2022 Frugal Living Challenge

Jazee

Morning. I'm currently eating improper raspberries for breakfast.
 I need to get back on the frugal wagon as I redid my budgets yesterday, thought we were ok, remembered something else and currently we're £450 short for the year.

Siebrie

I've been sneakily feeding my family the lovely bread loaves we bought when visiting my parents in The Netherlands. I bought 5 loaves, but my freezer was fuller than I remembered, so I could only freeze 2. 1 loaf has been eaten already, number 2 has been started. I made sandwiches for husband to take to work (if I don't make them, he buys something and then complains about the quality), I had toasted bread ends for breakfast, and dd2 had a slice of bread for breakfast.

nmaria

Siebrie said:

I've been sneakily feeding my family the lovely bread loaves we bought when visiting my parents in The Netherlands. I bought 5 loaves, but my freezer was fuller than I remembered, so I could only freeze 2. 1 loaf has been eaten already, number 2 has been started. I made sandwiches for husband to take to work (if I don't make them, he buys something and then complains about the quality), I had toasted bread ends for breakfast, and dd2 had a slice of bread for breakfast.

What type of lovely bread did you get? I brought back krentenbollen and a krentenbrood with almond filling.

JinJinBlue

Goodness! What a bunch of improper people we are😅👍.
Carry on being improper everybody. That sounds like the title of an old film. 

Greenqueen_2

Yeah I picked the first of our raspberries today!  Also found a handful of strawberries that the birds missed. I have thrown a net over so they cannot have anymore (sorry birdies). Ooh and the pea pods are beginning to fatten.

Sweetlittledaydreams

Haha it's such a different outlook on life isn't it, I think planting your seeds and getting your hands muddy growing your own food is the proper way to eat, not watery tasting foods wrapped in plastic and shipped how ever many miles. But different things for different folk I guess. Picked up a few sunflower and tomato plants today for free from work, so will hopefully have tomatoes and sunflower seeds to eat this summer. 
Made too much soup last week and forgot to freeze it so unfortunately will have to throw about 1/4 pan away which I'm annoyed at myself for because I hate wasting food. 
I thought about car sharing but there is only one other person in my town who works in the same place as me and she is off sick at the moment. 
Got a message this evening about being an olio collector for the shop just at the end of my road, couldn't be a better place so going to arrange a collection for 2 weeks time beacuse that's the next availabld slot.
My new neighbour is really really quiet, only been here a few nights but it's so relaxing not listening to my neighbours scream at each other multiple times a day, think I can stop looking on rightmove now! Ni house move will save me loads too!
Off to do a fridge stock take then possibly a yellow sticker top up for the week as going onto nights from tomorrow and it can be too easy to eat expensive and nutritionally rubbish food when I'm tired.

Bluegreen143

Anybody who has ever eaten salad put together minutes after being picked, or berries (or fresh peas) straight from the plant and popped into their mouth, would know that home grown food is the ultimate in luxury. Not a cheap nasty option. I feel sad that some people are missing out on such pleasures because they think it’s not “proper” food!

Primrose

Absolutely agree, and fresh garden peas picked straight from the pod and stuffed into your mouth before they can even reach the kitchen are the best of all !   Afraid that's often been the fate of many of mine, or I've sat on the patio enjoying them as a pleasant raw nibble with  glass of G & T !!

Broomstick

I've just come across this tweet from Chris Packham (Jun 28, 2021) and thought of everyone here eating improper food. 

'It’s broken isn’t it ? We’ve broken what we do with food . Pears grow in the U.K. They could grow in our gardens . We could walk out and pick them , wipe them and eat them . No chemicals , no processing , no plastic , no planes , no sell by dates . Just fresh fruit . God help us.'

Floss

Primrose said:

Absolutely agree, and fresh garden peas picked straight from the pod and stuffed into your mouth before they can even reach the kitchen are the best of all !   Afraid that's often been the fate of many of mine, or I've sat on the patio enjoying them as a pleasant raw nibble with  glass of G & T !!

My ex complained that when I grew peas on my plot he never got any unless he picked them because they were all eaten before I left the allotment site 😄