How long can I make £187.15 last?

joedenise

One of my DDs would only fish if we told her it was chicken which swims in the sea!  Weird but it worked.

My late brother would only eat "blue" or "green" carrots - they were of course all orange - when he was a child.

mumf

Auti said:

@mumf really enjoy your post please keep writing. I am having to make many frugal choices and adaptations for me and my child. We have health constraints as well as financial but i have decided that instead of it being in my mind all the time and being scary I will treat it as something as a challenge like learning a new hobby/skill/language. Now I am more relaxed about it and smiling more which is better for both of us -  sorry I find explaining my processes difficult but I hope you understand what I mean So please keep posting

I will over time. Thanks. 

mumtoomany

Hello all. Still covered in snow here. Minus eight when DD came in from work in the early hours! We have a 1000litre water tank, for water for the animals, etc. It is in a barn and collects rain water. It is frozen solid! I've never known it freeze all the way through before. 

Tea was fine. Nobody noticed it was more than one meat. I did have complaints from little ones that it had gravy, from the only one of them who eats gravy; I don't like meat, from the carnivore who rarely eats the veg; and I don't like it, without trying anything. They ate pickled red cabbage with it. There is a bit left for lunch.

Today, I've got some chorizo out of the freezer and am going to make a chorizo and bacon pasta bake. I have quite a long shopping list now, things we've run out of or are about to. I'm hoping to Last till Tuesday, I'm at the dentist again then, so combine journeys. Hopefully without the snow!

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

Nowt so queer as folk as they say!

my 14ypohas decided he doesn’t like potatoes (other than chips obv) which is actually a big pain as we get a veg box and thus eat loads. Thankfully he’ll eat rice so he’ll happily eat fish pie filling with rice instead of mash, it’s just annoying as it’s one more thing!

 Where do you stock up for your store-cupboard items? We went to Costco yesterday but honestly don’t think it’s very money saving. It’s mainly brands, and too big for us to store. Was fun buying super big things fit Father Christmas to give them though (1.5kg crunchy nut cornflakes for 14yo as his big brother is allergic to nuts we’re doing buy then, 24 cans of Pepsi Max cherry as DD loves it). Far too much though, on the whole, Lidl/Aldi better value

mumf

mumtoomany said:

Hello all. Still covered in snow here. Minus eight when DD came in from work in the early hours! We have a 1000litre water tank, for water for the animals, etc. It is in a barn and collects rain water. It is frozen solid! I've never known it freeze all the way through before. 

Tea was fine. Nobody noticed it was more than one meat. I did have complaints from little ones that it had gravy, from the only one of them who eats gravy; I don't like meat, from the carnivore who rarely eats the veg; and I don't like it, without trying anything. They ate pickled red cabbage with it. There is a bit left for lunch.

Today, I've got some chorizo out of the freezer and am going to make a chorizo and bacon pasta bake. I have quite a long shopping list now, things we've run out of or are about to. I'm hoping to Last till Tuesday, I'm at the dentist again then, so combine journeys. Hopefully without the snow!

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

That pasta sounds nice. We are doing our for shopping in a couple of weeks today ,so we’ll pick up chorizo. It’s a devil when an hours shopping becomes an event! 😂

mumtoomany

Hello all, back again. 

The pasta was good. I used two jars of passata and herbs, some chopped onions, peas, two chorizo sausages, from a reduced pack of four, some pieces of cooking bacon and a pack of pasta. Did tea for six, DD working, seconds for two,  and enough for lunch for two. 

Tea last night was sweet and sour chicken. Four packs of sweet and sour sauce, bought for pennies, padded out with thinly sliced onions, carrots, peppers and diced pineapple. One and a half chicken breasts, cut into cubes and deep fried in batter. The batter was made with some of the frozen egg yolk, will finish it off today. The left over batter became pancakes for breakfast today.

@mumf, I hope you and yours enjoy your pasta.

@beckstar1975. I only stock up on cupboard items, in great numbers, when they are cheaper than normal. So if items are reduced, DD3 rang yesterday to say jars of passata where she works had been reduced to 29p, she's bought me all the had and will bring them next week. When DD2 comes in January, I will stock up on dried cupboard items. She works for a major supermarket, and I use her discount when she's here. I only see her three or four times a year, so buy what I can then. So if three packs of pasta cost, say, £1 in Aldi, the same price matched with discount would be 90p. Every little helps. I only stock up on items, other than having a spare one in, if they are cheaper than I would normally pay. No point in stocking up at normal price, I might as well let the shops keep them.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

mumtoomany

Hi all, hope your all having a good sunday. The water is off here, dwr cymru have delivered six two litre bottles of water to our door overnight. Hope it's back soon.

Last nights tea was the last of the giant lamb burgers, again made into small ones, with chips and beans. Also made some more twinks hobnobs.

A couple of spends to add. Two bottles of milk from the garage, £3.40. Also 16 jars of passata, DD3 got them from work and will bring them next week, £4.64. Total £8.04, taking me over by £14.39.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

mumf

mumtoomany said:

Hi all, hope your all having a good sunday. The water is off here, dwr cymru have delivered six two litre bottles of water to our door overnight. Hope it's back soon.

Last nights tea was the last of the giant lamb burgers, again made into small ones, with chips and beans. Also made some more twinks hobnobs.

A couple of spends to add. Two bottles of milk from the garage, £3.40. Also 16 jars of passata, DD3 got them from work and will bring them next week, £4.64. Total £8.04, taking me over by £14.39.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

That’s a rum do with water ,for sure. Hope it’s ok soon. 

Tonight we are doing my wife’s absolute favourite pasta. So simple. Two big thinly sliced onions,mixed in a GOOD dose of olive oil or vegetable oil and a drop of butter or margarine. All to make it oily! We don’t fry it and stink the kitchen anymore,we put it in a covered microwave container and bang it in their for ten minutes or what suits you.. Cheap too. Boil chosen pasta in salty water,drain,mix onions and add chopped cheese - or grated - all to taste. And ground pepper. A little salad and garlic bread. One of the tastiest ( to us) and certainly cheapest meal. 

mumtoomany

Hi all. Forgot to add that I made bread rolls to go with the burgers last night. The kids said it was like going to mcdonalds. Easily pleased.

Mumf, that sounds delicious. No good here. None of the children like onions! They, try to, pick them out of every meal.

Today I have cooked some chops, pork of course, in the slow cooker in some stock to make gravy. Doing roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, roast shallots and broccoli, for the ones who don't eat sprouts. 

Still no water! We have plenty of water outside, now the water butt has thawed. Our neighbour, an elderly lady who lives alone with her dogs, had no water delivered. After phoning they promised to deliver within two hours, that was at ten am! She's still waiting! We sent her two of our bottles. DD and DS-i-L went into town and filled some flasks and bottles at a friends house. So we will be fine. No baths tonight though. 

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

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Hi lovely

I hope your water is back on very soon. You’re doing so well with this, I hope you’re all keeping well and warm. 

Have I missed the boat with getting onion sets planted? I seem to read you saying you’d done yours a while ago, or have I made that up? X