What small DFW things will you do this week - w/c 29th August

foxgloves

Right DNMS & anyone else with a tomato glut. This is a Carluccio recipe from his 'Vegetables' book. Good book as chapters are arranged by vegetable so you can dip straight in to whatever you have a glut of. I recommend it if it's still available. You need:
1.5kg ripe tomatoes
1 medium onion
1 garlic clove (I like to use more)
4 tbsp olive oil
10 small basil leaves
Seasoning
Plunge tomatoes into boiling water so you can skin them. Remove seeds & watery insides then chop the flesh. Chop garlic & thinly slice the onion. Heat oil in a pan, add the onion & cook for about 5 mins, add garlic for another min or two. You don't want to brown them. Now add tomatoes. Bring to boil & simmer for 30 to 40 mins. Half way through this time, add the torn up basil leaves. Season to taste, blitz with a blender & it's good to go. I find it freezes well.

Don't worry about green tomatoes. You rarely get them all to ripen. Once it looks as though no more will turn red, pick them & put them in a large brown paper bag. Pop 1 red one in with them, fasten bag closed with a peg & keep indoors. Check every few days & remove ripe ones. There are plenty of recipes for green tomato chutney too & it's nice!
F x

foxgloves

P.S
DNMS.....I meant to add......when I'm deseeding the tomatoes, I do it over a jug with a sieve. I freeze the juice & when I next make tomato soup, I use it to replace some of the stock content.
x

Bagpuss741

Today I have/will:

1. Checked online banking
2. Been to Cardiff museum to see the free Quentin Blake exhibition and took snacks with us. It was really enjoyable:)
3. NSD
4. Update spending diary from yesterday
5. Meals from stores
6. Surveys
7. Ordered medication online
8. FPL
9. walk 7000 steps for bounts points
10. Catch up on "one of us" recorded last night

Bobarella

Determined thank you it went very well. I have just taken a 4 day booking, although it has a few hurdles involved that I need to jump over before it will be 100% secure.
Well done on paying off your MIL bet that feels amazing.

Managed my batching. No mean feat with DD strapped on me in the sling trying to grab at this and that!

Have just done bath and bed for DD as she is a terror for OH if she doesnt get the set routine at bedtime. Hoping she will be kind for him tonight. He has to settle DS ahead of the big off tommorow. I wont be home much before 11 tonight so hoping everything goes ok.

allydowd

Worked for 12 hours.

Took a packed lunch.

determined_new_ms

Morning guys :wave: quick post for e before I spring into action! Work day today...

* packed lunches for us all
* water veggies - didn't get round to this yesterday
* put dinner in sc
* tonight big financial session updating financial ss for combined accounts and work out cc spends for last month. Need to also contact companies I had dds on my account and set them up for the joint acc
* make tomato sauce ala Mrs F to freeze
* make packed lunches for tomorrow
* NSD

That'll do!

PurpleFairy26

Morning all :hello: determined bet it's a lovely feeling paying off that chunk to oh's parents.

Hope everyone is ok. Lovely reading about your gardening and other activities.

List for today:
Check banking, surveys and FPL. Made £3 on p1nec0ne last night and about £1 on 1poll, hopefully more of the same today
Meals from stores, need to roast 2 chickens I got with a voucher for 0rchard from tesc0, will strip them and make stock from carcass overnight tonight. Should have lots of meals for about £1.50 on top of voucher
Meal plan so I can plan some fresh items around what's in fridge/freezer
Water tomatoes
Label :eek: - this will be on until I've finished. Sorry

Think that's about it for now, check back later. PF.

foxgloves

Morning Campers,
We soon WILL be camping, which is why most of my tasks today involve getting prepped up for that. So.....the money saving bits:
*NSD as I don't have the car & feel no inclination to walk to the shops or sit on a hot bus!
*Changed bed linen. Will set washer for cheap overnight wash.
*Peg out laundry done 1st thing this morning as fab free drying weather.
*Pick courgettes. Meal plan tweaked a bit so as to use some up. Will take a few away with us to do with pasta, etc.
*Water veggie garden.
*Make tomorrow's packed lunch.
Must crack on.
Hope you all manage a good non-spendy Thursday.
F x

crazy_cat_lady

Good morning all
I'm back from my couple of days in the Lakes. It's not a massive drive but I was quite tired when we got home yesterday evening so I didn't come online at all. Then once I was home I had to do all the other stuff that never gets done when I'm away (opening post and parcels, dishes etc). Just a couple of days of holiday left - September really has ticked round quickly and I don't feel ready to go back to work yet at all...
So here are today's plans
check banking and PAD
keep up on YNAB
drop dd off as she's going on a shopping day with her new friends :cool:
meet up with bestie and our boys for lunch
make a shopping list and keep my spending diary
washing done and line dried
go to the bank and pay in my little savings pots from home
Think that will do - have a good day.

ziggy2407

Good Morning All

Hi to all of the regulars and a BIG welcome to all the newbies, this is a really FAB thread with so many lovely, caring, considerate and supportive people.

Well, we arrived home yesterday from our fab holiday about 7am and spent the day washing, pottering at home (including buying a new bed for DS, new mattress for us and paying road tax) and trying hard to stay awake to go to bed at a normal time (didn't sleep on plane as just too noisy). Was a bit of a struggle getting up this morning but now I'm up am sure I'll be fine.

So today I'm up and raring to go, being MSE and DFW is great for us as means adventures and no debts, so here goes today I will:

Packed lunch for DH - Done
Check Bank - Done
Washing & Line Dry -
Dust -
Clean bathroom -
Read meters & upload -
Investigate best way to change $ brought back -
List few bits for sale -
RM Survey -
DS to Footie Training -
Continue (resume) purge on Emails -
Surveys -
Enter a few comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Check: Lucky Phone, Ashleigh, NumberplateLotto, FPL

Have a great day. Love to you all!

C x