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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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* 1/2 hour gym
* 16,500 steps
* ate healthily (crumpet with peanut butter & banana for breakfast, tomato soup & crusty bread for lunch, baked sweet potato with HM guacamole & red kidney beans for dinner, mango, strawberries, watermelon & cauliflower for snacks, 1 white americano, 200 mL 1% milk)
* drank 4 L water
* no early night(making stock with a chicken carcass that was in the freezer)
Eggs IN 3
Eggs OUT 0Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Meals are sounding good.
That's a real pain with the freezer...
MCIMortgage 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)0 -
* 1/2 houur gym
* 18,000 steps
* ate healthily
* no early night
Stressed about the FF (freezer definitely not working and fridge not that cold today...) and trying to use the food before it spoilsI'll need to research new !!!!!! with next day delivery tomorrow. Also feeling fat & bloated even though I'm only a couple of pounds over my goal weight
Grumble, grumble, moan...
Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 8 (1 box sold for £1.25, 2 used in feta frittatas for my lunch tomorrow)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
* 1/2 hour gym
* 17,500 steps
* ate healthily
* no early night
* less stressed (now - more stressed first thing this morning...)
I ordered a new FF today :T £240 reduced from £450 + £20 to recycle the old one +£20 to deliver tomorrow afternoon (it would have been free delivery if I'd been available 7 to 7 but I have an important F2F meeting tomorrow morning. I didn't do a lot of research so hopefully it'll be ok.
£1 spent on 4 tins of chickpeas
Eggs IN 4
Eggs OUT 6 (1 box sold for £1.30)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
When are those eggs due to hatch!?Baby Step 1 - £1k Emergency Fund - COMPLETE
Baby Step 2 - Pay off all debts except the Mortgage - £9,326 to go
Baby Step 3 - Save 6 months of expenses into full Emergency Fund - £4,300 to go
Baby Step 4 - Put 15% into Pension
Baby Step 6 - Pay off the Mortgage early
Baby Step 7 - Live like no-one else0 -
rasputin_thorpedo wrote: »When are those eggs due to hatch!?
Approx. Day 21. Today is Day 14 and she is still sitting on 5 eggsMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
* 1/2 hour gym
* 19,500 steps
* ate healthily-ish (I did declutter 4 jaffa cakes during a really dull TC)
* an early night :T (I'm in bed and I'll switch the laptop off soon. I'm not tired though :doh:)
New FF delivered this afternoon :j
Just as well because the old fridge was running at 9.5C... :eek:
Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
* 1/2 hour gym
* 19,000 steps
* ate healthily (yummy Moroccan aubergine & chickpea salad for dinner using brown chickpeas (kala chana, 38p/can or 4 for £1 in Morrisons), only 1 aubergine and much less oil than the recipe suggested (I brushed the aubergine slices with the dressing as recommended in several reviews :T))
* I'll be in bed by 22:00
Eggs IN 4
Eggs OUT 6 (1 box sold for £1.50)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
muddywhitechicken wrote: »* ate healthily (yummy Moroccan aubergine & chickpea salad for dinner using brown chickpeas (kala chana, 38p/can or 4 for £1 in Morrisons),
Oooh, Muddy - I have some of them, but mine are dried - Natc0 brand 2kg. I bought them as a cost cutting measure, last time I was in the big-city-next-along. Do they taste nuttier than the *normal* chickpeas? I wonder if they are a different variety, or just 'chickpeas with overcoats on'? Once I have used up the 2 pots of cooked chickpeas out of the freezer - they will be the chickpeas I use. I rather suspect our branch of mrM wouldn't stock the 4for£1 deal. It's not very adventureous..........
Hope the chooks are doing well. Was thinking of you yesterday, when they were saying on the radio that Chickens repel mosquitos - so take a chicken to bed with you........ you'd be able to rotate!:rotfl:
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £182.09/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £15.55/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £0/£100 -
:wave: GreyingGreying_Pilgrim wrote: »Hope the chooks are doing well. Was thinking of you yesterday, when they were saying on the radio that Chickens repel mosquitos - so take a chicken to bed with you........ you'd be able to rotate!
:rotfl:
:rotfl: Mr MWC might get jealous!
Yes, the brown chickpeas are nuttier than "normal" chickpeas and smaller. They were in the proper world food aisle (as opposed to the brand name world food aisle).Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0
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