Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Another trip to Morrisons... another £58.97 spent... but I now have the 8 coupons needed to get £30 off a £40 shop

Chicken treats £1.30
Wild bird food £3.18
Vegetables £0.45
Fruit £3.00 (lemons for lemon curd)
Dairy £6.49 (butter for lemon curd & cookies and milk)
Meat/poultry/fish £0.00
Bread £0.00
Storecupboard £13.97 (mainly stuff for baking cookies)
Toiletries £0.00
Cleaning £1.25
Wine £0.00
Misc £0.00
Christmas £29.33 (including beer, brandy butter, Christmas cards, stamps, mulled wine spice and a bone for my brother's dog)

No eggs again :eek:

Neither of us could be bothered to cook tonight so pizza, chips and salad for dinner!

muddywhitechicken

Whoop whoop I've finished for Christmas :j well not officially but boss told us to take tomorrow off (and not record it on the holiday entitlement form!) and I'm "working from home" on Christmas Eve morning (more likely answering the occasional e-mail on my Blackberry whilst queuing in the supermarket!)

Mr MWC is feeling flush this evening so I've just got him to transfer £350 to me as a contribution to our final OP of 2012 - the one that will see us at under £165,000 at the end of 2012 (today's total = £165,610.61)

Nearly had an egg today (there was a softie in the nestbox)

Potato soup with leeks, black pudding & parsley for dinner

muddywhitechicken

Another spendy day here...

I went shopping for presents in the closest city, had lunch with Mr MWC who was there on business, bumped into someone I used to work with and had a good gossip, and was home by 4. And then because we haven't been near a supermarket for a while , we popped to Tescos this evening - got £14 off a £68 shop.

Leftover soup from yesterday for dinner

No eggs

Currently making candied orange peel for my hampers - horribly behind with the hampers this year :eek:

muddywhitechicken

I've spent the last 6 hours hampering and now I'm all hampered out... still have 1 batch of lemon curd and 2 batches of cookies to make, half the candied orange peel to dip in chocolate, this year's sloe gin to bottle and 5 Christmas puddings to wrap in tissue paper & cellophane :eek:

My brother, his girlfriend and dog visited us yesterday and stayed overnight. He is vegan so Mr MWC made a cashew nut and parsnip loaf with squash stuffing and chilli-chocolate gravy - absolutely delicious but a bit of a faff to make. The four of us drank 1 bottle of prosecco, 3 bottles of red wine, 2 bottles of beer, the last of the 2009 vintage sloe gin and then Mr MWC decided to open a bottle of single malt... no hangovers this morning though

1 of my presents from them is book-shaped - fingers-crossed that it is the Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook

Final pre-Christmas supermarket trip this afternoon - £61.41 in Sainsburys (including flowers for our hostess on Christmas Day and bison grass vodka for Mr MWC's BIL)

1 egg today :j

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

My brother, his girlfriend and dog visited us yesterday and stayed overnight. He is vegan so Mr MWC made a cashew nut and parsnip loaf with squash stuffing and chilli-chocolate gravy - absolutely delicious but a bit of a faff to make.

That's a lot of trouble to go to for a vegan dog .

All your food and drink sounds lovely - would you like to adopt me please .

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

That's a lot of trouble to go to for a vegan dog .

:rotfl:Luckily the dog is happy with a carrot!

Remaining candied orange peel has been dipped in chocolate, sloe gin is strained but not bottled, the apple (for lemon curd) is pureed and the cookie ingredients are weighed out... just about to tackle another mountain of washing-up...

Miss B looks like she is in a egg-laying mood this morning

muddywhitechicken

:j yippee, hampers finished and presents wrapped :j

Merry Christmas everyone :xmassign::xmastree::rudolf::xmassmile:snow_laug:santa2:

MWC

muddywhitechicken

A quick pit-stop at home before we head out again - this time to Mr MWC's family

2 (yes two ) eggs today - whoop whoop :j:T

muddywhitechicken

Had a lovely quiet day today

Mr MWC & I walked into town the long way this afternoon and spent £20 (mainly on wild bird food and chicken treats but also some milk)

Leftover ham (cooked by Mr MWC for Boxing Day), bubble & squeak and a poached egg for dinner :drool:

1 egg today

I've had a look in the freezer and the larder. Now I need to meal plan for January and write a shopping list (I still have a voucher for £30 off a £40 shop in Morrisons to be used this month )

muddywhitechicken

Just counted my egg sales money/loose change jar - £32.50

As I charge £1.25 for 6 eggs, I've obviously been dipping into it a fair bit this year :rotfl:

The plan for 2013 is to leave the £32.50 in the pot, to add egg sales money (when they start laying again...) and to leave it untouched until I have saved £193 - the cost of a new roof for their walk-in run