Can this last 8 days ?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Honey_Bear wrote: »

If I were in that situation, I think I'd probably visit a laundrette for a few weeks until the financial situation had eased slightly. In the meantime, I'd also be checking out Freecycle for a machine that someone wants to get rid of. I realise that may not be practical. Good luck with it.

Just to mention in passing - the cost of a washload in the largest (so most economical) machines is about £8.50 nowdays, and this is before you get onto the drying, which could easily cost a fiver as well.

Having said that, as I now live alone and there are two just round the corner where I am now, I will probably do that when my machine goes pfffft, but when I had the girls and the OH, there was no way I could manage walking 3 miles, spending a fortune and then walking back again.



Mind you, OP, is it possible the machine is covered by any household or appliance insurance?



I'd suggest for main meals

Jacket potatoes, beans, cheese. Make the tin of beans into a chilli by throwing in assorted vegetables and chili/cumin/barbeque sauce.

Tuna pasta. Cook pasta as usual, but put onion, tuna, sweetcorn, peas in passata.

Fishcakes with other two tins, assorted vegetables.

Beef casserole with carrot and potatoes. Make dumplings with the suet to add some more bulk.

Make suet pastry, fill with caramelised onions, flat mushrooms (from your top up shop), left over beef.

Beef curry. Potato curry. Lentil curry. Make flatbreads.

Chicken fajitas. Slice chicken into very small strips, stir fry with any random veg, put into pittas with cheese and a tin of toms that has been simmered to reduce (add a little sugar if it's too sharp) as a sauce - add spices to taste.

Pizza. Use simmered down tinned toms, top with whatever you can get - most people are perfectly happy with cheese, tomato, a bit of pesto.



I'd buy some eggs (12-15 battery ones, as happy chickens count for nowt when you're skint) milk and some more frozen veg if you can, along with some basics soups, more onions and more flour.


That way, you can also have toms cooked with curry spices (cumin, coriander, cinnamon, garam masala, ras el hanout, that kind of thing), as they thicken, crack an egg each into them, put the lid on and you have a filling breakfast meal or brunch with some homemade bread.

Omelettes are filling, especially with sliced cooked potatoes, peas and a little cheese on top. If you separate the whites and whip them up separately before adding the yolks back in, you will get huge souffle omelettes.


Other breakfasts - porridge, cereal, toast.

Beans on toast makes a perfectly adequate lunch, sprinkle some cheese on top.

Basics soups are about 25p - I think the tomato one is perfectly adequate as it is.


Pasta can be for any meal - just pay attention to portion control and there should be plenty for 3 meals - one with tuna as above, one with pesto, one with whatever else you can find (ham?)

And you could have jam steamed sponge in the microwave - egg, flour, milk, sugar, jam in bottom of basin. An apple charlotte, jam tarts, etc. Or even just plain cake.

iris

debtmess wrote: »

Darling ds stood on the door to reach a cupboard, whole door feel off breaking the plastic surround that hangs the door onto 2 hinges, it magically also has a slit in the rubber seal (can ip only imagine ds again but that's a downside to ds) a quote to fix would be more than a new machine.

This seems a good deal if you can afford it

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/beko-wm74135w-washing-machine-white-09982565-pdt.html?srcid=8324&cmpid=em~CURRYS_B~WeeklyPromo~wk201248~Sec1Deal2&eawinmid=61974036&srcid=369&xtor=AL-1&cmpid=aff~HotUKDeals~&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=qqpxmxaq&istBid=t

Butterfly_Brain

Have you tried your local freecycle or the likes of a furniture bank?

debtmess

Thank you for more suggestions

Things are slowly looking up already. Other adult being teenage sister has gone to her bf's until Tuesday evening, oldest ds is staying with Grandad, meaning just me and 2 little ones until Tuesday evening. (Ds1 likes to stay at grandads to get a break from his brothers)

Washing machine.. One is for sale on a local selling site to me still has warranty with option to extend a 7kg drum and 1400 spin even better they will drop it off to me tomorrow:j

Picked up a few bits today when shopping with stepmum, 2 small loafs, carrots, bag of rice, yoghurts for little ones, small bag of flour.eggs,bag of salad potatoes paid just under £5 for it all, will get milk from local shop along with some more fruit to tide us over.

Will all the suggestions made we will eat well