Hypno's kick up the backside debt diary....

redsquirrel80

Hi Hypno, I'm working my way through Quidco at the moment as well! Have found that typing 'free' into the search box brought up quite a few things I could do (can't use credit card at all). Didn't see the magazine sub for £8 though, which one is that? I did one recently that got me £4.. and yep I'd better work out the date for cancelling it!

Hope you manage to sort something out for your meal x

hypno06

I did the scarlet subscription - you get £9 cashback, but you buy 1 issue of the mag for £1, so net result £8 - obviously need to pay with a card so may not help you. I use a debit card, not a credit card.

I have just totted up that I have £117.47 in quidco, with another £20 expected to track over the weekend - not bad!!! Hopefully it will arrive in time for Christmas :j

ZTD

hypno06 wrote: »

Morning all! KC, I hope you get bread sorted - I don't eat the stuff very often because I have a yeast allergy, but sometimes I just yearn for it! I have tried all sorts of recipies, but never got anything as good as the real thing, so sort of gave up. I do use the breadmaker for everyone else in the family - the smell of fresh cooked bread drives me crazy when I can't partake myself!!

Have you tried eating your home-made bread?

Industrial bread uses the Chorleywood Bread Process which uses 3 times as much yeast as normal baking. Also it uses high-gluten flour which can be important for those gluten-intolerant people. I know someone who is slightly gluten intolerant, and they eat french sticks - which are apparently made a different way.

hypno06

Fab idea ZTD, I will give it a try - I am supposed to reduce carbs as much as possible because the sugar feeds the yeast, but on our budget we have to eat pasta and rice a lot so that element of the restriction has fairly well gone to pot anyway!!

I have just made a batch of blackberry jam - now cooling in jars, so to have some warm bread to have with it would be a real treat!

hypno06

Oh, forgot to say, I do occasionally make soda bread, no yeast involved at all but that doesn't work well in the breadmaker in my experience so needs to be done "properly".

ZTD

hypno06 wrote: »

Fab idea ZTD, I will give it a try - I am supposed to reduce carbs as much as possible because the sugar feeds the yeast,

Yes, but there are carbs and there are carbs. Here are almost pure carbs.


No...not the cereal - the cardboard box...

hypno06 wrote: »

but on our budget we have to eat pasta and rice a lot so that element of the restriction has fairly well gone to pot anyway!!

Well, you could try that "less refined" pasta/rice thing. Keeps you regular...

Lower GI too.

hypno06 wrote: »

I have just made a batch of blackberry jam - now cooling in jars, so to have some warm bread to have with it would be a real treat!

Hmm....





Hmm....

:drool:

hypno06

I cooked some low carb spaghetti earlier in the week, It was just about as palatable as the cardboard you pictured :rotfl:

The children asked if I could go back to buying the £1 3kg basic stuff!!

LookingAhead

Warm bread and blackberry jam....oh YUMMY! :drool:

hypno06

Hi LA, hope you are having a good weekend. I did have a sneaky slice of toast with some jam on - good job there was no more bread left, otherwise I would have been eating it all day!! It was delish

Today I have done loads of MSE type things, although have not moved a great deal off my sofa! I have made home made jam, made some flapjacks, been working quidco like it is going out of fashion, started searching for house insurance as it is up for renewal soon, done a tiddly matched bet and bits and pieces like that. I feel as though I can justify my lack of movement away from the laptop with moneysaving savviness sort of thing!

hypno06

Oh and I listed some bits on ebay and amazon too.....