2022 Frugal Living Challenge

never_too_old

Happy New Year to you all.
Does anyone know the name of the app where you list food you have and it gives you recipes of what you can make?

mandy47

Happy new year to you all.
Yesterday I posted that I was keen to try the no spend January. 10 minutes later DD broke my can opener! 
I will have to replace it as I have a large store of tinned goods that are vital to the challenge. 
Can anyone reccomend a strong can opener with a chunky handle, cheap. I struggle with the slim handles due to arthritis. 
I've tried the electic ones and wasn't impressed.

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Happy New Year to Frugallers one and all

January mini challenges in the ASB household:

- £80 budget for food including DD school dinners
- Not put the central heating on at all - we are already very careful with this due to the extortionate cost, but we will leave it off completely in January and rely on the stove instead
- Two washloads a week only to reduce electricity costs

Take care everyone, make every penny do the work of a pound and HAVE FUN

barole

Hello All!

I have been lurking forever but am now jumping in. I thought I was frugal, but have learnt so much from you all.

Having completed Martin's Budget Plan, I am shocked at the result, but will try to rein things in where I can. I have bought a Budget Diary Book to track expenses and spending so at least I should be able to track where the money goes!

Starting with a no spend January, although I am keeping a look out for bargain work shoes on *b*y. I have a stuffed freezer post Christmas and have made an inventory and meal plan for the month. It was even too full to take advantage of the marked down Christmas food, so I plan to have another "eat out of the freezer" in November to create space for after Christmas 2022.

Happy New Year!  

willow_loulou

MazzieD said:

Happy New Year everyone

My shiny new spreadsheet is ready for 2022.  I include all bills (Council Tax etc) as I find it easier to have it all in one place.

For some reason my grocery bills haven't increased yet (!) but cat food/litter has shot up in price and I'm tearing my hair out to find something he actually wants to eat as we have daily temper tantrums and a lot of wasted cat food.  I would add this is fairly recent, he used to eat anything and everything.

Apart from that I'm still on a fixed rate for gas/electricity until the end of January so I've been practising cutting my consumption.  The best combination for me is my trusty slow cooker for batch cooking, microwave or just heating through on the hob.  I'm quite lucky, I have a ceramic hob so it heats up quickly and then cools slowly so I can just bring it up to the boil turn off and leave things to heat through. It really has worked, my consumption has halved.  

Whilst I'm posting, just wanted to ask if anyone uses the cash (stuffing) envelopes system.  I'm looking at using this for anything not on DD this year.  What I'm particularly interested in is what you put the cash in i.e. an actual envelope or a clear plastic zip lock type of thing or whatever.  Is there a frugal way rather than buying a binder and clear plastic 'envelopes' from the big river company?

I use empty jars with labels on the lids 

Wraithlady

never_too_old said:

Happy New Year to you all.
Does anyone know the name of the app where you list food you have and it gives you recipes of what you can make?

Love Food Hate Waste?

Baxtersmum

Sorry to ask but I’ve searched the help pages and internet, how do I add a signature? I have got a ‘prohibited’ notice on my edit page 
Thanks 😊 

never_too_old

Baxtersmum said:

Sorry to ask but I’ve searched the help pages and internet, how do I add a signature? I have got a ‘prohibited’ notice on my edit page 
Thanks 😊 

Thank you thats the one i was thinking of. x

angela110660

mandy47 said:

Happy new year to you all.
Yesterday I posted that I was keen to try the no spend January. 10 minutes later DD broke my can opener! 
I will have to replace it as I have a large store of tinned goods that are vital to the challenge. 
Can anyone reccomend a strong can opener with a chunky handle, cheap. I struggle with the slim handles due to arthritis. 
I've tried the electic ones and wasn't impressed.

I use an Oxo Good Grips can opener - it has chunky, sturdy handles and is brilliant . For smaller twist off tops  I use a pair of nutcrackers to grip. 

WinterWarrior

Baxtersmum said:

Sorry to ask but I’ve searched the help pages and internet, how do I add a signature? I have got a ‘prohibited’ notice on my edit page 
Thanks 😊 

‘Profile’ at the bottom right of the page, then edit profile, then signature settings. It took me ages to work out how to do mine 😬