August's Almighty Advance

Living_a_good_life

Afternoon all, sfd - we did have plans but DS woke up with the summer snots so all cancelled - need to make sure he is mended before we sail on Friday! Anyway for the first time in ages he has gone for a nap. DD has been doing her mosaics sticker pictures - she bought a new box with her pocket money and loves them - not cheap but she spends hours on them so fantastic!! I have set her a challenge this afternoon to make cakes by herself. She is 6 and with one egg has knocked up a batch of 4 large muffin fairy cakes with very little instruction. They should be cooked in a moment - she is currently doing her washing up!! Start em young and Ill be out of the kitchen two nights a week by the time they are both 14!! A friend of ours had each of her 4 kids cook from scratch one night per week from secondary school ish. They chose what they wanted to make - she got the ingredients and supervised the first few times. They learnt to cook and she only cooked 3 nights a week. A very wise friend - I plan to steal her technique!:D

Anyway - work is carrying on - nearly there!!

Love to all LAGL xx

lilian1977

Living_a_good_life wrote: »

Afternoon all, sfd - we did have plans but DS woke up with the summer snots so all cancelled - need to make sure he is mended before we sail on Friday! Anyway for the first time in ages he has gone for a nap. DD has been doing her mosaics sticker pictures - she bought a new box with her pocket money and loves them - not cheap but she spends hours on them so fantastic!! I have set her a challenge this afternoon to make cakes by herself. She is 6 and with one egg has knocked up a batch of 4 large muffin fairy cakes with very little instruction. They should be cooked in a moment - she is currently doing her washing up!! Start em young and Ill be out of the kitchen two nights a week by the time they are both 14!! A friend of ours had each of her 4 kids cook from scratch one night per week from secondary school ish. They chose what they wanted to make - she got the ingredients and supervised the first few times. They learnt to cook and she only cooked 3 nights a week. A very wise friend - I plan to steal her technique!:D

Anyway - work is carrying on - nearly there!!

Love to all LAGL xx

I've been getting DS (2.5) to help me make muffins on a Friday or Saturday morning - he loves it! Here's a picture of our attempts this weekend:

Living_a_good_life

Fab pictures Lilian - a man that can cook - your future daughter in law owes you

lilian1977

Living_a_good_life wrote: »

Fab pictures Lilian - a man that can cook - your future daughter in law owes you

Haha He loves it! And knows not to touch the oven while they're cooking too. We made Monsters Inc cupcakes the week before from a 99p kit from Aldi.

thriftylass

Moneymash wrote: »

I got my 1.5 ltr slow cooker, it's enough for 1 person. I can see that I could fill it and easily eat out of it for 3 days in a row, so potential savings there. Thank goodness I didn't get the 3.5 ltr! in researching cook books there is a lot of prep that goes into slow cooking, fry this, brown that, mix this in, boil that, all before you can throw it in the pot. I have realised what I need are 1 pot cookery books, where you just literally throw everything in, cover in water, stock, and or wine and then switch to cook.

I will be browsing Amazon, oh wait I don't have any money, although I could order and pay for today and by the time it hits my CC account it would be Friday, see how I'm justifying.

We've got a slow cooker too. If we make a special lamb tagine for guest etc we follow the recipe and brown meat etc. But for everyday use even if the recipe says pre-brown or pre-mix we just throw it all in and switch it on seems to work just the same. Some people even just take the meat/veg out of the freezer straight in.

mrso2b

Can I please join next month's challenge?

abundant1972

Hi all...

Well - I'm off all this week studying - Hoorah :cool: The last few days were tough and at the last hurdle I tripped and fell... My food cupboard *was* pretty empty but I'd run out of stuff to go with what was left... and I couldn't face a week of living off cooked rice/bulgar wheat mixed with herbs ha ha!!!

So I have broken into my September budget a week early. Darn. What it means is I now have food in again... but - my budget for September will have to be adjusted accordingly.

Still - I am pretty pleased with August, in that I will hit my SFD target I'm sure!

Today = SFD number 18

Keep up the good work everyone!!! :T

Shelbi

Hi guys :whistle::hello:

hppe everyones well...so far on day 18 nsd I think, so just might make it to the full 20 nsd, fingers crossed! Really looking forward to September's challenges...Lillian those pics are super cute, he looks so happy...really made me smile...so much fun..

judi24

mmm so much for not spending today!!! needed milk and toilet roll so nipped in to Al*I on the way home from dropping kids off at their clubs this morning - came out £98 poorer!!!! ended up doing a proper shop! Got quite a lot of bits for my mums birthday dinner on Sat - still got some bits to get but got all the veg etc. Going to take it out of next months food budget though seeing as it is payday today and I shouldn't need to do any more shopping for at least a week except for my Mum's birthday stuff!

Living_a_good_life

Dont normally share stuff I read but as money making schemes go this is brilliant! Made me smile http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462