Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

Ha, that would be excellent! 😂

Well, much excitement this morning as I have just snagged my first ever Too Good To Go bag 😁😁 Been watching for a few days and it's always just chain coffee shops or the Spar - all fine, but I worry we'd end up with meat sandwiches etc which would just get wasted as there's nobody we could really drop them off with. 

Anyway, my haul is somewhat different - 12 flavoured cheeses from the local dairy 😁😁 They retail at £3.50 each, and I've paid £14.90 😮 which works out at £1.20 each

Is it a bargain??? Objectively in terms of cost of cheese, yes. But would i have bought THAT cheese anyway? Er, no. Their website says it freezes though, so I plan to freeze it all, then just pull one out each time we have someone round, or take food to someone's house to share. We do both of these things quite often so they will get used (i won't just munch them all myself!) And I can spread the word about TGTG at the same time 😁

Just need to remember to go and pick the stuff up now!! It's only about 6 miles away so not even that far - theoretically I could even cycle 😮 but that would involve fixing my bike which might be a step too far...

Cheery_Daff

Hmm. In the interests of finding somewhere to put this cheese mountain I'm about to acquire 🙄 I've been excavating the freezer. It's not massive - just an under counter one with 3 drawers. 

We've got peas, broccoli, mixed veg, and a load of ice pops 😂 Loads of home grown fruit from this year and some from last year - that needs taking out and making into jam or something else to free up space. Two lots of home made pizza dough - that's been in there months so I've removed it and will make pizzas tonight. 

Shockingly, no batch cooking, apart from a solitary bag of cooked brown rice. 

Freezer does need defrosting though, so I think that's the first job, then filling it back up again 🙄

Ramouth

We have fruit from 2 gardens ago still waiting to become jam!  So easy to park things in the freezer indefinitely.  When you say flavoured cheese ado you mean with fruit in or something more unusual?

themadvix

Well you’ve both made me feel better about last year’s red currants in our freezer!

Cheery_Daff

Picked up the cheese - there's quite a lot of it 😂

One pack of smoked tomato and garlic, one chilli, one chocolate and chilli - and 9 packets of lemon and lime 😂😂😂

LadyWithAPlan

themadvix said:

Here you go @Four_Seasonshttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3594273/countdown-to-freedom#latest - it’s the stuff of legend! 😁

It really is! So inspiring. I would love to have seen her menu plans - I can see from the diary she was emailing them to those who asked - if anyone has an old copy I would love to see them.

LadyWithAPlan

Four_Seasons said:

Thank you so much, my bank holiday read I think x

Its over 1000 pages But so worth it.

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums 😊

Bit of a grouchy evening here, but some successes
* lost 4lbs at slimming world (can't remember if I said I'd gone back, but that's the end of my first 12 week block and I've lost 10lbs in total since I started, and 16 altogether this year)

* used up the pizza dough from the freezer, along with some mozzarella fro. The fridge which apparently went out of date in June 🙈

And, most excitingly

* won £201 on the Happy Wheel 😱😱 Most I've ever won from a single game - just kept getting bonus round after bonus round 😱 Takes August's total up to £386, and hopefully i shouldn't lose much of that tomorrow! I expect I'll lose promotions privileges at that casino though 😉😂

themadvix

Great result at Slimming World and on Happy Wheel!! 🥳🥳

greent

themadvix said:

Great result at Slimming World and on Happy Wheel!! 🥳🥳

Seconded!! Well done! 👏👏