A new royal start

QueenJess

Nearly at the end of the week!  I spent my commuting days this week trying out every combination of parking places, tickets, method of paying for tickets, different trains etc.  Researching train tickets seems more complicated than my actual day job!  I am currently enjoying the quiet trains over the summer and not looking forward to potentially having to stand come September.  I'm getting a lot of book reading done on the train

Still settling into the job and trying to work out what is going on and who does what.  Whilst I have to get up at a certain time for the train 3x a week (working from home the rest), I am trying not to mess up my body clock by getting up at this same time all week and I am using the extra time in the morning on the days I am at home to do baking/chores.  Yesterday morning I baked a chocolate marble cake and flapjacks.  Today I have 12 rolls and a load of bread proving on the side that I can throw in the oven at lunch time.  I am also on my second load of washing and all the beds have been changed.

Lunch today is just me as DH is taking DS out and DD is at nursery.  I'm going to make pesto pasta with green beans and courgettes (uses up some of the huge amount of hm pesto in the freezer from all those carrot tops Riverford delivered to me over the summer).  I'll be making twice as much so I already have my lunch for Monday's office day ready and don't have to spend time doing it over the weekend.  Dinner is a big tofu stir fry to use up whatever is hanging around in the fridge with noodles.  Dessert is the chocolate marble cake.

Better go and think about logging on for the day now!

themadvix

Glad the job is going well.
 Early mornings are the only time for baking at the moment! I’ve been up at 6 most of this week - best time for doing stuff when it’s this hot.

QueenJess

themadvix said:

Glad the job is going well.
 Early mornings are the only time for baking at the moment! I’ve been up at 6 most of this week - best time for doing stuff when it’s this hot.

Ah yes, that’s true. I’ve been jumping from an air conned office to a train to a car to home, so I’ve not really felt the heat. Gymnastics last night has no air con, so that was pretty brutal!

QueenJess

I was awake early this morning, so I went through the joint account. Everything looks dire (as expected really) and so I am trying to be extra frugal until the joint account recovers since we no longer have nursery fees to come out. 

I did the shop and thought I didn’t go overboard (although I couldn’t resist 1x pack of ys organic chicken - however I left 4 other packs there, so it’s progress!), but my freezer is very full and my fridge is completely rammed. I must have miscalculated somewhere, but now we are back on trying to use everything up and I’m hoping for a much cheaper food week next week all round. Spent £97 in sm (everything seems to be getting more expensive recently), £15 zero waste shop and £40 riverford. Only £2 over the weekly total so it isn’t a total disaster. I just need to rein it in a bit.

DH is taking DD out whilst I take DS to gymnastics so lunches are separate (they have packed a picnic). I am planning to have the leftover pizza slice with the leftover stir fry veg from last night. DS will have an egg and soldiers with the leftover beans in the fridge. Dinner is chicken (spiced for the adults) with hm chips, corn on the cob and I’m thinking of making a quick coleslaw as well. Dessert is ice cream or marble cake.

After the food shop I had 30 mins before I needed to leave the house, so I popped washing on and then made some ice cream. I picked up 2 years worth of Good Food magazines on Buy Nothing and have been slowly going through the ones for August. I found a strawberry jam ripple ice cream recipe which is very similar to the one I usually make anyway. I made some blackberry jam recently and so subbed that in instead.  It looks amazing

Edit: I reviewed the sm receipt earlier... about 25% spent on dairy products, 25% on meat, 10% on chocolate (for some planned baking), 10% on wine and the rest on general stuff and the odd bit of veg/fruit to top up the Riverford order.  Dairy is definitely my biggest regular spend, but I absolutely love cheese...