Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

sophiesmum_2

Morning everyone:D

Just about to make picnic for morning at the pony show, will be a jumbled up concoction of stuff I want to get used up before we go away.New potato salad, cheese and ham sarnies, fresh fruit salad, home made fruit cake,hard boiled eggs,cold sausages, and a few other assorted bits. Taking two of my oldies who are interested in going so will be picnic for five of us, there are food vans there but ridiculous prices, £4 for bacon butty, £1.50 for can of pop:eek: May splash out on an ice cream later though:D

Aril

Hello all fellow frugalists!
I too have ahem been prising open the Venus fly trap cash carrying receptacle...I did however, purr the words "Poundland" at it so it wasn't shaking as it reluctantly gave up some of its hoard. I love it in that shop [in only opened 2 days ago] and I've invested my pounds wisely in a new batch of flannels [mine had gaping holes in them] and 12 dishcloths [plus I've priced up the chocolate and crisps purely for my own reference you understand:D]. Yes I continue to lead an exciting life. I also snatched 60p when it was distracted to invest in a plant at a local plant sale. It's called an oxalis and I reckon it represents a frugal double whammy. Not only does it have the most gorgeous foliage but it also does a trick....when I took it out of the bag it had folded all its leaves up. Now that's what I call value for money. Well I was thrilled:rotfl::rotfl:and moreover the material girl is satisfied. I find it amazing to think I quite regularly [like every spring] would go to the nursery and spend £80+ on a new batch of perennials [my garden is very small] to replace all the ones I'd killed the previous season:eek: The frugal rule for me seems to be is if it costs more than £2 [no matter how easy it claims to be to grow/maintain/grow anywhere] and I try to look after it it expires rapidly. Anything under £2 where I take the do or die approach it thrives:D
Mr Frugal has been rummaging around in his green house happily this weekend bringing out various thriving veggie plants and planting them on....we borrowed a load of pots from my parents for this in exchange for them having our spare plants. Whilst engaged in such fun and frolicsome activities I ambushed him and asked him how much he thought Mr T were now charging per individual pepper....69p he asked. Nope I said triumphantly 99p:eek: [although I would only part with 1.38 for a bag of value ones]...right or was that tight he said:D we'll keep the seeds and grow our own and perhaps we'll have a go at growing chillies too. I've nicked this idea straight from here frugallers but have had to keep it under wraps as up until yesterday Mr Frugal would have claimed that we wouldn't have enough space. I then ended on a high as I told him that we can eat our nasturium flowers so hah once again I am there in the lead in the Gnat Bottom Stakes:D:D
Hope you all have glorious sunshine where you are
Aril

mumzyof2

Good monring all

looby-loo_2

Good morning all from me too!

I've just finished my first stint of digging and now the sun has moved round it's too hot so I'll need to find another task. It was 80 F in the greenhouse at 8.30. And so nice not to have the heating on.

I delayed breakfast as I wanted to get on. Homemade bread, butter and jam - lovely! DS2 is revising (well perhaps:rolleyes: ) so a NSD in the garden for me today.

Back to work - have a lovely day everyone

Prudent

Morning from me too :hello:

slowlyfading

:hello: and morning from me too!

funkyfunkymonkey

looby-loo wrote: »

However, as predicted, sending DH to the shop for a chicken was a disaster. He came back with a freerange organic one costing £10.70, reduced to £9.70.BARGAIN!!:eek: Then he said he didn't feel like hot tea after the hot day but as it was reduced I had to cook it anyway. Finally ate it a 9.15pm. It really will have to be a very rubbbbbber chicken. He also bought full cream organic milk instead of semi so I have 10 pints to use and a shed load of crisps, mars and twix.

Hi looby-loo

We had roast chicken too last night, also didn't feel much like it, so little monkeys had it with hm bread, OH and I had it with jacket potatoes. We have enough left to have chicken and mushroom pie tonight and chicken curry later in the week. Mine only cost £2.69 so I know you must really be smarting.

How about watering down your full fat milk? At least you can turn it into semi skimmed and then it will only be 1/2 the normal price. I always water down my full fat to make it go twice as far. No one has noticed yet and I've been doing it for a couple of months.

FFM

mumzyof2

How do you water down milk?

slowlyfading

mumzyof2 wrote: »

How do you water down milk?

Just add some water to it.

tryingtodobetter

I wouldn't recommend watering down milk for children, as it may halve the fat content but it also halves the nutritional content as well.