Digging my way out

Doing_it_my_way

Met a lovely lady today who is a fitness trainer and interested in nutrition, she told me to eat more!! I like that idea a lot. She said I don't eat enough calories and I eat the wrong sort of food. The food she was telling me to eat made me feel much happier, as I don't have much on my plate at the moment, just trying to stay within my calories. I've lost 27lb in all but yesterday and today I am ravenous, for no reason, and I don't feel too good, light headed with a sore throat, so I am going to eat more calories and incorporate less bread and cereal and eat more veg and fruit, maybe a few smoothies in there as well.
I've checked the runner beans and they look good, definitely going to be a handful for dinner sometime later this week, also have two very orange tomatoes, but the majority are still green.
DH is just giving the horses hay in the field, they are staying out tonight, and then we are going to sit down and watch the new episode of Midsumer Murders which we missed earlier this week, with a lovely cuppa and a biscuit, happy days

savingholmes

Overall lots of frugal activity going on - fantastic job. Lovely to get free food. Love all the baking you do...

Doing_it_my_way

Thanks for stopping by
No change moneywise.
Shattered tonight so not much of an update, although our older horse now has a double stable as we have knocked two into one, it's better for him with his arthritis.
Different kind of eating for me today, i've had a satsuma, banana, mango and raspberry with greek yogurt smoothie, walnuts , broccoli, carrots, sweet potatoes, chicken, wholegrain rice and it was all delicious, I am going to try a chocolate rice cake in a bit with a cup of tea, trying to be low carb and low sugar. I definitely feel full Too tired to do any more ............tomorrow is another day

Baileys_Babe

Pleased to hear you are revising what you are eating, I have been concerned that you weren't eating enough calories and your body had gone into starvation mode.

Doing_it_my_way

Thank you so much for your concern Baileys Babe, and it's lovely of you to stop by. I have kept to the new 'diet' and I have also told my calorie counting app that I want to lose much more slowly so it has given me 1510 calories a day to lose half a pound a week. I am struggling to eat all those calories as it feels like I will put on weight immediately which I don't want. I am away end of next week so I think I will get that out the way, eat what I feel like eating and then when I get home I will force myself to eat the full 1510 and see where I go from there. I had a lovely lunch yesterday it was rocket, tuna, cucumber and a small amount of penne pasta, it was lovely, I had to have the usual salad cream though lol

Doing_it_my_way

I've just finished doing my meal plan for September, I have checked the cupboards, fridge and the freezer and altered my plan to fit in with what I already have. It is going to be a very tight couple of months until DH starts with his new agreements and although we know we are having them yay! we have no idea of when they will start, October/November probably. Funds are very low and very tight. Based on what I think we need to get though September the budget of £150 should be more than ample. Of course I have to take out the money already spent, so that leaves £131.73 for the month.
I've got quite a lot of fruit in the freezer to use for smoothies and might use milk instead of greek yogurt as it's cheaper. Healthy food is so much more expensive as I can't seem to spread it out as much.
DH is having a sausage cooked dinner tonight with runner beans from the garden, yorkshire puddings and mash from the freezer and gravy. I am having boiled eggs mixed into wholegrain brown rice with chicken and salad cream.
On a really awful note, I was sat relaxing last night after a really hard week anxiety wise, when a massive I mean massive big brown spider ran across the living room floor. I screamed at DH who tried to grab it but we lost it so needless to say I made him move the furniture until we found it, but it had gone, so today I have hoovered everywhere moved all the furniture in the living room again and sprayed every skirting board in the entire house with spider spray, this time of year I can not stand it!
Horses in last night as raining but out all day and staying out tonight, washing drying on the line will probably need to be aired inside today

Doing_it_my_way

Savings today include putting 6 sausage rolls into the freezer in 2 roll portions, DS text yesterday to say they were in their fridge and would be out of date by the time they came home, so that was great, he also said to take the potatoes another win, I used them last night for DH who had bacon, HG runner beans again, egg and mint sauce, one of his favourites. My Mum has also given me 5 large eggs this week that she says she wont use.
Tomorrow is my clean day, and although I hoovered everywhere today with the dogs here it gets pretty hairy pretty quickly and I need to wipe all the surfaces down etc.
I did two loads of washing today and they dried on the line after all so that was great, other than a pair of jeans which were a little damp around the pockets, they will dry overnight inside no doubt. I am not sure how many eggs I have left, next door neighbour has given us a dozen free range eggs but I an't bring myself to use all of them, some are usually ............well I can't use them they will go in cake tomorrow I think and then into the freezer, will depend on how much margarine I have left.
It is colder tonight so two of the horses have rugs on just in case our older boy and our second older boy. I took the rug off the wall tonight and two rats ran out, they ran all along the stable wall and went under the tarpaulin at the side. Funny but rats do not bother me............spiders though ewwwww
I am so desperate to begin paying off debt and stop being stagnant, I literally can not wait, i've planned it all out and our debt free date is November 2020 as long as these new agreements pay what we think they will, I need to wait really and then check it properly but in all fairness I am desperate

Doing_it_my_way

Oh and another saving, I wanted a book or magazine for our holiday something to keep me occupied on the plane. We went to Tesco and the books were expensive and the magazines were £6 or £7 each!!! So I left it, last night I looked on The Works website and bought an offer of 3 romantic novels for £5 and paid £2.99 delivery so 3 books for £7.99, that I was pleased with
I downloaded a free app last night as I have not been sleeping well at all due to the anxiety and am awake a lot of the night, it is a sleep meditation app, well I don't remember it finishing, slept all night and I woke up this morning, I am going to try it again

Doing_it_my_way

Another lovely day here today, sun is out but is much colder. Horses are all in the field with rugs off. The eggs my neighbour gave me are as usual not usable, a bit old and smelly
Decided to go and do the shopping supposed to be for a week but lots of the items will carry on into the next week and week after so it has mostly all been done for the month. Although usually I will have spent most of my monthly budget today and in the past I have not noticed how much top up I have been spending. When I looked at what we spent in top ups last month it was a lot! It got better as the month wore on but by and large too much.
Today we decided 1) Stick to the list and nothing else 2) We went to 4 shops to get the best deals, no diesel involved as pretty much next door to each other 3) No named brands unless better value/cheaper 4) Check all the offers for price per g/ml etc. We managed to do this other than I bought two lots of dog food as one wouldn't have lasted the month and when I saw that most of my list would be used over the month I wanted to avoid having to go back for dog food and also self raising flour, the margarine and eggs I have needed more self raising flour than I was buying to make the best use of it, the only item I bought off the list was a block of cheese simply because it was the one thing that had not occurred to me when I did the list but I need for pizza and sandwiches etc.
Spends are:
Farmfoods £9 - 12 cans of Tuna and 1kg margarine (DH paid cash for this as the machine was not accepting contactless and I couldn't remember the pin......honestly!!! So he has since said he doesn't want that back But......I am going to count it in my shopping spends.
Home Bargains £12.23 - All of these items are on our list for going away, body wash etc. so these are not going in my monthly shopping budget. We were amazing in there, we looked and looked at the sweets for the plane as I am not prepared to pay for the 'meal deal' they offer which is 2.80 for hot chocolate and £4.50 for hot chocolate and a pack of minstrels. I will have the hot chocolate as it is a treat but we are taking our own sweets as it is cheaper. Anyway we walked up and down the aisle, checking prices and weights until we found the cheapest product with the maximum inside it as there were not any named brands anyway. I have a pack of minstrels and chocolate raisins, DH has wine gums and minstrels, very proud of ourselves considering we could have bought 190g of wine gums for £1 but bought instead 300g wine gums for 79p, good shopping!
Then on to Aldi where the bulk of the shopping was bought, total of £22.37 another great shop,bought a small gammon joint to cook and slice and then freezer as overall much cheaper than packet ham, DH well on board with no impulse spending, lots of looking but to be honest we had control, it was great!
Then lastly Iceland for a bag of frozen bake pots 8 in all costing £2.50, I paid cash so it was from my purse from last month but I am still going to count it in my budget.
Total spend £46.10 but actually coming out of my shopping budget is £33.87, therefore money left in budget for month is £97.86, very happy with this as it leaves a total of £4.25 a day not including the 8 days we are away, that's great very pleased.
Meals this week are:
Sunday - HM from freezer Steak pie and chips/mash
Monday - HM from freezer Lasagne and chips/garlic bread
Tuesday - Sausage roll, tomato and chips
Wednesday - Quiche and bake pots
Thursday - Bacon, egg and chips or Quiche if any left over or bacon, mush and mash pie with cheese
Friday - Hot dogs with HM rolls from freezer
Saturday - Cod, peas and chips
Lunches will be sandwiches made from tuna, cheese, ham (from gammon joint) and egg. Also homemade pizza's, or cheese toasties.
Breakfast is cereal.
I am living on fruit, veg, wholegrain rice, chicken and pitta bread and milk, of which runner beans and tomatoes from the garden.
Afters for DH will be sponge pudding and custard, rock cakes, slice of Victoria sandwich cake.
Items I may need as the month progresses:
Toilet rolls
Dog food
Milk
Butter
Cheese
Yogurt/s
Expenses for month are - Farrier £100 budgeted for, possibly hay £90 and straw £35/£55

savingholmes

Sounds like a good plan to me. I overspent on groceries last week as DS came home but put a plan in place to pull it back this week.