Countdown to Freedom

catshark88

I'm very impressed that you've hit the ground running so soon after you return! We got back a week ago and it seems that the kids have been eating mainly pizza ever since!!

Goes to freezer to take out mince and start batch cooking in shame.... ;-)

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

That all sounds incredibly well organised. Enjoy the book - I am on the library waiting list for it so should get it around Easter!
Glad you had a great holiday,
Squirrel x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

That all sounds incredibly well organised. Enjoy the book - I am on the library waiting list for it so should get it around Easter!
Glad you had a great holiday,
Squirrel x

I love his books and Patricia Cornwell - to justify my spends I haven't bought any magazines apart from 1 Good Food one at Xmas, and I only buy books from these two authors

Freezer is looking healthy and DD has two boxes of staples from the *larder* ready to take to Uni.

I've had a busy day and am just about to hit L!dl and the library - it's going to be an early night

Tilly x x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

catshark88 wrote: »

I'm very impressed that you've hit the ground running so soon after you return! We got back a week ago and it seems that the kids have been eating mainly pizza ever since!!

Goes to freezer to take out mince and start batch cooking in shame.... ;-)

I shouldn't be impressed at all - apart from socialising we have lazed around, cooked and relaxed - I think I needed to get stuck in to start winding up to work on Wednesday.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Tilly x

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Right - library books returned, L!dl shop done and scanned for S&S - £43 - I am not going near a shop until Saturday and then only for fresh fruit and veg - £12 is in my purse ready for then.

Freezer, larder, fridges are all stocked up. Beef stew is in the SC in the garage and chicken casserole is ready to be chucked in tomorrow morning.

All in all a busy but fruitful day - we are off to walk the hounds after dinner.

Lovely to be home :)

Blinking miserable day though :eek:

41p Tilly Tidied to MOS

Tilly x x

hanging_on_in_there...

Crikey, you have cranked up the gears after your holiday! Makes good reading though and plenty of food for thought (pardon the pun!!)
Bo xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS wrote: »

September's menu plan is complete - cookery book of the month is Mary Berry Food Collection (will check title) in honour of TGBBO, plus it's DDs favourite book.

Aw Tilly, my recipe source material this month are the 2 PDF cook books I linked to further up on your thread - 'Good and Cheap' and 'From Scratch', Jack Monroe and a couple of other thrifty recipes from the net....... :rotfl:

By the way, those 2 PDF cook books, I linked them, as the one; 'Good and Cheap' came about from a project that the author - Leanne Brown - a Canadian, undertook when she was doing MSc project work with Food Stamp recipients in NY. She thought that their diet was too carb heavy and set about to do something practical about it. The result was a cookbook for the $4 a day that food stamp recipients have available to spend on food (per person). She got crowd-funding in order to get it printed, but wants folks to disseminate it electronically (and therefore freely) as widely as possible. She has also written another book, called 'From Scratch', which, whilst not quite as budget savvy, is 'your cup of tea' as it is 'proper' simple cooking, erm, as in 'from scratch'.......

I was minded of you, as I know DD is going off to college this year, but also, (and I know things have changed, slightly) you have talked about potentially doing work with voluntary agencies, who deal with folk in food poverty...... In addition to actual poverty, poverty of knowledge - of how to cook etc is not helping people's situations is it? Booklets like this one could be useful...... although the one drawback is that the measurements are in US measures, so you have to be able to convert, but still.......

Thank you for painting such a wonderful picture with your holiday purchases - alongside the contents of your garden...... jealous? moi? Just tadge :D:D:D (but you know that I am joshing? right? )

Hope the dog walk was relaxing

Greying

misscousinitt

Wow...just caught up Tilly.

Well done to both your DD and DS on their exam results. Exciting times.

Well done to you for getting your mojo back too - fabulous.

Glad you had a good holiday - it seems to have worked wonders.

MCI

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Greying, DD is now a lurker on your thread. Hopefully she'll be posting questions once she's settled in at the end of the month.

Thanks for all your inspiration and links.

I must admit it saves a ton of money when you can grow such a wide variety of stuff - cant wait to retire :j. It's not so easy in the UK although we benefit more from seasons.

Best wishes Tilly xx

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Evening, I'm not quite sure where today went - 10 hrs non stop :eek:

Won't be doing that again for a while

The first day back is always such a shock to the system and I really feel for all teachers heading back to the fray this week. DS has returned home delighted and happily getting stuck into his maths HW - has someone stolen my son? I haven't even had to ask him.

Money - £3 PC, £1 You G, CP has £70 ish.

DS's new phone which he paid for died on holiday and he has had a replacement. Happy chap to be back in contact with his mates. They live such a different life to when I was the same age. However, we didn't have PCs then, let alone lap tops or mobile phones. I remember going to a hole in the wall for the first time and finding it incredible. Now you can just wave your card over a reader and your account is debited - mad world.

Meal plan going well and the casseroles were portioned and frozen. Freezer looks healthy and doesn't contain anything which we will struggle to use - or recognise :rotfl:

A girlfriend has lent me a SW free food cookbook. I'll use that in October - I quite fancy being able to eat everything in it without worrying. I'm not sure that's quite true yet but will take a look.

NSD in the bag and they will continue until Saturday. We have to get some social stuff sorted which will have a cost but the entertainment pot is back on track again.

I'm off to walk the hounds before dinner - DD has made veggie chilli from the menu plan - smells and looks great. All good experience for when she leaves home.

Best wishes Tilly x