Struggling along as best I can

nannygladys

joedenise - i had a look at the recipe and it isn't complicated, I might do this one for Xmas nibbles, but I think I'm chickening out of falafels for fat club and stick with as couple of dips, no cooking involved and really easy, I've bought some small packets of bread sticks and I'll buy some crisps as well. Looking forwards to it as we have some inventive books in our small group🙂 thank you

nannygladys

So stayed in on Thursday and went to youngest for a pup and baby cuddle, as well as a play with youngest dogs. We walked into her small town, it has a lot of black and white old shops and cottages - very quaint and the church is in middle of town. Anyway it was very busy and the queue came out of the post office, so many people clutching handfuls of cards!! I was really pleased to see them using a local amenity.
Had a coffee that DD bought and then a lovely walk back in the sunshine. So no money spent - 😊
Today I have stayed in, cleaned the upstairs, changed beds, washed sheets ( well the wm has!) And hung them outside for a while and although they aren't dried, they were definitely dryer when I bought them in🙂I also made three pots of jam with some fruit I picked from the Lottie (early raspberries) and strawberries, blackcurrants and red currants from the Lottie and garden. That's a pot for me and one each for dds, I have enough for another jam making session when we run out!
That's about it really, I made a stir fry for dinner and as it's filled me up so I'll probably have beans on toast or similar for tea.
Nannyg 

nannygladys

Just a quick one tonight. Eldest Dgd has now gone home, but will be visiting on and off during the week and I am doggy sitting the older stateswoman just for the night and picking two dgds up from school tomorrow as eldest has to go somewhere straight after work.
I'm hoping this week goes by relatively spend free except for milk and veggies, so I'll have to keep slapping my hand to stop myself buying anything else!! I must remember to buy something in for dgds visit though, she's requested hunters chicken for boxing day, I've researched and found a simple recipe, I'll have to check she hasn't changed her mind though and she will be cooking it, she doesn't know the last bit yet 🤣🤣🙂
Everything else is just hunkydory here and I'm hoping it will stay like this now 😂😂 hope you all are having a good Sunday and I'll post tomorrow 
 night if I can stay awake😂
Nannyg 

nannygladys

Well back again.
Eldest Dgd and I went to Tesco to take advantage of the 15p veggies and I came away with quite a lot 🤣 tomorrow I will be sorting what I'm going to eat fresh and what I'm freezing. Eldest Dgd pushed the trolley and helped with the unpacking etc, she won't be helping me get it all in the freezer though 😂
I was really pleased with what I spent, I had some money with me that was separate from my food money, I had been putting the change from previous weeks that was leftover away and used that, and I still have money leftover from that, so may go back for some more later in the week🥳
Picked littlies up from school and they had tea here and then their mum took them all home and sil collect their pooch on his way home from work. So it's all quiet here at the moment.
I think I may have peaked too early regarding Xmas, I keep having urges to take the decorations down and I'm getting a bit fed up of the so called 'perfect' Xmas that everyone is supposed to have but in reality hardly anyone has 😏 ah well it I'll probably wake up tomorrow and be back on track!!
In fact I'll probably be making the families Xmas cake tomorrow so that it can be iced over the weekend. It's not a traditional one as nobody is that keen on heavy fruit cake, so I make a mincemeat one and ice that be instead. I'm making royal icing this year as I prefer it, I thought the others preferred fondant icing but when we were talking about it not so long ago it came out the the rest preferred royal and thought it me that preferred the fondant, talk about crossed wires 😂😂😂
So another day done, wonder what tomorrow will bring? 
Nannyg 

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For me it would be carrot cake. I do not like Royal Icing. That type of icing and marzipan make 
me feel quite unwell. 

I’m sure you will get back into the. Christmas spirit. I love it!

Makingabobor2

Good luck with the cake. I'm doing a big baking session later in the week

@nannygladys, how do you freeze the veggies? Do you blanche them first, or what? I've just realised Mr S is doing them at that price, so will add some to my order for tomorrow. 

CRANKY40

I think that "perfect Christmas" is a very individual thing. We have a chocolate cake because it's what we like. I only buy presents for three people - two that buy for the HT (one of whom we will be stopping after this year) and the HT himself. My sister did message me to ask what she should send to us this year but I gently reminded her that we do birthdays not Christmas and that she is supposed to be sticking to a budget. We stopped buying at Christmas when her children were small because the floor was a sea of wrapping paper and nobody knew who'd bought which thing to even say thank you for. Three of her offspring and the HT all have November birthdays too so it was like doing it all two months running 🤣

Makingabobor2

Love a chocolate cake @CRANKY40, I have a recipe that was my mum's and its my go to cake. Its the only thing I have left that is in her handwriting. Thinking of getting it laminated actually, to preserve it. It is very old and scribbled on a piece of paper that is starting to fade. 

CRANKY40

Makingabobor2 said:

Love a chocolate cake @CRANKY40, I have a recipe that was my mum's and its my go to cake. Its the only thing I have left that is in her handwriting. Thinking of getting it laminated actually, to preserve it. It is very old and scribbled on a piece of paper that is starting to fade. 

Aww, that's lovely. Take some photos of it too. I'd be tempted to print out the photo and use that for the recipe to keep the original safe for as long as possible. 

in_need_of_direction

delurking to say that not on the high st will make a bread board with a handwritten recipe imprinted on it.  i was bought one that also showed the smudges where things had been spilt