The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

starnac

Glad your postie brought nice things.

I've just found an old £1 coin in DS' money box. I know the banks accepted them just before christmas as I banked the church collection and there were some in there. Whether that's different as it's registered as a charity?? I may "buy" DS' off him and put in the church collection on sunday. See if the bank will take it next week?

The card may have been sat there for a while. I know I posted some around the 13th and some of those didn't get there til the 27th!

Silver_Queen

FYI, I successfully paid in a handful of old £1 coins into my account yesterday (n@twest)

beanielou

Beetroot, vacumm packed, 39p in Aldi super 6

starnac

That's handy. Thanks beanie

rtandon27

We may have 'splurged' on a couple of yellow stickers at MrW...

39p per dozen eggs (2 dozen landed in our basket) - good until Jan 10th...

...two-ish eggs a day each for 7 days...

...a couple of 9p focaccia made it home as well...

(we passed on the reduced cumin & pomegranate beetroot though:o:o)

Cheery_Daff

We had some YS bargains too today - 4 yogurts reduced to 10p :money: I bought two packs and that'll do me for work lunches for most of next week (obviously I will eat something other than yogurt but you know what I mean!)

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Thanks for your tips about the old £1 coins. I shall endeavour to take mine to the building society today to put in BG's a/c. If they won't accept it for some reason, I'll try the bank. Failing that, it'll go to a chazzer.

The mrAl S6 isn't too bad choice-wise, I could certainly do with some more celery. And depending on our beetroot consumption, I might purchase some more......

Tea last night was ok. There was something not quite right about my version. It might have been that my mustard seed has started to go rancid, or it might have been the HM spice mix I used in place of the coriander and fennel (but it contained both), was a little long in the tooth. But there was a background........... dull? earthy? flavour. I can't describe it, but if you have sweet, sour, salty - this would be the equivalent when there was an overbalance on the 'ordinary'. Still, the dish was munched, I would make it again. I forgot the cashews :doh: but did serve with a single egg omlette. Everyone had omlette for tea last night :j what a pity we don't live near rtandon's mrW!

I am envious of all your YS'd loveliness

I've forgotten what I'd slated in for tea tonight, and my notebook is not to hand. But it will be stores/cupboard centric! We're doing reasonably well on that front. I have also drawn up a list of recipes that use items that we have alot of in stores. I've not meal-planned for the rest of the month, as I find weekly meal-planning does work better for us. But I will consult the list each week, and draw meals from it, to work through our stashes of this, that and t'other

No money was spent yesterday :j But I will need to spend some today, as we are all but out of fruit and one or two other bits and pieces.

UFM yesterday was following on from the day before, and talked about 'waiting 72 hours' to purchase something, in an effort to curb impulse spending. Liz must have been reading about my p1nt3rest project near miss....... :rotfl:In my defence, I was thinking about spending £30, the original project (with very high quality materials) was $415..........

Right, must shift a tail feather. There is snap to be prepped, and a day to be greeted.

Ta for popping in and joining in the conversation. Very, very much appreciated.

Greying X

Eager_Elephant

When I got my going out bag out for my Xmas works do I found an old £5 and 8 old £1 coins.

I went to my bank (the Spanish one) and asked what I could do and the lady just swapped them, didn't even have to pay them in to my account and she didn't ask for proof that I banked with them.

She said all banks accept old denominations for years so definitely get that £1 swapped or banked.

starnac

Ooh Greying step away from p!nt3rest while you still can! I can lose hours in there! :eek:

rtandon27

starnac wrote: »

Ooh Greying step away from p!nt3rest while you still can! I can lose hours in there! :eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Indeed - losing track of time, forgetting to shower & brush hair - all in the pursuit of the perfect project! - We've all been there GP