JIL wrote: »

would this help at all? apologies if you have already seen it, but interesting to see there is protein in potatoes!!
http://www.vegsoc.org/page.aspx?pid=781#dietary sources

Just under 2% of each potato is protein, according to this International Year of the Potato (2008) website. So 283.5 grams of potatoes (ten ounces) yields just 5.3 grams of your daily protein requirement (together with 57 grams of carbohydrate).

Re the food pyramid and a plate etc - I dont know anything at all about this. But I'd like to ask if the good old-fashioned meat & two veg would not be the perfect meal anyway? With a lot less hassle than this 5-a-day rubbish . I canny be a$$ed with all the silly frillyness that they seem to think wives and mums need now.

Yes Mardatha. Meat and two veg with a small helping of potato, and rice pudding with a generous helping of fruit for sweet. But three times a day, every day? And the vegetarians at the back won't be happy...

What I have discovered after a lifetime of dodgy blood sugar fluctuation is that there is much to be gained from having a proper breakfast. We often went to school without breakfast and I had the jitters by break time. At least in those days we had milk at break and a cooked school lunch, usually meat, greens and taters, or so it seemed.

katholicos

Have been catching up with the thread and have a very foggy memory now about everything i have read LOL, so can't really respond to anything!

Just retracing my steps re-reading the above posts on this page though and want to say that JIL, your mum sounds just brilliant!

ceridwen

..and the record for the greatest number of posts (all on this thread) - Saveabobortwo at:

7 June - 23 posts
8 June - 18 posts
9 June - 1 post
10 June - 2 posts
yesterday - 25 posts
today (so far...) - 30 posts

At this rate SaveaBob will have achieved target of 500 posts on MSE by a week's time at a guess....

....I can feel its full moon coming on .........

EDIT: 9.02PM - make that 31 posts so far today........

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saveabobortwo

actually although im not the slightest bit interested in your fish pie i really quite fancy the idea of making a really nice egg custard tart a large one to feed three of us has anyone got an easy to make recipes it would be gratefully appreciated;)

oldtractor

ohhhhhhhhhh egg custard tart, I can eat a whole one.............................