Get a grip !

MovingForwards

It's so easy to grab some quick eat food, rather than make a sandwich or something. I've had to stop having my faves at home as I just sit and eat the whole packet. The only other thing you could do is keep one aside and put the others up somewhere so you would have to stand on something to get it.

Have fun at the hairdresser's 🤗

Skint_yet_Again

Insurance money finally arrived ! £500 paid into emergency fund. It’s a relief to have it topped back up to £1000. £600 paid into long term savings including £300 from insurance. 

Hair was £44 and a lovely relaxing afternoon. Cost deducted from the £100 for annual bills budgeted for this month & paid the balance into the bills account. 

Gammon cooked in my slow cooker now sliced / shredded & bagged for freezer. One portion for dinner with roast potatoes, parsnips & cauli cheese 😋

MovingForwards

Yay, that's great your EF is up again.
Pampering afternoon was overdue and you needed a relax 🤗
Food sounds yummy, one day we are all doing to come for tea 😁

Skint_yet_Again

Went to b&m after work today and got 2 jars of options hot choc £1.99 each, 6 bags of curry noodles 32p each. 4 packs Fajita spice mix 35p each and 2 boxes of cuppa soups 2 for £1. 

Have had a hot chocolate as it’s been that sort of day, grey cold & a bit damp. 

Will be having fajitas for tea. 😋

savingwannabe

Hurrah for haircut, good food and insurance money. It's raining here.

MovingForwards

That was a good little shop. They are great for cupboard staples 🤗

Skint_yet_Again

Nothing much happening here moneywise until DS & gf get paid & transfer bills money over on the 17th. 

Spent over an hour on the phone with DF last night sorting his gas & electric. I don’t know why they make it so difficult for customers who are not so computer savvy to find their annual consumption & tariff rates. Anyway we got there in the end and found him a cheaper tariff to switch to now his fix is ending. Resisted a takeaway after that & had a microwave chicken tikka masala & rice from Aldi which was yum for £1.19 with 2 microwave popadoms and some tomato chutney my friend made 😋

I did an inventory of my cupboards, fridge & freezer and worked out a meal plan for the next 7 days 

Breakfast - 

Porridge & fruit x 2

Weetbix & fruit X 2

Egg on Toast x 2

Sardines on toast X 1

Lunch -

Pork & bean paprika stew x 2

Curry noodles x 6

Tuna jacket potato x 2

Gammon wrap x 2

Dinner -

1 Ready meal tikka masala  

Chilli & rice or wedges

Gammon, wedges & sweetcorn 

Gammon cauli cheese 

Chicken roast & veg

Chinese chicken stir fry

Cajun chicken, wedges & sweetcorn 

Snacks -

Fruit - bananas, apples, tinned peaches, melon. 

Light spreadable Cheese & wheat Crackers

Peppered Mackerel fillets x 2

Hard Boiled egg 

Nuts 

Cuppa soup 

Plans for the weekend 
walk the dog
scrub the patio 
shredding

MovingForwards

You got DF sorted out in the end, that's the main thing.
Ooooh, chilli and wedges sound good! May pinch that idea for when TomBo is on a late shift 🤗

I also may have misread your tasks as being 'scrub the dog' 🙈

Have a lovely weekend, I hope you've got some sun!

savingwannabe

Well done on helping DF, meal plan looks good. It's sunny here have a good day.

Skint_yet_Again

It was sunny but cold this morning. Took puppy dog out to the field and played football then had a walk. 3 days now wearing new walking shoes and no more blisters. Grass was wet but feet were dry 🤗

Have hung out one load of washing. It’s warmer outside now. Just trying to motivate myself to get off the sofa 😆