I have lost my OS ways, help!

tatabubbly

Trying to be good today. Had a NSD so far as I've not much moola but there is plenty in the house to use up, thanks Caterina for the suggestion. I would go so far to say that there isn't much needed till this time next week!

OH has his money and he's done well this month so no doubt if I need a 10 to get by I'd be fine. I already put my voucher away for lunch out at the weekend and I'm looking forward to it!! I've also got a whole chicken in the freezer so I'll pull that out and get it defrosted for Thursday dinner/Friday as well!!

villagelife

I had another NSD - I thought that I would have to buy some drink for a lunch we had at work but found a couple of nice bottles hidden in the cupboard this morning. The lunch was lovely lots of delicous food and people chatting and laughing.

Since coming home I have cleaned microwave and cooker and attempting to keep warm as heating broken for time being and about to do some ironing before an early night.

katkin

I had a better day today. Managed to spend £56.08 on all the big supplies for the next month's meals etc, including some nice Scottish meat / chicken that will stretch to make many meals. I've made up a menu plan from that and have enough (with fresh top ups) to get 32 days of meals out of it. Half will be veggy, pulse, egg based.

Also caught up on my banking and budget book, receipts and totals all balancing! woo hoo

The house is still a tip though, so I'm going to dedicate some time to that tomorrow and try and get on top of it. Some time in the kitchen batch cooking and freezing portions would also be good...but I'm still at the baby stages again. Expecting to do too much just overwhelms me and I end up disappointed and demotivated again.

Good luck to everyone x

CRANKY40

Thanks m_o_s. I'll be ok eventually. I've just taken tomorrows steroids tonight as well as today's which I took this morning as I wasn't feeling that things were progressing well. It's still not as high as the dose I'd get in A&E so not dangerous. We used to have a farm collie as a pet. He came from a farm in Derbyshire and was ....ummm.... a character. He was a skilled and determined thief of food and the only thing that ever made him ill was the half pound of butter he ate in one go. He once unzipped my gran's suitcase and ate all her sleeping pills and liqueur chocolates one Christmas when she was staying. My aunty phoned the vet, then stayed up all night watching him for signs of distress. He had a lovely sleep and was none the worse for his strange snack.

My house is lovely and clean now. It's the first time I've had the energy for cleaning in a week, so I made the most of it. Staying in and doing housework is OS at least.

Caterina, maybe you needed some mooching around time more than you needed the tai chi today?

Villagelife, is your heating likely to be sorted soon? I hope so.

joedenise, your curry sounds lovely. If it's not too complicated could I have the recipe please? If it would take too much of your time then don't worry.

joedenise

Cranky - no problem at all.

Chop up a couple of onions (I used one red and one white); clove or two of garlic (optional) and soften in a covered pan. Stir in curry paste (can use a ready made or one you've made yourself - I use http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/how_to_make_curry_paste_37065.

Chop up butternut squash and add to pan with a drained tin of chopped tomatoes (drain into a jug and top up to 600 ml with stock or water). Add the tomato juice/stock mix, along with about 100g of red lentils.

You can then cook in oven at 150 for about an hour or tip into slow cooker for 8 hours on low.

Serve with rice or over jacket potato.

Enjoy.

I used a couple of small butternut squash and made enough for 6 portions.

Denise

CRANKY40

Thank you jodenise, I'm going to try that next week.

moments_of_sanity

Cranky40, glad you are feeling a little better. Our 3, nearly 4 year old collie is manic! He never settles down and finds endless games to amuse himself, all of which usually get him in some sort of trouble! We recently had to change the kitchen bin as he had worked out that if you press the button on the top, the lid opens and you get lots of not so lovely things from it. He once stole a shepherds pie that was cooling on the cooker top but when pulling the dish off, managed to smash it all over the floor. He also managed to get into a bottle of vegetable oil, did that take some washing to get it out!

When we took him to be castrated, the vet suggested we give him a Piriton 3 times a day to 'calm him down', it made his eyelids a little heavy but he was no calmer at all! He has done about £2,000 worth of damage since we got him at 8 weeks old but he is such a lovely, loving, cheeky character I think I could forgive him anything!

He is currently stood in the middle of the living room, swinging around his rope toy and doing what can only be described as bunny hopping, he might 'take out' one of the cats if he doesn't calm down! :rotfl:

CRANKY40

Ours was the same m_o_s. Ours used to read the post too. I once had to reorder a bank card three times before I had one without teeth marks in the magnetic strip. We caught him carrying the hamster round in his mouth once. He hadn't hurt her but she was very damp. He was as you say a character, and we were all devastated when old age and bad joints got the better of him.

moments_of_sanity

CRANKY40 wrote: »

Ours was the same m_o_s. Ours used to read the post too. I once had to reorder a bank card three times before I had one without teeth marks in the magnetic strip. We caught him carrying the hamster round in his mouth once. He hadn't hurt her but she was very damp. He was as you say a character, and we were all devastated when old age and bad joints got the better of him.

They are amazing, intelligent dogs but not for the faint hearted!

Hearing about the hamster story, our cats are mouse catchers and leave them deceased on the back door mat, he picked up the dead mouse in this mouth with the tail sticking out of his mouth and when I looked at him he had a look of total innocence on his face. I asked him to spit it out, he pretended he hadn't heard me, so I repeated it at which point he spat it out with incredible speed and then looked at me, looked back at the mouse and looked at me with a look of total horror on his face as if to say 'what, you think I had THAT in my mouth'! :rotfl:

amandaatnumber7

I cant wait to go back and feed through this thread tonight when the little ones are in bed
I've also lost some of my OS ways. Ive not long had my third baby (he's 4 mths) and went through a very difficult pregnancy with him so the last 12 months have not been very OS.
With a decrease in hubby's hours (not a bad thing he use to work very long hours) I need to tighten our belts and MSE seems like the perfect place to get ideas and encouragement.
They're a few aussie sites similar to MSE but to access the forums you have to pay a membership fee which to me seems to go against what I'm trying to do.
Well I better get off and start my day, its 9am and there is plenty to do

Have a lovely Wednesday everyone