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Living on next to nought - is that the key?
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Welcome home! :kisses3: so glad you got back before all the flapjacks got scoffed too.Sealed Pot Challenge #012
SPC #5 £111 SPC #6 £175 SPC #7 £151 SPC#8 £78 SPC#9 £72.50 SPC #10 £23.50 SPC #11 £276.18
SPC #12 £108.56 SPC 13 £127.89 SPC 14 £113.620 -
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Allo, allo, listen carefully as I will say this only once......
Am lurking from the French sidelines, checking that you are all behaving. Dear Greying no more disappearing off please, it confuses me. Easy done I know!
I will be watching.....Busymumofthreeplusdog......
..............on a mission to curtail the spending and build up the savings
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Great to have you back. No one else I know shakes a tail feather.Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.0
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Hi,
Am googling away, as I thought I kept links to several posts here in which Greying mentioned doing Buddha bowls, but I seem to have lost track of them.
Has anyone got any idea what posts these were mentioned in purlease? <insert winning smile smilie>:)0 -
Good Morning :hello:
I'm running very late!
Bonjour busymumofthreeplusdog - you'll be 1 hr ahead of us - have you munched your petit dejuner (sp?) yet? I didn't disappear through choice - apparently my pooter is *so* old (4yrs??) that it had memory failure...........
Thanks to everyone for your very kind messages of support - I greatly appreciate the time you take to post
moneyistooshortotmention - I've not time to do the links, but I found pics of Buddha bowls on posts numbers; 89, 250, 548, 1117, 2315 and 2408. Hope that helps. I assume it was an actual combination that caught your eye? otherwise the concept of a BB is a grain, a vegetable, a protein and a sauce/dressing. HTH - ta for popping in
Should be a NSD today.
Dinner is currently up in the air, as we've someone coming around this evening and they were here for ages last time, so we need something quick and easy.
If I'm not back on here tonight, then I'll try to catch up tomorrow.
Now, far from needing to shift a tail-feather, I need my super power nickers and need to vamoose!
Have a great day.
See y'all later.
GreyingPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £95.97/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £3.75/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £0/£100 -
Hello! New lurker here. Very impressed by the curry, and I think it looks lush!Keep reading books!
August grocery challenge budget £150, £90.14 spent in total - £59.86 remaining.0 -
Hello wishus nice to meet you. Stay tuned 'cos all, Greying's meals look fab even when she says they go wrong! :rotfl::rotfl:I get so much inspiration from this thread and lots of laughs too.
Hope you have a brill day, Greying, looking forward to tea. Do let us know if the Super Power Nickers work....I think I need some myself todaySealed Pot Challenge #012
SPC #5 £111 SPC #6 £175 SPC #7 £151 SPC#8 £78 SPC#9 £72.50 SPC #10 £23.50 SPC #11 £276.18
SPC #12 £108.56 SPC 13 £127.89 SPC 14 £113.620 -
Thanks muchly Greying...will go back and have a look.0
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Good Morning :hello:
Arggh, bloomin sleeplessness. Been awake for ages and finally got up at 4.40am. Did get to see the magnificent sunrise though - wonderful colours and cloud formations - so definitely a plus thereIn addition, I have finally caught up with Pippi's diary :j and all the chook and egg laying news
:wave: Hello and Welcome to wishus - thank you so much for your kind commentAnd little_sweetie thank you for your kind welcome to wishus - no wonder you've so many stars from Sue_uu!
Our visitor stayed even longer than last time, so there was no way I was going to make it back on here last night. I ended up doing pasta for our dinner, using up odds and ends that I had, in a vague meditteranean theme. Picture here;
The pasta is mrm savers, there is half a red onion chopped, a small piece of red pepper chopped, some green olives, crumbled valoo feta, lemon zest and juice and some torn up basil. There is a dribble of olive oil over the top. Quite nice and speedy, which was the priority
DP and I did get around to watching the world's best diet programme, that DP taped the other night - and actually I know that Pippi saw it too, as she mentioned it on her threadQuite interesting to see how different nations/cultures have developed their food heritage - for good or ill - and how different types of diet work. I also liked the idea of streaming live video of you eating your tea (S. Korea) - forget a food blog satchmo - munching and going MMMmmmmm a lot, pays better! :rotfl:Nah, don't worry, I'll not start a new trend on this thread with a strapline of; Toon in L8terz folks for Greying eats.................Spaghetti
Mmmmmm *slurp* :rotfl:
It was good to see the injera made from the teff in Ethiopia, my effort (using wmeal flour, not teff) stuck resolutely to the pan and had to be ditched. Far from being a nice bread, it became more like porridge!
Oh, and I nabbed a NSD yesterday :j Siggie updated, and I'll be going for another today
Dinner this evening is going *stateside* in theme, as it is the 4th July. We are having hot dawgs (with HM bread rolls), tattie salad and a sweetcorn salady thing. And I'm sad that I didn't get to wish my Canadian reader 'Happy Canada Day' on Tuesday, as I was thinking about you, when Clemency mentioned it on the R3 breakfast prog
Right, I've snap to put together, and to put meself around the outside of some moo-slee. So I'd better get a shift on
Thank you as ever for popping by, reading and joining in. As ever, I greatly appreciate it
See you all later.
GreyingPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
Grocery Spend August 2025 £95.97/£300
Non-food spend August 2025 £3.75/£50
Bulk Fund August 2025 £0/£100
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