Frugaleering, cakes and baby talk

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Just starting off a new thread as the other one was getting full.

We've to have our online order in by 8am for delivery same day with Tesco. Not sure on the situation with SuperValu I can't afford to shop there

I debated last week buying a new blender mine really struggled with the weetabix slices. Instead I adjusted my ingredients & it had no trouble on Sunday frugal win ⭐️

Em if it were two weeks ago you could say it was a craving & send him out again but now

I've recently gone back to actual shopping from almost exclusive online supermarket shopping. I like both, but everything I was buying was getting too much the same, so I am liking the variety of wandering around Sainsbury's. I dare say I will change back. Don't think it was a thing when my DC were tiny anyway so we all went shopping together.

I'm glad those who have needed sleep have bloomin' well got some, being sleep deprived is just awful. Both of mine were BF and DD exclusively from the breast but I still used to hand her over to DH when needed in the night, she wasn't going to suffer from grumbling for a while. Risking mental or physical health is not a good parenting choice!

Talking of DH, he apologised immediately this morning for being a grumpy bastard last night.

Seacow I am actually pleased you mentioned the Brie thing. I've a glut of courgette and remembered brie and courgette soup yesterday. I would have bought President cheese on the back of the butter being incredible. How's DD getting on? Yep, can't imagine having a small baby at 42, but definitely there's benefits to both sides.

Today's dog walk was one of the wetter ones.....!

£24 Aldi but annoyingly they didn't have washing up liquid! so £1.29 at the village shop

Cag - keep meaning to ask if you are feeling better generally being LCHF? I know it's a necessity but I was curious.

OH and Em, good for you for not feeling guilty/pressued re breastfeeding if it hadn't worked. Folk can only make you feel guilty if you choose to allow them to. Good stuff re DS growing, I love it when they start to fill out and fit their skin a bit more!

need their washing up liquid isn't great - fairy all the way - it's something I've discovered is not worth straying away from

I'm going to spend €140 on Annie in December in National Concert Hall for 5 of us when I get home. I've no cards with me and I can't remember the CCV!

Oh Annie, that will be fab. I keep meaning to book Reginald D Hunter and forgetting!

I did mean to post that actually Mammy! That my last bottle of Aldi normal stuff wasn't great but their 'posh' range of washing up liquid was fab. Shame they had sold out of both, which is definitely the negative aspect of Aldi and Lidl....

Thanks need it's a bit tricky to tell at the moment as heading to 8 months now and getting generally knackered, achy and grumpy :o but I do certainly think there are positives to it! It's actually something I was starting to look into anyway (just wasn't ready for making a big change like that IYSWIM) as it makes sense to me.

We can go back to normal eating after the birth but while I am certainly looking forward to being able to have the odd treat again, I don't intend to eat as carby a diet in future TBH. GD puts me at higher risk for type 2 in future so it makes sense anyway and it will help me continue to lose weight. It's been a pleasant surprise how easy it is to just have a lot less of something like pasta with a meal, I love a lot of good fats like avocado, and it's really made me think when I've had say a burger without a bun and realised I never really enjoyed the bun anyway so I don't miss it at all. But was clearly just eating it out of habit.

It's also got me thinking even harder about what I really really like (in the "is this actually worth the calories/carbs" sense) - I had kind of improved with that anyway over the last year or so but it's made a big difference now. I am struggling mentally with it all but that's more to do with the huge change and feeling like I'm not in control IYSWIM. And that's only temporary. :)

Thanks for the celeb bf link sunny. I know it wasn't meant for me but I'm not getting masses of irl support for bf now - when DD was a newborn I got a lot but now it's, don't you think she should be dropping feeds? Etc. I loved the Salma Hayek bit but was sad to see Gisele Bundchen being so hard line. There's plenty of reasons people can't bf and rather than a law to make everyone bf til 6 months it'd be better to focus on supportive measures like feeding consultants, mothers' helpers, support rather than policing postnatally etc. As well as, y'know reducing poverty worldwide so mothers aren't so malnourished that they can't feed their babies as evidenced with the salma Hayek story. Anyway, off soapbox and thanks again for posting it as it really got me thinking.

£40-ish spent in Sainsbo’s, advent calendars, gf XMas pudding £7 worth of bits for food bank collection box and a few odd bits. Also spent £18 on bits for DD2 for Christmas.

Then £2.50 in the coffee shop.

Tomorrow should be an NSD.

100 if you are feeding on demand, just keep on feeding on demand! Dd will naturally drop feeds as she eats more solids (how old is dd?). And then if you want to keep going, just do it. There's no rules, and I just nodded and smiled (and lied a bit) when I got the "you can't still be feeding them at over a year" etc comments.

Went to asda (£27) and hobbycraft (£16) today. But I have started to stitch the denim together for the sofa. I'm quite excited about getting on with it.

Tea is sausages, yorkshires and roasties. It feels like that sort of day. The weather has been awful all day.

My electricity keeps going off desperately trying to cook the dc's dinner!

100 if you are feeding on demand, just keep on feeding on demand! Dd will naturally drop feeds as she eats more solids (how old is dd?). And then if you want to keep going, just do it. There's no rules, and I just nodded and smiled (and lied a bit) when I got the "you can't still be feeding them at over a year" etc comments.

Went to asda (£27) and hobbycraft (£16) today. But I have started to stitch the denim together for the sofa. I'm quite excited about getting on with it.

Tea is sausages, yorkshires and roasties. It feels like that sort of day. The weather has been awful all day.

Double post, sorry! Stupid internet cutting in and out grrr.

100 I'm glad that helped and I totally agree about Gisele Bundchen. I don't know what she was thinking there. maybe she is sleep deprived

I know what you mean about the toddler bf phase. I definitely felt that I was helped in that phase by constitutionally not giving a crap about what people think of me. I think it must be harder for people who are keen on looking right and fitting in and whatnot.

I think it also helped in a way that I had no family living locally. It was only close family that was freaked out by toddler bf. Everyone else just thought I was another stranger and they didn't feel the need to tell me to change.

NSD. Been to the park. All still have lurgy but free air has helped.

Spag bol for tea.

I do a mixture of online shopping if we're very busy or supermarket to get an hour to myself (that's a bit sad isn't it?!). I go to all different supermarkets too depending on what we need and how bothered I'm feeling.

Ooh suprise nap! I love a suprise nap.

Midwife said that although ds has had a growth spurt we probably haven’t helped things expressing milk...he was feeding a lot yesterday and she thinks maybe the fact he was fussy etc was because he was trying to say “hey mum!! Where’s the milk!?” She may be right. Been advised not to express today and see what happens tonight. It could of course be pure coincidence.

She’s given me numbers for breastfeeding help type people. And I didn’t realise that the youth centre literally a 15 minute walk away is where the community midwives and breastfeeding people are based. So help is near if I need it. Nice to know.

We are lucky here, help is close. It’s just knowing where it is I suppose.

LSD today £3.55 on the bus.

I do rl shopping as sainsbury deliver from a different store to my local one and I can't get everything I would want.
Might try Asda again.
I get cupboard stuff in Aldi but can do a full shop in 30 mins after the gym.

£26 Morrison's for school socks and top up.

She doesn't ask for anything lonely that's my issue, except for an electric ride on car which she is not getting. She doesn't like shopping either.

Online grocery is a treat to myself if I'm having a particularly busy week but I do prefer Aldi.

Two topups this week partly due to dh not asking me what we needed at weekend €30

Yy it is about getting that support network em. Do they have parent and baby groups there?

Need the one with good housekeeping sticker? I'm still not convinced having tried it.

Breastfeeding is something everyone has an opinion & something that's not really anyone's business.

I never criticised people for giving their children sweets/liga/baby food yet people commented on me bf ds 'still' at 8 months live & let live is my motto

still at 8 months mammy They'd had an apoplectic fit if they saw me bf ds at 2.5! I think sunny went longer too. I did only feed ds at home (all night usually) but you are totally right, it's no ones business except the mum and baby in question. I only try to say 'well done' to anyone giving it a go, as I struggled like hell with dd1, and I know how hard it can sometimes be. Sometimes it's easy, dd2 and ds just took to it. Poor dd3 had a tongue tie, but not bad enough to be clipped. We soldiered on.

Forgot that I put £400 on my credit card, that's 1/3 of dd1's braces paid for. They're going on in 2 weeks

£6.70 in from mb
£5 in nectar points for the Christmas shop

£8 the ordinary skincare
£2 ear plugs.

Waitrose sent me £10 off a £100 online shop but the code isn't working so I'm going to complain. If it works I'll get three weeks shopping for us and the cat for £36 a week. I'll need bread & milk top ups but nothing major.

Snuggly, definitely not sad, I used to do the same. I used to relish actually browsing the aisles instead of chucking things randomly into the trolley while dealing with 2 small DC.

Really Mammy I quite like that one but it's individual isn't it. I fully agree some things are worth paying for whatever, for me it's decent coffee!

I'm wracking my brains for you Life 10 is such a tricky age.

YY to support groups, I went to loads. It kind of gave me a routine to my day and a reason to get out. I hated being in too much. Lots of like minded folk discussing stuff about babies and toddlers.

Cag Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to reduce crap carbs too. But couldn't do full low carb I don't think. Gosh, 30 weeks. You are doing brill. I know what you mean about the burger but no bread being just fine too, I always used to leave most of the bun anyway.

Yet again I'm using the JO book, the family favourites one. Balinese Chicken Curry. This book has earned it's tenner cost about a million times over.