From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Cheery_Daff

Glad you can now add baked spuds to your repertoire!

I usually screenshot a digital pass just in case of WiFi issues. I've never had one not accepted - they're usually scanning a code,  so they can tell if it's being used already even from the photo.

Doesn't help if your phone runs out of battery though!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFWr's

badmemory - I am finding that LG is eating a much, much wider range of things.  Not all are liked any better, but they will at least eat things now.  Some things still remain - 'that's not my favourite', or they ask for "not too much/many" - but on the whole, we're losing the 'outright refusal', more and more.  I still haven't tried them on scrambled nor boiled eggs, but if they eat omlette, and the occasional egg mayo sanger, is there any point?  After all, I never bother cooking fried eggs, as I don't particularly like them, but at least I eat eggs in different ways. 

I can absolutely get behind the "I don't like X because it tastes weird to my palate" situation - we've recently been discussing rocket in that light.  I am less accepting of the "I don't like X... this week" situation.  LG had mentioned not liking school baked tatties (it's been a looooong time since they've eaten school cuisine), but to me school make "proper" baked tatties, with a lovely crispy skin. But LG sees that just as blackened/burnt food.  But if I can get them to start eating baked tatties, at home, who knows where we'll get to, and I have to say, I'm appreciating the additional fibre win of them eating baked tatties (in addition to the not having to make separate dishes for us all for tea), which is supposed to be important to gut health.  

Blackcats - go you!  I'm guessing there may have been ginger, allspice, cinnamon, star anise in that dish?  YES! to houses smelling aromatic due to a puttering SC in the corner!  Ours was a buttery, warm potato aroma last night..... yum!

I normally go shopping on Thursday's, but I think I'm going to pass today.  We're low on bread - that might be the only pressure point, but there are road works on the bypass, and it's causing chaos, so access to the shops isn't impossible, it's just difficult (by car), so my thinking is to wait until tomorrow, and pootle across to the next market town along instead (weather depending).  I will double check if I've got enough sliced bread/bread products for brekkie/snap to make that happen though.  

I need to pay the beetee bill.  They've already been sending me hysterical texts reminding me my bill is due 🙄 How come for nearly 2 years a DD has sufficed on a date that we've not yet hit, and yet they've constantly reminding me now 🙄  I cannot wait to be out of contract with them.  Naturally an elderly relative did ring me on the landline yesterday.... first landline call in about 3 months.  The last caller was...... my elderly relative.

Right, I've developed a case of hiccups and holding my breath isn't working, so I shall go in search of a glass of water. 

Greying X