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I'm back! Trying to spend less on food!
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I got over a kilo of greengages today at a community shop.Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering - 2024 - 8,365 August - 0/45
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £57.82/£100 NSD - 138
2024 Craft Makes - 240 Craft Spends 2024 £426.80/£5007 -
DS has just got his a levels and is off to uni next month, so he needs to learn how to cook and budget (fast) and I need to rein in the purse strings to help him go to uni. So, I'm going to go back to post 1 and start picking up tips.:eek::eek::eek: LBM 11/05/2010 - WE DID IT - DMP of £62000 paid off in 7 years:jDFD April20179
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I have seen SO many blackberries this last week or so and have declared twice that i must take my children there to pick/eat some! We're all off tomorrow so thin it will be then
Follow here for the daily life of an ADHD mum with 2 children and a new mortgage to pay
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Damson Gin is another to make and leave very easy to do - ready in time for Christmas dare I say it!!
2 Scratters xxAnything is better than nothing-check back and see
On the declutter journey since 2023 with Mrs SD. Tilly Tidy since 2023.5 -
When my daughter went to uni, I bought her a small paperback 'Grub on a Grant'. It's full of cheap, quick & nutritional recipes. It's probably long out of print, but well worth looking for secondhand. KAbeckstar1975 said:DS has just got his a levels and is off to uni next month, so he needs to learn how to cook and budget (fast) and I need to rein in the purse strings to help him go to uni. So, I'm going to go back to post 1 and start picking up tips.8 -
I bought Grub on a Grant and the vegetarian Grub on a Grant for my DD when she went to university. She found it very helpful.7
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Does anyone remember Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katharine Whitehorn? I used it while I was at college and for a few years afterwards until it fell apart.7
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I found a copy of grub on a grant when my DDs eldest son went to Uni for 10p at a boot sale it was used and again and again with her other two sons when they went best 10p ever spent5
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I bought that one when I was a student-that and the Paupers Cookbook. Still have the Paupers Cookbook minus the cover.7
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mumtomany, hope all is well you have not posted in over two months7
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