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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    I decided to bake the cookies thereby using up open bags of dried cranberries, pecans, white chocolate chips and oats, not using too much butter and leaving me some apples to eat during the week!

    Mr MWC is making celeriac, apple & blue stilton soup for lunch using a YS celeriac, a soft apple and some bargainous blue stilton (£1 for 500g, divided into 4 portions and frozen earlier in the month)

    Dinner will be HFW's sausage, puy lentil & prune hotpot (using sausages from the freezer and lentils from the storecupboard), duchess potatoes (using some old potatoes that had started to sprout), roasted beetroot (found lurking in the bottom of the fridge since before Christmas...) and savoy cabbage (bought specially!!!)

    A lovely sunny day here - planning to go for a walk after lunch :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • misscousinitt
    misscousinitt Posts: 3,655 Forumite
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    Love the birdie pics.


    Your dinner tonight sounds lovely, but DH won't eat lentils!


    Enjoy your walk.


    MCI
    Mortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
    Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
    OP's to Date £8500
    Renovation Fund:£511.39;
    Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)
  • gallygirl
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    Watty1 wrote: »
    Love the birdie pics. Little Miss Red Hen is clearly a super model !

    Just like her mums :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"
  • edinburgher
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    using up open bags of dried cranberries, pecans, white chocolate chips and oats

    May I live in your cupboard? :rotfl:
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    misscousinitt wrote: »
    Enjoy your walk.

    Thanks MCI - a muddy 5 miles - last mile was a bit of a struggle!
    gallygirl wrote: »
    Just like her mums :D

    Do you mean her aunties???!!! :rotfl:
    edinburgher wrote: »
    May I live in your cupboard? :rotfl:

    Leftover Christmas hamper ingredients ed - no plans to buy any more cranberries or pecans until next December!
    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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    Eggs IN 4
    Eggs OUT 2 (cookies + duchess potatoes)

    This weekend has whizzed by :(
    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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    Eggs IN 2
    Eggs OUT 6 (1 box sold for £1.30)

    Leftovers for dinner

    Starting to stress about how much work I have on this quarter - all high priority and high profile - looking at the schedule there's not even any time for a breakdown :eek:
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »


    Do you mean her aunties???!!! :rotfl:



    !

    Oops did we forget to tell you :cool:
    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"
  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,209 Forumite
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    The sausage puy lentil and prune hotpot sounds delish! I just googled it and found the receipe on line. And we have all put the prunes in stock so will be trying that minus the prunes ..or maybe I will just add the to the shopping list they do sound integral:)
    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 !!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Watty1 wrote: »
    The sausage puy lentil and prune hotpot sounds delish! I just googled it and found the receipe on line. And we have all put the prunes in stock so will be trying that minus the prunes ..or maybe I will just add the to the shopping list they do sound integral:)

    I think you do need some prunes Watty although 200g is too many IMO. I bought value prunes (£1.19 for 250g) :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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