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Drawingaline

You could try some savoury muffins or carrot cake sweetened with honey rather than sugar?

I have started my two smallest on a multivitamin due to their limited diet.

Honeysucklelou2

We had a cook at work who would cook various dishes packed with veg, but would liquidise them beforehand so the veg were hidden in a sauce. His bolognase type sauces were packed with veg and even got the children to eat watercress by hiding it:).

Sorry to read that your mum has had more hospital trips. Thinking of you ...

I think you're amazing to have cleared £3,500 in 6 months...a huge well done.

MeandO

Thank you for the suggestions drawingaline and HSL2, the muffins are a great idea as is liquidising the veg! He’s pretty good with eating mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, garlic etc when I cut it very small and put it in a tomato based sauce, but anything ‘chunkier’ than that or a new standalone fruit/veg and it’s extremely difficult.

MeandO

I sold an eBay item for £7.05 profit this week - something I’d won and had cost me nothing - so it’s just been withdrawn from PayPal and sent straight to the mortgage as an overpayment.

I made a blackberry and apple cake today with some of the blackberries we picked and some cooking apples given to us that needed using up. DS said it smelt lovely but wouldn’t touch it because of the fruit but he proudly took a couple of slices to our elderly neighbours and told them it was ‘just something he’d knocked up’ with a giggle! He’s such a little comedian!
Every time I bake we always take a couple of slices to our lovely neighbours. I always think there’s nothing quite like the gift of home made cake, especially still warm from the oven.

I spent £17.25 on a top up shop this week. The grocery budget is looking quite healthy considering we’re halfway through the month. The gift card my Dad kindly gave me has helped towards that though.
I do find I’m not shopping as much these days though which is great, and when I do, I’m really only buying essentials or YS items that are a good price. I’m not being tight, we have what we need with treats for DS too. I don’t like having overflowing cupboards of tonnes of food, it stresses me out! I am also trying to ‘shop from my cupboard’ first at the moment as there is more than we need in their due to my parents kindly sending us back with goodies, so I’m also trying to make room in my food cupboards at the moment!

The child tax credit will be paid tomorrow so I plan on topping up the gift pot to build it up a bit more for Christmas. Some will need to go towards diesel for our next trip to see my parents in a few weeks and hopefully any left over can be sent to the savings or the mortgage.

MeandO

Tax credits have hit the account, so £100 has been sent to the Christmas gifts pot, £25 to the savings, the diesel pot has been topped up and £3.35 has been sent to the mortgage as a little overpayment.

I currently have workmen here dismantling my bathroom and floor. Turns out the damp smell and dodgy floor was down to the toilet leaking since new which the builders failed to connect properly. It's all completely 'ducked'...

Chrystal

OMG you must be SO !!!!!! off! :eek: :eek:

Hopefully it will be sorted quickly (((hugs)))

MeandO

Yes, I am Chrystal. Hugs greatly received, thank you. Although yesterday the workman commented on how calm I was about the whole thing. TBH, I have no fight left so I'm trying to let it wash over my head. I have no faith in anything in this house though and am just waiting for the next issue to arise.

We currently have no bathroom - the entire suite had to be ripped out and all the flooring, floorboards and a lot of the other woodwork was ripped up and thrown into a skip as it couldn't be saved. They are supposed to be coming back today to finish it, so I have had to p*ss work off by working from home again today. The builders haven't shown up yet, I have no idea what time they're coming and I very much doubt the floor covering will be relaid for a while as it will have to be ordered.

And to think I moved to this house to escape the problems of the last. Buy a new build, they said. No stress, no problems, all shiny and new... I've had enough.

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I'm sorry you've had yet another issue piled on top of all the things you've got going on already. Sending you hugs and positive thoughts. It feels like surely there should be a change of luck for you in store soon!

Honeysucklelou2

Thats shocking...a new house should surely be guaranteed and well built, one would hope.

Eager_Elephant

Whenever I hear of problems with new builds from friends, the main complaint is the toilet/bath/sink not being plumbed in correctly - I mean how hard can it be to make sure all pipes are connected.

I hear it so often I am not sure if its incompetence or sabotage??

I hope he bathroom got sorted today