It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

London_1

Katiehound said:

Did your Sirdar yarn turn up? Hope so!

Yes it did eventually but I did have to email Sirdar, and I think they chased them up.Its really gorgeous and once I have finished the charity blanket I'm halfway through I shall get started on the new baby blanket (a little girl apparently) then my other two great granddaughters blankets as well. I have 1200 gms of pretty pink and 1200 gms of ice blue so enough to keep my needled clicking fthrough the coming cold months of Jan /Feb.  

JackieO xx

-taff

Rosa_Damascena said:

10 x 3 = 30 portions. 9 went on lunch for 5 today with focaccia and falafel, about 3 portions left so I don't think my  serving size is far off the mark.

Probably isn't for you But I am a greedy so and so and can easily have a pint of soup no problem. I don't tend to have anyting else with it though, maybe a piece of bread and buter or a buttered roll..I like a nice veg soup, especially with bits of rice..or a chicken, mushroom and sage one..or a pea and ham...or a ...you  get the idea. my last favourite one was pasta and fagioli, I was eating that every day for a week..But I do tend to find one food thing and eat it all the time. I did the ww diet this year for a while and my favourite breakfast was a cottage cheese omlette. I must have had that every day for at least five months.

Pollycat

TheAble said:

Pollycat said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

Ok, my Tefal pot is huge. 24 portions is 8 x 600ml plastic takeaway boxes, as one gives me 3 servings. I in fact managed to get 10 out of it yesterday.

Windows, extractor fan, candles: nothing budges the smell, but also I am super sensitive to odours. Now the house smells of soup and the pineapple candle I burned yesterday! 

So 12 portions of 400gm, in mine and taff's world.

Do you really mean you got 10 portions out of 600ml?
Did you eat all 10 in one day?

10x boxes surely?

Can it really be 10 boxes when the starting point was 8 boxes?

Ort am I totally confused?

-taff

Pollycat said:

Can it really be 10 boxes when the starting point was 8 boxes?

Ort am I totally confused?

Rosa_Damascena said:

10 x 3 = 30 portions. 9 went on lunch for 5 today with focaccia and falafel, about 3 portions left so I don't think my  serving size is far off the mark.

The normal starting point is 8 boxes. If the pan used is filled fuller, more boxes can be made. And soup mass is not an exact science, a litre of water is a kilo of water but ingredients will change that equation. Honestly though, soup is soup, unless you're after the same model Rosa uses, I wouldn't worry about how much soup there is...it's like the worst maths question ever

Floss

-taff said:

Pollycat said:

Can it really be 10 boxes when the starting point was 8 boxes?

Ort am I totally confused?

Rosa_Damascena said:

10 x 3 = 30 portions. 9 went on lunch for 5 today with focaccia and falafel, about 3 portions left so I don't think my  serving size is far off the mark.

The normal starting point is 8 boxes. If the pan used is filled fuller, more boxes can be made. And soup mass is not an exact science, a litre of water is a kilo of water but ingredients will change that equation. Honestly though, soup is soup, unless you're after the same model Rosa uses, I wouldn't worry about how much soup there is...it's like the worst maths question ever

It reminded me too much of A-level maths & equations with variable factors so I skipped over it all 😂

YorksLass

I have a small grocery delivery coming on Thursday, mainly fresh stuff (cupboards well stocked) and I'll be refining it the day before.  If anything's out of stock I can get it from the Co-op on Friday.  Xmas dinner is just the two of us this year so it will be a normal Sunday roast with one or two extras.

This week's meals are all from what I already have in and at last I have some room in the freezer.     The fridge is looking a bit bare too.  I've used the last of the carrots, some for soup and the rest for a carrot cake that's cooling and smells delicious.  I don't normally add the frosted topping but will this time as there's an opened tub of cream cheese that needs using.  That's tomorrow's job, along with making sausage rolls.  And probably a batch of fruit scones to use up the last of the yogurt.  It seems to be all "use ups" this week.  

Heating not needed today - I'm dreading taking meter readings tomorrow.  I can't believe how mild it is outside after all the frost we've had but at least we did escape the snow.  Roll on Spring.  

London_1

I had my December G & E bill through from Shell Energy today and because I have been more watchful of what I was using for both it was down on last year, and for the month was only £71.00 odd which I was pleased about, but then its only in the last week its been really nippy.

Keeping a strict eye on the useage seems to be working for me and cutting back on unnecessary usage has helped no end Only the wall light behind my chair instead of the main middle light which has 5 bulbs on and I changed my kettle to a 1 litre one instead of the larger one .lots of different ways to cut it down a little has ok not mde a huge difference but its a tenner more in my account than theirs whish is very handy  

Trimming bits off here and there may not sound much, but again if it all adds up to lower bills its got to be good

JackieO xx

Siebrie

I texted husband at the end of the working day, saying I was coming home via the supermarket for bread and youghurt. He replied that he was at Aldi's for that evening's dinner, so I asked him to add bread and yoghurt. Then, when I came home, I realised he had gone to 2 supermarkets, and bought every single item in the most expensive one (from both, yoghurt and bread are not as nice in Aldi, yoghurt is even more expensive at Aldi than at Delhaize, etc). Nothing bought from the shopping list on the kitchen blackboard, lots of fresh stuff bought, which we will have to work at to finish before we go to my parents' on Boxing Day for a week.

I'm feeling the pinch, but husband doesn't seem to!

To be fair, the difference in price for items he bought and what I would have bought is around €5, so we can afford it. I'm just really annoyed that my consistent paying attention is ignored.

EssexHebridean

London_1 said:

I had my December G & E bill through from Shell Energy today and because I have been more watchful of what I was using for both it was down on last year, and for the month was only £71.00 odd which I was pleased about, but then its only in the last week its been really nippy.

Keeping a strict eye on the useage seems to be working for me and cutting back on unnecessary usage has helped no end Only the wall light behind my chair instead of the main middle light which has 5 bulbs on and I changed my kettle to a 1 litre one instead of the larger one .lots of different ways to cut it down a little has ok not mde a huge difference but its a tenner more in my account than theirs whish is very handy  

Trimming bits off here and there may not sound much, but again if it all adds up to lower bills its got to be good

JackieO xx

Absolutely agree that small changes definitely add up when it comes to energy use. MrEH has had to get up a little earlier than normal the last two days so rather than leaving the immersion on the tickover overnight he's put it on first thing - plenty long enough to reheat the water and we're not paying for it to kick in and out all night when the thermostat tells it to. probably only pennies difference, but if we can do it a few times a month that pennies becomes pounds. I'm also tweaking the storage heaters to take advantage of the warmer temperatures we have at the moment too - the front room one got turned down a little last night and it felt toasty in there this morning so it'll be getting tweaked again this evening too! 

Pollycat

I've taken my thermal long-sleeved top and leggings off (wearing in the house) with the change in the weather.