Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

foxgloves

My thoughts exactly, @PennysIntoPounds.
F x

foxgloves

Afternoon Monday Money Savers,
Another day which has quite simply disappeared at the speed of Soot racing in for his lunch! Where HAS it gone?!
Tomorrow & the rest of the week can jolly well slow down, that's all I can say!
Today's small budget-friendly efforts:
*A no-spend day.
*Sorted the clean laundry & discovered only 4 items needed the iron so that was nice & speedy.
*Garden pickings: Another 1.3kg of blackberries.
*Went on a walk partly to boost today's steps, but also to see if my little foraging spot had any useful goodies. It did! Came home with a selection of elderberries, rosehips & haws.........
*.....which I added to a small container of redcurrants from the freezer, 500g of today's blackberries & a kg of bramley apples & cooked them up in the cauldron ready for a batch of hedgerow jelly - currently dripping through the jellybag. Doesn't even the WORD 'jellybag' make you feel a frisson of mellow early autumn days & a nice fruity addition to your roast lamb or turkey sandwich? 
*Made tomorrow's packed lunch & breakfast.
*Did my usual Monday morning budget updates. Pleased to see that August's grocery budget is looking a lot better than last month's!
*Did a couple of surveys.
*Very low effort nosebag tonight. Mr F made enough lovely chilli (with chicken mince for a change) on Saturday to feed us tonight as well, so I am just intending to cook some rice to go with that. Plenty of eggs so I made an omelette for my lunch & put courgettes in it. The addition of those made it really quite filling & it was a lot nicer than it probably sounds. 
Intending to have a nice lazy evening on the sofa seeing if I can get more right answers on UC than Mr F. If it is full of periodic table questions, physics, maths, flags, U.S states, geography & sport, then I'm doomed, but there again, if it is the latter 4 topics, then so is he!!
Bye for now, 
F x