From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

themadvix

Haven't used clingfilm here for the past 10 years - and don't ever feel I need it. Rarely use foil and if possible reuse it several times. Go cold turkey Ed - you just need the push to come up with alternative solutions! Plus, especially if you're heating it, I wouldn't trust the plastic not to be leeching into whatever you're cooking 😬 I bake my own bread so no bread bags either, but ask my Dad to save his cereal bags (because he's not going to change his ways - the plastic in their house is 😭) which I use to store bread in (both in and out of the freezer).

kayannie

I forgot about the cereal bags & I use those too for storage & wrapping butties. The only cereals I eat are oats, but OH still has to have his cereal every day. He eats whatever I buy him though, as I only choose the ones with as few additives as possible. 
Luckily he never comes into the supermarkets with me, as I think less healthy cereals would appear in my trolley!
KA

Baileys_Babe

Like KA I have a roll of cling film in the drawer, probably last used by my parents when they lived here pre covid. We also have some foil which is not used that often, a standard roll lasts a couple of years. When mircrowaving we use either a plate or a bowl to cover the food. When taking sandwiches out and about we wrap them in reuseable plastic tubs (essential when using crackers), the bag the wraps came in or some heavy duty palstic bags that we clean & reuse. We use bees wax wraps to wrap food or bowls, line baking tins with reuseable sheets or liners. I've just remebered we also have a roll of baking parchment which we use once in a blue moon, something else hanging over from when my folks were living with us. 

edinburgher

@themadvix - I wouldn't microwave cling film - the burritos went in a piece of kitchen roll and were then wrapped up for the freezer.

Greying_Pilgrim

Interesting chat about cling film.  I haven't used it for at least 7 years, because I know that we were still in our original owned home when I used up the roll i had and never replaced it.  I think it may have been a combination of thinking of things like leach, plus an additional cost - which I have managed to eradicate.  

I thought insurance companies had to give their existing customers the same deal as newbies?  I've just done a car insurance quote and there were 98 - yes, 98! quotes cheaper (several companies were mentioned two or three times with different types of policy), than the price I have been quoted by my existing provider.  Plus, they appeared twice, offering policies that were at least £50 (possibly more), than the renewal quote they sent me. I'm not a happy bunny, and will be taking my business elsewhere.  

I walked into Greying Town to move some money about.  Went to have a look in the chazzers for some more reading material for LG, but drew a blank.  There was one book, by Alice Roberts - I'm assuming Prof Alice?  Anyhoo, I thought it might be an interesting read, and it was only £1, but I turned it over, and someone had taken a school compass or something extremely pointy to the cover and littered it with holes that went deep into the book pages........

No 'free, please take' apples in boxes today.  

Right, best crack on and do a bit more.

Greying X

rtandon27

Is that Wolf Road? - that is by the Professor & a cute little story - I read a bit from the free download preview on the big river site a while back!  (Poor book - whomever did that needs a little life lesson!)

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 said:

Is that Wolf Road? - that is by the Professor & a cute little story - I read a bit from the free download preview on the big river site a while back!  (Poor book - whomever did that needs a little life lesson!)

Spot on rt!  And yes, damaging books??!!!!????  **shudders**

Well, I'm coming on to report - with the knowledge that I am very blessed to be able to do this, not everyone can - but I have sat with LG whilst they completed 2 segments of 'gnomework'.  They have some bits that are better done 'little and often' ie every day and several bits that are perfectly OK to 'get done' in one fell swoop.  So as one bit was maths, I sat down with my pencil and paper and gave my braincell (singular) a work out to see if LG was getting the questions right (they were), and then we tackled the English composition.  I only have to be a sounding board for that - sometimes suggesting tweeks, or possible subject themes, and LG is pretty much able to run with that.  A quick check of the 'rough draft' to see spellings aren't wonky, or Capitals haven't gone AWOL, and then LG puts the work into 'bestest'.  DONE.

As Mr Craig, often says on Sarah's 'all request' show - "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's.... the weekend" 🎉🎉🎉

Veggie hot dogs and oven chips still slated for tea.  

I got the washing in, and frankly I'm amazed as to how well it's done.  I will put most of it on the airer, but no real need for the dehu.  I didn't think I was going to achieve that, although it has warmed up this afternoon, and we've had some nice warming sunshine.  

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

DH getting ready to go off to work ☹️

A wash is on.  

We did have Veggie hot-dogs and oven chips last night, and DH had brought home a doughnut from work and LG had that - DH and I didn't bother with pud.

I'm hopeful LG and I can make a start on the garden today, at least get some weeds into the green bin.  

It should be a NSD today.  

Right, best-shift-a-tail-feather.  Ta for popping by.

Greying X

rtandon27

Must have been that kind of evening Greying - we had the last of the oven nuggets and oven waffle fries - such a comforting low effort dinner - freeing up a tiny corner of the freezer - we had 1/2 a yellow sticker (super cheap)pineapple between us - funnily enough, I find that sale exotic fruit is actually at it's prime when the sticker gets whacked on it!

badmemory

As for ripen at home!!  Not ripe, not ripe, whoops liquidised overnight.