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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Thanks everyone :)

    Yes, I make everything myself - well apart from Mr MWC's piccalilli!

    Not every hamper had every item but this year I made:

    Hedgerow jelly
    Spiced crab apple jelly
    Bramley apple lemon curd
    Spicy pear pickle
    Christmas chutney
    Piccalilli
    Pickled onions
    Whisky marmalade
    Gooseberry conserve
    Crab apple butter
    Crab apple, red gooseberry and chilli jelly
    Herb jelly
    Christmas pudding
    Plum, russet and sloe gin mincemeat
    White chocolate, cranberry and pecan cookies
    Chocolate-dipped candied orange peel
    Red gooseberry gin
    Sloe gin
    Elderberry vodka
    Blackberry whisky
    Pontack sauce
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    Are you secretly Mary Berry's/Kirsty Allsop's love-child?

    Seriously impressed MWC:T

    PS thank you for the B&G photographs :smileyhea
    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
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    PPS. you also made TABLET!!!! X
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    nattypants wrote: »
    PPS. you also made TABLET!!!! X

    I knew I had forgotten something! I'm making more for Hogmanay - do you want some or will you be juicing in January?
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • nattypants
    nattypants Posts: 2,577 Forumite
    Mmmm.....tablet or juicing, tablet or juicing, tablet or juicing? Decisions, decisions.....

    Let's go for TABLET
    February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
    MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
    C'mon nattypants:cool:
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,084 Forumite
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    Impressive lists MWC, do you have recipes for either the Christmas chutney or the herb jelly? Alternatively, are they in the realm of the internet and I can find them for myself? :)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    nattypants wrote: »
    Mmmm.....tablet or juicing, tablet or juicing, tablet or juicing? Decisions, decisions.....

    Let's go for TABLET

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    OK!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    Impressive lists MWC, do you have recipes for either the Christmas chutney or the herb jelly? Alternatively, are they in the realm of the internet and I can find them for myself? :)

    Hi Ed

    it's Nigella's Christmas chutney and the herb jelly recipe is from the Cottage Smallholder blog (Florence's herb jelly I think) - let me know if you can't find the recipes and I'll post links when I'm home.
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,225 Forumite
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    Your hampers look - and sound - seriously stunningly scrumptious
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
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    Morning MWC, your hampers look truly beautiful.

    What a generous spirited and talented person you are :)

    Best wishes Tilly x x x
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
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