The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Crumble and ice cream with Mr Greying sounds like just what you need lass. Hope you're ok, sounds like you're having a few tough days at the minute. Big hugs to you, you're doing a grand job xxx
  • beanielou
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    Nothing too beat crumble & ice cream :)
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  • mcculloch29
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    I can understand time v money so much, re insurance.
    Having said that, when I switched from Ha!ifax after 5 years of ever rising premiums despite no claims, to Age UK, I saved over £20 a month and was able to put my trike and freezer contents back on - I'd taken them off to save money. Bit of a no brainer.
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    Aww GP - sorry to hear about your blippy day - sending lots of hugs your way! Hope the days have gotten better since!

    Your 'side' of cauli from the other day inspired himself to make an easi-peasi cauli cheese last night for our side - it was truly yum - we polished off the whole thing - a very large cauli mind you... in fact perhaps the sticky ginger soy chook was actually the side!... whichever way we call it, OH did a spectacular job of a low carb Friday dinner!

    ...please tell OH it's NOT embarrassing when I take a spoon to the baking tin & scrap it clean of the cheese sauce... I'm trying to convince him it's both fugal & makes washing up so much easier ;)
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  • EssexHebridean
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    Whyever would you NOT scrape the tin clean RT? Seems perfectly sensible to me, I'm sure that bits of cheese sauce will clog the drains otherwise, and anyway, those nice crusty round-the-edge bits.....mmmmm! :D

    Hope all's well in Greying-world - you're sounding more than a wee bit stressed about life in general at the moment my lovely. One thing I WILL say is that if you are struggling to make ends meet yourselves, then the FB donations absolutely should go by the wayside for a while. It doesn't work that bad things will happen if you don't "pay" for them not to you know - and you've already "banked" plenty of karma against the future - let it go and revisit in a few months, a year or whenever you need to.

    On the food budget thing, allowing that as you said yourself there HAVE been a few bulk purchases (very sensibly) made this month, I'd look at it over a longer period to see if it really does "red flag" a problem with the figures or not. Sometimes when budgeting one month is simply not a good picture - had you come in £20 UNDER budget I'm guessing you wouldn't have been looking at cutting the next month's figures back by that amount?
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  • maddiemay
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    I have let me FB donations go "on hold" for a while, not sure how long yet, as self employed, very dear to me, person had a spell in hospital and recovering, same person back there again and it has to be family first for me ATM.

    I hope if you are having difficult times dear Greying and family that this soon passes.
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  • gallygirl
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    EssexHebridean wrote: »
    Whyever would you NOT scrape the tin clean RT? Seems perfectly sensible to me, I'm sure that bits of cheese sauce will clog the drains otherwise, and anyway, those nice crusty round-the-edge bits.....mmmmm! :D
    Is it actually legal to NOT scrape the tin? Another thing to add to my 'when I rule the world' list. Which I keep forgetting to write down so it mainly consists of 'Women's toilets will be kept at a minimum of 22 degrees' :rotfl:.

    Hope all well GP, don't let the b*ggers get you down xx
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    Sending love to GP and familyheart-shape1-smiley.gif?1292867614 and all Pilgrimers heart-shape2-smiley.gif?1292867614
  • Verbatim
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    Hope you're OK GP. And Little P. And OH GP.
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    You know what happened last time you disppeared...

    Hope all is well in the GP home.
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