Twelve Weeks To Glow

Rainbow_Bridge

Day 24 of the 12 week challenge and 88/365 - 24.1%.

No visit from George last night . A one night stand :mad:.

I have found my perfect diet plate though .



It was only £2.67 in Tesco (reduced) and it looks really elegant. It's a heavily glazed white porcelain, the black square, in the picture, is a sticky F&F label.

The inside square is sunk slightly from the outside square and is 7", which is half way between the average side plate and a dinner plate.

The trick is to keep all my food within the inner square, 1/4 carbs, 1/4 protein and half vegetables.

I was inspired by the patented diet plate, which sells for about £22.00 on ebay.



Now if I was a crafty type, I would buy some porcelain paint and decorate mine, but I will leave that for now, as I think it would look naff!

TTFN xx

'Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell'. ~Author Unknown

grannyx2

That's the size plate I have, although mine is currently black with a squiggle in the middle, ( for some reason that made me giggle )

I need another one though as mine is chipped on the edges, may just pop to Mr t with OH today and persuade him to buy me one

Sorry to hear George didn't come knocking, perhaps check your doorbell, maybe the battery is dead

Have a good day x

Rainbow_Bridge

grannyx2 wrote: »

Sorry to hear George didn't come knocking, perhaps check your doorbell, maybe the battery is dead

Have a good day x

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You are right, the doorbell isn't working!! If you can get your OH to buy you a plate, I'll persuade mine to buy me a battery .

Rainbow_Bridge

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4217343

My food? budget for this week has taken a battering with the above deal, but I think it is a cracker and I will take the majority of it down to my mum's at Christmas, where we would normally be buying a dozen bottles from Waitrose, for various meet and greets with my extended family. £4.08 a bottle + 3% Quidco too, when their normal price is £13.41 each!

I have got a £10.00 off £60.00 voucher, from the Sun, to spend in Morrison's today, which will leave me over budget for food but with plenty of month left to pull things back in line.

Excuses as always, but I am sticking to them xx.

NewLeaf_2

I tried to get it, but it was such a good deal it sold out!

Rats!

I love Quidco

xx

Rainbow_Bridge

Day 25 of the 12 week challenge and 89/365 - 24.38%.

Our quarterly 14 bottles of wine from the Sunday Times Wine Club arrived yesterday, along with a box of chocolates from the Chocolate Tasting Club.

We signed up to take advantage of introductory offers, with a view to cancelling the standing order after the first delivery. Fifteen years and £4200.00 later, we still have not got around to it :eek:.

So now they were here we had 5 chocolates, a bottle of wine and a double portion of lasagne and mediteranean vegetables ..... each.

I have never seen the above on anybody's SOA, though I am sure we are not the only persons to have succumbed ....... but they are definately not in our budget.

I said to DH that I would cancel the subscriptions today, but he admitted that this was a pleasure he wasn't ready to give up, and said that he would use half his £10.00 a week, personal entertainment budget, to fund it from now on, and limit us to one bottle of wine a week and a chocolate a day.

We will see if this new strategy works ...... but at least we are nolonger in denial .

I will stick to fruit today to get back on track for the weigh-in and with an overspend on the food budget, I will donate my £10.00 entertainment budget to bridge the gap and aim for NSD's for the rest of my budget week.

THIS IS A DAMAGE LIMITATION ZONE!!

How easy for those who do not bulge to overindulge! Ogden Nash quotes

itsa

I've thought about some of these wine deals in the past, but the more I've got in the house, the more I drink. Now I just buy it one bottle at a time. I'm not really drinking any less, but at least I'm getting some exercise walking to the off-licence :rotfl:

itsa

ps. dead jealous of the George dream, although I do think you should leave him for us singlies

NewLeaf_2

I rarely ever drink wine, but it is nice to give for christmas

Rainbow_Bridge

Hi NewLeaf and Itsa,

I do love a good bottle of wine, and having a well stocked garage, I need to stay focused to make sure I don't overindulge, too often . Your approach Itsa, is a very sensible one.

I'll try not to open the Mark's and Spencer's Christmas box, so that they go where they are intended, because, I agree with you New Leaf, a sparkling wine does make a lovely gift.

I think that I have champagne tastes on a lemonade budget and my way of tackling this is to get my champagne when it's 75% off, but maybe the trick is to learn to love lemonade?

On that note my granny used to make a wonderful lemonade, I must ask mum if there is a recipe kicking around the family...... She also used to make ginger beer with a fungal, spongy thing, which was delicious.

Good thing she never made scrumptious sloe gin, in the bath, or illicit whiskey. A ready supply of these would be the beginning of the end for me!

Hands off George, Itsa, he's too old for you, you can have Brad Pitt xx.