Diary of my new life !!!

benbenandme

lol Hypno ... I do keep going and looking at it though just cos I very rarely see the bottom of it

Postie has just brought me a letter from tax credits and they are increasing my payments because of my childcare costs (breakfast club and after school club), and basically the increase will mean I only need to pay £2 a month for his childcare :beer: I am going to have to figure out my accounts again though as I have had to pay the costs upfront so I need to figure it all out again :rolleyes:

benbenandme

I've just returned from my trip to the farm shop ... I love it, I'm converted

Alongside the car park are loads of chickens and pigs running round like loonies, clearly not the kinds of chickens Mr Oliver was horryifying us all with last night Inside the shop it was heaving, absolutley barmy ... I was tempted to stop off at Tesco on the way back and see if they were empty in there as it appeared like a mass exodus of people had gone off to discover the farm shop

I spent £8.27 and for that I got:

• 4 pork and apple sausages
• a pack of beef mince (0.385kg)
• a pack of cooked roast beef (o.18kg)
• a pack of smoked ham (0.155kg)
• half a cucumber
• a red pepper
• 4 potatoes
• broccolli
• 1/4 green cabbage
• sprouts
• 4 carrotts
• 6 free range large eggs

I am very pleased with it all, especially the fact that I could buy the exact number of sausages / chops etc that I want ... they're all laid out in trays and you serve yourself. As a single parent with a fussy eating 4 year old and no space for a freezer, I get fed up buying big packs of meat and chucking half of it away :rolleyes:

I had a look on Tescos website and their pack of 6 free range eggs are £1.28 ... I paid 72p :T :T So people ... go check out your local farm shops!!!!

chocaholic110

We only have one locally and it's a bit of a rip off. My Mam makes cakes for there which they sell at exortionate prices. I think I need a "proper" farm shop, not a one that is just out to make a huge profit.

We are going to look into buying veg locally though, and the place I'm thinking of sells free range eggs. I think we pay £1.28 for 6 at Asda so it might work out cheaper.

ZTD

chocaholic110 wrote: »

We only have one locally and it's a bit of a rip off. My Mam makes cakes for there which they sell at exortionate prices. I think I need a "proper" farm shop, not a one that is just out to make a huge profit.

We are going to look into buying veg locally though, and the place I'm thinking of sells free range eggs. I think we pay £1.28 for 6 at Asda so it might work out cheaper.

I've got several near where I am. I go to three of them which I consider to be good value for money (not cheap, but a couple are) - and another 3 I avoid like the plague. They're expensive, don't selling much local stuff and are just like mini-supermarkets.

What's your eggs coming out at? Not far from me they're £1.50 a doz - though take your own carton.

skint_spice

chocaholic110 wrote: »

We are going to look into buying veg locally though, and the place I'm thinking of sells free range eggs. I think we pay £1.28 for 6 at Asda so it might work out cheaper.

There's a website that you just put your postcode into and they tell you if organic boxes are delivered in your area, free range stuff - it's www.freerangereview.com there's not many places for meat near me but there are two local organic veggie box schemes. might work for you.

benbenandme

Morning everyone!! Last night I id my 2 mystery shops which were dead easy and earned me £20 :beer: Then I went out with a friend for a drink but the pub was packed cos of the footie so we went round her mum and dads house which was lovely as I haven't seen them for years (they've just moved back here too). All in all I spent £2.50

Today I'm going shopping with the same friend, she got some vouchers for xmas that she wants to spend, just have to try not to spend too much myself:rolleyes: I've been good so far this year and have avoided the sales as much as possible so this will be a bit of a test

Just done a survey for 50p and got 5 piggypoints for a click so that my start towards todays January challenge figure Off now to make scrambled egg with my lovely free range eggs

benbenandme

Back from shopping, I thinkI did pretty well ... I bought 2 pairs of trousers (both the same) which are very similar to a pair I already have but I live in them for work and they were reduced to £5 each :beer: I also bought a top (£2.50) and a pair of trousers (£1.90) for a friends newborn baby in Benetton, a neklace and a bracelt (£4.40) in tesco sale and 2 coffees (£3.70), so altogether I spent £19 which could have been mcuh much worse as I saw lots of lovely things I liked but I resisted

benbenandme

I've also just been on the local librarys website and requested 2 of trinny and susannahs books and goks how to look good naked book ... I caught sight of myself in a mirror in a shop and I looked truly awful and couldn't wait to get hime and change

skint_spice

It's the lighting benben - not you!

chocaholic110

benbenandme wrote: »

I've also just been on the local librarys website and requested 2 of trinny and susannahs books and goks how to look good naked book ... I caught sight of myself in a mirror in a shop and I looked truly awful and couldn't wait to get hime and change

You weren't naked in the shop though, were you?? :eek:

I think it would take more than the joint forces of Trinny, Susannah and Gok to sort me out. Nothing and I mean NOTHING could make me look good naked at the moment (apart from a complete blackout!)