Does your OH support you in being OS?

Skint_Catt

elona - can I have the reciepe for lentil soup please? I'm new to lentils (haven't opened the bag of red I bought yet, but I'd like to try something like that.

Thanks

Catt xx

elona

Skinttcat

It is not a proper recipe - more stuff I just bung in the slow cooker.

I soaked a 500g bag of red lentils overnight

Drained them and then added clear water and brought to a boil for ten minutes.

Skimmed off the foam on the top while it was cooking.

Put three small chopped onions, two chopped carrots, four chopped potatoes and either couple of stock cubes or ham hock with water in the slow cooker and cook on high for at least four hours or low for eight hours.

I added some herbs from a mill I got from Lidl and it turned out really well.

Skint_Catt

Thanks will try it one day!

dorry_2

elona, that soup sounds good...

oh loves me being os, home made grub and saving money!!!! Well, he is half scottish and saving money is in his blood IYKWIM.

I don't think we could go back to oven ready meals now, we are too used to real cooking:D and at least we know what we are eating, ie: nothing laced with salt,preseravatives etc..

i_wanna_save_money!

lilmisskitkat wrote: »

And his reaction when i said i wanted to use cloth nappies for this baby - sheer horror! :eek: :rotfl: He thinks its the most disgusting thing he's ever heard and 'surely it cant be hygenic' and he isn't going anywhere near them apparantly :rolleyes: He doesn't seem to get about BF and making baby food either, maybe because hes only ever seen the women in his family bottlefeed and use jars and disposables

Kate xxx

I think this is really funny - does he not realise that everyone used to use cloth nappies. I did not use cloth nappies as it really would have been too much effort for me. I did breastfeed both my girls, and really enjoyed cooking everything from scratch for them, as i wanted to give them both the healthiest start to life. Most of my friends thought I was odd for breastfeeding and only giving the girls jars when I was out, but hey, that's there opinion - I certainly didn't think badly of them for bottle feeding or doing jars 3 times a day.

My main reason for breastfeeding was because it is totally natural, and I just wanted the closeness it brings. Afterwards, I would hand DD to my OH and he would wind her and change her nappy so he did at least part of the care ( not that he asked to lol I just said that surely he would want some of the bonding experience hee hee).

My main reason for feeding freshly cooked food was that the jars have like a 3 year use by date on them. Stuff must have been added to that to preserve it, so I prefered to cook my own. My thoughts were that I would not like to eat tinned food every day so why should my kids.

purpleivy

i_wanna_save_money! wrote: »

I think this is really funny - does he not realise that everyone used to use cloth nappies. I did not use cloth nappies as it really would have been too much effort for me. I did breastfeed both my girls, and really enjoyed cooking everything from scratch for them, as i wanted to give them both the healthiest start to life. Most of my friends thought I was odd for breastfeeding and only giving the girls jars when I was out, but hey, that's there opinion - I certainly didn't think badly of them for bottle feeding or doing jars 3 times a day.

My main reason for breastfeeding was because it is totally natural, and I just wanted the closeness it brings. Afterwards, I would hand DD to my OH and he would wind her and change her nappy so he did at least part of the care ( not that he asked to lol I just said that surely he would want some of the bonding experience hee hee).

My main reason for feeding freshly cooked food was that the jars have like a 3 year use by date on them. Stuff must have been added to that to preserve it, so I prefered to cook my own. My thoughts were that I would not like to eat tinned food every day so why should my kids.

SOooooo expensive for tiddly jars of 'nothing' as well. My kids wouldn't eat them as one offs when we were out. They tasted disgusting after eating proper home cooked food! My childminder always commented what nice things I gave DS. I think he must have licked his fingers when warming up!

angelavdavis

My OH wasn't OS when I first met him either - in fact he wasn't MSE either!

Over the last 2+ years though he has allowed me to continue - initially thinking I was barmy, until I cleared my debts in record time and got the food bill right down. The defining moment was when he allowed me to review his bills too. Combined with the food savings, I was saving him over £400 per month and he was eating like a king! When he logged into his bank account after a couple of months and couldn't believe his bank balance, he hasn't questioned me since.

His work colleagues are jealous of his home-made rolls he takes for lunch, its become a ritual in the office for his colleagues to ask him what he has for lunch!!!

i_wanna_save_money!

I suppose OH supports me in a way and he likes the extra money he has. However, he liked to spend money on things like tickets to watch Man United, pub, breakfasts at work ( he works in a very manly enviroment where everyone survives on bacon butties and chips etc), just stuff in general.

Just before christmas I told him he was spending too much and had nothing to show for it. I gave us both 'pocket money' of £20 a week, and promised I wouldn't even ask what he spent it on ( bearing in mind we have everything in the fridge/freezer that he could need, beer in the fridge for if he wanted one etc).

Now, out of my £20, I would maybe spend a couple of quid on myself, a couple of quid each on the kids ( an ice cream, magazine or something) and the rest I would put in my money box - one of those you need a tin opener top get into.

In the first couple of weeks he would get this 'pocket money' and the next day have no money. Then he must have 'seen the light'. He bought a cheap toaster from tescos around £3 (same amount he would spend on a breakfats at work), and took our george foreman machine to work. He began to take a couple of frozen sausages a day, a bit of cheese, some bread, and make his own breakfast.

It really made him think about what he was spending money on, and he really began to cut back in other ways. He loves that I get around £20 off our bill each time we go tescos due to me using coupons. Last week was really funny. His friend came round as we were unpacking our shopping and he was like " look at all this shopping for only 40 quid. He got the receipt out and was showing him all the coupons I had used, told him about how I had been over charged but got double the difference in tesco, and then the thing he was most excited about - we got a crate of 24 strongbow for £8.50 as one can was missing and the box was selotaped up. His friend was like " I wish my girlfriend saved me as much as this!" :rotfl:

He is still not 100% behind me though. He walks around in a pair of shorts saying he is cold and then wants the heating on! Leaves lights on, messes with the meal plans by eating food that has been 'allocated' but he's learning bless him

natzini

My OH is slowly becoming more OS. It's rather difficult trying to persuade him to quit buying the loaves because there's supposedly never hm bread when he wants it! He likes the fact that i can save us money with the food and that it's tasty though!

Cornishpixie_2

Break through! Hubby volunteered to stir my hob nobs tonight. Lucky me;) :rotfl: