From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim - have you heard of the five love languages?

I'm definitely a 3 and my OH a 5, which often makes it hard for us to make the other one feel appreciated!

From what you describe, you are a 4 and MrGP a 2, again different love languages which make communicating love a challenge!

Greying_Pilgrim

Ah yes, I see what you mean ed.  

rt - yes I'm aware of love languages, and that's us to a 'T'.  Thank heavens that 'service' and 'time' can both be no, or relatively low cost 😁

Just to mess with rt's head, we had HM pizza and oven chips for tea.  There was enough for everyone and some pieces to put in the freezer for another day/packed lunches.  Pud was a crumble, made with 3 of the battered and bruised apples from the MrS box - they weren't too bad actually, but as they were being cooked, I used all of them, DH is a bit more prone to trim bruised fruit.........  I also threw in the 6 plums that were in the MrS box.  I used all but half a plum it looked more rotten than just simply bruised, so I ditched that.  The topping was 2 portions of crumble topping from the freezer, which were left over from previous crumbles.  So a bit of freezer decluttering too - although the space will now be filled with pizza slices, so.....  The crumble was nice and 'fruity', and was served with natural yoghurt. 

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, I was aware of the love languages thing but not really looked at it. I'm not sure either of us fit perfectly, but I definitely lean towards  a 2 and Mr C towards a 4 😬 Which is why I constantly feel like I'm not spending enough time with him, and he feels guilty for not pulling his weight as much as he could 😂 Still, as you say GP, at least both of those can be freely provided!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon MFW'rs

Well, success today comes in the shape of LG going into school and staying there all day - YAY!  They woke up this morning and said they were feeling sick.  I must admit, I never know with LG, but I didn't get the vibe that they were actually feeling unwell....... there has been ongoing shenanigans at school, all low-grade - nuisance rather than thump you up the bracket bullying, but there none-the-less.  Difficult to call out/prove, so everyone is having to suck it up at the moment.  Makes it not a very nice environment to be in, and I think LG just mighta fancied a duvet day.  Anyhoo, we chatted and LG packed up their small donkey cart, wheelbarrow and backpack to haul all their gear into school and set off.  They were there at home time, and appeared to have had an OK day, for chalking one up for perseverance. 

Other than that it's been a quiet day.  I'm trying to stave off DH's lurgy, which I have a feeling I am finally beginning to succumb to.  I'm working on the basis that if I refuse to acknowledge it, and keep quiet, it may move along.......

I so wish take out were an option for tea tho.  I'll think of summat.

No club tonight, the trainer is ill, so we've got a free pass.  I'd rather be out and about and LG getting involved in something that doesn't involve school or their classmates, but there you go.  Sometimes the planets align, sometimes they don't.

Greying X

themadvix

Hope you find something easy to cook tonight GP - and I hope the lurgy ('what lurgy') keeps on its way.

Humdinger1

Of course @Greying_Pilgrim I don't mind you not going into detail! The best decisions aren't always a straight line.  I've been behind on diaries and might have reposted a very similar question later; if so, I'll erase.  Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

Greying_Pilgrim

Tea was mushroom pasta with broccoli.  I chopped up onions, celery and garlic.  Sauted it off with chopped peppers, cauliflower, sweetcorn and a broccoli stem, then added a stock cube, a tin of mushroom condensed soup and some water.  I then added in a pot of mushrooms that I'd prepped and frozen sometime ago - YS'd punnet from MrS I think.  Cooked it all up in the PC.  Added in some cooked spirali, and some mixed herbs, parsley, salt and pepper.  

It actually turned out quite nice, and was served up with the steamed broccoli florets.  LG liked it and didn't even mention that there were mushrooms in it.  The onions and broccoli were out of the MrS and MrL box respectively, most of the other veg was frozen.  Pudding was the l/o crumble from yesterday.    

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

Shrove Tuesday it is, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday......

We've had pancakes for breakfast.  A significant diversion for a school day, but one I've quite enjoyed.  In ye dim and distant last century, when  I was at school, and pancakes for Shrove Tuesday were 99.9% likely to be the thin ones, served with lemon and sugar, my mother wouldn't have dreamt of serving pancakes for breakfast.  But now LG is at school, it's much more of a thing to have pancakes for breakfast, and so I'm happy to try to accommodate that difference.  I made Nigella's American Pancake recipe - at 4.45am I'll have you know 🤣 - and there were blueberries (MrS box), and lemon (MrL box) in the pancakes themselves, and they were served up with a "fruit platter" 🤣 (I am a pretentious wot not 🤣) of peach slices (from a singular, lone peach in the MrS box), and easy peeler segments from the MrL box.  Lovely.  Not a crumb, slice, berry nor segment was left 😁

I'm feeling OKish.  My throat is definitely less scratchy, but I'm feeling a bit muzzy headed and my sinuses are creaking a bit, but I'm still going for the ignore tactic. 

DH woke me up at 4am - he's tossing and turning with worry, and so I got up and started the pancake prep, made the porridge and made his snap for work.  I'm not after wife of the year award, he normally makes breakfast for him and LG, and does his own snap.  LG said the porridge tasted of sweetcorn and they didn't like it.  DH said it didn't, and I can't work out how, as a) I didn't burn the porridge (DH's usual trick, and toasted oats can take on a popcorny vibe), and b) nothing that I used had been used last night with the sweetcorn I put into the tea - so it's a mystery.  

We definitely need milk today, as we've run out.  OK, so the pancakes took some, but for some reason we've ripped through the carton this week.  

Right, uniform to set out.  Best shift-a-tail-feather.

Greying X

LadyWithAPlan

I am also thinking up my pancake de jour recipe - may indeed go for thin with lemon and sugar - old fashioned style - blueberries in a few as well 

glad you feeling better 

Greying_Pilgrim

So I got my bum into gear (finally) and stomped off into Greying Town.  It was lovely in the sunshine, and I'm glad I walked.  

I actually forgot to pick up the very thing that was my purpose to go into town 🙄 But I managed to get LG some clothes in the M&$ sale and got 4 books from a chazzer for £2 for them.  By pure luck, 2 of the books were from a trilogy, and I had the third book - also bought from a chazzer - at home.  All three of the books look very, very lightly used (if at all), so a win for literacy! 

I haven't got milk yet, but I thought I would get some after school - involve LG.  

Greying X