2008 - Live on £4000 for a full year.

princess_leia_3

Hi all, long time no see, just thought I would pop on here and let you know that baby Holly was born on 15/03/08 weighing 8lb14!! We are all home and doing well.

Hope everyone on here is doing well too

lingojingo

princess_leia wrote: »

Hi all, long time no see, just thought I would pop on here and let you know that baby Holly was born on 15/03/08 weighing 8lb14!! We are all home and doing well.
Hope everyone on here is doing well too

CONGRATULATIONS!
:T :j :T :j :T :j :beer: :T :j :T :j :T :j

whitewing

Hello Baby Holly!!!!
:hello:

bails

Welcome to a frugal world Holly! Glad you're all doing well x

mumzyof2

flowerofthewest wrote: »

Evening all - just caught up with today's posts. Didn't realise I was going to start something with the tablet.
Nyk - checked out the table recipe you posted and mine is similiar - 2lb sugar, a generous knob of butter (have never actually weighed it), tin of condensed milk, milk (measured with the empty condensed milk tin).
Put it all in a heavy based pot (pressure cooker is good) and bring to the boil, stirring continuously. Keep stirring for around 5-10 mins until mixture starts to bubble away from the side of the pan and feel "sugary". Take off the head and beat like hell for five minutes or so until it's the consistency of double cream and leaves a trail when you drizzle it. Tip into greased rectancular tin (I use a slab toffee tin from the market sweet stall) and when partially cooled mark into bars or squares.

I make this for the family at Christmas as part of their present, along with shortbread, and my neice and nephew love it. But the best bet is that I get to scrape out the pan! My brothers and I used to fight over this when we were kids

Back on topic - went out to top up on shopping today and only spent £5. Decided I've got enough in the freezer and cupboard to last the reset of the month and only needed milk, bread and veggies.

Take care
Fi

Can someone tell me if tablet is like fudge? recipe sounds the same

mumzyof2

princess_leia wrote: »

Hi all, long time no see, just thought I would pop on here and let you know that baby Holly was born on 15/03/08 weighing 8lb14!! We are all home and doing well.

Hope everyone on here is doing well too

CONGRATULATIONS!!! :beer: :j :beer: :j :beer: :j :beer: :j

sophiesmum_2

nykmedia wrote: »

Hi guys

Electrician just left and needs to come back with a spare part for the hob, so will continue to use my 2 ring cooker from eBay until I know for sure everything's ok.

With regards to this thread and what Mumzy mentioned about the number of posts, I'll keep my fingers crossed that we can remain on here until the end of this month, then I'll open a new thread from 1st April, when we'll be one quarter of the way through the challenge I'm unable to alter the title to 'part 1' , so will leave a link from my first and last posts here to the new one at the end of this quarter.

Having looked closely at my own budget, the following is a break-down of how things are:

Total: £4000 for year. Already spent £1147.31, balance = £2852.69
Current average weekly spend = £104.30
Day 77 of 2008, 289 days left at average £69.10 per week :eek:

I WILL SUCCEED! Groceries and electricity are my 2 main spends. I'm almost in control of the groceries and surely it won't be long until the better weather arrives and I can turn off all the heaters? Roll on springtime! (Trying to estimate my next electricity bill now, allowing £35 per week that should be about £500!!! :eek:

Nyk if you go on edit, then choose "go advanced" you can changeyour title.:D think you will need to do it on first post though.

nevadagirl

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Can someone tell me if tablet is like fudge? recipe sounds the same

Hi Mumzy,

This probably won't make sense until you've actually tried it, but tablet is like a sort of crispier, less gooey, or dense, version of fudge. But it's not actually crunchy or crispy, just crispier. If you've ever had home made Kendal Mint Cake (not the really hard stuff, but the stuff that's kind of soft in the middle and a little bit hard on the outside), it's sort of that texture.

I think it tricks you into thinking it's lighter and therefore less bad for you than fudge. Which would be a very very wrong thing to think.

Frugaldom

WELCOME LITTLE FRUGALMITE



Hope Princess Leia and baby Holly are both doing well.

mini_huny_money

Hello Nyk and everyone, I'm really really mad at myself. With all the work I've been having done in the house I've been really distracted and have absolutely no idea how much I've spent over the past month. I know I'm doing ok as I get paid next week and haven't had to use my CC and usually at this time of the month I'm a good....(bad)....150 into my card. I was wondering if it would be cheating to start again from today. I could guesstimate how much I've got left, but I reckon that really would be cheating as it wouldn't be a true figure. I know you've said a million times !!!!! how to calculate how much is left of the year, sorry but can I ask if I restarted today how much I'd have left to play with hate having to ask. Sorry

Thanx