How long can I make £187.15 last?

mumtoomany

Hi @thriftwizard, yes Dorset would make it a little too far away. The vegetable shop is called Chris Thomas and sons. Abergwelli road. Not the easiest to find if you don't know its there. Tuesdays seem to be the best day for bargains. Let me know what you think if you do get there.

Tea didn't go down too well. Cold roast pork, baked beans, and cheesy spuds, (layers of sliced potato, onion and cheese, a little milk, all baked together). This usually goes down well. Strange children! Some left for tomorrow lunch.

Our utility room is actually off the side of our lounge. The layout of the whole house is a little bizarre. But big. We will be rattling in here when they finish next door and move in.

Off now to see if I can finish knitting the front of a jumper for DGD1. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

YoungBlueEyes

Seems like your setup might work better the other way round. Let them build their house next door, you and OH move into it for retirement, and let them have the big house! 😁

sillyvixen

Thank you momtoomany for explaining the situation fully. I didn't realise £120 a month was into the food kitty only. I wish you well with your new style of living.

mumtoomany

Haha, thanks @YoungBlueEyes, but i think we'll stay in this half. Their house will be four bedrooms with three bathrooms, so not small either. But, having lived through the winter of discontent, we have allways tried to disaster proof our lives. We cook on gas, from a tank and have a wood burner in the lounge. Another to go into, what is at present DD's lounge, our new dining room, when they move. If/when there are power cuts, and we often have them ever now, we can eat and heat. Their house will be all electric. Ground source heating, all interactive. Not for me thank you.

Thank you @sillyvixen

Quiet now here. DD1 gone to bed, just finished a twelve hour night shift. DS-i-L at the office for the day. Children all at school. I'm about to go outside, see what else i can get in the ground in the polytunnel. 

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

Just de lurking to say hello, and that I have serious pantry and Carmarthen envy. I was there a couple of weeks ago for DC1 to visit Lampeter as a uni choice, a friend from school happens to have a farm just outside Carmarthen (if your nearest petrol station is Oil 4 Wales you must be right on top of her!) so we stayed there for a couple of nights, it's where we want to move to when the DCs have flown the nest.

Following with interest as I have about that amount left until end of November for food , but for 5 of us with far fewer stored things or access to homegrown veg. I get veg box from a local community farm each week, but I am going to try the Lidl ones as they look good - we've had success with Too good to go from Morrisons too, but sometimes it's all bakery and others it's all fruit and veg, makes planning hard!

Best of luck

mumtoomany

Hi @beckstar1975, yes we must be very close to your friends. If you're wanting to move this way you'll be more than welcome. I'd start saving your pocket money now though. Property prices seem to have gone through the roof since we bought, nine years ago. It you're trying to live on very little too, we can cheer each other on. Good luck with making the money last.

Been outside, picked a tub of raspberries. Then while digging through a compost heap, found some potatoes, that had grown from peelings. Only a couple, but every little helps. 

Tonight's tea will be chicken curry and rice. The children may eat it, especially as their dad will. If he leaves anything, they just copy!

No shopping needed today. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

Kaylataste

@Mumtomany,what a wonderful set up! As a Grandmother to be (any day now) I am aware of how much support Grandparents can be in our childrens careers.You must be so close to the little ones,how lovely.

mumtoomany

Hi @Kaylataste, very close to them, yes. Lovely to see them every day, and watch them grow and develop. I hope you get to see lots of your new arrival too. Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

beckstar1975

That's so cool about the potatoes, it's like when you find random tomatoes growing (all over the place)

mumtoomany

Yes, hundreds of yellow cherry tomatoes again this year. Not planted for five years. 

Curry, youngest DGD ate it all, she never eats curry! Wanted the rice and curry separate on the plate. Then when she sat down, I'd put the curry on the wrong side. Fortunately just turning the plate around solved the problem.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx