Weekly Flylady Thread 24th July 2017

Valli

well the oven shelves and shelf supports are shiny and the black 'puddle' of burnt-on drips is minimised; I have scraped at it with a knife and flung the last of the oven pride on it, in the hope that it will lift it. It's now lots of little bits as opposed to one black burnt blob. The rest of the ovenbottom has come up beautifully.

If I was doing next week's list I might have made you ALL oven clean lol

ATB A thought - with the berries can you not add in a chopped apple or banana sometimes to mix is up a bit and 'dilute' the expensive berries? Just to get them used to a wider range of fruit? If/when they get free school fruit they will be offered satsumas, bananas, carrots, sugar snap peas and tomatoes. With a bag of raisins on the first day of term. The tomatoes are really gorgeous - and I am not a tomato fan!

bossymoo

Morning,

Just back from dropping DD at dancing and had some breakfast. WM going although I'm not hopeful of the weather...

ATB we also had shopping delivered on Thursday and I've run out. DS and I popped to the shop on our way home as I have nothing to send with them to granny and gramps' and they asked me to do airplane pack up. I bought 2 boxes of fruit pur!e pouches and DD has just taken the last one to dancing for her snack. I'm seriously planning food over the next week and will get a big shop delivered next weekend before they get home.

We are all packed, just need to bring the bags downstairs and do the aforementioned pack up. They've decided what to have for tea so that saves a job. Other things for me this morning are tidy my desk (again), empty the bins and tidy the dining room...

Fayolle

Morning all,

Not sure how I didn't get to post yesterday, but I've just caught up with all your news while the WM chugs along. Absolutely nothing flying wise achieved yesterday. After a long day at work, with DD and DH at home, the LR in particular looks a bit of a state. Not too bad I guess, but certainly needs a vacuum today. I'm sure that it will rain soon, so no excuse there I guess....

ATB - I'm also a fan of meal planning to reduce my bills, after I kept track of what I was spending and frightening myself when I saw what that worked out to over a year. I grow some of our veg, but that does mean that we have to want a lot of one thing at a time sometimes....courgettes anyone?! And DD doesn't like courgettes so I have to inventive and hide them... I have been trying to buy fruit from the market if I am passing, which means that we get lots of berries, soft fruit etc at a fraction of the cost. Sometimes the logistics of doing that does get a bit stressy though, so I give up and go back to the supermarket. One thing I have noticed though is that I am more aware of the prices of what I buy, and I certainly don't have any supermarket loyalty anymore! Bizarrely that seems to mean that I get money off vouchers from all of them which makes me happy :money:

Right, must move myself and get on. As far as the kettle anyway!

Have lovely days all.

SunnyGirl

atypicalblonde wrote: »

My list for Aldi is huge and we only had a shop delivered on Thursday! First week of school holidays and my bill has definitely doubled - we must have spent over £125 this week easily on food. We've spent at least £40 on fresh fruit this week - punnets of raspberries, strawberries and blueberries are devoured the same day here.

Is this ridiculous? Family of 4, plus a cat and a dog. Including all toiletries, cleaning stuff and some (but not loads) of alcohol. Would love to know what other flyladies grocery budgets are x

ATB I used to cook for 3 children, a DH, 2 big dogs and 4 cats so know where you're coming from! It does get more expensive in the school holidays but one way you could save some money is to buy the frozen berries? All the supermarkets do a good range of frozen raspberries, blueberries, mixed berries and others for about 99p for a kg bag. They are wetter than fresh but I used to serve them in a bowl with either yoghurt or a scoop of ice cream as a snack. Or make pancakes for lunch and serve the fruit with them.

Meal planning - even for lunches - used to help me immensely.


Morning ladies. I am at work today from 8.30am to 5pm so not much flying will be done. I S&S the bathroom and left the kitchen very clean and tidy last night so it'll all be nice to go back to. One of the joys of all my children having left home is that it now stays how I left it and I haven't yet got over the novelty!!


On the way home I need to call into a 'Mace' shop that is also a post office and post DS2's birthday card to America where he is ready for his birthday next week.


Have good days all!

LameWolf

atypicalblonde wrote: »

Would love to know what other flyladies grocery budgets are x

I allow for £220 per month for two adults one of whom is strictly veggie (me) and the other eats veggie food unless we go out for a meal (DH). I usually come in well under that. I am currently at just under £155 this month with a small (£10-ish) @ldi shop to do tomorrow. This includes two visits to PYO/fruit farm places which included jam-making stocks and stuff to put in the freezer for later use.

I'm feeling quite groggy but have managed to give Mia her brekkie and take her for a walk; she was as good as gold - for all that she looks like a big bruiser she's actually a gentle, sweet-natured girlie.

Pollybear

Afternoon all. Nothing much to report but I have been out with DD2 and DGD4 and I've dried a load of washing outside and put it all away.

LW Mia sounds lovely

Tardis4

ATB - We spend between £50-£70 max per week on food, but I stick to boring & cheap foods (: and we all went vegetarian in January. That has helped hugely - weekly shop was getting too expensive before. Once in awhile we get a huge bag of quinoa from Costco and make mexi-quinoa then eat the leftovers for days until we are all thoroughly sick of it & it is gone (: I am in no way an imaginative cook and my autistic little guy likes very bland food so it is quite straightforward around here.

Valli

Am a fully-fledged flylady - I have a sparkly oven

WOOTY WOOTY WOOT WOOT

Jazee

Well done Valli.

I actually did clean the car inside and out and repositioned two pots in the garden so that counts as my list being done.

Also took the dogs for a long walk as
Littleydog perked up.

Honey_Bear

Thanks for asking that question about the food budget, ATB. I keep figures for all of my expenditure and I always thought I spent a ridiculous amount on food, but having done the calculations I now realise I spend around about £5 per day to feed us two adults. I'd always thought it was out of control but I now realise it's not so that's rather heartening. We eat incredibly well, too, but that may be because I can take time to do the shopping and pick up a lot of bargains and OH occasionally, very occasionally, does the shopping (once every couple of months?) and we've got a big fridge and freezer now so I can store all the bargains. And a breadmaker which pays for itself over and over again. I love berries and doing a quick pricecheck in Morribunds this week found that frozen blueberries and raspberries were a lot cheaper than fresh, whereas fresh strawberries were cheaper than frozen. Go figure.

Well done on the clean oven, Valli. It's thanks to Flyladies that I clean mine when I remember to, usually when I wash the kitchen floor. It was horrendous the first time.

I've eaten a frog that's been pi**ing me off for weeks, a monstrous set of minutes for a two hour meeting where everyone ranged around subject after subject and didn't stick to the agenda. It's taken me 25 wretched hours to knock it into shape and it ran to seven pages. Hopefully the group will settle down; they were all a tad over-excited at that meeting.

I've dysoned the ground floor (Kelpie's still moulting) and the house looks passable. Back to the lists on Monday.

It's raining cats and dogs here so OH and I aren't going to go and watch our hydrotherapy vet nurse do an agility show tomorrow after all so I've got a day all to myself. I feel a bit of patchwork coming on.