Prosperous soul embraces creativity & mortgage neutrality

MovingForwards

Tulips are a blessing! 

Keep up the batch cooking, finding the food bargains and making the food budget go further.

MeandO

Amazing result savingholmes. I've not heard of Olio, I will have to take a look at that one. I hope you have a lovely day. xx

savingholmes

Thank you MF and @MeandO



Some more art as light relief

Baileys_Babe

That is beautiful @savingholmes

savingholmes

Thanks @Baileys_Babe

Today I defrosted some garlic chicken and had that with mash potatoes, carrots and sweetcorn. Feeling blessed by past self. I have some mash left for another day. I've put some soup out to defrost. I'm also defrosting some pasta and bolognese sauce - one I defrosted a while ago had gone vinegary somehow - but I'm hoping that one is okay. If it tastes okay the latter is enough for 2 meals. My freezer is still like a tardis though - so still have other options.

I may also defrost some frozen berries over the weekend - as I have a pancake batter mix I can use and they would be lovely together.

I had a go earlier at making banana bread in the microwave - but I think I slightly over-cooked it (3 mins) and should have added some milk or something. I'm tempted to have another go. I ate half of it with 3 (free) tangerines so they gave it a nice tang and offset the dryness. Kind of food optimising. I woke up today with really bad cramp in one leg so wanted banana but they're all black so not appealing raw.

I ordered a new rear heating element using my CC £35. Hope it's that and that DD or her workmates can sort it. My oven is minging though so also ordered an astonishing product to help with that. Apparently a clean oven reduces your energy use. Who knew?

beanielou

savingholmes said:

Well I feel blessed. I have beautiful red tulips for free, 2 lots of citrus fruit and ready prepared meatballs. I had the latter with jacket spud as a late tea. They were really nice. All in all I reckon what I got was £8 of food and flowers for free. Not bad going at all!

That's fab.
I love tulips.

jwil

Great Olio freebies

I bought one of those radiator cleaning brushes as I can never get the grill off ours.  A clean radiator apparently also saves energy. Several weeks later it's still in the box! 🤦‍♀️

girlatplay

I hope your parents recover quickly SH.

Your life is busy but it sounds very productive.

savingholmes

Thank you GAP and Jwil

Got all this for under £8. Includes free range chicken breasts, crispy beef, chicken and cider meal, sausages, mousaka, Thai green curry, fruit, veg, salad, yoghurt. Bread. Very happy with my haul. Will freeze some. Cooking soup. Batch cooking chicken and other stuff. Happy days.

girlatplay

Great haul!