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apple_muncher wrote: »

That's some list!


Am in need of a little sit down to recover from reading it...

Absolutely, I feel tired just looking at it! I wrote a small list this morning and have completed one item.....

redofromstart

Apples,
I do dried rings in the oven sometimes which are nice and suitably healthy. Store in a clip lock tub and add to packed lunches
I bulk bake a batch in their skins, core out then stuff the middle with dried fruit and a little sugar. I freeze them individually and keep them as puddings for me.
I used to juice them and freeze the juice but its a lot of effort for my cranky hands
I make an apple slice thing that might work for you - works really well with gluten free flour as the texture has more bite. I made a jam and coconut version last weekend with the doves gluten free and it was really good. Recipe is here

XSpender

Loving all the lovely apple recipes coming. Most of the fruit are small red eating apples with a big core and not much flesh but I am determined to get what I can out of them, I am sending DH into the garden to collect more of the bigger green eating apples as these have more flesh on them. I will be putting back on that half stone I lost in no time :eek:

We got loads done today. We wont get the list completed by tomorrow as I am taking DS to training in the morning while DH paints and then he has a homework assignment to complete. I always put more on the list than is possible to do in the time I have to do it Priorities tomorrow are decorating bedroom/putting rooms back together, food prep, order blind, clean stairs and get everybody ready for next week.

I feel like we have spent lots of money today. DS got given £10 for helping DPIL so added it to his pocket money and bought a toy, not my money but used my card. Spent another £23 in M&S Food though I can't say any of it was real food except some YS GF savoury tarts for lunches and a ys loaf for DH, another £20 in Asda on beer and ys GF bread and £70+ on a massive tub of white emulsion, a lampshade and door handles for the bedroom and en-suite. Returning the curtains did knock £65 off the debt balance I suppose.

[STRIKE]- final gym class :eek:[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- final weigh in :eek:[/STRIKE] lost half a stone but feel much skinnier
- training walk
[STRIKE]- meal plan[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- food shop[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- order veg box (need to change address) [/STRIKE]
- find completion certificate for IVA
- print off my payslips
[STRIKE]- paint bedroom ceiling [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- whitewash coat on walls[/STRIKE]
- wash plaster off window and skirtings
- measure window and order roller blind - need to double check measurements (old house, every wall is wonky)
- deep clean main bathroom
- change/launder sheets our room and DS room - in progress
- washing - 1 load left to do
- ironing - half of it done
- put laundry away
- mow lawns - raining
- cut hedge - raining
[STRIKE]- dust and vac living and dining room[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- clean kitchen floor[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- mop conservatory floor [/STRIKE]
- dust and vac stairs
- process apples
- make apple desert - bought pastry to make Apple Amber
- make apple cake
- make soup
- make cheese scones
- [STRIKE]remove DH floordrobe,[/STRIKE] (he did it last night when I was at the gym :eek:) dust and vac our bedroom

Adding on:

- Buy stamps and post 3 birthday cards already have
- Use up past it bananas - banana cookies and freeze other 2 for something else later - ice cream !!
[STRIKE]- Take curtains back to n3xt[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- buy more white emulsion
- buy new door handles so can close door and stop dog getting in newly decorated bedroom[/STRIKE]
- paint colour on to walls in bedroom
- clean bedroom carpets
- move bed and put bedrooms back together (DH is determined to have the rooms complete by the end of the weekend :T)
- make pea and ham soup using water from the gammon I am slow cooking on Sunday

Suffolk_lass

apple_muncher wrote: »

Just remembered: mash up nanas with peanut butter and freeze = ice cream!

We are on a diet over here and so I thought Ooh, DH would really like this, made with unsweetened peanut butter. He has just confessed he has eaten all the bananas though. His loss, I can't eat them.

apple_muncher

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

We are on a diet over here and so I thought Ooh, DH would really like this, made with unsweetened peanut butter. He has just confessed he has eaten all the bananas though. His loss, I can't eat them.

Pesky dh! They go much further when mixed with pb. I have been known to skip the freezing phase...

XSpender

The final scores on the doors:

[STRIKE]- final gym class :eek:[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- final weigh in :eek:[/STRIKE] lost half a stone but feel much skinnier
- training walk - does walking the dog count? Thought not
[STRIKE]- meal plan[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- food shop[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- order veg box (need to change address) [/STRIKE]
- find completion certificate for IVA
- print off my payslips
[STRIKE]- paint bedroom ceiling [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- whitewash coat on walls[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- wash plaster off window and skirtings[/STRIKE]
- measure window and order roller blind - need to double check measurements (old house, every wall is wonky)
- deep clean main bathroom
[STRIKE]- change/launder sheets our room and DS room [/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- washing[/STRIKE]
- ironing - half of it done
- put laundry away - can't get in bedrooms!
[STRIKE]- mow lawns[/STRIKE]
- cut hedge
[STRIKE]- dust and vac living and dining room[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- clean kitchen floor[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- mop conservatory floor [/STRIKE]
- dust and vac stairs
- process apples - one bowl done
[STRIKE]- make apple desert[/STRIKE]
- make apple cake
- make soup to do tomrrow
- make cheese scones
- [STRIKE]remove DH floordrobe,[/STRIKE] (he did it last night when I was at the gym :eek:) dust and vac our bedroom will do when I can get in properly

Adding on:

- Buy stamps and post 3 birthday cards already have
[STRIKE]- Use up past it bananas[/STRIKE] - made cookies
[STRIKE]- Take curtains back to n3xt[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- buy more white emulsion
- buy new door handles so can close door and stop dog getting in newly decorated bedroom[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]- paint colour on to walls in bedroom [/STRIKE]
- clean bedroom carpets
- move bed and put bedrooms back together (DH is determined to have the rooms complete by the end of the weekend :T)
- make pea and ham soup using water from the gammon I am slow cooking on Sunday

I have had to order another tin of paint as the bedroom walls need another coat. With the plaster being new the walls have soaked it up even with the base coat on. I wish I had opted for the 5L tin in the first place as this has ended up costing us another £11

DH reminded me late this afternoon he is away tomorrow night and late back Tuesday which means we are going to have to work flat out Wednesday and Thursday night to get the room finished and the other rooms sorted by Friday morning. The room is looking fabulous though

I will not order the blind until the end of the month now as I have spent my budget on paint and it wouldn't be here for the end of the week anyway. It should cost about £42 made to measure.

DH has mowed the lawns and I have made sweet and sour chicken (for tomorrow's tea before DH told me he was away, will keep until Tuesday), gammon as part of a roast dinner (saved meat and cooking water for soup), 2 dozen banana and choc chip cookies and enough stewed apple for a generous crumble for 4.

I've also finished the washing, done some more ironing, been to DS training, deep cleaned the bin, helped DS with his homework, done the dishes and loaded and unloaded the dishwasher at least twice, fed everybody, made numerous cups of tea/coffee and gawd knows what else. I am now officially cream crackered.

I have come to the conclusion that while I enjoy a sunday dinner with pud on a Sunday and don't mind making it, Saturday night's dinner needs to be frozen pizza or something quick and snacky. No-one really wants anything and we always seem to run out of time.

We have arranged with my Dad to go to see them next summer. We were hoping to stay with them for a few days and then get a caravan on a particular site close by for a week to 10 days. I went on to book it and there was only 1 caravan (or a tent) left but it was to start a couple of days before we wanted it so will only stay with Dad for 1 night. We will see him a lot while we are there. £99 deposit paid and Folkstone hotel booked too.

We now have nothing spare in the budget for anything extra until we are next paid.

Thistlewhistle

Crikey XSpender, I seriously need to get a slice of your ability to get 28 hours into every day. Do you have one of those things Hermione Granger had in HP? A time-turner? You're one organised Cookie!!!

XSpender

Thistlewhistle wrote: »

Crikey XSpender, I seriously need to get a slice of your ability to get 28 hours into every day. Do you have one of those things Hermione Granger had in HP? A time-turner? You're one organised Cookie!!!

If only I had one of those Thistle, I might actually have a clean house most of the time in stead of now and again :rotfl:

I have an unexpected day off today having woken up with lips like Kim Kardashian and a rash all over. I have had an allergic reaction to something I think. I feel OK but it has meant a day off as nobody wants you in their business in case you're contagious! First day off sick in about 5 years :eek: The antihistamines have taken some of the swelling down but still itchy.

Is it wrong to be pleased I have an extra day to get things done?:o

We have decided that we are not going to move the bed into the decorated bedroom as it will have to come out again when we put the second coat on and it is a nightmare to take down and put up. It means the room won't be finished for the valuation on Friday I will have to try and sort the other bedrooms as best I can. 2 will be fine but the 3rd will have the bed and mattress in it.

DH hasn't spent any money on fuel so far this month due to using some different cars but will need to fill up today as he is driving to a course. I think there may be some wriggle room in this budget which will cover the blind.

Going forward I am going to concentrate on our family diet and food budget. For health reasons I want us to eat better and I am guilty of missing meals and eating rubbish especially when working. Food is something we also overspend on so focussing on this area should help both of my goals of eating better and saving money. We are doing OK this month so far, £162 on groceries and £35 on school dinners for the month with 17 budget days left but could be doing better.

Plans for today are:

1) Make pea and ham soup
2) Prepare some more apples as there are more on the trees to be picked!
3) Buy stamps and post cards (need address from sister for one)
4) More ironing
5) Vac stairs and landing
6) Have a good look for IVA completion certificate and mine and DS passports
7) Dust and vac our bedroom
8) Tidy DS bedroom and make bed
9) Strip our bed and spray with allergy stuff and remake with more clean bedding
10) Clean bathroom
11) Post what information I have to the broker

If I get all that done I will be chuffed Better get on with it as it is nearly 10am!

apple_muncher

XSpender wrote: »

Is it wrong to be pleased I have an extra day to get things done?:o

Not at all! Just don't over do it!

XSpender

1) Make pea and ham soup
2) Prepare some more apples as there are more on the trees to be picked!
3) [STRIKE]Buy stamps and post cards (need address from sister for one)[/STRIKE]
4) More ironing
5) Vac stairs and landing
6) Have a good look for IVA completion certificate and mine and DS passports
7) Dust and vac our bedroom
8) [STRIKE]Tidy DS bedroom and make bed[/STRIKE]
9) Strip our bed and spray with allergy stuff and remake with more clean bedding
10) Clean bathroom
11) [STRIKE]Post what information I have to the broker
[/STRIKE]

I did the above and put a big pile of ironing away in the morning then felt really ill and sat watching movies Netflix all afternoon. I was in bed for 8 last night and still not well today Hope to be back tomorrow, I couldn't have picked a worse time to be ill and off work

The mortgage broker is going to see if they have the completion certificate on file. I did sort out 6 small drawers yesterday and chuck a bag full of rubbish and old receipts but not found it or my passport.

DH course was cancelled yesterday so he was home last night which messed up the meal plan a bit so it was breaded chicken and chips for DH and we will have the sweet and sour chicken tonight as planned.

I'm hoping to get some more of my list done today but will take it easy.