A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

annie123

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Butternut squash Chop, no need to peel,

I've always peeled mine, thought the skin was too tough to soften for soup. One less thing to s*d around doing Thank you.

fuddle

I agree redlady and get quite annoyed at how it seems that everything in my life is out of my control.

I'm not too sure of my plan of action just yet other than lessen my energy usage in the home and be creative with the food budget.

Egg and chips for dinner tonight and I can see that things like lasagne and fish pie being too expensive to make soon

redlady_1

Small steps fuddle and then all of a sudden everything will take off. Even growing a big of veg helps.

Mrs_Chip

Well I have spent the morning trying to chop up a piano as I can't bear to send the wood in it to the dump :rotfl:. Seriously, anyone ever tried? It's built like the proverbial BSH! But there is no way it is leaving this house in its physical form, its going up the chimbley!

See what you are driving us to, Mr Osbourne???:p

emmad5689

Afternoon all, this may not seem much to you all but it does to me, this morning I did a wash load which had jeans in so i would usually have just put it in the drier however I pulled out everything except the jeans and a thick jumper and put them on the airer to dry therefore less in the drier therefore dried faster and less on electric!! Unfortunatley my husband wears jeans for work and gets filthy everyday so I have a lot of jeans to wash and get dry.

At work this evening so i will get fed there (care home so we can eat whats left after the residents have theirs) god knows what it will be today!! The oh can fend for himself which probably means beans on toast and I have sent food to my dads for the girls.

I am sat with the fire on very low and to be fair my legs are feeling chilly but my daughter is running around the front room happy and warm enough so it is not getting turned up, I can cope with the cold but i won't let my kids be cold. My husband has surgery on thursday so he will be home for a couple of weeks and I can guarentee he will have the fire or heating on constantly.

suzybloo

oh Mar... brought a smile to my face - never heard the word coupon used in that context for donkeys years :-)

parsniphead

Hello Everyone.

Another long term lurker on the 'Tougher' thread. I love reading the tips, anything to help stretch the pennies especially while I'm on maternity leave. I would love to be a stay at home mum but the cost of things is making it impossible, especially utilities. Why in this day and age should we be worring about keeping warm due to cost. It's something that has angered me for a while but since having my baby it's really hit home. Why should he suffer. As a previous poster said (sorry I forgrt the name), I can keep warm but my child is not going to suffer.

I do have an allotment which I hope to make more productive next year. I couldn't do much last season as I had a difficult pregnancy (probably due to being an old bag:rotfl:) so had to take it easy. I think a mainly vegetarian diet is on the offing with the odd bit of meat to stretch the money more.

I will definately be reading everyday, but will promise to only post on good days. You wouldn't want to listen to me rant about the state of the country when I get going. Plus I can't remember if treason is still a hanging offence.;):p

Keep going everyone. We will all get through these difficult times with help and support from each other.

Off now, sorry for rambling.

mardatha

If it's not a hanging offence I bet they wish it was !
I was in Lidl and got a bag of 3 cabbages for the hens. Took one out there and they curled up their beaks and sneered. So the RV and I are lumbered with 2 giant bloody cabbages - what will I do with them?
(be polite please!) It's all very well people saying veggies are the way to go cos they good for you and cheaper - but to a person who has for 60 years treated the horrible things as something you have to stuff down before you can get your pudding....
ITS NOT EASY!

paidinchickens

mardatha wrote: »

I didnt either fuddle. I canny stand his smug coupon. I just think they are so divorced from the reality of day to day life for most of the country that they're a joke. And that applies all the way up through europe as well.

Never heard the word coupon used before .........it would have to be a big money off coupon to want to take that face home wouldn't it??? He does not look like he could wash the upstairs windows either

emmad5689

parsniphead - know how you feel my youngest is 14 months and i would love to be a stay at home mum, some of the hours have been cut at work and I have only been there 6 weeks so am thinking mine mite be, i'm going in soon and going to ask i have worked out with fuel tax and ni if i dropped one shift a week we would be £80 worse off a month which on the grand scheme doesn't seem too bad for an extra day with my children but I wouldn't do it through choice, is it wrong that i secretly hope they cut my hours i just want to be with my children.