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What are you making for dinner?
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Sunday was cheesy pasta and then out for drinks.
Monday night I made veg soup and put in two pork chops to use them up. After the soup we had chicken and rice.
Tonight soup again. Then use up the last of rice- fried rice and chicken kiev,3 -
Another freezer lucky dip! Fish pie with celeriac mash on top3
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I had salmon, the others had cod, prawns, scallops, salmon and chorizo with chive and lemon butter in tin foil parcels ( sounds extravagant, but it was using bits up)
All served with green beans and dauphinose potatoes.3 -
Salmon here today too, wrapped a fillet in foil with lemon, butter and a dash of white wine. Served with LO cheese and broccoli pasta.JIL said:I had salmon, the others had cod, prawns, scallops, salmon and chorizo with chive and lemon butter in tin foil parcels ( sounds extravagant, but it was using bits up)
All served with green beans and dauphinose potatoes.Feb 2015 NSD Challenge 8/12JAN NSD 11/16
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Breakfast was a oven baked cinnamon swirl. Lunch will either left overs from last night if no wants it or oven baked sausage rolls from Greggs by way of Iceland. Dinner is a chicken fajita thing with rice instead of tortillaStarting Total in September 2019 = £38287.77
Current Total = £25534.10
33% of debt paid off so far
Debt Free by Christmas September August July June 2023!2 -
Tonight I am making carrot and kidney bean burgers with potato salad, cucumber, lettuce, tomato and spring onion from the garden.2
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I have been craving prawns, so going old school with a huge prawn cocktail salad, DH will have his with a jacket spud 👍Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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We were going to go out for dinner but cba with all the latest palaver BJ has decreed, plus its chucking it down outside. So HM Veggie chilli and £50 saved tonight. Sorry restaurant.Feb 2015 NSD Challenge 8/12JAN NSD 11/16
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Sausage and onion barm cake (not a bap or a roll! lol ) using keto bread2
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Son 2’s favourites tonight - pork loins fried with cream, mustard and honey sauce, stuffing, roast pots, carrots, courgettes and tomatoes.
Bread and butter pudding. I ran out of jam partway through so substituted it with salted caramel spread. After all that, we’ve spent the evening draped over the furniture!3
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