I'm back! Trying to spend less on food!

mumtoomany

Tea last night was home made pizza, actually home put together as the bad was pre made. Every item used for tea, with the exception of a bit of salad cream, was either home grown or less than full price. The whole of tea cost around 70p for the two of us, with enough left for lunch today. Not too shabby.

For today I'm doing liver, bacon and onions. HG liver, so again little cost.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xxx

slm6002

We are having homemade pizza tonight - one of the kids favourites and no longer like the shop bought ones as much.  I am enjoying following your journey and picking up a few ideas at the same time

2childmum2

Decided to bake banana cupcakes in the end as I needed them to cool quickly before we set off to collect DD.  Took some to eat and the rest are in the freezer - I think they will be rather nice warmed up with custard!

The journey was a bit of a nightmare - there and back.  We usually manage in it about 3 1/2 hours but it took 61/4 there and 5 back.  Thankfully not on the same day!  We stayed in a Travelodge about 20 mins away (the local one puts it's prices up by loads at the beginning/end of term so this saves us some money!)  DD had 3 portions of sweet pot curry and 3 of chilli left in her freezer so we ate those up, which also saved us some money (well trained!)  We spent the weekend cleaning the house - I'm sure some dirt I removed was more than a year old!  She has heard today that she has had her deposit returned so it was worth all the cleaning in the end!

I found a red pepper and pasta bake in the freezer which is big enough for 3 so have defrosted that, so that has freed up some space

But the most exciting news is that we paid off our mortgage on Friday!  We inherited some money and it was enough for the mortgage, so we are very happy!

Take care all  xxx

Floss

Fab news, I'm looking forward to paying mine off in 38 months!

boultdj

Great news on the mortgage 2childmum2.

mumtoomany

Hi, all. That's great news @2childmum2. That must be a great relief, given the way interest rates are climbing. We paid ours off around nineteen years ago. We had bought a VERY run down hotel, two years before. Spent those two years fixing it up, and turning it back into a big house. Then sold it for more than double what we had paid for it. Our next house was then mortgage free, as was the one we live in now. Hard work at the time, but worth it.

The liver and onions was good. Enough left for lunch the next day. There are five rashers of bacon, so two went in with the liver, two became sort of carbonara the next night, and the last one will be used in a Spanish omelette, as soon as I work out where the hens are laying!!! We have a hen sitting on eggs in one of the hen houses, where a lot of them like to lay.

Last night i cooked sausage, jacket potatoes, and beans. While the oven was on I made a batch of "twinks hobnobs". Save me buying biscuits. Which in turn saves me going into town and shopping. I'll need milk and possibly bread, but hoping to hold out for the rest until next week.

DD picked up a bottle of milk last weekend for me. I must go and see it to my signature. 

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

LittleGem

Missing your posts @mumtoomany hope all is well and you’re enjoying the summer 

London_1

Running odds and ends down as I am having an op. next week, so not too sure how long I'll be in hospital, so eating up stuff in the fridge.
As my appetite isn't great, yesterday I had a little bowl of cereal for breakfast, some chicken soup and a small ham sandwich for lunch, and at tea time I only had the remaining half tin of spag hoops that were in a bowl in the fridge on a slice of toast with a poached egg on top. 

Today I will have some porridge for breakfast, I have three slices of ham left so will use those up for lunch I also have a large red pepper I will roast in my Remoska and some shredded lettuce and a couple of tomatoes and diced cucumber for lunch. and tea time will be an omelette with some of the cheese grated that I brought home from holiday I know it doesn't sound much but it is more than enough for me at the moment

I also have some greek yogurt left, so will use that for pudding as I have a pear in the fridge to use up so will dice that up small, and mix together I'm aiming to leave my fridge  as empty and food free as possible, as last time I went into hospital in January they kept me for three weeks, and one of my DDs had to bin most of my fresh stuff which was a dreadful waste..

They had forgotten to check it out as they were more concerned that I was in hospital at the time. Fair enough but I do hate waste of food.
What can be frozen will be that's for sure ,but eating stuff before I go, rather than binning  it keeps me focussed on what I will need when I come out again
 I've started to make a list for then already
Once I have had my op. hopefully my appetite will improve somewhat .

JackieO xx 

mumtoomany

Well that has seemed like a long month! Three grown up children visited seperatly, one twice, one with her other half and DGS2. My sister and her DH, visited from Australia. The other DGC have finished school for the summer. Add to that another fallen tree, this one took our a gate and two fences, lots of fixing his of the camper that OH "needs" me for and broken gutters and fascia boards needing fixing. And of course, wedding, watering, planting, harvesting. I seem to be meeting myself coming back!! 

Still trying to not spend too much. I have around £600 left for the remainder of the year. £120 a month. I've inventoried the freezers. The big one in the kitchen, mostly meat and fish, has enough for the two of us us to eat every day, for around 200 days! May not last quite that long as we will have other visitors, and sometimes still feed the DGC. I already have a turkey crown, cocktail sausages, (to make pigs in blankets), two Christmas cakes and Christmas pudding. 

Tonight we are having chicken and ham, bacon really, pie with chips and beans. I served half of the pie yesterday with mash, and HG veg. Desert will be fruit salad, leftover/past it's best fruit. We've jam tarts in the tin, from the spare pasty yesterday. Last week i peeled and cooked the last of the old potatoes. Half were frozen as roast potatoes, boiled then thrown in the chip pan for a few minutes, the other half were mashed and frozen in old takeaway tubs.

Speak soon, hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

Floss

Good to see your update - have the family moved into their own home now?