Buying a little piece of Middle England; Manifesting my way to mortgage free.

debtfreewannabe321

@LadyWithAPlan

Ingredients:

• 350g rolled oats
• 100g mixed nuts (almonds, pecans, cashews)
• 200g mixed dried fruit (sultanas, cranberries, apricots, figs)
• 50g mixed seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, hemp)
• 200g dairy-free butter (such as Stork block)
• 175g golden syrup
• 200g light brown soft sugar

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Grease a 23cm/9in square cake tin and line with baking parchment.
2. Mix together the oats, flour, nuts, fruit, and seeds in a large bowl.
3. Place the dairy-free butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar in a pan over a low heat. Heat, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth.
4. Pour the syrup mixture into the oat mixture and stir until thoroughly combined, ensuring no dry patches remain.
5. Tip the mixture into the prepared tin, spread it out level, and press down firmly until well compacted.
6. Bake for 25-35 minutes until set and golden. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes.
7. Cut into slices while still in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Tips:

• Use your preferred combination of nuts and dried fruit.
• If you prefer a chewier flapjack, bake for 25 minutes. For a crisper flapjack, bake for 35 minutes.
• Store in an airtight container for up to 10 days.

Nutrition Information (approximate):

Per flapjack:

• kcal: 177
• fat: 9g
• saturates: 2g
• carbs: 21g

I used to love the free version of YNAB (well one off payment). I still haven't trialled the new paid version. Once we move I might well do that as a new month starts. 
I quite like a paper version as I'm a bit old school and have many pots (different bank accounts) so it's easier to see what I have. Your posts do always make it seem so good though (and Improved from when I used it) so I think I'm going to try it again at some point 😁

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Watty1 said:

ohh stuffed peppers I haven't had those in years.  They look delicious.

I hadn't either! Really fancied them for some reason 😁 and they were worth the effort, very tasty although I think I'd use less paprika and cayenne next time 🥵😂

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Afternoon all, 

I've spent a few hours cleaning and also reading a book. I can't help the nagging feeling of feeling so very lazy at the back of my mind!

We walked the dog and also popped in for a weekly check in with the solicitors. No news yet they will get someone to ring us with an update. Honestly I'm not expecting any progress but perhaps they can put some pressure on both ends to do their bits. 

I have enough filling left from yesterday's dinner to do some more stuffed peppers for dinner so we will have that with a jacket potato, and some steamed broccoli for dinner. Well three out of four of us will, DD will probably end up with leftover pizza as I cannot be bothered arguing with her over eating vegetables tonight. I'm grateful both my son's eat everything in front of them and just one out of three is an awkward eater 🙄.

NSD today too! Woop...not kept a tally though so I've no clue if I made it to 15.. I definitely will have by the new month though. I've had a fair few. 

DP also sold a few bits from his side line venture so made £80. I've told him to keep it as I've taken everything for the last month or two towards the move costs. So he can use it for expenses going forward.
So no money to add to the budget.

Ok off to read a bit more before I start dinner 😁

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Morning all, well the skies started off blue here for once, they haven't stayed that way for long. 

I'm going to put a wash on anyway and pray it is still dry when it's done.
Will be a NSD today as I'm not planning on doing anything outside of the house (except maybe some gardening if it stays dry)

Will make some spag bol later and maybe able to eek dinners out until tomorrow evening too. I've plenty of snacks and breakfast/ lunch stuff in just the dinners that I need to plan carefully. 

Not much to report so will be off to start the huge wash pile I've amassed.

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I've got two washes out on the line so far! All drying even though the weather has turned from sunny and blue to grey/ white and cloud cover all over. It's warm enough. I've been out in the garden having a clean up, cutting grass (didn't get far before battery died), weeding and throwing dead plants away and moving the ones I'm keeping to the end of the garden. I gave up after a while it was too back breaking...I will wait till DP or DS can help. 
Those horrid black flies the size of dots are everywhere (thunder flies)..why do they itch so much when they're so small?!

I could spend another 50 hours out there and the garden probably would still need work doing on it ... It's made me think about gardening going into the new home with an even bigger back garden (although this one I have already has side and front garden so probably equals to the same amount of gardening work) and I have decided I want rid of most of the grass in the back garden of the new house..I can envisage a greenhouse being central to my plans (perhaps a FB bargain one) and lots of raised beds and pots. I think grass is so over rated (says my back) and the kids don't play out any more so I don't want the hassle with it.
The new garden is very long (think Victorian terrace type gardens) and slightly wider than the house (small drive) so I am thinking about splitting it up into different sections....small grass area for dog with flowers, summer house area (DP needs an office) and herb/ veg area with greenhouse maybe shingles and pots and raised beds....hmm...

Anyone else have sections in the garden and have mostly got rid of grass? I've always had grass because of kids but they're not bothered with it now....I think I don't spend much time out there because there are so many jobs to do and I find it overwhelming on my own (DP limit is cutting grass and he won't do that very often). Hmmm anyway food for thought as I potter around the garden looking at the current jungle look I have 😂. I've stopped for a cuppa and just realised I've spent hours out there!

beanielou

I got rid of all the grass as DS got older. 

I have chips in the front garden. In the back garden I have two different areas of slabs & a couple of borders. In one there are wildflowers & the other one is currently weeds. There are a couple of nice bushes. Boring but easy to keep-ish. 

redofromstart

I always liked the garden rooms idea. Doing the hard landscaping to break up the rooms seems to be the costly bit. Ton bag of gravel here is c£70. Bark melts. The plastic gravel grids over weed fabric and then filled with gravel are good. Worth keeping an eye out for end of season clearance stuff. My greenhouse was cheap and I painted it green etc. I see the odd pallet or paving stones free locally (lift yourself!) but not in any great volume

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beanielou said:

I got rid of all the grass as DS got older. 

I have chips in the front garden. In the back garden I have two different areas of slabs & a couple of borders. In one there are wildflowers & the other one is currently weeds. There are a couple of nice bushes. Boring but easy to keep-ish. 

As I get a little older I'm starting to like boring but easy. And I don't think that sounds boring anyway... I'm planning to do something similar I think. Still lots of plants as I don't like an empty garden but something easier to look after. I'm in agony after all that gardening yesterday!

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redofromstart said:

I always liked the garden rooms idea. Doing the hard landscaping to break up the rooms seems to be the costly bit. Ton bag of gravel here is c£70. Bark melts. The plastic gravel grids over weed fabric and then filled with gravel are good. Worth keeping an eye out for end of season clearance stuff. My greenhouse was cheap and I painted it green etc. I see the odd pallet or paving stones free locally (lift yourself!) but not in any great volume

We can get free pallets round here, and I was going to try and source as much for free from marketplace 😄 I've been keeping my eye on greenhouses and there are plenty being given away and some for sale at slightly better quality for less than a hundred quid.
I've got free gravel before off marketplace I had to fill my boot with it though 😂 my son and I were there for hours and many trips later we managed to do our entire path way up to the chickens in the old house....so once I move I will keep eyes open for free bricks and stones etc 😁

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Well last night as I watched TV  I had a message from Mr T....did you sign in? Someone has signed in at a new location....and it was on a different computer/ notepad to what we usually use.

They'd somehow got my password.
Mr T sign in is very old, oldest email I have and oldest password I use 😐🙄 cue me for the next two hours trying to change passwords on all the accounts that were apparently breached.

I'm assuming once into your account they would take seconds to steal any info they were after 😐. My bank card is attached to that. I don't know how worried I should be. But I'm slightly worried. I've changed password now and on a few other accounts that were flagged up as having the same password/ email combo. Really old ones like mums net / shops I never use any more 😳

Will do another check this morning once on my laptop but hopefully nothing will come from it?