Just Say NOvember 2013!!!

MrsGSR

MrsBrownBear wrote: »

Thanks guys....it's my birthday coming up next month I may ask my parents for a cookery book. I love baking and I have been making my on bread which the kids love and don't want to eat the shop bread anymore. I just need to be organised to make it in time for them to eat it.

Today is a NSD again so I will update my details.

I bake my own bread, have done for over a year, I don't have a breadmaker but i do use a dough hook on a stand mixer. It does take practice to get the timings right. I find if I make the dough while the kids have breakfast and leave it for the first rise, it's ready for the tin and s!cond rise by the time I'm back from the school run then it goes in its tin for another hour or so. Then I can have a loaf by tea time.

gien

I baked a load of goodies this afternoon for the kids lunched and desserts.

I also managed to sell a peice of unused clothing for 10€ via a facebook site. I'm out of the blocks.

Food 65.31/500
NSD 2/25
Income 10/100
Christmas presents 14/150
Travel cards 0/50
Petrol/Parking 2/50
Declutter 0/50
Clothes 189/200.

Kaybeebop

Checking in with SFD no 2. Spent today looking after DD who's got another high temp, de ja vu from last month. It did mean that I got loads done in the house even manage to retrieve cats balls from underneath the unfitted kitchen cupboards.

Yest was SFD too, HM lasagne for tea with 2 portions left over & 1 of bolognese.

Did a mop up shop on Sat to top up the things I missed on Fri (forgot my list).

All in well placed for this month, freezer very full, cat food should last till last few days of Nov. I even froze milk only to defrost 2 days later. We've now decided that adults don't drink milk with every meal!

Need to catch up on over 100 posts as keep getting distracted & it's a bun fight to get the ipad at weekends, I ended up banning it yesterday.

Hopefully DD better for fireworks & our planned spending trip this month I really want to go out for a meal as a family to Japanese teppan grill place.

K

tennisfanatic

anna2825 please don't feel terrible....everybody's budgets are different and i haven't stuck to £100 before ...if i was brave enough i would go back at how much i have spend over the last few months on my bank statements...but i think i would be terrified...i walk post a morris0ns on way home so its so easy to just pop in and come out £10 lighter with nothing to show for it....besides up to a month ago i was probably spending £40 plus a month on fizzy pop.

today was been SFD and i sold one item on ebay yesterday but unfortunately messe dup on postage so only 42p profit.

SFD3/25
Lunch to work 2/18
Food £36.41/£100
Foodbank £0/£3
Moneymade £0.42/£80

NinjaSavingKat

MrsBrownBear wrote: »

I love baking and I have been making my on bread which the kids love and don't want to eat the shop bread anymore. I just need to be organised to make it in time for them to eat it.
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I grew up with my Mums bread! Mumsy was super careful with pennies back then ( I am 30 ) and bread makers were mythical creatures. We had "shop" bread for sandwiches but the home made stuff was reserved for slathering in butter and jam straight from the oven. My Mum was endlessly mixing, proving and cooking bread because we loved it so much. Smelling freshly cooked bread reminds me of home and it's always on offer when I return ( roll on Christmas )... however don't get me started on my Grandpa's ( Mums Dad ) white fluffly bread rolls. Last ate them when I was 8 yrs old in Australia.. I can still remember him aged in his 70's pulling them out of the oven...amazing stuff is home cooked bread!!

And MrsGSR - the hand mad stuff always comes out nicer I think. I have a bread maker courtesy of FreeCycle but hardly use it!

NinjaSavingKat

tennisfanatic wrote: »

anna2825 please don't feel terrible....everybody's budgets are different and i haven't stuck to £100 before ...if i was brave enough i would go back at how much i have spend over the last few months on my bank statements...but i think i would be terrified...i walk post a morris0ns on way home so its so easy to just pop in and come out £10 lighter with nothing to show for it....besides up to a month ago i was probably spending £40 plus a month on fizzy pop.

I'd have to agree here. I think you need to gauge things slowly especially things like food that have such a detrimental affect on our being whether that be in excess or restriction. Just keep track of what you spend, question whether you REALLY need something and don't feel bad putting something in your trolley only to pull it out 2 minutes before you get to the till! It's a learning curve.. I don't really have that whip that people think I hold in order to reprimand if you go over your shopping budget..... however I do want you to think about what you are spending, why you are buying goodies and how you can curb this impulse.. Simples! x

apple_muncher

NinjaSavingKat wrote: »

All this talk of chocolate makes me want to bake now. Hmmmmmm vegan chocolately yumminess... wonder if I have enough in the house to creat something amazing...?

I was gojng to suggest some scrummy choc brownies I make, then realised they need eggs. Darn it! But I have a wicked - and vegan, I think - coconut bar recipe if you want it. It makes about 18 and keeps for ages in the fridge.

Today was a work day, so no snacking (cos it's always gluten-containing rubbish on offer!) and, more importantly, no spending! Result!

Good news - I 'd had a little extra job that was causing me no end of anxiety and stress, so I resigned, but had to keep working until a replacement could be found. And today I was informed that yes, I have been replaced. The relief is tremendous!OK so the drop in income is tough, but the increase in my quality of life makes it soooo worth it.:j:j

NinjaSavingKat

apple_muncher wrote: »

so I resigned, but had to keep working until a replacement could be found. And today I was informed that yes, I have been replaced. The relief is tremendous!OK so the drop in income is tough, but the increase in my quality of life makes it soooo worth it.:j:j

Some times the money is good but the stress ain't worth it. Glad you are happy though!

Maisie_M

Food £266.58/350
Petrol £106/250
Local food bank 0/6 (missed last month so will double up today)
SFD 1/25
Lunch to work 2/21
emergency lunch fund 0/£10 (two of us)
Declutter 0/20
Extra money earned/made 0/£80
Christmas shopping 0/£250
Outing 0/£20
Coffee shops etc 0/0
Beauty £8.73/£10

Okay SFD for me on Sunday and spendy today as DH got petrol and bread. Both took lunch again for work. Quick post as just caught up on thread and off to take DS2 to bed.

cowboymum

Bah humbug didn't get a nsd today - little hope of achieving 25 this month as I've already had 3!!! Bad planning for Sundays shop so realised that I had no veg for the kids tomorrow.

Went to the shop and spent £9.18 as I got a bottle of wine too as I also realised that we are going out tomorrow to a friends house for dinner (completely forgot). Will also have to pay for a babysitter - arggggggh! Not going to cancel though as it's such short notice and my friend will have already bought the food.

On the upside, my husband has sold his fish tank for £30 so that's positive. On the down side he's wrecked the iron by it ironing Hama beads without the little bit of paper - ho hum.:o