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findingmyownway

blackangeluk wrote: »

Hi there Red, glad you have a nice night, lovely when other people feed you!

Menu planner sounds good - I feel I have triumphed today. Went to Aldis and didn't have £1 coin for trolley, :mad: , so I decided to go and see how well I could do at Tescos. Got everything on my list bar the cereals, juice, salmon from Tescos - stuck meticulously to value - got fantastic massive bags of pasta for £1 :j , price checked everything and got everything cheap and spent £44 :j :j .

Then, went to Aldis, got the juice and salmon that the kids like. Then off to Co-op as they had BOGOF on cereal, got 8 lots of Kellogs cereal for £5!!! Will last us ages. So my total shop for the week is £53 :T

Am going to be very, very, very sad now and compare Aldis and Tescos receipts on different things to see which is cheaper and shop there accordingly.

I was gone about 90 mins shopping though as I was so busy being frugal DH thought I'd got lost :rotfl:

I'm doing a 70 min run tonight, but just chilling until then.

Good luck everyone who is running today :beer:

Thats excellent shopping BA. Must take a leaf out of your book! I'm lazy and either buy everything from Asda or Tescos, whereever i happen to go. And then seem to run out of essentials every 3 days and end up at the Tesco Express up the road. bad,bad,bad - must try harder. I think writing a list would help :cool:

blackangeluk

Well done FMOW - that is a fantastic time :T glad the weather held out for you. Hope you are going to have a well deserved bath and glass of wine now :beer:

I am really pleased re shopping, just shows what a bit of planning can achieve. I am definately going to see where certain items are cheaper and then split my shopping between the two. DH was a bit bored of me emptying the bags and saying "this was 50p saved 8p etc etc"

I do find that by menu planning and doing a shopping list that we very rarely go to the shops during the week now, before it was the odd £10 - £15 which really added up!

I think the plan is decide on a menu planner that covers a lot of what you've got in and shop for the extras.

Off to do boring ebay packing now :rolleyes: and then I have an afternoon planned with just me and Harry Potter - have a lovely afternoon and Well Done:T

findingmyownway

Thanks BA, i have had a bath and now trying to write a shopping list!

Feeling guilty for having nothing in for kids lunch bar almost stale bread, beans and the smallest piece of cheese in the world! (actually made cheesy beans toasted sarnies out of it so they were perfectly happy but doesnt help my guilt lol)

blackangeluk

findingmyownway wrote: »

Thanks BA, i have had a bath and now trying to write a shopping list!

Feeling guilty for having nothing in for kids lunch bar almost stale bread, beans and the smallest piece of cheese in the world! (actually made cheesy beans toasted sarnies out of it so they were perfectly happy but doesnt help my guilt lol)

That sounds yummy, I think my kids would have loved that for dinner rather than soup.

Why not just think of cheap meals you can make from scratch and then write list of what you need to make them?

findingmyownway

blackangeluk wrote: »

That sounds yummy, I think my kids would have loved that for dinner rather than soup.

Why not just think of cheap meals you can make from scratch and then write list of what you need to make them?

right, i have a plan:

• veg curry tonight (already in freezer, made a couple weeks ago)
• omlette and salad (need eggs, cheese, tomatos and peppers/mushrooms)
• quorn chilli (have mince in freezer and tinned toms etc. Need chillis lol)
• veggi burger + jacket potatoes + veg
• pasta + sauce

also need the usual cereals, houmous, salad, cheese, tuna etc for packed lunches. and we seem to go through tons of fruit in this house - which is good for the health but less so for the budget! any idea where i can find a cheap greengrocer type place? theres the market but i never seem to find time to skive off work to be able to go when its open.

blackangeluk

findingmyownway wrote: »

right, i have a plan:

• veg curry tonight (already in freezer, made a couple weeks ago)
• omlette and salad (need eggs, cheese, tomatos and peppers/mushrooms)
• quorn chilli (have mince in freezer and tinned toms etc. Need chillis lol)
• veggi burger + jacket potatoes + veg
• pasta + sauce

also need the usual cereals, houmous, salad, cheese, tuna etc for packed lunches. and we seem to go through tons of fruit in this house - which is good for the health but less so for the budget! any idea where i can find a cheap greengrocer type place? theres the market but i never seem to find time to skive off work to be able to go when its open.

Hi again :hello: - Aldis are quite good for fruit and veg and any local greengrocers, shame you can't go to the market as they are the best place.

If you go to Tescos, there are MASSIVE bags for £1 that are worth checking out, will last us a month. Not sure if Co-Op offers are local or in all shops, but there are BOGOF on cereals, worth looking at. Also Tescos had half price grapes, cherries, bananas, rocket salad etc when I was there today.

Well done on doing your list, I've done my ebay packing, but now looking to use my free £50 bet - no Harry Potter yet :rolleyes:

blackangeluk

Also another thought - could you make your own houmous?
We have started our own vegetable patch in the garden now and just starting to get a few things out of it, hopefully in a few weeks we will be seeing the profit from it, maybe you could start with some tomato plants etc

findingmyownway

blackangeluk wrote: »

Also another thought - could you make your own houmous?
We have started our own vegetable patch in the garden now and just starting to get a few things out of it, hopefully in a few weeks we will be seeing the profit from it, maybe you could start with some tomato plants etc

Great minds!

I bought some seeds in spring and am currently growing chillis, peppers, rocket, corriander, tomatoes, strawberries. have blueberry and blackberry bush too. They have all flowered/fruited but not ready to eat yet :cool: too much rain and not enough sun i think!

I did once try to make hummus but turned out very dodgy! According to the wonderfully knowledgeable Old Stylers i was lacking some sesame-seed oily paste thing but ive never got round to searching it out.

evab_2

Hi everyone, home from Leeds - omg what a weekend!

After argument with DH about money had a stressful time trying to sort out hotel, realised that I have been a complete idiot and booked a place that was out of the city center and we didn't know how much of a pain it would be to get to the run.

Had a full tank of petrol luckily but no money to go out for dinner so took fruit and a tuna pasta salad that I made at home. Hotel turned out to be lovely and not too far from city center.

We went to a local garage for a snack during the evening and on the counter was a book called 'how to get out of debt and stay out' I pointed it out to my hubbie and said we can't afford to buy it! We got a fit of giggles in the shop and had to stop ourselves sniggering till we got out :rotfl:.

Got woken up at 0230 by the rain that was leaking in the roof but switched rooms and slept well.

So not great preparation! The run itself was hard work, I was expecting hills but it just went up and down up and down, I found it hard to get into a decent stride. I had no energy and it was only the crowd that kept me going. The finish was down a hill and I manged to sprint down it, but didn't see the clock so will have to wait for official times to come out.

Not bad for a first 10km race, am completely pooped now and am going to be naughty and get a take away (paying by cheque as no pennies - had to borrow from mum for petrol for the next few days!).

Pheeeeeeeeeeew

evab_2

Well done on your time FYOW, I have now idea what mine was but I don't think I did near the 60min mark at all - never mind!