Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

mumzyof2

Good afternoon all,

Well first of all my Mums flight is expected 1hr and 5 mins late!!

Been to carboot and spent £2 on some lego for kids and also 50p admission (they charge me 50p to see 6 stalls grr)

so that was £2.50 gone

then £2.38 on cigs (not counted on this challenge) and then 12p in Morrisons (fruit n veg) and then 75p on a drink at local shop

Total spend today

£3.37 (5.75 if counted cigs) plus what i spent this morning.

Janey51

Afternoon to all those in Frugal Land.
I have been working all day and will be going out again in an hour to do the "bed" run. Had to keep dashing home to check on post-op DH who is not doing too badly but still very tired. He has discovered that sneezing when one is full of stitches is not a good idea.
But he is eating very little....home made soup and yogurt. I made a huge pan of chilli on Thursday and am munching my way steadily through it...cooled down with the homemade coconut milk as it is a little fiery.
So far I have spent £46 this month so not doing bad. Still need to update my sig and sort out DDs etc.

DdraigGoch

You could just let them DROWN in the beer! What a way to go, quite reminiscent of the Duke of Malmsey :beer:

slowlyfading

Hey guys, I need some help! My housemate was using broccoli for tea and was going to throw away two big broccoli stalks. I thought I could use them somehow and asked if I can have them - can you make broccoli soup? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? It seemed a waste, and now I can't think what to do with them!

broke_mum_of_three

Sorry guys, very late with the May totals, coming in at a whopping £970.15 my worst month yet!
No excuses for it, just bought new bedding for my bed and curtains to match and paid £130 for the kids summer camp amongst the normal bills.
I'm still at it although with holidays coming up it seems to be running out of control, I think I just need to log in a bit more to get lots of great advice from all you lovely frugalites:T

sukielou75

Hi Slowly fading, I love this website, it's really good inspiration for using leftovers and stuff people would usually throw away and also I spied a recipe for brocolli stalk soup, hope it helps.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes

mumzyof2

broke_mum_of_three wrote: »

Sorry guys, very late with the May totals, coming in at a whopping £970.15 my worst month yet!
No excuses for it, just bought new bedding for my bed and curtains to match and paid £130 for the kids summer camp amongst the normal bills.
I'm still at it although with holidays coming up it seems to be running out of control, I think I just need to log in a bit more to get lots of great advice from all you lovely frugalites:T

Wow i would love to be able to spend that much money a month on food...just the once mind :rotfl:

mumzyof2

Evening all

I have just put bakewell tart in oven and made some rice krispie cakes to try and keep my son up.

My mum has arrived at the airport so she will be here soon, so i wont be posting as much as i would like but i will pop on now and then

Take care all and good luck

edited to say i thought i had posted the above on the GC thread but oh well

slowlyfading

sukielou75 wrote: »

Hi Slowly fading, I love this website, it's really good inspiration for using leftovers and stuff people would usually throw away and also I spied a recipe for brocolli stalk soup, hope it helps.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes

Thanks for that site, there are lots of lovely recipes on there!

broke_mum_of_three

mumzyof2 wrote: »

Wow i would love to be able to spend that much money a month on food...just the once mind :rotfl:

Mumzy, I have been very good and added everything in my spending list, its not just food:eek: There are five of us in the budget, I keep thinking maybe it was a bit unrealistic the total of £5200 I gave myself, but I'm still going for it and whatever the total is this year I am going to beat it next year:T