Diary of a spendy cow

mooomin

Morning all

A very spendy weekend this weekend Partly due to Mr Mooo deciding he needed tea (he loves Yorkshire tea and normally I buy it from Costco but emergency times called.) £12 later (!!) and I was developing grey hair :eek: I've now spent about £97 of my budget, so the highly ambitious target of spending £130 will be dead in the water and it's damage limitation from this point on :rotfl:

Tonight I'll be making jambalaya with leftover roast chicken and whatever sliver of chorizo is left in the fridge. I'll be getting a meal plan done for the rest of the week too.

Yesterday I combined some Sainsbugs vouchers to get a free insulated freezer bag (by spending £2 on desserts ), £1.50 off my£10 shop and 90 points for buying tinned fruit and veg. I'm up to 7380 / £36.90 in points now. I have another £1.50 off a £10 shop to use by Sunday (will use to make sure Mr Mooo has enough food to survive my trip north!) and one for 110 points when I spend £2.50 on chilled pasta and sauce which I'll incorporate in to that trip. If I'm crafty I'll get him to pay for it too

Not a lot else has been going on here. I have my new (to me) computer set up as Mr Mooo has bought himself a fancy one and I'm getting the benefit of his leftover one. There's been a lot of gaming this weekend for me :rotfl: As I won't be using my Xbox as much, I'm sending off a bunch of games to trade-in with Amazon so that should be a voucher of around £40 which will buy me the speakers I want!

mooomin

Two things -

1. What can I make with leftover roast chicken. We have a boob-and-a-bit left and I have tatties, an onion, tomatoes (tinned and puree), sweetcorn, butter beans,rice, pasta, baked beans, some spices (cajun, Italian, paprika etc) in the fridge/cupboard. I really don't want to spend more money!

2. I occasionally lurk on the Elite thread on Grabbit, but I don't understand how they make any money. If you spend £20 in Sainsbury's but it should have been £15 somewhere else, aren't you still down £20? My brain doesn't compute it well!

Anyway, back to work....help me think of a recipe to make!

slowlyfading

mooomin wrote: »

1. What can I make with leftover roast chicken. We have a boob-and-a-bit left and I have tatties, an onion, tomatoes (tinned and puree), sweetcorn, butter beans,rice, pasta, baked beans, some spices (cajun, Italian, paprika etc) in the fridge/cupboard. I really don't want to spend more money!

Have you got any risotto rice? Could make a lovely risotto with the chicken, onion, sweetcorn and some herbs

mooomin

I didn't

I ended up grabbing some sausages and making a chicken and pork sausage casserole thing with beans and paprika. It smells good, I'm just waiting for Mr Mooo to return so we can eat!

mooomin

Regular monthly "What's going on with my credit card?" post...

Current balance: £225.62 + £12.22 spent yesterday = £237.84

Money owed from Mama Mooo: £26
New balance: £211.84

To be refunded:£8
New balance: £203.84

Expenses owed from work:£6.28
New balance: £197.56
Money sitting to pay bill:£186.12
Still to find: £11.44

Not sure how I've managed this...

Pippilongstocking

Glad to see the decorating is done (sorry late to the party here)

Sums are seeming to be a bit pesky but you're on the case.

Casserole sounds yum. Since moving I realise I mainly have 'winter' food menu.

Must expand that although I don't care the weather we had frog in bog (toad in hole) and it was delish as it always is.



have a good un - sending vibes for additional money to fly into your funds.

tomtombeanie

How was your casserole? Sounds tasty

For what it's worth, I don't bother with risotto rice - we just use normal white rice and it's fine. Risotto purists will be horrified, but it work for us... X ttb

girlatplay

I knew there was a reason I was looking forward to getting back here. I am trying not to splutter out loud at work whist reading about cats-in-hats (and goggles, hahaha), frogs-in-bogs and a boob-and-a-bit.

Your diary is great mooomin!

mooomin

girlatplay wrote: »

a boob-and-a-bit.

A perfectly legitimate way to measure chicken

mooomin

Usual credit card nonsense:

Balance: £188.55 (including a pending transaction for £18.07 that I can't identify, although it matches a petrol spend I've already been charged for...)

To be refunded: £28
New balance: £160.55

Money in credit card account: £149.48
Balance to find: £11.07

I still have no idea what this is!