Diary of a spendy cow

mooomin

mooomin wrote: »

I forgot to make my soup last night, so I'm taking a tin of soup to work for lunch (Oh, the shame!)

The real shame is that I forgot to bring anything to microwave the soup in and ended up buying a sandwich :rotfl:

girlatplay

Ooh a lovey new diary!

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Ali-OK

mooomin wrote: »

The real shame is that I forgot to bring anything to microwave the soup in and ended up buying a sandwich :rotfl:

Double Doh :rotfl:

Soup making tonight instead?

mooomin

Ali-OK wrote: »

Soup making tonight instead?

Indeed I did

Ali-OK

Excellent :T

I've found the MSE hob nob recipe and pasted to a new Word document and pretty sure I have all the needed ingredients.

DS enjoys cooking so we'll do those during half term and probably home made pizza too- be perfect for when his friends come over.

mooomin

They're dead easy to make and really tasty too, hope you enjoy them!

I've finished today with £11.90 in my purse, which is just as well as although my credit card didn't seem to have pending transactions waiting to come off one did so I didn't have any wiggle room in my burped get after all. Thankfully my friend picked up the tab for dinner tonight on her work account. We only spent £20 between the two of us anyway.

I made a massive pot of pea and ham soup tonight so that'll be lunch tomorrow and Friday, I'm going to make chilli tomorrow morning too and leave it in the slow cooker till I get home. I'm out after work tomorrow but I've already told them I won't be having dinner, just staying for a drink. I'm going to get to Friday with money left...I am!

mooomin

That's the chilli in the slow cooker (already smelling good!) so I will hopefully be able to resist having dinner out - I'm not going to be home till well after eight tonight so I'll be HUNGRY!

My accounts are in roughly the same situation that they were previously, although I did buy a Christmas present last night for £8. It was £12 everywhere else though so I'm happy with a mini-bargain

Thank Crunchie it's Friday tomorrow...

rising_from_the_ashes

mmmmm sounds yum - I'm starving!

Ali-OK

Me too - all this mention of lovely food and we're almost clean out of anything snacky!

Hope the Chilli was good, I shall be batch cooking a load next week and have all the ingredients in too. I have to transfer it from pot to freezer fairly quickly though or DS is there for seconds, thirds and 'any left over?' :eek:

Definitely into the swing of winter food here - I made Toad in the Hole tonight. Yummy.

mooomin

Morning and thank Crunchie it's Friday :j

I'm working from home today because we're off to a wedding tomorrow and sometime during the day I need to dye my hair Flexible working really is the mutt's nuts

I still have £7 cash left from my £20 budget. I withdrew another £10 last night in case the urge to spend was upon me, but I resisted :A As I've done relatively well in the spending challenge, I've paid £20 off my credit card. This means that the accounts look like this today:

Purse: £17
Credit card: £94.78
Food account: £189.93
Current account: £390
Christmas account: £359.84

I think I'm doing pretty blooming well for it being a week since I got paid - normally my current account would be sitting at half that balance I'm going to have to get petrol tomorrow which will put a decent dent in it, but it's still looking healthy.

The food account could be looking better, but everything seems to be so blooming expensive at the moment. We're going to need a top-up over the weekend, but I would like to spend no more than £50 in the next week. That seems like a lot for two people (and one fat cat) but I really struggle with food budgeting I'm sure MSE will keep me in line