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

hypno06

Well, the last tin of tuna was used on Tuesday for tuna mayo sandwiches, and the last of the eggs used yesterday for egg mayo sandwiches.

I have no salad left, so inventive cous cous/pasta/rice lunches are really out of the question, and no fruit. I have some tins of soup so it may be soup in flasks for lunches tomorrow!

I have relented and sent DS to the supermarket for a pizza - BOGOF of course! At least they will eat tonight!!

I will have to have a rummage - I have £7 in Tesco clubcard vouchers but am sure I should have more somewhere. I don't usually spend them on groceries as you can get far better value using them as "deals" but I think that this month it is going to be a necessity!!

Perhaps my lottery ticket will come up this weekend. No, forgot for a moment that I haven't bought one in years :rotfl:

Storm

You could always use the soup as a pasta sauce... And if the pizza is on BOGOF you can always send them with cold pizza tomorrow!

At least with the miserable weather soup is going to be a welcome lunch I guess.

Seaxwyn

Soup in flasks will be a treat!

£7 vouchers is a tough call for 20 days. Could you swap any of your mystery shopping bounty with neighbours?

I don't think you need to make rice salad out of salad, strictly. What about chopped cooked fish fingers? Fish and rice are a good combination. And if you had a jar of pickled anything (gherkins?) to add to it all the better. That's the kind of lunch my DD1 makes for herself. (OK - she's weird, I know.)

Oh sorry I'm doing a storecupboard challenge - better leave it to the experts on the OS board.

hypno06

Ok, after a bit of a rummage I have found the following: half a bag of frozen prawns and 2 "rounds" of reblochon cheese, plus 2 peppers (slightly wrinkled but good enough to roast) so over the next few days we can have a variation on a goats cheese risotto, cheesy prawn pasta bake with roasted peppers and some sort of fish pie "thing" as I have plenty of basic potatoes.

We WILL get through this, thanks for all your support!

Seaxwyn

Me again - sorry I'm not stalking you, honest.

Those meal plans sound lovely! You are resourceful!

Just wanted to add... have you tried asking on Freecycle for food? I know that sounds a bit weird, but I've had some good comestibles from Freecycle in the past, including tea bags (someone brought the wrong flavour), three trout (someone's husband caught them and she didn't fancy dealing with the guts) and most of the contents of someone's recently deceased mother's freezer (frozen fruit going back to 1998).

You could try posting a wanted ad and if you do please let us know what response you get as I'd be fascinated to know.

taxi73

See I said you were inventive!!!..those meals sound lovely...if I think of anything to help you I'll let you know..sorry that you're struggling.

hypno06

Hey, stalk away!!

I am actually quite happy with what we have (or haven't) got - cereal for dinner, pasta with a bit of olive oil and basil, soup etc but everyone else in the house seems to desire more. I would eat porridge and rice pudding every day if I could get away with it

The freecycle idea sounds interesting. I will let you know if I have any success (or indeed the guts to ask on there!).

hypno06

taxi73 wrote: »

See I said you were inventive!!!..those meals sound lovely...if I think of anything to help you I'll let you know..sorry that you're struggling.

Not struggling, just facing a challenge!!

I am a bit cheesed off though because I got offered a load of mystery shops today which I had to turn down because they need credit checks. I did a good deed though and recommended my SIL for them. So Carolyn, if you are reading this, I hope you realise how gutted I am to have given them away. Come to think of it, if you are reading this, you will now know why birthday presents haven't amounted to much over the last few years :rotfl:

hypno06

:j Just checked on quidco and £30 ish has been received, with £150 additional validated :j (thank you car insurance).

Roll on June

hypno06

Goodness, I am SOOOO tired today - I think it is a combination of the drab weather after all that fab sunshine we have had recently, hating the fact that May seems so long with no money, and DS has a hacking cough which keeps me up all night, bless him.

I have done a couple of hours invigilating at the school today, but have absolutely no motivation to do anything, although I know I HAVE to go into the city to drop something vital off at DH's work before he starts there this evening (he goes straight from one job to another so no time for him to come home and collect things).

Invigilating has been good this week - I reckon it adds up to about £100 with about the same next week, so when I get my first pay cheque in June it will have been worth doing.

Ebay is also looking good, with £130 of bids so far, but after the fiasco I had with the last batch, I am not counting my chickens for a few days yet. Things will come to an end on Sunday and Monday so it will be a little while before the money comes in and is cleared in the bank.

Dinner last night was good - rice, a few prawns, a bit of green pepper, handful of almonds and some mustard seed and spices, all bunged in together - filling and yummy. Today will be a goats cheese risotto type thing with a tomato salad.

So, anyway, if anyone has any spare energy going, please can you send some of it my way!