Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Good morning

Yesterday's news:

- I was paid :j
- Waitrose voucher didn't arrive :huh:
- 5 eggs (no egg from Miss LRH again)
- went to Pizza Express for dinner - had a 25% discount code and US colleague paid total bill on company CC :T I just had to pay parking... £4:eek:

muddywhitechicken

Work is over and done with for another week :j

I don't know whether to have a nap this afternoon or to browse the Crocus website and spend the £25 gift voucher my brother gave me for my birthday (+ 20% off this weekend + 10.1% TCB)... decisions, decisions

I also need to money shuffle and menu plan today

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I don't know whether to have a nap this afternoon or to browse the Crocus website and spend the £25 gift voucher my brother gave me for my birthday (+ 20% off this weekend + 10.1% TCB)... decisions, decisions

In the end, I did neither! I did decide to look at lovely plants but my work laptop is so archaic that it's not really compatible with the Crocus website and it was too frustrating :mad: I did some housework instead

4 boxes of eggs sold today - I say sold but they were exchanged for IOUs hopefully I'll get the money on Monday

Luckily 3 eggs were laid today (Miss B, Miss D and Miss Q) so we had enough eggs to have heuvos rancheros for dinner :drool:

muddywhitechicken

Freezer stocktake (there's much less this month):

1/2 leg lamb
1/2 rack pork ribs*
4 lamb chops**
4 rashers back bacon
1 sirloin steak*
5 chicken thighs
400g diced venison*
2 x 400g minced beef
400g diced chuck steak
9 casserole sausages*
1 x tomato sauce*
1 x bolognaise sauce*
1 x mole sauce*
1 x ham hock*
1/2 packet raw prawns
peas/broad beans/soya beans
fruit**

*/** these are things that have been in the freezer too long and really must be used in March

Also to be used this month are a bag of 10 bean mix that has been unopened in the larder for ages and 4 cooking chorizo

catshark88

What may I ask is mole sauce??

I have mole hills all over my garden, so if it is easy to make and tasty....
;-)

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

catshark88 wrote: »

What may I ask is mole sauce??

I have mole hills all over my garden, so if it is easy to make and tasty....
;-)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

catshark88 wrote: »

What may I ask is mole sauce??

I have mole hills all over my garden, so if it is easy to make and tasty....
;-)

Mole is a Mexican sauce like a chilli-chocolate gravy

We serve it with nut roast but it might make moles tasty :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

This evening I have:

- menu planned for March
- written shopping list for tomorrow
- upgraded my N/wide current account to a FlexDirect current account that pays 5% interest for 12 months on balances up to £2500. It should be fairly easy to keep the balance at £2500+ resulting in £125 interest
- transferred £250 to my regular saver
- transferred £400 to the holiday account
- OP'd the further advance by £750

And now it's bedtime... I'm pooped.

Nighty night

muddywhitechicken

My MB free gift has just been delivered :j

I won't be selling mine on ebay

Very pleased to have recived full-size bottles of rose granati hand wash & lotion as I have these in the downstairs loo - much nicer than naran ji :T

I :heart2: you Natty - thank you for sharing such a fab offer

muddywhitechicken

Drove to Sainsburys this morning rather than walk

£57.15 spent

(unable to analyse receipt as it didn't print properly but it did include buying good balsamic vinegar and white wine vinegar to replace the bottles Mr MWC knocked off the larder shelf last week...)

Didn't manage to get everything on the list so I will need to go elsewhere tomorrow and a few extra items found their way into my trolley but nothing too extravagant (£1 comic relief scratchcard, Sainsbury's magazine, coffee (needed but forgotten to put on list) and a jar of pickled cucumber slices)

After lunch (split pea & ham soup), my job is to pressure wash the chicken coop - I wish it was a bit warmer out there