Digging my way out

A very wet and windy day here today. Horses all done, out with rugs on!! What? It's August!, nevermind as long as they are warm and dry. Have checked my greenhouse and the tomatoes look fab just still green. Runner beans are looking good and tonight we will have some, so pleased, can't believe how happy I am at small things . Also plate of mushrooms from the field this morning. Made my day.
Made pasties for lunch, using the same filling as before which is half a bag of frozen mash from Tesco and half a tin of corned beef from the freezer and 10 oz of pastry homemade, made 10 pasties, thats great, DH and DS had 2 each for dinner so that leaves 6 over, DH can have pastie and chips for tea tomorrow.
Have cleaned through today and hoovered up and down so thats a nice feeling, I like it clean.
Diet is going well as of today have now lost a total of 17lb only 4lb more to my target, very happy about that .
A NSD today, so shopping fund remains the same as does the bank account no change there. Statement for the CC is due on 23 Aug so then I can update totals.
Daily shopping fund is now £1.58 as 17 days left in August.
Saturday is going to be a spend day, I am going to buy what we need only and stick to the list and hope I can get it right and buy for the whole week in one shop, we have already run out of cereal so I've told DH we are having toast until then
I might make some biscuits in a bit easy peasy Mary Berrys fork biscuits with chocolate chips, also an eggless sponge, apparently you can substitute apple sauce for eggs, so lets give it a go or maybe a fruit loaf or maybe both :0

Thanks guys for the support and compliments You're both doing pretty impressive yourselves

Today I have checked the bank - no change again. Mortgage has updated adding interest for this month something I need to be more aware of, I knew that it happened obviously but it would be better for me to see the outstanding balance once that has been added, so mortgage total today has risen to £149,647.25, the mortgage payment will go out on or around the 25th but I wont update it until around the 15th of September when the interest has been added again. Never mind just getting used to how it works
Shopping is the same as NSD yesterday, although to be fair we have no cereal and although I told DH to have toast, I missed my cereal this morning as I count calories and the toast was just not cutting it, as I have already had another two pieces of toast and coffee just now, no good for me otherwise I will be back where I started. So perhaps we just need to go and buy cereal and milk today, would cost us £3.09 in all, and stick to just those 3 things and then do the now weekly top up shops when they are due, two in all before the end of August.
Very pleased today to find a bag of mushrooms and a reasonable tub of blackberries ready in the field this morning, the mushrooms have just gone straight into the steak pie which I will cut into 6 pieces so 6 meals for DH compared to putting the entire tray of stewing steak into some gravy and pouring over mash with some veg, lots of savings there. Only thing was I took two trays out to make pies and as I went to tip the one into the frying pan I dropped it (story of my life!) and it tipped all over the dishwasher and the floor, raw meat everywhere and I hate it. I scraped it up and put it in another frying pan and it is cooling for the dogs at the minute. So a waste there really but happy dogs so not all bad
After I've had a sit down I will go an make some jam with the blackberries it is DS's favorite might get two jars if we are lucky...................I've just been to take my pie out as it is cooked, so it's now cooling on the rack and have quickly washed the blackberries, ooooo the little critters that live in them, they are now soaking in a bowl of water to flush the rest out, some say it's extra protein but I would prefer they are out out out out out.
I am really enjoying writing here every day, it puts my thoughts into the correct boxes and instead of being irrational and impulsive ideas, they are being put to some good use, money saving! It makes you inindfull

Oh what a wet and miserable day today. Everyone has been walking around with faces like slapped !!!!!!! I desperately hope it will be dry tomorrow as it makes everyones life easier.
Shopping account and shopping purse all the same today, it was a NSD. Well, I did get deodorant but DD went into the shop to get it and didn't tell me how much it was so I will pay tomorrow when she does. Hay was delivered today and the horses are now back in for the night tucked up warm.
I spent most of the day cooking, I decided to make a large amount of cakes and freeze a lot of them, so I worked out how much cake ingredients I had left and then divided into the most cakes I could get from it. So 24 rock cakes, 24 maid of honour cakes made with homemade blackcurrant jam and a fruit loaf and still have 2 eggs left. Half of each will go in the freezer, I will need to buy freezer bags until I can either afford tubs or DD and DS's fiance save me some of their plastic tubs from the takeaways they have.
Dinner for DH and DS was homemade rolls and chicken which they enjoyed and tea tonight was homemade pizza, bake potatoes and lettuce from the greenhouse. Another large plate of mushrooms this morning from the field, so some went on the pizza and tomorrow when I get the freezer bags the rest will go in the freezer.
It's kind of nice seeing the freezer beginning to empty, don't get me wrong it's still packed just not rammed full.
It's going to be very small steps to paying off the debt I am just hoping things pick up over the next few months and we can start to pay off much quicker I want to see dents in it and big ones.
Today I went with DD to the vets and bought wormer and flea treatment for our baby girl, I hadn't budgeted and it was only when I was there I realised that she needed it, so another emergency fund required to stop that happening again. Another i've added another emergency account to the list called house maintenance as when I got in lunchtime there was water leaking from the roof and running down one of the blinds onto the windowsill. With no money at all it has to be a job for the future despite the damage it's doing, it's so depressing
I've got to think this is a slow road and so far we have not veered off it for any wants, we have to keep on going and be as frugal as possible and plan ahead with all the emergency funds and bit by bit add to them, nothing else we can do.