What small DFW things will you do this week - w/c 23rd April?

DawnW

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

I've halved the amount of sugar in muffins and things without any adverse effects - I would think it would be ok

I reduce the amount of sugar in most cake and biscuit recipes tbh, as I would otherwise find them far too sweet - I don't add anything else to compensate.

DawnW

allydowd wrote: »

* Escaping on the ferry to Rothesay to clear my mind and perhaps see some porpoises or the Orcas if we're lucky. Taking a flask.

Wow - not jealous at all
Beats the local park here!

Sunnysam72

Hi all,

My focus this week is teaching my kid the value of money. I have been showing him how to work out which the cheapest product is by looking at £/kg (something I've always done) He is 8yo. He has now taught his dad the same trick. A small but long term thing for us all. Heating been off all month now. Moved to cash only spending, not on debit card anymore.

a_silver_lining

Slipped off the wagon so today I am checking back into MSE and my goal to be debt free. Thought I would post here rather then my diary.

Step 1: Post here! done
2: Post birthday card from card and stamp stash. sone
3: Eat left over salad rather then buy lunch. Bring in smoothie and apple for snack to work. done but have in and bought a 50p biscuit at work
4: After work pot up some veg I am growing. got home and collapsed, so maybe tomorrow
5: NSD nope. 50p biscuit and £10 put on lottery ap...

DawnW

Morning all
:wave: Hello to Sunnysam and a_silver_lining

Plans for today look like this:
Need to sort my brother out with painkillers for his back (says it hurts too much to go out to buy them himself) plus any food etc that he needs
Post an ebay item, possibly two if other buyer pays up in time
Check banks and update speadsheet
Check for surveys
Some housework
Load of washing
Do some gardening if it doesn't rain - tomatoes need potting on, and the remaining large pots / tubs in the back garden need sorting out
Cut some salad leaves for dinner
HM tomato sauce out of freezer for dinner

That will do to start with!

little_pink_purse

Good morning

its freezing here did have the heating on for 20 mins

todays list
check banking
check ebay sales
hoover
washing on and hang up
meals form stores try for a nsd
list 3 items on ebay

better get my list done before i go to work xxxlppxxxx

carrielovesfanta

Grrr typed my post and accidentally hit the back button.


Suffice to say I'm here and hello to our new posters


Have a good one all


clf x

foxgloves

Hi Frugalistas,
Useful sort of day, though more than ready to sit on my bum with a magazine now, to be honest.
*Waited to see if rainy before putting a load of laundry on - pegged it out, fetched it in, pegged it out, fetched it in, pegged it out......hoping that the final fetch-in will be dry washing!
*Free fitness digging over a flower bed & generally diving around tidying the garden & putting stuff away.
*Potted up another 3 trays of seedlings (all free seeds) and also this year's basil. I've done plenty, as I like to make pesto.
*Did a few surveys.
*Wrapped 2 ebay parcels & weighed one again, as it's a combined postage atm (unless someone else bids on one of the items).
*Easy cheap meal tonight - home baked cobs from the freezer, filled with the spicy chickpea burgers I batch cooked & froze last week. Going to do a big salad, seeing what I can use up from the fridge. Had to compost a mouldy tomato today & any food waste is almost unheard of here. I only did an investigation of the salad drawer yesterday, so it furred up blimmin' quickly.
*Made tomorrow's packed lunch & work snacks.
*Updated my food/calorie tracker book - now we're back on this game, our food is lasting a lot longer because it's rationed. Hey, but get this.....my jeans had been through the wash & are usually a real trial to get back on the first time of wearing because as we all know, denim contracts in the wash, but today, getting ready for a battle to squeeze just a bit too much Foxgloves into not quite enough jean, they went on & did up just fine. Encouraging, if not actually a result as such.
*Made a start on sorting what is left of the ebay/Ziffit/charity shop mountain by removing a pile of CDs which are too tatty (already 2nd hand when we bought them) & taking them to the shed to hang up as bird scarers.
*Synchronised May's diary with mr f, as there are days I could really do with the car. I shall have my bicycle by then all being well, but I am expecting to be Mrs Wobbly for a while & will not be cycling into town until I know I won't suddenly go flying off it in public with my pants on display!
*Starting to think about next week's meal plans - lots of red lentils, lots of pasta, still some of our fish box left in the freezer.....that can form a starting point.
OK, must crack on.
Oh.....forgot to chip in to the reduced sugar in baking debate. I've replaced some of the sugar with Stevia & the results have been ok, but have only done for basic things like scones & muffins.
Cheers all,
F x

foxgloves

Oh...another thing......I'm back on the Annoying Jobs. Done three today.
F x

carrielovesfanta

Bit spendy today but I don't regret it.


I have a friend who is moving back to the UK from abroad under difficult circumstances. She'll be staying with her mum so I've sent some flowers to her mum's house so they will be there for when she arrives


Also ordered some special t-shirts to support a friend in his athletics career