My Off-grid and need to be frugal diary

AnimalTribe · 12 August at 8:21PM

£0 spend

Lunch - sandwiches for me, fish and bread for DH, and salad.

Dinner - sandwiches for me, cheese & ham quiche for DH, and salad, followed by chocolate cake with stewed apple.

It’s been very hot here today, so I managed to get lots of weeding done, pulled up the caterpillar infested nasturtium, and sowed some more seeds (winter lettuce, radish, spring onion and cabbage).

I’ve made a Victoria sandwich and a chocolate cake. The recent heavy winds knocked all of the cooking apples off the tree, so I collected them up and made stewed apple. The apples were, of course, small but I didn’t want to waste them.

Tonight, I’ve done more crafting, sewing faces on babushka and bears. Now I’m going to sit and watch a film.

AnimalTribe · 13 August at 9:32PM

DH went to town to buy some stuff for work. It's not a household expense so I don't count it in our spending.

Lots of sunshine, so a laundry load done, the house vacuumed, the portable power packs topped up, and water pumped from the well to the tank.

Lunch: rice with vegetables

Dinner: sandwiches with salad, followed by chocolate cake with stewed apple.

While he was there, he did the recycling, dropped some books off at the charity shop, and did the grocery shopping. I gave him a list: bread, milk, yoghurt, margarine - these are all permitted spends this month. I thought for sure that he'd come back with stuff from the charity shop and grocery bargains, as he can't resist a bargain, but he surprised me. His only extra was a bag of chocolate chip cookies, so not bad. He hasn’t given me the receipts yet but I’ll post the cost tomorrow.

When we go out, we try to make the most of the petrol usage by doing several things at once.

It's been extremely hot today. I've been out gardening, but could only do 20 minutes outside before I had to come in to cool off. The caterpillars are becoming a real nuisance they've eaten the kale, and started on the rocket. I will definitely have to net the veg next year. The sewing marathon continues.