And now we go again...

EssexHebridean

Hey all - Happy last-day-before-a-four-day-weekend!

Al's near work have been completely cleaned out of the garlic - I'll pop in again later to see if they've restocked. I did get the planned shallots and parsnips at Lil's, and three packets of the crisps as well, although I guess a lot of folk got that coupon as the stock levels were rather low! We're heading back in this evening with a £5 off £40 and will do some stocking up on basics I think - plus using another coupon for 25% off cheese that will come in handy.

Hoping for some more cheap electricity over the weekend - the forecast looks as though it should happen, so we will see. If so then we'll get fully caught up on washing again - I'd like to run the dishwasher on a hot wash as well ideally.

MSE Stuff:

• Lil's coupons for savings and reductions - annoyingly nothing much on the standard coupons this week.
• Cheap easter veg - that should keep us going for pennies for a few weeks
• Managed to top up MrEH's car this morning at the last local filling station to be sub-£1.80 for diesel. Hopefully will find one slightly cheaper elsewhere tomorrow to top mine up.
• £100 sent to the mortgage yesterday
• MrEH has moved some dosh to a S&S ISA for some specific shares which should, down the line, gain us some savings with breakfasts in particular places and similar. The falls in prices recently have actively saved us money here as we've paid substantially less for the shares than we otherwise would have done!
• Already back at £5 payable/£6 pending on Prolific.
• Only a few points off being able to cash out another £10 fruit-based credit on Ipsos too.
• we HAVE to start eating from the freezers again - and as a starting point I've got out turkey, some roasted mushrooms and some green lentils and will do a noodle broth tonight with those in, plus the remaining green beans from the Lil's box I got on saturday.

Jobs for the weekend include:

• A financial summit - just to go through things and ensure we're on track
• lots of garden stuff!
• A proper attack on a meal plan - ideally through to the end of the month.

Sun_Addict

All sounding good. Another one here who needs to eat from the freezers.

rtandon27

@EssexHebridean - we too are going to make April eat from the freezer month!

This upcoming week I'm on leave so it will be a bit easier to tackle it. With OH's variable appetite, we keep stashing extra portions in the freezer and are now full to the brim! So much good food in there, but most of the time he prefers a meal replacement shake.

EssexHebridean

It's so tempting to just pop the leftovers in, isn't it - and I like to make sure that we have choice too…we were doing quite well post-christmas getting them eaten down, but the last few weeks seem to have seen us filling them up again! RT I imagine with little appetite it's mostly about what's the easiest thing for OH to manage to get at least some calories in. Not ideal for either of you, but in the circumstances not something you can help.

I have sausages and eggs on my list for tonight specifically so I can ensure that I make air fryer scotch eggs over the weekend - I'm entirely charmed by the fact that I can produce really excellent scotch eggs at home for well under the price of decent shop bought ones!