my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

Happy Anniversary for yesterday.

Sounds like you have a very resonable landlord and I'm sure he appreciates you as tennants.

quintwins

I wish i was nigella, god i'd be the size of a house lol

Thanks and i'd like to hope he's reasonable he's hubbys uncle- hence the shockingly cheap rent he's helping us out while we save.

quintwins

oh dear i've blown my groceries budget but i got

3 bags of celery for 12p each
bag of soup veg 11p
diced pork 80p
finest meatballs 70p
bbq chicken breasts 80p (i did have 2 of these in my trolley but one vanished)
value bacon 17p
normal bacon 22p
4 chicken breast 44p
tatie and leek soup 17p
steak pie 7p
2 blocks of cheese 9p each
sausages 17p
pate 22p
finest pork and red carmelised onion sausages 80p
coleslaw and tatie salad 10p
4 pork chops for 9p each
2x 2 packs finest cheese cakes for 28p each
12 value baps 9p

i also got full price
3 litres of milk
bag of carrots
2 bottles value lemonade
3 value cola
value yogurts
2 bottles of squash
value crisps
7.5 kg bag of spuds
and £2 on deodrant and wipes

and 2 boys caps half price at 50p

my grand total is £18.46

needless to say i'm a happy bunny


i also met another mse'r waiting for whoopsies, so if you met someone in the big tesco store in n.i that beings with C that was prob me

wantabetterlife

Wow QT that was some stash you got,,,they never have bargains like that in our MrTs...i live in NI too but not near the one your on about...that must be where all the bargains are...what time to do you find is the best?

ammonite

Thats a good haul though Sorry I shouldn't be encouraging you!!

quintwins

LOL it's all about timing i was there at half 8 and you just have to wait, but i wasn't heading home til half 9 because you really do have to be there first at each section and wait til they go to the next one, i had a nosey round clothes and homeware to kill time

Ammonite your just as bad, to be fair that is a huge saving, more than enough to feed us a week if we needed to, and feed us well at that.

Off to an appointment for one of the kids soon, just have some bacon sandwichs (with 22p down from £2 bacon) lunch is pate and coleslaw sandwichs (bit of a waste of pate but the kids won't appriciate it anyway (pate was £2 down to 22p and coleslaw was £3 down to 10p) dinner is mash, beans and sausages (sausages down from £4.20!!! to 80p) now i have a less than £1 per pack limit on sausages because i only buy reduced or from the butchers by the box but seriously £4.20.

Need to get some washing down today while it's dry since i havnet managed to get any dry in days.I was considering using the drier!!!

quintwins

Hi all i wrote a post already today but my laptops playing up and wouldn't post it

Well the driers on to be fair washings piling up and we're running out of clothes.

Spent £1.95 yesterday on doughnuts, then i went with mil and got the kids all a new pair of shoes, she was paying which i'm glad about as it was nearly £100, i also got a few bits in iceland which she insisted on paying for.

Kids had cornflakes and melon for breakfast, i just had cornflakes, for lunch they well have 17p soup and the rest of the melon as it needs used, i will have a toasted muffin with pate. and dinner is pie and chips

Accidently saved some desil today, since hubby left his keys in the ignition and the battery is dead, so he had to walk to work and i'm housebound til he gets home with a battery charger.

Spent £150 on his gunclub membership i relised i havent put that in any of my soa but it's not something we're silling to cut down on anyway and it's an annual cost.

quintwins

Morning all, took the kids swimming yesterday which cost £8, then as we were coming out ds said he was hungry so hubby suggested mcd's well i wish i'd just went home it was awful and they got our order wrong and i think we were over charged, it doesn't usually cost us £22!!!! but there stupid receit was so comfusing and we'd already drove off. So no more mcd's for us. I'll get a bag of buggets from iceland as an alternitive.

Then spent £8 on food to bring to a BBQ.

Yesterday was an expensive day with nothing to show for it we should know better.

Put £15 of desil in during the week at different times to do us til yesterday then put £43.

Got lots of washing dried on the line

Mil bought the kids pants and socks so now there already to go back to school, i need to get clothes labels this week and get ironing.

Thats it i think off to the inlaws for lunch, the mealplan for the week is

mon-prok chops with mash, rosties,yorshires, and veg
tue-homemade soup and bread
wed-bacon mash and beans
thur- pasta bake
fri-sheperds pie
sat- sausage rolls and chips
sun-beans on toast


opps i forgot it was my birthday tomorrow so i've changed me meal plan abit to a more birthday approppriate dinner


Oooohh nice surpirse i just lifted the 9p pork chops out and theres 2 in each pack so it was 8 chops for 36p so the meat for tomorrows dinner is only 18p!!!

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

Happy Birthday for tomorrow! Hope you have a good day!

misscousinitt

Hope you don't mind me stopping by to say Hi, Happy Birthday and thanks for the pulled pork receipe.

DH doesn't really like roast pork, but that sounds lovely. Will be trying it out.

And by the way...nice storecupboard.

Hope you have a great day.

MCI