Frugaleers Still Saving into September

[Laska5772]

New Thread!!

Spending too much money but it's pay day today and dd tomorrow so start of a new frugal time.

Need this won't surprise you but I like Jamie's 15 minute falafels. I expect you probably have the book!

Sunny I'm so sorry, that must have been one hell of a shock for both of you.

Need A girl called Jack does falafel. If you cook dried chickpeas in the slow cooker they're incredibly cheap and very filling. She puts carrot in hers but I'm going to use spinach in mine. The shop mark up on them must be massive. I looked on The Ordinary site btw, the products look great but it's serious stuff and total sunblock SPF would be a non negotiable factor. Some contain silicone too which I avoid.

Welcome back Italian, I'm not surprised you've had modelling offers for them

Yesterday was a NSD but no betting profits.

Today was £7 villa Maria wine & £14 mb profits. £5 worth of nectar points for the Christmas shop. That's £95 now. I'm not sure how much I need TBH. I can't have most Christmas treats due to 2 food allergies & Dh has diabetes.

14/25 of my to do list done. Woo!

I'm at all of you with courgette gluts. I grew 4 plants from seed which were doing brilliantly until something (mum thinks pigeons) devoured all the flowers!
Laska glad you've had your back looked at, those exercises sound like McKenzie extensions which are great for bulging discs. Hope it helps.
Need interesting re the multivit supplements. I stopped taking supplements a while back having been told similar regarding absorption and that a very varied diet is the best way.
Happy birthday yesterday to your ds Cag
Lovely to see you back Italian
Lonely I know exactly what you mean about being ready for the dc to go back to school. 6 weeks is a long time!
I'm going to order some new cook books to try from the library as i feel in need of new inspiration. Our library does a loyalty scheme which gives you one free request every 6 and I have a free one to use, 60p saved...every little helps!!
School uniform done except for shirts for ds which I forgot, but he's easy to buy for and it's just a plain white shirt.
Took dd for lunch in town as an end of holiday treat which was lovely. (£20), £2 car parking, £8 on birthday cards for various people.
£80 on groceries (probably £100 by the time dh has been to aldi) but that includes enough meat and fish for the freezer which will provide loads of meals (got a £10 loyalty discount from the farm shop, which is already very reasonable so win win)

I'm going to watch with interest re flaffels as Iceland is the cheapest I found at £2 for 12 but they need cooking.
£20 Lisa angel on birthday present, £14 ness on a purse for me. Thanks Christmas thread.

Mammy holiday was great thanks! We were house-sitting on the coast so even more frugal! Good luck with your half! *

Life* your fitness sounds intense too! I'm promising myself I'm getting back in track tmrw!

North/lonely/girlie/wreck I'm in absolute agreement - roll on school (even though it marks return to work for me!) this last week has been hard especially with my crazy girl cag and my screamy screamy babies love 😂

Em such lovely courgette ideas - especially the crisps! I've just bunged a few in a soup I'm making - particularly yummy in soup!

Need how was the hummous? The jury's out for me on homemade - not sure it's worth the effort and I always end up with far too much!

Fluffy what have you planned for Christmas? Are you going away? I dream of Christmas in a hotel!

I've felt really meh today. I'm craving a return to routine. I spent on random things today including some gifts. Starting to panic a bit about Christmas and the reality of my reduced work hours. I've only dropped 6 hours a week for my return but it's made a huge dent in my pay + mega childcare = worrying about balancing the budgets!

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£16 something in Waitrose. Mostly on things for dparents. (And crumpets, chilli pesto and chocolate hobnobs for me).

Apart from not being quite sure how I'm going to get us all out of the house by 8.30am and DS to wear his uniform I am quite looking forward to getting into a school routine. It's been a rather trying summer with not enough sun to get out enough!

Courgette and Brie makes a lovely soup. Covent Garden Soup Co published a recipe but you basically sling Brie into any courgette soup at the end and blend. So yum and quite filling.

Waitress No, unfortunately not! The two years we did it were fab but it's so expensive. Plus we had a summer holiday this year which we didn't do on those years.

We will be at home. No visitors. Which is how we like it. And lots of naice wine & vodka 😊

If you ever get the chance to do it take it though. Nothing like tea & mince pies by an open fire in the library.

Seacow baby goes out in pjs and you have breakfast after the school run. That's what I always did!

Pasta with chilli pesto and a ton of grated cheese for dinner. Dinner for one tonight as dh is working late.

Got to Tesco £56 on food, socks, pants for dd1. New stuff is never ending.

Have made a vat of mixed veg/tomato sauce to use and freeze. Using up another courgette, beans, toms from the garden, and sad veg from the fridge. So, I thought I'd sling in the small sad orange peppers I grew from "orange snack pepper" plants I got from Aldi.

Holy shit they are not peppers!! My mouth is still on fire (my lips and the side of my nose too?). They are furiously hot chillies. Even dp spat the tiny bit he had out. I'm imagining lots of Aldi customers are having the same problem! I shall be a bit more careful with them!

Lonely That is about the peppers! Contact them, you might get store credit out of it . (Can you tell I work in compo now?? lol)

I have took a notebook with me from day one of work and wrote meticulous notes on everything but tbh my training has not been as comprehensive as I would have liked and the format of it has not been super good either (but I bet most jobs are like that?) My supervisor and colleagues are all super helpful though and patient with me asking them 10 billion questions a day!! I made a couple of minor errors today again but only tiny things which I sorted and I can tell I'm slowly getting the hang of things. I called my first claimant this morning only to be told they didn't want to talk about it as they've just had a bereavement in the family, I was ! Typical.

I love falafels but too scared to try and make them myself, but yeah they are silly-expensive to buy. DH is busy making us a veggie curry of some description for tea but with a premade sauce.

Bloody love a falafel. Mmm. In a pitta with red cabbage cucumber and humous

I've never tried falafel, or hummus (that's the weird pink stuff?) or holoumi

Feeling quite annoyed. My focus group never emailed me the link to join the discussion. Got the link 25 mins after it had started but then it was full.

meadow I write all my training down in a notebook too although I do appear to be unique in my office for that. I also found lots of my training over the years is by word of mouth between colleagues and there is never a definitive guide to anything, ever. When I train people I often say 'I think you do this, and then if that doesn't work do that.' Not very helpful!

Pink stuff is taramasalata. Delish.

I would complain about the focus group, there's money riding on that.

Thanks cag have saved it
Both girls love broccoli and cauliflower and cheese so think it could be a hit

Wreck that's how we roll even when trying to get out by 10am! . The School gate
mums will certainly not see me at my best!

DD has been screaming for 6 hours straight. I've handed her to DH... he's now on holiday for the next week. I am very excited about sharing the night feeds for the next 10 days, him not so much

Thanks fluffy but dh and I agree that if it's something they wanna do when older then fine but for now we decide and it's not really out thing

Sold a toy from dd2 for 5£. Got insurance bonus as well which is 40£ for dh and 140£ for me and we changed subscription (spelling) for tv and got 56£ back today that was overpaid.
Picked dd1 up early from kindergarten where she's been hammering screws in wood all morning and using the drilling machine so her Christmas wish is a wood block and hammer and screws
Took her to an cafe and shared ice tea and bun so 5£ on that.

I spent much of today puzzling over irons.

I tried to descale our iron but it started pouring out epic amounts of bright orange rust-filled hell-foam from the soleplate, and so I binned it.

Then I found that most of the irons in the shops have weird buttons that barely work, or are wildly expensive or whathaveyou. I finally managed to buy an iron, and have ironed four nice shirts for dh's lunchings.

Oddly irons don't seem to steam on lower settings any more, which means they don't take the creases out of polycotton shirts. How weird!

£40 on an iron.

Ds is having conniptions about going back to school. I think I've figured out that he understands spoken instructions slowly and written instructions quickly. I've written to the head to ask they can help with that.

Dd has just been sobbing for ages cause dh and I are going to a wedding overnight Saturday and she hates it when we leave her

love try humous. It'll change your life. Fact.

We're in bed. I had to pick dh up at 730. So not too late.

He's paid our car insurance and gas agreed for the new disc (we still use them here) to be sent in the post. Ours runs out on Saturday. We don't get post on Saturday. I need the car on Saturday. It usually takes 2 days to get to us from "town" in the post. Why why why he didn't just go and collect it is beyond me. He needs the car first thing Monday. So if it doesn't arrive tomorrow he's stuffed too.

Evening all, we have been out for a family meal to Nandos which was lovely. My mum paid which was very generous of her, i bought dd a pudding which was £2.50 I think. Have also got some tickets for dd and her friend to watch a film at the kids club tomos morning that's £5.

Have been looking at stuff on the Dun Elm clearance sale, there is some curtains that dd likes for £28, she currently has some donated curtains which aren't the right size so I think I might get them. I also need new dinner plates and bowls, all of mine are chipped do things get more chipped when you hand wash them? All my stuff seems chipped now