2014 Frugal Living Challenge

Antwerpen

Hello, thought I best post!!

I spent £25 today on lunch for me, my daughter, my friend and her two daughters. She gave me a bag of clothes for my daughter so I guess no lose there really .

I also spent £2.15 on a hot milk and caramel. Woah, I didn't think it would cost that much!!My daughter goes to brownies 5.30-6.45, and there isn't any point in going home as I wouldn't get long at home.

I need to buy my daughters birthday presents tomorrow, ahhh. Isn't looking like a good week!!

DawnW

Caseymoo wrote: »

Hi everyone, trying to befrugal by using up the eggs and cheese we have in so thought could make a quiche, never made one before as im not a big lover of eggy things like quiche and omelettes but we are getting married so needs must.

I have been looking at online recipes and they all have cream in, I don't haveany in and was hoping for a NSD.

Any recipes or how i can substitute the cream would be great thank you x

Just use milk instead of the cream - works fine, and not so fattening

Florenceem

littleskintdragon wrote: »

I made quiche out of leftover cheese last week, i used 4 eggs, a little milk, some fried onions andgrated cheese and it was beautiful! (In my opinion!)

HM Quiche is much tastier than bought - imho.

Cantfindafreeuserid

Ok following on from my earlier post about minced lamb I remembered I have some puff pastry in my fridge and some pre prepped frozen swede in the freezer if I thaw out the swede and it to the mince chop an onion throw that in and season can I then use it as a filling for the puff pastry to make a kind of pastie? I might have some past date carrots too :-) if this is possible can someone guide me on cooking heat and times please lol

Many thanks

Just thought I have potatoe too :-)

DawnW

Admiring all the clever knitting ladies. My mum taught me to knit when I was 4, but the trouble is, I never got any better at it. I am ace at knitting scarves for teddy bears which vary in width and have lots of holes in though :rotfl:

No spend day for me again today

Lunch was provided at work as we were out of the office on a team building thing, so the lunch I had planned to take in today will do for tomorrow instead

4 items sold on ebay - no great value, but all helps, and decluttering is good (I am the clutter queen due to small biz stuff all over the place )

All the talk of quiche is coincidental as I pulled one out of the oven just before I logged on It is just a plain cheese and onion one, but it smells gorgeous and will be nice for dinner tomorrow with a jacket spud and the rest of the salad bits. I had made the case out of some leftover pastry at the weekend and blind baked it. It kept fine in an airtight tin till today, I just had to fill and bake it, which didn't take long.

I am starting to count down the weeks till I leave my stressy job (hopefully the end of April). Can't wait :j

Penny2myName

Well I spent £1.84 on milk and a 6pk of reduced monster munch for lads pack up this evening.

Must admit I could not stop eating today at home this morning before work though. Think I am making up from when I was ill at the weekend and just had a tin of soup.

nat21luv

Meal planned for the next 10 days and just need to buy some fresh items and dairy. So far this year ive spent £4 on groceries and plan to spend no more than £10 on the top up stuff, even then this will be a Morrison's voucher! So pleased as I cant spare a penny this month at all.

£10 in fuel today and a day at college. no other spends

SarahB1989_2

Trying to look at the positives but not having the cheapest week!

Down to £45 in the food budget to last the rest of the month (thankfully only me to feed and have about a weeks worth of meals in the freezer), had to re-order contact lenses at a higher price after a disagreement with Specsavers about prescription, and bought make up and treated myself to a Starbucks today... And I tried to reduce my phone bill, but O2 are being rather insistent that I can only have my phone at a set price per month and not a penny less.

On plus side, had a NSD on Tues, make up was on discount, most of starbucks cost was paid by money already on my starbucks card (really need to throw that out!!), signed up to the local library so I won't spend on books any more, and bought chicken thighs instead of breast fillets to save money. And I'm working all weekend so no opportunity to wander round town and fritter money away.

Cantfindafreeuserid, I'd chuck all that lot (diced etc) into a pan with some oil and cook it just enough to be done, and then put it in the pastry and in the oven - less risk of having uncooked meat inside, and the pastry will be less soggy. Think you can use whatever heat/time you'd use for pastry items normally then. Else my typical strategy for anything oven based is 180C for twenty mins or so and then reassess based on colour!

Cantfindafreeuserid

Thank you very much

Ceres3

Well we managed 2 weeks of not buying any food (apart from a loaf of bread, box of cereal and some milk). This used up lots of food we had in the fridge, freezer and larder, all left over from stocking up for the festive season and gifts. I was also feeding between 5 and 7 people every day. I did our first full food shop tonight. For the first time I did a full shop in Aldi instead of my usual Tesco and saved £50 compared to what the same items would have cost me normally! Amazing. That's £50 in the savings bank. Every week I save money on the food shopping now I am transferring straight into my savings account. The transfer is call food savings so I can keep a track of exactly what we are saving when I look at the bank statements

We've also been doing alot of clearing out, de cluttering, from attics, cupboards, outdoor sheds and outside, my partner brought things with him when he moved in last year he no longer wanted. We have been gradually selling everything on ebay, gumtree, etc and have made just over £2000! This has allowed us to pay for fixes and improvements needed around the house with things we no longer want and saved us delving into our monthly budget