From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

peb

I nearly put the washing out today but I don't know if I'll be back before dark and undo the couple of hours it would get.

I thought of you when I. Lidl as they had two veg boxes which looked decent for a family.   No good for me, both had a five pack of Nana's in  which I can't eat , a cauliflower (just bought one) and potatoes plus plenty more.

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim - I thought of you this morning when I folded up the drying rack and moved the dehu to get to the back door.  I was hopeful, but our weather gods were temperamental and by the time I went upstairs to sort laundry, the heavens opened!  Instead, I ended up doing a power tidy of the house and wiped down the outside of the front door which was quite mucky.  The weather gods are now having a laugh as a sunbeam has just hit the garden, just as I need to get ready to go see the physio!  Oh well, tomorrow is another day & there is no shortage of laundry in this house!

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks peb!  I'm with you on having bought X and then come across a waste box stuffed with perfectly good specimens of said item!  Ah well, we can feel all warm and fuzzy and remember that we've been community minded and left the boxes for others 😇  I must admit, had I been able to spend a few minutes longer at the waste station, I probably could have thought of good uses for a few more items, but hey, them's the breaks - maybe another time.  

rt - I've just got the washing in, and it had dried better than recent loads, but not as well as I'd hoped.  I think there was less breeze than forecast, but more sun - but of course, we don't get enough sun in the back garden at this time of year to be useful ☹️  So I have had to roll the dehu out ☹️  I've put it on for 2hrs, and I'll review at that point.  

I did pop out to our MrS.  It was an extra trip I didn't want to make, but there you are.  There was none of the lowest cost newspapers - with the vouchers - in MrS, I wonder why not 🤔........  So I nipped to hB and got the last stardaily.  We now have weekend options and options for half-term, which is always nice, isn't it.  

I need to amend my siggie figgie - I spent £10.10 in this trip - £8.70 food, £1.40 nf.

Greying X  

edinburgher

Boo! I've just checked and there doesn't seem to be a Scottish flavour of the NT offer What went in your mushroom and olive pasta (besides the obvious)? I have a large punnet of mushrooms from Mr S that I have no real plans for, and our house is mostly made of olives...

Greying_Pilgrim

edinburgher said:

Boo! I've just checked and there doesn't seem to be a Scottish flavour of the NT offer What went in your mushroom and olive pasta (besides the obvious)? I have a large punnet of mushrooms from Mr S that I have no real plans for, and our house is mostly made of olives...

I noticed that Scottish NT weren't participating ☹️  Daft suggestion, but do more of the Scottish NT properties have to close in winter - due to inclement weather - icy paths, car parks, unaffordable heating bills etc?  Genuine query, I'm not taking the proverbial.

ed - I will have made up the pasta sauce as I went along 🤣 But it would have been something along the lines of;  onions, garlic, celery, mushrooms, HM tommie sauce and the black olives.  HM tommie sauce is onion, celery, garlic, carrots, mixed peppers, chppped tommies.  All cooked for 10 mins in the PrC and then blitzed with a stick blender - herbs and spices added according to what I have - but mixed herbs or italian seasoning would suffice (paprika is nice too).  Quantities are always eye-balled and depend on whether I'm making a batch, or for 1 portion.  Is that any help what-so-ever?  My olives are always the MrL spanish black olives.  

Greying X