Mortgage Free For A Happier Me

slowlyfading

I can't update my signature, so I think there must be an error?

Good luck with your MFW journey Can't help with your summer holiday plans I'm afraid, but hopefully someone will be along soon who can

We (me and DH) spent approx. £35 a week on food, and much of this is down to the magic of meal planning, and only buying what we need it helps to free more money up for OPing!

Happier_Me

Thanks Slowlyfading.

Meal planning is definitely the way to go for us. I have dusted off my slow cooker this morning and I now have a nice bolognese sauce cooking away for tonight and tomorrow nights tea.

I think I can stick to my plan as long as I think about mealtimes 24 hours in advance. I hate defrosting food before I cook to point where it has me reaching for the takeaway menu:D

Happier_Me

Well, DH has left for work with a packed lunch for the first time in ages and I shall be doing the same in about an hours time. Aim is for us both to have four out of five NSD's Monday to Friday this week.

KolaKube

Packed lunch is the way forward! For a few months after LO was born OH bought his lunch every day and it ended up costing £5+ a day, but I've noticed a real difference since in making him up a lunchbox daily it saves a fortune. When I go back to work I will most definitely be packed lunching it too Need to go up to the supermarket to get a few packed lunch bits for him today actually (bananas etc) but its freezing where we are

Staffordia

I agree that taking lunch to work is very MSE. I estimate that I have been saving around £40 a month since May, and I'm not bored with the selection yet

misscousinitt

Hi and welcome.

Taking lunch is definately the way forward - you can get very inventive to ring the changes especially if you have access to a microwave/toaster/kettle at work.

Good luck.

MCI

Happier_Me

Hi everyone, thank you for the encouragement, your comments have actually made me get up and make tomorrow's lunch before I posted a thank you.

So it's been a successful NSD for me at work today. It will be interesting to see how DH has got on... I am really hoping he hasn't eaten his packed lunch and then bought a second lunch, but anything is possible when my DH's stomach is involved.

linz

I take a packed lunch to work to. Cqn't understand why some people at work buy a hot lunch every day. Id be asleep mid-afternoon if I did that!

I sometimes make mon/tue lunches on a sunday night and weds/thurs lunches on tuesday night (don't work fridays). This way I dont have to do it every night

KolaKube

There's a trick to successfully making the packed lunch make it to lunch time Happier Me... I pack OH 2x lots of sandwiches separately wrapped on sandwich days as he would tend to eat them on the bus / when he got to work for his breakfast as hes always out the door very early and wouldn't tend to have time for his breakfast at home. Then, understandably, he'd need to get something else at lunchtime... so two lots of sandwiches on sandwich days and a box of porridge sachets for other days in his desk drawer at work solves that little problem lol xx

castlelough

Good luck HappierMe!
I look forward to following your progress! You are managing to make a huge monthly overpayment! :beer: