an Ostentatiously Austere October...join here for a frugal month ahead!

[PeoniesforMissAnnersley]

All welcome to join the MN frugaleers for another month of recording our spends, frugal wins and frugal fails!

NSD = No Spend Day (let's have as many as possible!)

LSD = Low Spend Day

NSD today so 2 for the week with one more bring my goal. LSD tomorrow as I put fuel in car once a week and can't avoid it. Have managed to drive less this week so expect not to pay so much for fuel.

I have just had a look at the food lists the boys did. No surprises from DS1 but from DS2. He has specified he doesn't like white, pink or yellow fish or plaice. He used to like plaice and has eaten one of the others so I am a bit and hoping this isn't because he would rather have fish fingers. In my mind the rot set in when I was ill and they lived on fish fingers, nuggets, waffles type food for a couple of weeks but that was ages ago!

Tues - shepherd's pie with veg on the side.
Wed - chicken something
Thurs - no idea yet
etc etc

£1.53 because someone has sent me a letter and not paid postage

Dp went to work and left the door open, pulled to

Yes Karen Gammon is same as ham

Tonight for dinner we've got toad in the hole with cauliflower cheese mmmm (and peas and carrots)

£5 gym creche
£7 new gym card
£50 odd at lidl weekly shop
£2 dd bus fare for the week
60p cake sale

£42 led bulbs (nearly there, I'm as bored of it as the rest of you)
89p milk
93p stamp.

Refunded my shoes & posted a dress back.

5 week month now.

Might get fish and chips later but that's only £7 for two.

Tonight we are having pasta with homemade tomato sauce, with 1/2 jar of olive tapenade in it (got bought the tapenade and don't like it as too anchovy-y so hoping this will use it up) with side salad of beetroot and cucumber. I warned you there'd be odd combos...

Tonight we have the other half the roast chicken from Sunday n will still be left overs we get 2 huge chickens for £10 from a farmer's market type place in a garden centre.

Just got ds a t-shirt from boden for 20p as they sent me a £10 voucher n free delivery code which they do every so often only ever buy in sale or with voucher.

Bought a half price trench coat in Gap...they are £35 from £70 atm and I was suffering in the chilly mornings waiting for the train (only have thicker work coat as threw my other thinner coats away in a rage several years ago as they fit me terribly)

I commute 3 days a week so tues-thurs is makeshift meals. ...
Tues - cold chicken and microwave rice and salad
Wed - pizza and baked beans for kids and dp (boiled eggs for me as gym night)
Thurs - Pork mince shepherd pie from freezer (made at weekend)
Friday - ds goes streetdance and we get home 5.45 so am tending to do salads and french stick (picky plate for kids which covers all food groups)
Weekend- off to the inlaws to be fed and watered!

Every now and then my 6 yr old announces he doesn't like something he always has eaten before. I put it on his plate anyway and say he doesn't have to eat it but aside from yogurt/fruit they'll be nothing else. I've always won so far as he would no way want to see his sister get a "treat" if he doesn't. ...

Was perilously close to a NSD until my last remaining onion turned out to be mouldy! So, DS dispatched to the local shop. Had to agree to a chocolate bar though too

10 on getting the car cleaned and 15 petrol all in preparation for MOT tomorrow inc a repair (the fan makes the car stall and the speedometer keeps sticking - have no idea if this will be ???)

fluffy the LEDs are working out well thank you! More warm than cool but still nice and bright. So can you get 'normal' led bulbs too? You've bought so many I'm imagining you in a huge mansion with chandeliers in every room!

Thank you lilacclery I have been wondering about this for a while; [forrin] it made no sense to me.

£17 mcdonalds but quite frankly my dears i dont give a damm

I've just taken my d s to swimming lessons , it was hell

£9 at sainsburys. We ran out of milk and weetabix. Now I've realised I've forgotten about bread. Argh.

Six

This types coming out now, it is more pricey BUT brighter than a pearl finish bulb.

Look at the lumen rating, 10lm is roughly 10-15w. Tesco are selling a load off but they are mostly cool white so no one wants them.

I do have chandeliers . They are not massive though.

Dh says our house is like being in John Lewis's lighting department.

agree with Fluffly about the LEDs. I had 10 halogens in my North facing kitchen and DH worked out that all of them on was the same as having the toaster on (4 slots)

Nk5bm3 I don't eat cereal as a rule other than porridge with water as not a fan of milk but being pregnant really fancied weetabix - omg how expensive are they was looking at asda own can't stomach the value bricks n I must be a tight cow as refused to pay the price as know I would need 3 to fill me up as much as porridge.

Newsflash DD ate two sprouts.

I always give her one but she has annoyed me so I gave her 3 tonight.

Woop

Ds choked on his first mouthful of dinner so wouldn't eat anymore and because he spat it into his bowl I couldn't salvage any of it!

itsfab

itsfab!!

Chicken and chorizo casserole and rice went down well.

I need to use the last of my Nector points on those little additional items that flavour a meal, miso, umami paste, Belazo pots. I'm nearly all out and sainsburys do have the best selection. Have about £10 to use.

To freeze herbs, fresh from the garden, do I just chop up and freeze in ice cubes?

Oh dear, expensive pizza, be gone from this thread