2014 Frugal Living Challenge

ginnyknit

Just found a curry in the freezer for tea so thats sorted. Am running low on meat but will rectify that tomorrow. Pile of things on table for fleabay and will take pics and bag them off ready for selling. Am sorting some silver jewellry to weigh in as I really dont want it and one bracelet seems to bring me bad luck. Its pointless having it sat around when it can go towards my debt thus improving my life and none of it has sentimental connections.

Abby not tried butternut squash cakes will have a google for a recipe, they are only 50p on our market.

Started doing swagbucks again, cant hurt and only takes a few minutes a day. Thought I may pay for Christmas next year with it. Also saving Mr S points for a big shop later in the year instead of deducting odd parcels of points froma shop. Hubby is now helping me with my debt busting and giving me the odd few pounds as he is on top of the bills - dont know how he does it

littleskintdragon

Decided to walk to the supermarket today with the pushchair (and baby!) to save petrol. put the shopping underneath the pushchair & when i got home id lost my bread!! Went back to find it but wasnt to be seen annoying because itd have cost me less to take the car and safely bring it home than the £1 for the loaf!! Sounds stupid but i tried to be good & lost out!! Grrr!

On a plus note i did manage 4 hours out walking so it did do me good.

quidsy

Hit tesco today and managed to catch yellow label man at the right time, came away with a whole chicken, 4 legs, 12 thighs, 4 pork steaks, a turkey leg, 2 beef frying steaks, pork mince, 4 choc yogurts, a 12 pack of ham 18 syrup pancakes, 6 wholemeal rolls, all for under 20quid. Spent another 60 on special offer washing powder, jumbo pack of teabags, 88 sachets of cat food and a few other bits, so we are pretty much sorted for the next 8 weeks or so for those things. Happy days.

SarahB1989_2

Down to £14 for food for the next two weeks but have enough in the house to feed me this week, reckon I will just about make it to the end of the month, though would be very handy if my £10 voucher for Tescos appears before then!

Went into town today for a wander, very dangerous I know, but came away with only shampoo (needed, and bought with Boots points), and went for a hot chocolate & cake (hot choc was free, cake was a diet & frugal failure!). Saw few books in Waterstones that I really quite want, but know the library won't have them (they're too recent, and non-fiction)- I have an Amazon voucher that would buy one, but does anyone know of any other means of buying books cheaply?

TM6

SarahB1989 wrote: »

Down to £14 for food for the next two weeks but have enough in the house to feed me this week, reckon I will just about make it to the end of the month, though would be very handy if my £10 voucher for Tescos appears before then!

Went into town today for a wander, very dangerous I know, but came away with only shampoo (needed, and bought with Boots points), and went for a hot chocolate & cake (hot choc was free, cake was a diet & frugal failure!). Saw few books in Waterstones that I really quite want, but know the library won't have them (they're too recent, and non-fiction)- I have an Amazon voucher that would buy one, but does anyone know of any other means of buying books cheaply?

What about read it, swap it?

http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx

ReadItSwapIt: The UK's free book swap shop! Free second-hand book exchange - swap books you've read for new books, recycle books and get rid of used books

ellie-g

quidsy wrote: »

Hit tesco today and managed to catch yellow label man at the right time, came away with a whole chicken, 4 legs, 12 thighs, 4 pork steaks, a turkey leg, 2 beef frying steaks, pork mince, 4 choc yogurts, a 12 pack of ham 18 syrup pancakes, 6 wholemeal rolls, all for under 20quid. Spent another 60 on special offer washing powder, jumbo pack of teabags, 88 sachets of cat food and a few other bits, so we are pretty much sorted for the next 8 weeks or so for those things. Happy days.

Quidsy your post made me laugh-this sounds very much like one of my shopping trips!

sparrer

Shopped in @ldi today, the weeks shop came to £14.36p, that's down £3.14 on my allowance of £17.50 for me and the dog. The previous two weeks have been less than a tenner so I'm cutting my food allowance to £15 for now. I'm eating only from the ff and larder until it's all used up which I estimate will be 3/4 more weeks, then start stocking up on YS products afresh. It'll soon be salad days which will also keep the bill down as I'm growing lots of salady things, and have started to buy one or two tins (corned beef, pilchards, sardines, ham etc) a week to go with spring/summer dinners.

DawnW

No spends today which is just as well after mega-shop yesterday :eek:

DD2 and SiL came round with baby GD; DD brought round a joint of meat yesterday which she really fancied eating but 7 week old baby wasn't giving her enough time to do a full roast. So, I cooked it today for all of us, contributing all the veg and a huge trifle I had made for pudding

OH and I checked the business stock in the garage this morning, and some items were being affected by damp :mad: so I have had to get them in to air, and now they are stacked all over the dining room

It was tidy too! It looks like a jumble sale now! Once they are properly dried out, the things can go up in the loft, where it is dry and they will be out of the way. I will probably have to put up with looking at them for most of the week though. Another lesson learned - don't leave stock that can be affected by damp in the garage or not in the winter time anyway!

Ugh it is Monday morning tomorrow, and another week of work to be faced I wish I could just leave now I have made my mind up. Having to give months of notice sucks :mad: Anyway, better stop moaning and get off to bed, as the 6 o'clock alarm will come round very soon :eek:

Frugalsod

abby1234519 wrote: »

I have a lot of bread flour so really should get back to baking our own bread with my pullman loaf tin. The problem I have is that I can't slice it thin enough for sandwiches so it ends up going to waste. Does anyone have one of those rotary slicer things where you choose a thickness and then just slice away? I am considering buying one if I can find one on ebay in the hope that I'd save the money back just by using all the flour up that I have left. I also have a shed load of out of date wholemeal self raising flour that I must use it somehow. I have a cooked butternut squash in the fridge so am thinking I'll make some butternut squash cakes later.

I use a ceramic knife. That can slice bread very thin. Plus you can use it for other things.

Nicki_Sue

An Approved Food order today which will nicely stock the pantry... I saved £96 on it. Included in my order was 2 big 3.5kg bags of bread & roll mix. Each 3.5kg bag will do approximately 13 loaves or 106 rolls. For just £1.98 for the two it's worth the risk.