my non-mortgage mortgage free journey

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tessie_bear wrote: »

hope your bambino is bearing up...lot of illness about at the moment...i made dh and i poached eggs on toast for lunch yesterday and it was nice...im getting better at poaching
all the best tess

I always lift my pan off so the eggs stick to the bottom them pry them off at the last second that way they all stay together i love poached egg on toast i didn't have any yesterday but i did this morning Ds is alot better now still very tired but not sicky.


My bankings sorted, savings stand at £4699, current account looks healthy aswell but i need to pay for my camera cause it's on the creditcard, and speaking of creditcards it was in my coat pocket and i managed to snap it!!! thats maybe a good thing :rotfl: Most of the puppies go to new homes this weekend but it should mean and extra £920 added to my savings.

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OMG i love my new asda, called in at 3 and they were doing 2d reductions, apparently they do it that time everyday i got

Spuds, reduced from £1.74 to 34p
6 value cheese cakes reduced for 31p to 10p
coleslaw reduced from £1.24 to 10p
2 large chicksn reduced from £4.50 to £1.60
a fancy fish pie reduced from £4 to £1.54
finestmeat balls reduced from £4 to £1.45
2 2 packs of ham and cheese keiv's reduced from £1.50 to 54p
3 packets of mince reduced from £1.56 to 54p
chicken en croute reduced from £3.38 to £1.30
2 2 packs bbq chicken breasts reduced from £3.38 to £1.30
4 2 packs of breaded cod fillets reuced from £2 to 65p
3 packets of large sausage rolls reduced from £1.74 to 45p
3 brown loaves of bread reduced from 60p (i think thats what it says on the sticker) to 15p
3 packets of 5 bananas reduced from £1.26 to 40p
snack pack of grapes reduced from £1 to 37p
2 packets of on the vine mini tomatoes reduced from £1.18 to 21p
4 fruit bags reduced from 44p to 10p
a forever friends cake reduced from £4.60 to £1

and i got 3 packets of full prices sweets (3 for £1 ones)

my shopping should have cost £65.82 but it cost £22.06 :j

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I went to asda again today, i didn't have alot of room in my freezer or else i'd have got a few chickens but i did get....

Greek yogurts reduced from £1 to 25p
a garlic and herb whole chicken reduced from £4.21 to £1.12
extra lean mince reduced from £2.15 to 53p
normal mince reduced from £2 to 50p
bacon reduced from £3.58 to £1
gloucester cheese reduced from £2.23 to 60p

should have cost £15.17 but only cost me £4

I was going to do chicken dinner for tea since i have so many chickens but the kids had xmas dinner in school, so i turned tues onions(10p), weds tomatoes(21p) and todays mince (50p) into spag bol, i also used some bought reduced mushrooms(5p) from the freezer, i will freeze half, so tonighst dinenr with amazon pasta will cost about 75p

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Good moring everyone, by teh end of today my savings will have risen to £5812

I have most of our puppy money in,£780 i spend a tiny bit on new jumpers for hubby, and i pinched abit for my rent cause theres no point lodging the cahs to take money out, also the pups were at our inlaws and the heatlamp altho cheap to run considering did end up costing around £60 for the 10 weeks the dog/pup has been there, but they refused to take any money off us so hubby bought everyone chinese at £40.

Then i have my usual £233 plus my monthly £100.

Plan for this week is

-Go to cash for clothes
-do surverys
- stick to meal plan
-don't buy any food (except milk and bread ) unless it's a real bargain
-get on top of washing and ironing, and get hubby to finish lagging the pipes
-get hubby up to have another look at the roof at the weekend


meal plan

mon- meatloaf
tur- roast chicken dinner- Chicken ham and leek pie with chips and sweetcorn
wed- chicken casarole- Roast chicken dinner
thur- meatballs and mash chicken casarole
fri-fish and chips
sat-pasta bake
sun- soup (were at the inlaws for lunch)

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Savings are now at £5832 :j:j:j

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Wow how cold is it!!! i have my wee fire lit, i usually don't light it til late afternoon but the cold is effecting my ashma so i'd rather be able to breath it's so cold i'm only doing school runs today and spending the rest of the day hiding indoors i'll need to be here to keep the fire in anyway.

Change of plan food wise a friend asked me to have a look for whoppsies for her yesterday when i was getting milk cause she was skint, i picked her up a packet of chicken fillets for £2.12 but she said she had some in the freezer so now i've got them, i got myself a packet of leeks for 34p... so i got some value philly from the freezer and i'm gonna make a big batch of chicken, ham (aka spam) and leek pie, i'll freeze 2 batches and make a pie for tea tonight i'll serve it with roasties, sweetcorn and gravy.

tessie_bear

hi...that sounds a nice tea....sorry if i sound like a crazed stalker:eek:...im not...but i was looking at the frugal challenge thread and i noticed your food budget...£1200 for a year ??...£100 a month for 5 people ????....please tell me more as this is an area of interest...i have spend justunder £1600 this year for 4 people and am keen to save more if i can

thankyou

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tessie_bear wrote: »

hi...that sounds a nice tea....sorry if i sound like a crazed stalker:eek:...im not...but i was looking at the frugal challenge thread and i noticed your food budget...£1200 for a year ??...£100 a month for 5 people ????....please tell me more as this is an area of interest...i have spend justunder £1600 this year for 4 people and am keen to save more if i can

thankyou

Lol ur so stalking me...i knew it :rotfl:

My budget this year was £200 a month but i didn't really keep track, the £1200 is £100 a month which is completely do-able for us (i did a test shop online) for a few reasons first one being, kids get free school dinner(for now) and we get free sun dinner.

My practice shop comes to £62.30 plus £19 for a box of 22-25 chicken breasts from the meat place, i also left £10 for cheapo iceland bits, we'll never need £10 of icelane bits a month maybe every 3 months, saying that the meal plan is abit bleak i'm hoping to supplement it with some whoospies so i can squeeze in some chocolate and crisps

ALso my freezer is bunged so i hopefully won't spend much at the start of the year, i'm going to draw out cash then empty my purse at the start of everyweek, that will go towards xmas.

My £1200 gives me £3.30ish a day which is acually my general aim and what i manage on most days anyway, it's all the extras we don't need that add up, like crisps and chinese, i'm hoping if i set a strict budget we will avoid the chinese aswell altho we could afford a wee sneaky cheap one if i was very careful.

Today we had

Breakfast toast and jam for breakfast 10p, lunch for me and ds was scambled egg on toast 50p (hubby bought the wrong eggs should be half this) i had a wee bit of bacon 10p, dinner is chicken casarole and mash, 50p half of yesterdays chicken, 20p casarole veg, gravy 10p, mash 20p butter 5p, kids had an apple 14p, plum 8p 2 oranges 30p so todays total is £ 2.72 so well under for 5 of us and no-one went hungry or without

Tomorrow hopefully will be

b- cornflakes 10p (reduced milk from asda and tesco value cornflakes)
l- quiche 20p (reduced)
d- tatie and leek soup 40p, leeks 15p, onions 10p (sack of spuds and all reduced)
total= £0.95 i'm sure the kis will raid the fruit bowl or be after yogurts when they get in from school, and we'll prob use half a loaf of bread so 25p (our asda does 2 sliced loaves but made in they bakery for £1) but still way under and i have work so i can eat my food before i go.


So i do think it's completely do-able, i did make sure it was doable without whoospies aswell tho, and i also have an extra £300ish in my overall budget for emegergencys.

MY meal plan on £100 is (i only need 27 meals)

beef casarole
beef pie
sausage casarole
tode in the hole
2 sheperds pies
1 mince and taties
1 meatloaf
2 spag bol
2 chilli
3 mince pies
quiche
3 pasta bakes
2 roast chicken dinner
2 chicken casaroles
chicken curry
sweet and sour
chicken pie
sausage rolls mash and beans

There will be well over half my chicken left over the next month aswell, the breasts we get are massive (seriously my hubbys a real meat eater and he asked me if i was sure the weren't turkey they were so big) and don't shrink 2 does all of us. so the 2nd month i'll prob get a 2 pork shoulder for around £5 each and do a pork roast and then pulled pork or pork pie

On my tesco shop it only included a bag of apples, a bag of oranges and a bunch of bananas a week, but acually i'll shop local and get 7 apples for £1 from the market, i only buy oranges whoospied and i'm forever getting plums and grapes reduced aswell.

KolaKube

I am impressed! Love a bargain quintwins but that costing everything out is good work lol

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KolaKube wrote: »

I am impressed! Love a bargain quintwins but that costing everything out is good work lol

I love costing my meals and seeing just how cheap i can get them then comparing them to say resurants or takeaways, i had a bowl of potatoe and leek soup about a week ago (inlaws paid) it was £3.95 for one bowl and to be fair it was alot creamier than mine will be, they served it with 2 slices of baugette, mine will cost 13p a bowl, i could give us all a whole baugette with it and still be well under half the price, saying that hubby prefers sliced white to what he calls crusty bread anyway- btw lidl do really nice crusty bread, they do a half sized stick for 29p, i sometimes treat myself to it if i'm having soup.