What small dfw things will you do this week? Monday 19th Sept

foxgloves

Hi Weekend Savers,
Not intending to do too much this afternoon. Today's stuff:
*Overspent grocery budget by £10. We stocked up on a few extras in the world food aisle at Sainso's. Lots of stuff like rice & tinned tomatoes on promo....25p for tomatoes, etc.
*Lucky break for Christmas gift......walked thru home dept to the loos & on my way I spotted a really nice gift for M-in-law. £32 reduced to £16, so gratefully bought that. She is very difficult to buy for & can sometimes be inclined to tell people if she doesn't like her gift!! (& I have to count to 10......then go back out again & try counting to 20........)
*Read thru all the T&Cs on new Co-op dividend card. Looks good. Looks like dividend points on Co-op insurance policies will also be included in the scheme from next year.
*Made space in freezer by having soup for lunch & using up various other containers of stuff in meals this weekend.
*Managed to visit garden centre to buy aquatic compost without being spendy. Did buy one bag of mini daffodil bulbs but they were bogof so I shall have enough to plant 3 containers.
*mr f's cooking night & he's also just announced he's cutting the lawn, so I shall have an afternoon of free leisure activity. Intend to knit, as like you CCL, I feel very behind on the Christmas gifts I need to make.
*Checked my ebay listings. No sales but several watchers so that's a start.
OK, think will just nip upstairs & change bedlinen (cheap overnight wash in mind) then it's serious sitting on bum time.
Cleaning out pond tomorrow so probably won't be in fit state to post!
F x

determined_new_ms

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Morning! Yay it's Saturday :j :beer: :j Just dropped oh off at the train station as he is going to Liverpool to watch a match - not in anyway dfw! But it's his money so I have no jurisdiction

That means it's me and madam again today. Thinking we will have a home day today - it's hard to always think of fun activities to do that are both stimulating and low cost! Thinking potato printing monsters, games and then early evening film and popcorn will keep madam out of trouble and I will be able to do some bits around the home :money:

There is a garage sale going on in our village starting at 10 so we will walk down there and have a gander this morning. I might even take madam to the park on the way back... we walked down there but there was nothing I needed or wanted so we walked home

[STRIKE]House is a bit of a mess so first thing will be super speedy tidy and clean.[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]I've checked banking - no change[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]All meals from stores - will use up lo honey and orange chicken with rice for tea[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]wrap and post 3 ebay sales :j [/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]update spending diary with purchases yesterday - mouse, 4 pack of smarties and 6 fr eggs (ys to 50p :money:). [/STRIKE]Will freeze the eggs in 2 egg portions

[STRIKE]check on veggies & water. [/STRIKE]Thinking about digging up the courgettes as they haven't produced for a while. Also continue with a bit of garden sorting didn't bother with this, might give them another fed and hope for something else!

[STRIKE]Think tonight I'll watch a film and have a couple of glasses of wine [/STRIKE]

Man yesterday I had a car accident! nothing major, I shunted into the back of another car while we were crawling along in traffic, but it has caused some damage to my car. I have my mechanic coming to have a look at it on Monday and hopefully it's not going to be too expensive. I was so excited to finally get paid after months without no income and then was gutted that I will just have to spend what little spare cash I have on repairs and the impact it will have on my insurance now for years :mad: Had to "count my blessings" to try to get out of the sulk I was in yesterday, it helped a little to remember I have a lot to be grateful for

Pleased with what I've done today also did a load of hockey cokey & line dried. Usual bits of using yellow stickered items & using up toothpaste, cut off the end when it seemed *finished* :rotfl: insisted madam eat her sandwich before she had anything else!

And very pleased to say I finally made a batch of flour tortillas :T They were so easy and cheap! 38p for 16 :money: Have soaked a load of black beans to make refried beans tomorrow to have cheesy bean burritos for lunches in the week, will also use for quesadillas we're having on Monday :money: 38p!!!!

PurpleFairy26

determined_new_ms wrote: »

Pleased with what I've done today also did a load of hockey cokey & line dried. Usual bits of using yellow stickered items & using up toothpaste, cut off the end when it seemed *finished* :rotfl: insisted madam eat her sandwich before she had anything else!

And very pleased to say I finally made a batch of flour tortillas :T They were so easy and cheap! 38p for 16 :money: Have soaked a load of black beans to make refried beans tomorrow to have cheesy bean burritos for lunches in the week, will also use for quesadillas we're having on Monday :money: 38p!!!!

Glad you've had a good day, would you share the tortilla recipe and also your SC yogurt one please? To reciprocate I made these today using frozen blueberries, even if I say so myself they were amazing. Omitted the jam as didn't have any.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/blueberry-bakewell-muffins

PurpleFairy26

lego_mum wrote: »

Dnms, that sounds fab! Please share
PF, Those look great too, I'm trying to do useups but may have to buy some blueberries now!

To be honest legomum that's why I made them as I had OOD yogurt and massive bag of frozen blueberries. They really taste like those you buy in certain coffee shops with a green logo

I'm sure in good MSE style you can replace the blueberries with any fruit to hand

PurpleFairy26

Up and about so I thought I'd take the opportunity to post. Successful weekend so far. Spent yesterday morning sorting DDs clothes and packing some more away and sorting out another massive batch we had been given, managed to wash all of them in 3 loads and get them dry and they're now packed away. Also made muffins
DH applied for a cc just to use for protected items that we can get some points/vouchers back on.


Today will look like this:
Check banking, surveys and FPL
Go to fundraising event for friends son for an hour
Roast dinner, DH made stuffing last night
Freezer dive for fruit for crumble for pud
Lunch from stores
Get ready for tomorrow, include packed lunch for DD and I.
Iron school uniforms
Early night as I have really busy week
Try for a run as it makes me feel so much better
Water tomatoes

Back later. PF.

ab_saver

Plans for today:
-NSD
-clean and tidy
-defrost food for next couple of days' lunches

That's all I can really think of at the moment.

LuckyPenny

Yesterday had good bits and bad bits. Went shopping with my DD and her friend:
- collected 2 pie face games for Christmas presents £20 reduced to £5 each
- bought a pretzel for half the price using the shopping centre app
- wombled 2 Costa point receipts
- got 2 children's meals and a snack box from KFC as these were the cheapest options and collected a loyalty point on the app
- got £1 bottles of Dove shampoo from pound land
- bought some stamps from whsmith and got sharpie pens for £7.99 which is a birthday present
- sent off for a postcard ITV comp
- collected competition leaflets from a couple toy shops for my DD to enter
- went for an Italian meal and got a pizza doggie bag so that will be today's lunch
- parcel up an eBay sale
- listed some cookery books on Facebook as trying to clear space in my kitchen. I'm going to photocopy all the receipes I like and put them in a file I already have.
- re-listed eBay posts
-ipoll
-check MR apps. I had a notification that a job will come in this morning
- postcode lottery
- DH has said that yahoo and sky email customers are due £1k compensation, we've got both so I'm going to look into that today. Anyone out there know anything about this??

LP

DawnW

Morning all
My list for today:
Bit of batch cooking - I want to make a big beef casserole and a chicken curry Done, Thai red chicken curry for tonight, beef stew will do for a couple of days in the week Used up lots of odds and ends!
Also use up some stale bread to make pizzas with bits from the fridge These were yummy, used tinned tomatoes, chopped courgette, a bit of chopped chorizo and grated cheese from the freezer - but you can just use whatever you have..... slice the bread (if not already sliced), butter - I use garlic butter, crush a small garlic clove and mix with some butter, them a spoonful or so of tinned tomatoes or any tomato sauce, then your chosen toppings, then grated cheese, any kind, last of all a grinding of pepper and some dried oregano or some such. Kids love building their own Bake in the oven (when it is on for something else is fine, as the temp doesn't really matter) till hot, brown and cheese melting and bubbling In the unlikely event you have some leftover, they are great cold the next day, and pack well into lunch boxes if you aren't too ambitious with the topping!
Make a new loaf in the BM Done, used up 2 part bags of flour
Take excess strawberry plants out of their trough for DD's new strawberry bed They will be ok in their compost in a bin bag till tomorrow! Done, put them in the car to drop off tomorrow to ensure they get there - DD was adamant she wanted them and not to put them on freecycle, so there is no question of my foisting them on her!
Tidy up and water some more pots and containers in the garden, might even empty some! Got rid of the last batch of mangetout peas, tidied up yet more pots of strawberries :eek:
Dog walk later Done, had great fun looking at the nice big houses (and gardens) round the corner from our rather raggle taggle terrace :rotfl:

OK, better make a start on all that cooking!
Hope everyone has a good day

determined_new_ms

morning guys just nipping on quickly to post a couple of things:

http://penniesandpancakes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/frozen-bean-and-cheese-burritos-011-each.html#.V91CGvArLIU

This is the blog where I got the details for the flour tortillas, also has link to refried beans which I'm making today

We've just had breakfast burritos - scrambled egg, 2 sausages cooked and chopped up and a 2p tortilla each mmmmmm :T

Also I just posted on the "feed a family of 4 for £20 for a week" thread - it's actually £25 pw now to allow for cost of living rise.

determined_new_ms wrote: »

ok have just spent the last hour working this out! I have gone over budget by £2.77 as I threw in some multivits for the sprogs - but figured if I'm on JSA I will get fortnightly payments and some items will carry forward to next week... I would strain the yogurt to make greek yogurt and use the whey to add to risotto, curry and chicken soup to add protein

Breakfasts:

Porridge & foraged berries/sugar with a little milk (made with water)
breakfast burritos - scrambled eggs
Pancakes

Lunches:

Lentil & tomato soup & hm rolls
refried beans burritos
ham/jam/cheese hm rolls

fruit & hm yogurt

Dinners

roast chicken - carrots, sweetcorn, potatoes, yorkshire puds
chicken & chickpea risotto
potato & chickpea curry, rice and yogurt
vege lasagne
ham, cheese & mushroom crepes
hm chicken noodle soup - noodles, carrots, onions, chicken stock, rubber chicken, potato - & hm rolls

foraged fruit (or tinned but would increase cost by say 40p?) crumble and custard for a couple of deserts...

Shopping list:

Aldi:

flour x 2 - 90p
lard - 39p
eggs 15 - 1.15
porridge - 75
uht milk (for making yogurt) - 48p
sugar - 45p
apples (super 6) - 59p
bananas - 68p
potatoes 2.5kg - £1.15
chickpeas - 35p
ham - £1.39
rice - 40p
medium whole chicken - £2.99
onions 1kg - 55p
instant noodles x 2 - 36p
puree - 37p
sweetcorn 35p
carrots 1 kg - 41p
marg - 79p
lemon juice - 32p
salt - 27p
cumin - 49p
sunflower oil - 99p
mustard - 39p
children's multivits - £1.99
extra mature cheese - £1.49
6 pt milk - £1.29

Tesco
custard powder - 27p
dried pinto beans 500grms - £1.15
red lentils £1.80
yeast -65p
lasagne sheets - 29p
gravy - 20p
jam - 29p
teabags - 25p
probiotic yogurt - 50p

Lidl

mushrooms 350grms - 59p

Pound Stretcher

4 x tinned tomatoes - 80p

given a lot of these things I already have in my stores - and am in the position to buy things in bulk so get them for less I think at a push I could do this meal plan for a week for £20

Total £27.77

ziggy2407

Good Morning All

Today's list looks a bit like this:

DS to Footie - Done
Washing & Line Dry -
Clean patio doors -
RM Survey -
Craft -
Declutter -
Bump Sale Posts on FB -
Walk at least 7000 step for Bounts points -
Read -
Continue purge on emails -
Surveys -
Enter a few comps -
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer -
Check: Lucky Phone, Ashleigh, Numberplatelotto, FPL -

Have a great day!

C x