Frugal Friends Forging Forward Toward February and Further Financial Freedom

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Chicken followed my jam roly poly and custard

Oh man the sponge/roly pudding talk is killing me. I was goi g to make the Ed Balls sponge cake earlier but we don't have enough sugar. We've also run out of lurpak so I'm trying to plan lunches that require no buttering of bread. In this weather even if I left the proper butter in the kitchen it wouldn't be spreadable

What is Ed Balls sponge cake?!

There is a technique to cold butter spreading - very thin slices are your friend. If you have this type of cheese slicer it is ideal. Lay the slices out on the bread and put it near something warmish (kettle, cup of tea) for a couple of minutes and then spread. In Oz the butter was kept in the fridge or you would come home to an oily puddle covered in ants.

madden fingers crossed for you it goes smoothly.

Hi all, just caught up some lovely chat on the thread. I remember all the old posters, very entertaining hope they are all ok! Right I haven't been on for two days, I am going back to the classroom 5 days a week from feb 22nd, so I have started my projects. I wanted to paint the front porch area of our little terrace house using all the left over gloss I had in 2 colours, blue and string....I have refreshed the white and spent 10 pound on floor tiles. Hanging plant, pretty painting and a little wooden shelf/coat hook thingy upcycled and repurposed from other rooms, frugal job done. May as well eh MrsMadevans in this weather, is Cardifd bad today? Swansea is a shocker.
Spend days over weekend, but again from the 25th Feb(payday) NS March begins (other than food).
Compost for cheese plant £5
Floor Tiles £10.00
Yacht varnish £5 ( topcoat for newly painted kitchen cupboard doors)
Slippers for husbands bday M&S 31.00
(Bargain sale pair for me, 10% disc, and some cashback)
Swings n roundabout though:
Refund from e learning course 17.98
Life point survey pay out £15.00 paypal
Mr Fear got 15% off the indian takeaway for valentines and Clark's boots 60% off and cashback for my bday (15 years I have wanted Clark's boots but i am too tight pay)
Right, no more spends....

Unescorted I had never thought of using the cheese plane for butter, genius! I do my grandmother's trick of popping the butter dish on the open door of the grill while the bread is toasting but if you forget about it for even a few seconds it melts.

Dinner done and kitchen cleaned while we did a disco - the dc love dancing it’s so brilliant.

We watched frozen - I’d never seen it before.

Bath - ds had a haircut - Dh is braver than me I just tied his hair up!!! Ds looks like such a grown up boy now. Dh did a Suprisingly good job.....

Bed. I’ve picked the meat off the chicken and have separated this into three pots. One for stir fry. One for chicken pasta. One for catface. The bones are in another pot and will make stock tomorrow morning. Going to dparents tomorrow to work so I’ll start the stock off and dh can watch it and finish it for me.

Loads of leftover potatoes and veg and stuffing so will make a pie or a soup or something.

Would you believe that’s the first roast dinner I’ve ever made from scratch? Dh usually does it. I’m super proud today.

Well done on your first roast em 👍

Good bargains there fear

Pork was lush, I’m stuffed.

I need to make a bara brieth, I refilled the sugar caddy. I also had the tea caddy open. Yep, I poured the sugar on top of the small amount tea left in the tea caddy 🤦‍♀️

Well done em
You are also MN the hell out of the chicken too. Proper frugality there.

Oops but yeah cake tomorrow

Well done on your roast Em, it's one of my favourite meals to cook

Ah I’m nowhere near as frugal as my great auntie Joyce. She could make a chicken do two people for an entire week. No idea how.

Well done on the roast, em! I am scared to cook meat as when I left home for Uni, I became vegetarian for 7-8 years and even though I eat meat now I never really learned to cook it. I cook all the veggie stuff here and DH does meat/fish. I am getting braver but I always think I’ll poison us and overcook it if I try.
Sadly this round of IVF has failed, we have one more embryo in freezer to try before moving on to a totally new cycle. Sigh.
At least I’ll get a break for a few weeks now until the drugs begin for the next frozen attempt.

Oh Gen I'm so sorry that this was not the cycle... your time will come. It's shit though, look after yourself and treat yourself kindly xx

Gen

Just joining! Goals for this month £500 towards car payment. Trying to get debt free. £50 saved towards dental work and £200 in isa. Managed the isa, halfway through rest of goals. Currently on 6no spend days, aiming for 10

Sorry to hear that Gen

I’m so sorry gen 💐

gen i'm so sorry. i hope you and dh are ok. sending love and light your way!

at parents currently. "working" the dc are drawing with dm and df is making a curry for lunch. it smells divine. no idea what's in it, but the cooking smells are wafting up to the "library" where i'm working - so called because it's my old box room, and has a floor to ceiling bookshelf on one wall....dm likes to sound posh - such a hyacinth....! this room is also the study, and the office. dsis' old room is the "east wing" because its the only bedroom you have to turn left to get to at the top of the stairs....she makes me giggle.

Sorry to hear that Gen - hope you are ok x

Sorry to hear that Gen

£5 bakery, £10 pet shop. Walk done with accompanying teenage whingeing, washing done but needs hanging up, shed put back to rights after bringing stuff inside the other week to avoid flooding risk

£70 therapists invoice for last month which she's just sent through.

£300 off credit card.

I've sent up payments to go from the joint account next monday to cover car seat payment and payment for kids clothes.

from Monday i am going to really tackle my credit card spending. make sure that i am on top of it all. I think have a few expenses work can reimburse me for on there so am going to take some time this weekend too to go through things work out what's what and see if they can give me money back (for seminars i attended etc - only around £20 a time but relevant).

towels washed today, although Im not at home - they were done before we woke up this morning. dh just has to put them in the dryer.

Gen sorry to hear it wasn't to be this time .

Welcome all

Adora oopppps . My brother would unscrew the tops when we went to cafes as kids.

@Unescorted

Gen sorry to hear it wasn't to be this time .

Welcome all

Adora oopppps . My brother would unscrew the tops when we went to cafes as kids.

ah dsis used to do this too

bored with work.