Spending October organising our spends - friendly frugaleers this way!

[ememem84]

New thread because old one is almost full. All welcome. fluffy can you be a doll and please post the helpful threads? X x

[PlinkPlink]

Hi everyone who said welcome! So many since I last checked in.

Also... bowing in deference to the queen of frugality, Fluffy 😂😂😂😂 that was a phenomenal post!!! I hadn't even heard of MySupermarket!

Curls glad you like the sound of the soup. It was super creamy and yummy. So comforting.

MSE is brilliant. I got a refund off my student loan payments because of him. Wonderful. Came just at the right time as well. I now need to see if I can claim back overpayment fees from Natwest as they really put me in financial difficulty. I ended up going on a dmp. So fingers crossed I get something out of that!

I am also going to look at changing tariffs and comparing energy. Amazing. I feel so excited 😂😂 (how sad)... a little bit like that feeling after you've done a massive shop at Aldi. You know, the ones where in any other supermarket it'd be £200 but then the cashier says "That's £95 please". I get a small thrill from that moment 😂😂😂

I have found my people, I think 🤔😂😂

[PlinkPlink]

Soluble paracetamol does the same to me ememem . Bloody weird stuff 😖😖😖

Catface though? Sounds like an interesting ailment 😂

[ememem84]

Haha! Yes. Nurse catface

[WereWolfcub]

Catface looks very stern. I hope you are following her instructions Em

Autumn good luck selling the instrument this time around. My fb buyer did not turn up today

[ememem84]

Absolutely wolf stay still and snuggle.

[thistimenextsummer]

Sorry I've fallen off thread over the weekend...still another week til half term here (crawling along to Friday)

Girlie we have quinoa quite often as a grain / cous cous substitute - I don't think it would work in a casserole. I think it's texture (nutty/grainy) is its selling point whereas in s casserole it might get soggy?

[Justanothermile]

 I usually cook the quinoa first and stir into the bake or casserole then bake in the oven. Just to minimise it sucking up all the moisture. I might be tempted to add uncooked to a SC.

[ChristmasSeacow]

I wouldn’t do it with the quinoa. But then I don’t like the texture much and the thought of it being extra wet makes me shudder.

I like ALL grains other than quinoa. Honest.

[WereWolfcub]

Sea I’m with you on the quinoa. I like it in a bought salad but when I cook it myself it looks like bugs

New thread when we’re ready
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/3402599-Nearly-November-Friendly-Frugaleers-Navigating-K-nitting-Nattering-and-Nuturing-our-Pennies?watched=1

[Justanothermile]

I'm a big fan of giant couscous, cheap in Aldi. That's an alternative.

[LonelyOversharer]

Anything else girlie I chuck in according to the cooking instructions. So pearl barley gets the full time, rice about 15-20mins, lentils half an hour...dp puts them in at the start, he likes a studge. We had 4 hour cooked rice the other night. Uuurgh. I know I should be grateful that he cooks at all, but honestly!

We (my girls and I) ate the solid soup. But looked like this sitting round the table!

[Cagliostro]

Is the giant stuff as easy to cook? I love how low maintenance the regular stuff is 😂

I want to start using pearl barley and stuff like that in cold salads.

I am waaaay behind on the thread

[Girliefriendlikesflowers]

Thanks for the advice, will have to think of something else to do with the quinoa! I want to find ways of getting non meat protein in to dd and me I suppose and quinoa scores quite highly on protein apparently.

[LonelyOversharer]

See I like it girlie but it really gets stuck in my teeth! I think you have to cook it exactly though. Too little and it's gritty bullets, too long and it's slimy bugs! I like it in a bought m&s salad though. Not that I ever buy those anymore. Frugaleer guilt and all that.

Have just listed a lot of dp's bike group set on ebay. He's keeping just one set and flogging the rest. A big admission that he might not really ride anymore. It's hard on him, but we are bracing for back surgery I think. It's that or giving in and living doped up to the eyeballs.

[Tarriance]

Fluffycloudland77 thanks for all the tips! I’m in Scotland & water is charged as a set part of our council tax here. Will check about paying council tax over 12 months. We get a discount as my partner is a student.
I love mysupermarket and do a ‘big’ online shop every other week as we don’t have a car. We don’t eat much meat. We’ve been trying the basics versions stuff of to see if we like it! We buy the basic squash and pour it into a pretty bottle
Our landlord has recently put in a new washing machine which is easier to customise cycles than our old one - I’ve been trying to wash on cool for the environment too! We dry our clothes on a pulley as we have really high ceilings.
I love Wilko but there’s not one near me sadly.

Girliefriendlikesflowers I agree about having less stuff - I’m trying to be a bit more minimalist / environmentally friendly too which I suppose works well with being skint! Though surely boots are a necessity.

WereWolfcub I will check out MSE tomorrow

My dad has an allotment and though we’re coming to the end of its productive spell for this year I got leeks, celery and cabbage last week and chopped them and froze them into individual portions.

[WereWolfcub]

New thread link a few posts back

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