Rising to the top of the ocean - and staying afloat!

taxi73

grocery budget is hard to master and after all these years I've never learnt the art of that or menu planning and £40 is quite a small budget to get offers with as well

elantan

beanielou wrote: »

Rising cant have porridge because she has severe Crohn's didease el.

I knew she had crohns I just didn't know that that meant no porridge ... I don't know much about crohns tbh

rising_from_the_ashes

elantan wrote: »

have you thought about maybe almond milk or anything? you can make your own almond milk, you can also get calcium from ways other than milk if that is a concern for you

I can honestly say that ... no, I haven't!:)

And ... TBH I might try it on the odd occasion but couldn't see me doing it on a regular basis as it sounds a bit of a clart (I goo*gled it!) and that it doesn't actually save much money?

taxi73 wrote: »

grocery budget is hard to master and after all these years I've never learnt the art of that or menu planning and £40 is quite a small budget to get offers with as well

Good to know I'm not alone!:)

elantan wrote: »

I knew she had crohns I just didn't know that that meant no porridge ... I don't know much about crohns tbh

I'm currently on a really restrictive diet as I'm having a bad flare - there are things I can usually eat in moderation that I just can't just now.

Apparently porridge is quite high in fibre (which had never occurred to me before ) so not allowed it unfortunately ... I love it too!


So ... had a really bad night I went to bed far too early but just couldn't stay awake any longer .... got woken up by cats trying to kill each other (big cat jumped on bed & unfortunately chose the spot where wee cat was sleeping :eek:) ... and it was only 11:30pm ..... eventually got back to sleep and woke up again with the thumping headache having made a reappearance ... @ 2:30am *sigh*

Have been up since silly o'clock - will have a nap this afternoon (to try to stay up later tonight) as I really need to start trying to sleep through the night's or it's going to be impossible when I go back to work!

rising_from_the_ashes

Arrrrgggghhhhh

Have found another dry food that the mogs will eat :j - unfortunately not a huge amount cheaper but it is cheaper :j:j

Found it on offer @ Oc*ado and .... guess what ... they don't bloomin' deliver to my area :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

rising_from_the_ashes

Beanielou how are you feeling this morning?

beanielou

Slightly better than yesterday thank you rising,

rising_from_the_ashes

beanielou wrote: »

Slightly better than yesterday thank you rising,

Good hope it continues that way ..... I did have a huge sneezing fit earlier :eek: but thankfully nothing since so I'm trying to convince myself it was dust or something like that!;)

Couldn't get a paper today .... there was none left by the time I went :eek:

Can you hang on a couple of days for the other one?

I forgot that I've run out of ink in the printer it's been ordered & they're usually here pretty quickly

rising_from_the_ashes

So ..... I've made muffins this afternoon :j:j

1st time I've ever tried and they were actually quite easy to do! (I'm not a good baker:()

The only slight hiccup was that my muffin tin (courtesy of Mum) only has 6 errrr holes and the mix made 12 so I had to do them in 2 batches - so that wasn't very mse on the oven front.

I'll keep an eye out for another one and if it's not too expensive will get it!

Think they'll be great for a snack at work and think they worked out around 20p each :T

Need to go & have a hunt on OS as I'm sure I've seen people say they freeze them ...


ETA don't think any from this batch will need frozen .... they're very errrrr moreish!

beanielou

If there are any muffins left chuck one over ta
No rush for the book;let.
Can cope with the coughing spluttering & leaking, it's the achy bones & the hot & cold that is doing my head in.
My mum has had it two weeks now :eek:

StressedSteph

Hi Rising.

I can't beleive I missed so many posts on your diary.

The last time I posted was the 4th January about the crumpets, I just had to catch up with 7 pages :eek:.

I know I WAS subscribed, it must have fell off somehow.
Sorry I haven't posted, but I am back now..sorry