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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    fishfinger sarnie for dinner :rotfl:
    Red sauce? Brown sauce? Or, you being posh'n'that, tartare sauce?

    PS - hope it was on cheap white bread :D.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • I've had a reccy of the fridge-freezer and in August we will be eating:

    1kg lamb shoulder
    1.4kg pork shoulder
    1.2kg chicken
    3 chicken thighs
    375g diced beef
    400g beef chuck steak
    400g beef mince
    400g diced pork
    225g raw king prawns
    18 falafel
    smoked bacon lardons
    4 rashers back bacon
    bolognaise sauce x 2 servings
    tomato sauce x 2 servings
    1/2 pack of spinach & ricotta tortellini
    1 beef burger
    400g pork sausages (5)
    4 burger buns
    2 muffins
    6 tortillas
    6 fishfingers
    peas
    rhubarb, gooseberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, blackberries, raspberry puree

    375g ultimate 21 day dry-aged rib-eye steak
    1/2 chorizo ring
    120g pastrami
    1 tub chargrilled artichokes
    feta
    parmesan

    There's also plenty of pulses, pasta, rice etc in the larder

    And of course we have eggs +++

    We'll not starve :rotfl:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    So, you basically froze an entire farmyard?
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
  • gallygirl wrote: »
    Red sauce? Brown sauce? Or, you being posh'n'that, tartare sauce?

    PS - hope it was on cheap white bread :D.

    Sorry to disappoint GG, I'm even posher than you think :rotfl:

    Wholemeal seed bread, lightly toasted
    Cold-pressed rapeseed oil mayonnaise
    Spinach
    Cucumber (regular - we've run out of pickled :()
    Oh, and 3 fishfingers
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • nattypants wrote: »
    So, you basically froze an entire farmyard?

    Pretty much :rotfl:

    I ordered an organic meatbox and then forgot to eat it :o
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    As per my post on Tilly's thread, we'll mostly be having:
    Peas
    Black pudding
    Peas & black pudding
    Black pudding & peas
    Chillies
    Chilli peas
    Chilli black pudding
    Etc etc.

    Served with couscous. I have a LOT of couscous. 6 (now 5.5) of THESE :rotfl:.

    Chilli couscous
    Chilli couscous with black pudding
    Chillied sweetcorn surprise (it's actually peas :D)

    Etc etc.

    :EasterBun
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • gallygirl wrote: »
    As per my post on Tilly's thread, we'll mostly be having:
    Peas
    Black pudding
    Peas & black pudding
    Black pudding & peas
    Chillies
    Chilli peas
    Chilli black pudding
    Etc etc.

    Served with couscous. I have a LOT of couscous. 6 (now 5.5) of THESE :rotfl:.

    Chilli couscous
    Chilli couscous with black pudding
    Chillied sweetcorn surprise (it's actually peas :D)

    Etc etc.

    :EasterBun
    Seems a definite green and black thing going on - definitely Easter bunny time
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • My afternoon off has been a bit of a dead loss :mad:

    Spent half of it phoning round my European suppliers and asking if they could do a difficult something in an impossible time frame for one of my US colleagues who has taken his eye off the ball and dropped it... It's not looking too good at the moment :(

    I also had to pop to the vets to pick up some more antibiotics for Miss B as they hadn't given me enough - she's much improved today :) - and to the PO to post a RM survey letter

    Eggs IN 6
    Eggs OUT 11 (9 sold for £2.50, 2 poached for Mr MWC's breakfast)

    Vietnamese fresh spring rolls for dinner :drool:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    How is Miss B/MWC feeling today? The antibiotics certainly seem to be kicking in.

    NPX
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
  • nattypants wrote: »
    How is Miss B/MWC feeling today? The antibiotics certainly seem to be kicking in.

    NPX

    She's looking much better Natty :D

    She put up a real struggle last night when we gave her the antibiotics (she spat out 1/2 the dose :naughty:)

    I've already decided not to dose her this morning and will double dose tonight (the vet said it was ok to do this with this antibiotic)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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