New month, new budget - 31 days' worth this time. I'll hold what I have left over, money wise, in reserve, just in case it is needed.
Already spent: £2.91
Left to spend £57.09 (which looks pretty healthy from this end of the month.
Today's menu
Breakfast: granola (4p) with pineapple (6p) and yogurt (paid)
Lunch: tomato scone x 2 (6p), soft cheese (8p), chutney (5p), fruit (paid)
Dinner: We (my guests and I) have a super whizz fantastic celebration for something wonderful that has happened so it's take away Chinese with (gasp) alcohol! Off Breadline, of course, so the total today will be the full £2.00
(because that's how it works!)
(Yes it does!)
So, spent today £2.00
Left over from April I have:
oil
jam and marmalade
skimmed milk
grated cheese (quite a lot plus I have more that I bought very much reduced what I haven't accounted for yet)
coffee
oats
butter
fruit juice
And bought in preparation I have
peanut butter
milk
sweet potatoes
celery
white cabbage
lettuce
carrots
Plus the left over cash!
The 'rules' will stay more or less the same.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Thursday
Good morning, everyone. It's a lovely early morning here, very cool with just a slight frost touching the roofs of the cars so that one feels a bit like a puffing Billy when breathing, but the skies are clear and the air smells wonderful.
I've sneezed six times already so must remember to take the antihistamine this morning.
Yesterday was odd. It was staff meeting after school and it was about something I don't need to know so I didn't have to stay. It just felt very strange and a little bit not nice to walk off and get on with other work, knowing that the meeting was still going on behind me. And they are interviewing for 'my' post today. It's just - strange.
I need to get on with some work so I'll stop now. I hope the day goes really well for us all.
I've sneezed six times already so must remember to take the antihistamine this morning.
Yesterday was odd. It was staff meeting after school and it was about something I don't need to know so I didn't have to stay. It just felt very strange and a little bit not nice to walk off and get on with other work, knowing that the meeting was still going on behind me. And they are interviewing for 'my' post today. It's just - strange.
I need to get on with some work so I'll stop now. I hope the day goes really well for us all.
Breadline 30-4-15
Last day of the first month! And I have survived.
Already spent: £49.61
Still to spend (in one day???): £10.39 (that would be fun!)
Days to go: 1
Today's menu
Breakfast: Beans ((12p) on toast (paid), fruit juice
Lunch: Saturday soup (10p), bread and butter (paid), apple (15p)
Dinner: Beef keema (75p), rice (15p), banana (paid) and custard (13p)
Spent so far today: £1.40
It's funny how certain patterns have established themselves over the month. For example, I almost always have beans on toast for lunch on Wednesday. That's because I have PPA on Wednesday afternoon so don't have to have a quick lunch and go back to prepare - there's time to toast the bread, heat the beans and eat it in a leisurely manner. Because I split a tin of beans in half, I therefore have the other half on toast for breakfast on Thursdays.
I always plan in some fruit juice for breakfasts but I don't always then have it. It's planned and there if I want it though.
Therre's quite a lot of stuff that I account for before actually using it. How I choose what to account for beforehand is somewhat unmethodical, but it works for me so it's worth continuing.
I put above that spending £10.39 in a day would be fun but, you know, it wasn't that long ago that I would spend that without blinking. A take away and a bottle of wine would more than use up that. I'm really glad I started this and intend to continue with some flexibility when it comes to using up freezer stuff. Works for me!
Already spent: £49.61
Still to spend (in one day???): £10.39 (that would be fun!)
Days to go: 1
Today's menu
Breakfast: Beans ((12p) on toast (paid), fruit juice
Lunch: Saturday soup (10p), bread and butter (paid), apple (15p)
Dinner: Beef keema (75p), rice (15p), banana (paid) and custard (13p)
Spent so far today: £1.40
It's funny how certain patterns have established themselves over the month. For example, I almost always have beans on toast for lunch on Wednesday. That's because I have PPA on Wednesday afternoon so don't have to have a quick lunch and go back to prepare - there's time to toast the bread, heat the beans and eat it in a leisurely manner. Because I split a tin of beans in half, I therefore have the other half on toast for breakfast on Thursdays.
I always plan in some fruit juice for breakfasts but I don't always then have it. It's planned and there if I want it though.
Therre's quite a lot of stuff that I account for before actually using it. How I choose what to account for beforehand is somewhat unmethodical, but it works for me so it's worth continuing.
I put above that spending £10.39 in a day would be fun but, you know, it wasn't that long ago that I would spend that without blinking. A take away and a bottle of wine would more than use up that. I'm really glad I started this and intend to continue with some flexibility when it comes to using up freezer stuff. Works for me!
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Wednesday
Good morning, gentle readers. Despite feeling quite cold yesterday, this morning is fairly mild (i.e. not frosty) and I was comfortable walking to the shed in bare feet which was just as well as my shoes were upstairs. The sky is clear and the stars are shining. I love the early mornings before the street lights come on; they are dark and mysterious but not threatening.
Oh, I was so tired yesterday evening. I came home and dived into a bottle of birthday wine which was remarkably silly as I then spent the evening prowling round the kitchen trying to find something 'bad' to devour. I didn't because there wasn't anything and, truth to tell, I don't know what I would have fancied anyway, just something! I was so glad I am doing Breadline and didn't have anything of that sort under the roof.
Yesterday was an OK day except for one thing. After lunch we had science and I had found a game called the food chain game online that was just the ticket. Out came the iPads (they love using the iPads) and they found the game via Safari, only to discover that the actual game didnlt work on an iPad. Grrrrr. Of course, I had found and checked it on a PC.
Fortunately the trolley of laptops was available so we did a quick swap over and away they went with the game. I could have kicked myself for not checking the actual game but I don't know much about iPads, not having one myself. They're good at logging on, etc, now so minimal time was waster, thank goodness.
Today, being Wednesday, is my 'interesting' day. It's violins as it is every week, but not library this week. In the afternoon it is PPA so that will get next week's planning more or less done and dusted. There's staff meeting after school so I will come home rather frazzed again, I suppose. It's just as well dinner is just out of the freezer and will only require heating up!
Have a gread day, everyone.
Oh, I was so tired yesterday evening. I came home and dived into a bottle of birthday wine which was remarkably silly as I then spent the evening prowling round the kitchen trying to find something 'bad' to devour. I didn't because there wasn't anything and, truth to tell, I don't know what I would have fancied anyway, just something! I was so glad I am doing Breadline and didn't have anything of that sort under the roof.
Yesterday was an OK day except for one thing. After lunch we had science and I had found a game called the food chain game online that was just the ticket. Out came the iPads (they love using the iPads) and they found the game via Safari, only to discover that the actual game didnlt work on an iPad. Grrrrr. Of course, I had found and checked it on a PC.
Fortunately the trolley of laptops was available so we did a quick swap over and away they went with the game. I could have kicked myself for not checking the actual game but I don't know much about iPads, not having one myself. They're good at logging on, etc, now so minimal time was waster, thank goodness.
Today, being Wednesday, is my 'interesting' day. It's violins as it is every week, but not library this week. In the afternoon it is PPA so that will get next week's planning more or less done and dusted. There's staff meeting after school so I will come home rather frazzed again, I suppose. It's just as well dinner is just out of the freezer and will only require heating up!
Have a gread day, everyone.
Breadline 29-4-15
Already spent: £48.54
Still to spend: £11.46
Days left: 2
Today's menu
Breakfast: granola (4p) with pineapple (6p) and yogurt (paid), fruit juice (paid)
Lunch; beans (12p) on toast (4p), muffin (6p)
Dinner: savoury rice (75p), fruit (paid)
Spent so far today: £1.07
Still to spend: £11.46
Days left: 2
Today's menu
Breakfast: granola (4p) with pineapple (6p) and yogurt (paid), fruit juice (paid)
Lunch; beans (12p) on toast (4p), muffin (6p)
Dinner: savoury rice (75p), fruit (paid)
Spent so far today: £1.07
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Tuesday
After a chilly start, yesterday turned out very pleasant. Not all that warm at times but sunny and cheering. Today it is chilly again but skies are clear so I'm hoping. I gather parts of the country have had a little snow but I doubt we will get any hint of it here.
I was pretty cold yesterday evening and, for once, turned the heating up which sorted that out very quickly.
The children did some writing yesterday, a non-chronological report about minibeasts. There were some very funny sentences, especially about spiders, but I think my favourite was one about ants where the writer commented that ants 'tear apart the queen ant and eat her which is a pritty disgusting thing to do but there you are thats what they do.' Classic child's POV.
Today is just more of the same. It's all go, isn't it? It will be nice to wake up and feel that the day's my own and I can read, sew, bake, whatever. It's also nice to remember that we're coming up to a long weekend. I might even take a trip to Hyde Hall on the Monday, weather and opening hours permitting. It will be packed but that's OK, I will take lunch with me.
Better go and check with Google :-)
Breakfast time so off I go. Have a lovely day.
I was pretty cold yesterday evening and, for once, turned the heating up which sorted that out very quickly.
The children did some writing yesterday, a non-chronological report about minibeasts. There were some very funny sentences, especially about spiders, but I think my favourite was one about ants where the writer commented that ants 'tear apart the queen ant and eat her which is a pritty disgusting thing to do but there you are thats what they do.' Classic child's POV.
Today is just more of the same. It's all go, isn't it? It will be nice to wake up and feel that the day's my own and I can read, sew, bake, whatever. It's also nice to remember that we're coming up to a long weekend. I might even take a trip to Hyde Hall on the Monday, weather and opening hours permitting. It will be packed but that's OK, I will take lunch with me.
Better go and check with Google :-)
Breakfast time so off I go. Have a lovely day.
Breadline 28-4-15
Already spent: £48.07
Still to spend: £11.93
Days left 3
Today's menu
Breakfast: toast 4p, butter (paid), jam or marmalade (paid), fruit juice (paid)
Lunch: bean and veg soup (15p), fruit (paid)
Dinner: Same as last night because there was plenty left over so all I have to pay for is the rice (15p), custard (13p), banana (paid)
Spent so far today: 47p - pretty good for a filling menu.
I despair! A few pots out of the freezer and four pots of good ham stock in to more than take their place. I couldn't throw it away though, could I? It is such good stock that cooled to a jelly. Ham and pea soup, here I come!
Still to spend: £11.93
Days left 3
Today's menu
Breakfast: toast 4p, butter (paid), jam or marmalade (paid), fruit juice (paid)
Lunch: bean and veg soup (15p), fruit (paid)
Dinner: Same as last night because there was plenty left over so all I have to pay for is the rice (15p), custard (13p), banana (paid)
Spent so far today: 47p - pretty good for a filling menu.
I despair! A few pots out of the freezer and four pots of good ham stock in to more than take their place. I couldn't throw it away though, could I? It is such good stock that cooled to a jelly. Ham and pea soup, here I come!
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