Jacket Potato July: our frugal year is flying by!

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Hi All,
I couldn't see a new thread yet, so thought I'd start one for July. The jacket potato is a marker for starting summer off on a frugal note. :).

NSD so far.

By the way Iam that is a brilliant bb deal, I hope I can find one that good when my contracts up.

Good plan Karbea , only thing I would say is your PT job is not silly, it's keeping you afloat while DH has no income.

I need to replace some chocolate today, and this time not because I've scoffed it. DD2 told me, as she came out of school yesterday, that she needed the friend's birthday gift for today, so we used what I'd already bought. Also need veg and DH needs to pay me back for the coffee mugs he bought on Sunday because he deducted it from the grocery budget. He has been told.

I'll catch up properly later.

NSD! Just made a brownie for tomorrow. Friends coming all the way from Canada! Feeding them a roast chicken. I need to do that before I go to work tomorrow. Like at 6am. It'll be ok to serve that at dinner time right? What else goes with roast chicken? Yorkshire pudding? Veg? Roast potatoes? Anything else?

Mmmm roast chicken with:

Roast potatoes
Yorkshire pudding
Cauliflower (cheese)
Carrots
Leeks (cheesy if not having cauli cheese)
Sausage meat stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Gravy

I love roast dinner!

Just under £30 on a day out in Whitby with DS, so pleased with that.

Oh spotty you are making me hungry now! I'm at work the whole day though which is why I'm having to make the chicken in the morning. Will see what I can sort out in an hour?!

NSD yay!

Tomorrow DH and I are going to see the kids in their show so I will need to pay for parking.

Check the sun newspaper today, there's rumours on hotukdeals and mse that there's a morrisons meat voucher in there for £5 off a £10 spend.

So, I woke this morning at 6 and now am at work. I've so far, made the roast chicken, cauliflower cheese (I have never made it! Let's hope it's yummy spotty!!) and peeled the potatoes. I hope to get home slightly and get the yorkies, carrots and start the potatoes. Made brownies last night.

Wish me luck!

Wow NK I've only just got dressed I'm sure it'll be delicious!

I'm back from work! Spent £4.18, eggs, milk, stir fry veg, stir fry sauce. Tonight we are having sausage toad, tmr steak stir fry.

LSD today. DH working from home so ate out at Sainsburys. £15 for a nice family lunch in the cafe. Also bought the sun for the meat voucher and one for mil. So £15.40 spend today. The rest of the is being spend tidying the spare room.

I knew you'd be impressed fluffy. Dh says my next challenge is to get it so low that they pay us to use it but I don't think that's possible. I'm going to start researching energy providers in a week or 2.

£2 on ice cream. £2.63 on some bits for the first aid box as dd cut herself and I realised I had nothing to clean it with and some plasters that don't seem very sticky. Bad mum.

I knew you'd be impressed fluffy. Dh says my next challenge is to get it so low that they pay us to use it but I don't think that's possible. I'm going to start researching energy providers in a week or 2.

£2 on ice cream. £2.63 on some bits for the first aid box as dd cut herself and I realised I had nothing to clean it with and some plasters that don't seem very sticky. Bad mum.

Nugget when I hurt my hand last weekend we only had alcohol wipes in the car, DH is clearly a bad husband then Hope your DD's cut isn't a bad one.

We are out of fruit juice and the yoghurts DH likes. We have other yoghurt, just not the one he likes for breakfast fussy bugger so if he gives me the money he owes I'll get him some yoghurts later.

Yesterday I spent money I had’t planned to. DD1 called at 4 to say she wasn't doing the after hours sport so I had to dash out to collect her then it wasn't worth coming home just to go out again for DD2, so we had a snack. £8, and my cheesecake was not good. Then £4 on veg.

£8 at sainsburys. Pigs in blankets purchased, carrots, chilli sauce and yorkies.

Dinner almost ready!

I'm a HCP, I've got a few plasters and an aerosol of iodine. My answer to most things is "oh it'll be ok just rinse it under the tap, what do you think immune systems are for ".

I do have syrups lots of you won't have heard of though so that makes up for it in my mind.

I've bought two light fittings using my M&S voucher, free light fittings woo-hoo. No. Not woo-hoo. It takes 4 G9 bulbs not one E27 EACH. It will cost £42 to get decent led bulbs for them. £42.

Plus they dropped the price from £37.99 to £30.99 after I'd paid for it.

THE BASTARDS.

Nk, you are making the rest of us look lazy. I hope you have wine for later on.

Iamnot Are you in the moneysavingexpert energy club? They are good but it keeps coming up with suppliers who aren't giving cashback.

£1.20 on 3 copies of the sun.

£10 on fuel.

Ooh I found cheaper bulbs on amazon.

I can calm down now.

Why don't you take them back to m&s and the re-buy them at the cheaper price?

I have been doing our budget all afternoon. I've been through all our bank statements and my credit card statement. I need to get my hands on dh credit card statement next. It's been enough if an insight already!

fluffy you have been obsessing about light bulbs for ages . Did you not also use money from topcashback to buy light bulbs?

Spent £19.05 on 2 course pub lunch for DP and I. It was my treat. I really enjoyed the food. It was also nice to have some couple time.

£36 in Aldi, bought 2 free range chickens, 2 of the big ham joints and 2 of the rib thingies in bourbon plus sone bits for when dh's boys come in a couple of weeks. The oldest is bringing a friend to stay this time so will be dh, me, 2 teenage boys, dss and dd to feed for the week and my food bill will probably treble! Need some fruit and veg for next week @ the weekend but that will hopefully be it

Nsd. Car still isn't fixed.