sammy_kaye's £100 a month food budgetting

fudgebunny

Dear Sammy
I read your thread with growing admiration for your lifestyle. I'm sure that your thrift and common sense with food and cooking spill over into other areas. Should you write a book? I'd buy it!!

Sue

stimpy27

Well done,

Just read your post...... you are an inspiration, I agree you should write a book, i'd buy it to

In this day and age everyone seems to throw so much away (including me) and you have proved you can buy free range on a budget

I am going to approach my shopping in a completely different way now

queenpig

Hello, you haven't bored me hun.

Actually I found it really intresting, and sad as it sounds I love nothing more than reading peoples meal planners such as yours (just call me nebby! lol)

It makes me wonder if actually writing down a whole plan for our meals like you did, shopping list plus meals (including baking, and dont i dare forget flaming cheese scones!) to make I wonder if I could shave off more....I spend around £200 - £250 for 2 adults 3 kids, 2 cats (when the other one decides to come home) a dog and a gold fish called chris lol.
Anyway well done you do a fab job.

As my eldest son would say "you're a super star, you" :rotfl:

QP

lilmisskitkat

Oooh Sammy, Post of the Month - get you!! :j :j :j

Well done hun, its a fab thread

Kate xxx

sammy_kaye18

Hi all,

Feel a bit of a muppet - didnt even know id won the POTM thingy until i logged back in - I have been about but have had a sick little boy (cold) and a sick bf (some sort of stomach/viral bug) to contend with these last two weeks so have been trying to but only getting five minutes now and then to log on then im off again.

firstly - whoever it was who nominated me thank you so very much, what a kind thing to do and thank you all for keeping my thread going and again i apologise for the absence on my part

mics_chick - i dont really have any housework tips i jsut try adn do a little in each room a day - im one of these people who loves lists - i have lsits for everythgin so of an evening with my cup of tea i write down what i want to achieve the next day - whether its cleaning, washing, food shopping, or things i need to pick up or do and then i have something to mark it off of the next day which in itself can be quite rewarding when you see the list reducing - so maybe that could help.

Also i tend to start things and finish later - if that makes sense - like in the bathroom, I put down the bicarb soda paste in the bath but then leave it there whilst im off doing something else, say hanging the washing out etc then i come back to it later on after its had a while to work its way in etc.

In fairness though with my two being ill i havent accomplished as much as i would like - im still keepign on top of the baking bread but have left off other snacks as my little boy will snack on them all day if he could and thats not what he needs when hes ill really - have made veggie soup though which seems to be going down well with him.

Other things i did this week was give a single friend mum of mine a baking lesson - she made fairy cakes - ok not exactly rocket science i know but she had never made them form scratch before and was askign all sorts of questions - turns out she went home, the next day went shopping, picked up ingredients and weighing scales and made herself and her little boy a victoria sponge cake so my good deed for the week is done - shes enjoying her new found baking talent, and in return shes helping me put together a wardrobe i got off freecycle! so bonus because its bleeding heavy!

Right well i best be off, had to juggle bfs asthma attack this morning and benji but hes adamant he wants to go to school today so he must be better to a degree but am still coming straight home jsut incase i get a phone call.

Right best be off

hope all of you are safe, happy and well.

Lots of Love

Sam
x x x x x x x

p.s thank you so much again!

patentgirl

well done Sammy welll deserved you have helped alot of people on here including me

sc1984

you can save even more money by buying fruit and veg at the market, also by going to asian grocers for things like onions, garlic, potatoes, rice and spices. they also sell big boxes of washing powder, bags of samosas, burgers and sausages.

Ellidee

Have you thought what you will do with the cash Sammy ? Hope at least some of it goes on a treat just for you. XX

vandanfc

Many thanks to whoever nominated this for post of the month. Had Sammy-Kaye18 not won, I doubt that I would ever have seen the thread and then I would not have discovered the infamous Hobnobs recipe.

Have just tried the recipe out and I have to whole heartedly agree that they are the most deliciously more'ish biscuits ever.

So thanks again.

Ophelia

Sammy - congratulations on the award and the inspiration! Puts me to shame

On another note, with regard to your bf's non-paid wages. Assuming he has met all his contractual and otherwise implied obligations, e.g. filling in a timesheet, submitting his hours on time, etc., etc. his employer cannot, by law, withhold his money unreasonably. Just refusing to to give a payment outside of the normal pay run, if he's been underpaid due to their error, is unreasonable. I work in payroll and have done for many years. There are very strict rules about what you can and can't deduct from someone's wages. Non-payment due to employer error counts as an unlawful deduction from pay. Of course, everyone can make a mistake, but the onus is on the employer to put it right. Making someone wait for weeks is not making an effort!

More info can be found here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Pay/DG_10027228

He may not be able to argue the case with the timing of the bonus payment. Quite often there is a clause in contracts which say that bonuses are payable at the discretion of the company and this can include timing too. But if his contract says he should recieve 'x' at 'x' time his employer are obliged to do whatever they can to ensure this happens.

Hope this helps a little.