From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

redofromstart

Sounds like great using up of the veg boxes. I did chick peas today too. I note they are a good price again (MrT) but I still have about 5kg safely stored. 

badmemory

There should be another £100 from the Nwide later in the year hopefully, but of curse we can't bank on it.  So fingers crosed

Greying_Pilgrim

badmemory said:

There should be another £100 from the Nwide later in the year hopefully, but of curse we can't bank on it.  So fingers crosed

Definitely can't be treated as a foregone conclusion - but would be most gratefully received if it did materialise 🤞  

Greying 

cafelady

Hi Greying. I’ve been following your diary for a while now and really enjoy it. 

Have you thought about signing up for Pr*lific for surveys? You tend to get lots if you can do them weekdays in the daytime. Easy to make £40/50 a month just by having it on in the background when you’re at home and then jumping on a survey. They tend to be really interesting too, academic mainly, not consumer. Sometimes there’s a waiting list to join but you can still sign up and wait. 

W3Are8 is also really easy to make £5-10 a month on. You watch ads which are often for something socially useful. 

Hope this is helpful and please ignore if it’s not for you. 

Greying_Pilgrim

Hi cafelady - thank you for your suggestion.  I would be keener on academic surveys for sure - I know that consumer surveys are not for me and I am not - and have never been - the client group the researchers are after.  But I know that folks on this board have mentioned doing the 'P' surveys.  So a consideration, definitely - not something to ignore 😁Thank You.

Thursday.  Shopping day (I've quite a list 😬) and club this evening.  

Uniform is set out.  Homework is in progress.... and I'll set about snap prep just now.  

The weather is dreich, and the heating is on, and has been on a bit more.  Swings and roundabouts, as we'd been able to have it on a bit less in recent days.

Tea is likely to be omlette based, as I've some eggs to use up. 

Can' think of anything else to add at the mo, so I'll push orf.

Ta for popping by.  Appreciated.  Greying X  

redofromstart

GP I only do prolific surveys, and then only the ones that pay over £9 per hour, via laptop and do ok out of it. It generates my fritter money. Easy to avoid any commercial ones.  Pay out is £6 so not tied in for ages, and is pretty much instant to PayPal.  £17 for 50 minutes of a psychology experiment was a nice one this week for example. 

It is not like the old school pennies for hours 'would you buy this product' ones where you got screened out 40 minutes in. 

I have eggs to use up too, pretty blue shelled ones from the F&V man. 

Greying_Pilgrim

redofromstart said:

I have eggs to use up too, pretty blue shelled ones from the F&V man. 

Oooooof (see what I did there? 🤣) Well Jel of your aesthetically pleasing eggs 🥰  Thanks for the detail about 'P' too - appreciated.  And yes, the consumer surveys, which screen you out after the half-way mark weren't my jam anyway, but they give surveys/research a bad name, "stealing" your responses, without recompense for your time (even if they don't value your insight).  

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Back from shopping. 

OK, who's viewing this fred from MrL managerial HQ?  There were 2 green boxes in our store today.  One box was full of dead stuff, and the other stuffed to the gills with kiwi fruits?  If you don't want me to buy the boxes, don't put them out, 'coz funnily enough, no-one else was tempted (whilst i was instore) to buy these things either......... jus sayin'

I went to MrL - got everything on my (short) list, I think.  Then went to MrS and did a smarty shop.  I did buy a waste veg box there.  There was only one, and it was borderline, but it just had enough 'interest' and the stuff wasn't quite dead.  

I foolishly - because I wasn't expecting to purchase the veg box, missed out on 3x points in MrS, because I didn't quite spend £30 - I missed out by pence, stoopid me.  But I do have a coupon for additional points as a till spit now, so......  Anyhoo, total shopping spend across MrL & MrS today was a mahoosive £51.69 - and no, I didn't get much for my money.  The only YS'd (kinda) thing I got was some plant based fake lamb kebab things from MrS which are clearly being discontinued and were heavily discounted.  I haven't had them before, and hope very much that they aren't rank.........  I figured they would do well with wraps.  There was a lettuce and a cucumber in the waste box, so I can cobble something together.  

Off to update siggie.

Greying X

peb

Fingers crossed on the lamb thingies.

And kiwi?  I mean - I suppose jam 🤔

Greying_Pilgrim

peb said:

Fingers crossed on the lamb thingies.

And kiwi?  I mean - I suppose jam 🤔

I'm sure lots of folks like kiwi fruit, and I have at the back of my mind they are good for.... tenderising meat?  And yes, I'm sure you're right peb - jam for sure is a possibility.  It's just I've mentioned on here about the plethora of 'dead stuff' in veg boxes, and my mild allergic response to kiwis, so I'm wondering who's reading* 🤔🤣

Off to make a cauliflower and aubergine curry with the contents of my 'not dead veg' box 😉

Greying X

* I don't really think MrL management are taking steps to make green boxes unattractive to me...... 🤣