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What are you making for dinner?
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Pie, mash, veg with gravy. There’s some white potatoes and sweet potatoes that need using plus some carrots in the fridge. I’ve got a cheese, leek and potato pie and my husband had the chicken and mushroom pie.:money::rotfl::T4
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Sausage and mash here, will use up the LO cauliflower cheese and broccoli from Sunday.
I’m not overly hungry, might fast - if not I made some yoghurt at the weekend, so will have some of that and some nutsNote to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Making Thai noodle soup with the chicken stock from weekend, last bits of chicken from roast and a bag of prawns from freezer stash - with bean sprouts for me 👍Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Eaten at SA - Shepherd's pie followed by Cheesecake and Raspberry Couli + squirty cream.Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering - 2024 - 8,365 August - 0/45
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £57.82/£100 NSD - 138
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Chicken drumsticks coated in Nando’s seasoning, savoury rice and sweet corn
2kg chicken drumsticks on offer £3.30 in Tesco. I got 17 drumsticks! Enough fit 3 meals for us. Really tasty too I did them in the air fryer:money::rotfl::T4 -
We had sausages in hot dog rolls with HM wedges and salad (on the sofa for new Mandalorian day).Books read 2023 - 49/753
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Tonight we had our very first sausage plait.

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Ended up sharing a vagan 'pepperoni' pizza after swimming - review 'it did the job' (HM ones way better)Feb 2015 NSD Challenge 8/12JAN NSD 11/16
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Chicken, broccoli and cashew stir fry tonight, with rice for the tribe, without for me
making more yogurt too, found some frozen dark cherries in Aldi, a few of those (defrosted) with yoghurt are lovely ☺️Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Roast pork, roast spuds (sweet potato for my daughter), broccoli, carrots, peas, gravy, apple sauce. I got us a big joint from Tesco that I’m going to split into two pieces and freeze the other piece for another dinner.Cheap lemon cheesecake for pudding:money::rotfl::T4
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