I'll start off with a doh, Homer Simpson style.
I went back to my list of What I Have Already Paid For to check that cheese for the mini quiches was indeed there, which it was. I also realised that coffee was also on the list!
So here's me charging myself 12p a day for four coffees when I've already paid. So that's 36p back in the kitty!
Just to explain - it's good quality decaff, Millicano, which I love, but it's so cheap because they were on special at half price and when I see that I stock up. Nothing to do with Breadline, I just do.
Yesterday's food cost me: £1.22
Refund of 36p
Total spent so far: £15.36 (which includes stuff to last the month or as long as it can)
Still to spend: £44.64
Today's food
Breakfast: toast and marmalade, natural yogurt, orange juice (all paid already)
Lunch: leek, potato and butterbean soup (14p), bread (paid), hot cross bun (10p)
Dinner: small jacket potato (paid), tuna and mayo (66p), small salad (30p - a guess, using up old salad veg)
(added pm) Snack: Stewed rhubarb (4p for the sugar, rhubarb from Beth's allotment) with yogurt (paid)
Coffee (paid!!!)
Today's total (so far): £1.24
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Friday, 3 April 2015
Friday
Yesterday was amazing - really the first spring day of the season, warm, sunny and a day for being outside. Absolutely gorgeous.
I got cracking good and early so I had time to almost finish the skirt, start some gardening and make some tomato scones (yum) before Beth arrived.
I lugged the clothes horse outside and got my washing dried in the fresh air. Beth couldn't stay for long after lunch so when she left I went out again and gardened leisurely for an hour or so before getting stuck into the ironing. I also made some bread for her (I will have to deliver it this morning or afternoon) and it was so nice to pop the dough in a warm sunlit spot and see it growing almost visibly. The small pleasures are the best!
It really was a lovely day. Well, lovely apart from the fact that as I carried the garden rubbish to the bin via the path at the side of my property I was viciously attacked by a stem of old bramble that had obviously been there for a while, just hiding and waiting for me to come along and disturb it. Ouch, ouch, ouch. It took me about five minutes to disentangle myself and my lower legs are now covered in scratches which took ages to stop bleeding. OK, not covered exactly, but enough to look quite startling!
Fingers crossed that today will be as nice as yesterday. Not the weather as it is dull and raining and iPod tells me that it is likely to continue all day, unfortunately. I have no specific plans, just hoping that what I do will be pleasant and productive. And that the bramble will go away and leave me alone!
I do have one plan - to go to Aldi. When I was last there I decided to try their deodorant as the one I used was so flippin' expensive. So I did and am very pleased with it so I want to get some more. I also need stuff like dishwasher powder, etc.
Have a good day and stay dry!
Breadline update is in a separate entry.
I got cracking good and early so I had time to almost finish the skirt, start some gardening and make some tomato scones (yum) before Beth arrived.
I lugged the clothes horse outside and got my washing dried in the fresh air. Beth couldn't stay for long after lunch so when she left I went out again and gardened leisurely for an hour or so before getting stuck into the ironing. I also made some bread for her (I will have to deliver it this morning or afternoon) and it was so nice to pop the dough in a warm sunlit spot and see it growing almost visibly. The small pleasures are the best!
It really was a lovely day. Well, lovely apart from the fact that as I carried the garden rubbish to the bin via the path at the side of my property I was viciously attacked by a stem of old bramble that had obviously been there for a while, just hiding and waiting for me to come along and disturb it. Ouch, ouch, ouch. It took me about five minutes to disentangle myself and my lower legs are now covered in scratches which took ages to stop bleeding. OK, not covered exactly, but enough to look quite startling!
Fingers crossed that today will be as nice as yesterday. Not the weather as it is dull and raining and iPod tells me that it is likely to continue all day, unfortunately. I have no specific plans, just hoping that what I do will be pleasant and productive. And that the bramble will go away and leave me alone!
I do have one plan - to go to Aldi. When I was last there I decided to try their deodorant as the one I used was so flippin' expensive. So I did and am very pleased with it so I want to get some more. I also need stuff like dishwasher powder, etc.
Have a good day and stay dry!
Breadline update is in a separate entry.
Breadline: 3-4-15
Spent so far: £14.50 (a nice convenient sum to calculate)
Still to spend: £45.50
(it won't necessarily tally with yesterday's because there's things to buy in and bits to take out if Beth has them . . . and so on! Nit picking? You bet!)
Today's food plans
Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs (28p), toast and butter (already paid), orange juice (already paid)
Lunch: leek, potato and butterbean soup 14p, apple 13p
Dinner: mini quiche (12p*), wedges (already paid), mayo (20p), peas 12p, yogurt (paid) and pineapple (6p)
4 coffees (12p)
carrot batons (5p)
Total: £1.22
The soup was made like this:
half a smallish onion: 2.5p
1 potato (already paid)
1 leek 9p (two for one in Aldi and I used as much as I could, no cutting off the green bits and discarding)
butter beans 18p (no idea how much in weight, it was home soaked and cooked butterbeans)
stock pot 25p
Dash of garlic, dash of salt and pepper (taken from that extra 20p a day)
Bung it all in a pot, add water, boil it up until vegs are soft, zizz to a smooth consistency, check seasonings and adjust if needed.
Very nice indeed and it made four portions,. You could add some milk when re-heating, if you wanted.
*re mini quiche.
found I had no more in the freezer so made a couple and worked out the cost properly. Because the oil, the milk and, most significantly, the cheese had already been counted in, the rest came to just under 24p for two so what I have to account for the quiche is a stonkingly frugal 12p per quiche.
Still to spend: £45.50
(it won't necessarily tally with yesterday's because there's things to buy in and bits to take out if Beth has them . . . and so on! Nit picking? You bet!)
Today's food plans
Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs (28p), toast and butter (already paid), orange juice (already paid)
Lunch: leek, potato and butterbean soup 14p, apple 13p
Dinner: mini quiche (12p*), wedges (already paid), mayo (20p), peas 12p, yogurt (paid) and pineapple (6p)
4 coffees (12p)
carrot batons (5p)
Total: £1.22
The soup was made like this:
half a smallish onion: 2.5p
1 potato (already paid)
1 leek 9p (two for one in Aldi and I used as much as I could, no cutting off the green bits and discarding)
butter beans 18p (no idea how much in weight, it was home soaked and cooked butterbeans)
stock pot 25p
Dash of garlic, dash of salt and pepper (taken from that extra 20p a day)
Bung it all in a pot, add water, boil it up until vegs are soft, zizz to a smooth consistency, check seasonings and adjust if needed.
Very nice indeed and it made four portions,. You could add some milk when re-heating, if you wanted.
*re mini quiche.
found I had no more in the freezer so made a couple and worked out the cost properly. Because the oil, the milk and, most significantly, the cheese had already been counted in, the rest came to just under 24p for two so what I have to account for the quiche is a stonkingly frugal 12p per quiche.
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Thursday
Four days in and I'm starting to have little prickly, panicky feelings. That's teaching for you - for for me anyway. I have no idea if other teachers feel that way.
Enough of that! It feels much milder this morning and, although it is very dull, it is dry. I think there's space to do some gardening today, long overdue. In fact, as soon as I've finished breakfast and cleared up, I might pop out and do some.
Beth came round yesterday and we had another pleasant time together. She worked on an idea for a small quilted hanger thingy while I took control of the pile of ironing and managed to clear the decks. Unfortunately there's another pile today, that being the nature of washing, but never mind. As the wind has died down and as long as the rain doesn't fall, I can dry some stuff outside, which is always nice.
Here's what she did. For someone new to quilting and new to using a sewing machine, I think it is pretty good, don't you?
It looks a bit wobbly because it is on a cushion. Beth's coming round again today to practise quilting on some scraps before tackling the real thing! Before she takes over the sewing machine, I want to stitch up another skirt. Oh, it's all go around here.
Breadline is going well - more info in a previous posting.
Have a super day.
Enough of that! It feels much milder this morning and, although it is very dull, it is dry. I think there's space to do some gardening today, long overdue. In fact, as soon as I've finished breakfast and cleared up, I might pop out and do some.
Beth came round yesterday and we had another pleasant time together. She worked on an idea for a small quilted hanger thingy while I took control of the pile of ironing and managed to clear the decks. Unfortunately there's another pile today, that being the nature of washing, but never mind. As the wind has died down and as long as the rain doesn't fall, I can dry some stuff outside, which is always nice.
Here's what she did. For someone new to quilting and new to using a sewing machine, I think it is pretty good, don't you?
It looks a bit wobbly because it is on a cushion. Beth's coming round again today to practise quilting on some scraps before tackling the real thing! Before she takes over the sewing machine, I want to stitch up another skirt. Oh, it's all go around here.
Breadline is going well - more info in a previous posting.
Have a super day.
Breadline: 2-4-15
All good so far. In fact, yesterday I had to pop 11p back in because Beth had lunch here and that was her share of the toast, butter and coffee that I had already accounted for!
Apart from that it was all pretty easy except that I swapped a coffee for a tea so that's 1p back in. Take care of the pennies, as the saying goes.
So . . .
Total so far (out of £60) £12.94
Paid back 11p
Total spent: £12.83
(being slightly dyscalculic, it's a headache working out these figures so please be kind with any errors. They are either accurate or pretty close)
Today:
B: 3 slices streaky bacon 15p (reduced), 2 slices bread (paid), orange juice (paid)
L: tomato scone 3p, 1/8 tub of soft cheese 7p, small spoonful chutney home made so no idea but am guessing 5p,
D: Turkey curry 75p,
And 12p for coffee!
Already spent: (including money back and a carton of orange juice because once it's open it has to be used) £13.41
Today's spend: 1.09
Spent so far: £14.50
Left to spend: £45.50
Apart from that it was all pretty easy except that I swapped a coffee for a tea so that's 1p back in. Take care of the pennies, as the saying goes.
So . . .
Total so far (out of £60) £12.94
Paid back 11p
Total spent: £12.83
(being slightly dyscalculic, it's a headache working out these figures so please be kind with any errors. They are either accurate or pretty close)
Today:
B: 3 slices streaky bacon 15p (reduced), 2 slices bread (paid), orange juice (paid)
L: tomato scone 3p, 1/8 tub of soft cheese 7p, small spoonful chutney home made so no idea but am guessing 5p,
D: Turkey curry 75p,
And 12p for coffee!
Already spent: (including money back and a carton of orange juice because once it's open it has to be used) £13.41
Today's spend: 1.09
Spent so far: £14.50
Left to spend: £45.50
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Wednesday
Oh, dear, the positive effects of the clocks going forward has faded and I was up at worse than stupid o'clock today. Fortunately I can snooze later on, if needed. It feels jolly cold so I'm snuggled up in my fleecy dressing gown with my owl fleece over my knees and it's cozy. The heating will come on soon. The strong winds seem to have subsided (for now), which is a blessing.
What a lovely day yesterday was! OK, so the weather was none too great. The wind didn't let up at all and there were some very short, sharp showers, some with hail, but when you're enjoying yourself it doesn't matter.
Firstly, I finished A's quilt. It is very bad but it's my first ever so I'm pretty chuffed with most of it and I have learnt a lot while struggling through it. I hope A understands and accepts it in the spirit it will be given. I also finished one of the skirts I am making for the summer.
I popped over to Morrisons to get some korma paste to make some chick pea korma for me, Beth and Alex. Luckily, they had Patak korma sauce at half price which meant it would be better value than using paste, coconut milk, etc, so I got two jars of that. I must look up a recipe for making my own korma paste. Any ideas?
Once home, Beth arrived and we had lunch and then set to. She continued to gain experience on the sewing machine as well as making some pinwheel blocks and I made the korma - very nice and 36p per portion so can't be bad! It was just a lovely, friendly afternoon. Nothing 'special' but it was very special because it was relaxed and pleasant and - well, lovely!
I had a lazy evening so didn't get that cupboard sorted out but, dear me, I am sure it won't go away.
I hope your day was good too.
Today is, I think, more of the same. I hope so, anyway! One thing about having Easter so early is that I don't have to look out for getting April Fooled by the children at school. Y1s were pretty unsubtle, along the lines of 'your hair is pink, Mrs Clark' but I suspect my Y 2s would be much more adventurous!
One of the halogen lights has just popped and I don't think I have any LED replacements. A while ago I said that I would replace all the halogens with much longer lasting LEDs and I am doing so. This means a trip out to B&Q, I think.
Breadline stuff is in a separate entry!
What a lovely day yesterday was! OK, so the weather was none too great. The wind didn't let up at all and there were some very short, sharp showers, some with hail, but when you're enjoying yourself it doesn't matter.
Firstly, I finished A's quilt. It is very bad but it's my first ever so I'm pretty chuffed with most of it and I have learnt a lot while struggling through it. I hope A understands and accepts it in the spirit it will be given. I also finished one of the skirts I am making for the summer.
I popped over to Morrisons to get some korma paste to make some chick pea korma for me, Beth and Alex. Luckily, they had Patak korma sauce at half price which meant it would be better value than using paste, coconut milk, etc, so I got two jars of that. I must look up a recipe for making my own korma paste. Any ideas?
Once home, Beth arrived and we had lunch and then set to. She continued to gain experience on the sewing machine as well as making some pinwheel blocks and I made the korma - very nice and 36p per portion so can't be bad! It was just a lovely, friendly afternoon. Nothing 'special' but it was very special because it was relaxed and pleasant and - well, lovely!
I had a lazy evening so didn't get that cupboard sorted out but, dear me, I am sure it won't go away.
I hope your day was good too.
Today is, I think, more of the same. I hope so, anyway! One thing about having Easter so early is that I don't have to look out for getting April Fooled by the children at school. Y1s were pretty unsubtle, along the lines of 'your hair is pink, Mrs Clark' but I suspect my Y 2s would be much more adventurous!
One of the halogen lights has just popped and I don't think I have any LED replacements. A while ago I said that I would replace all the halogens with much longer lasting LEDs and I am doing so. This means a trip out to B&Q, I think.
Breadline stuff is in a separate entry!
Breadline: 1-4-15
And here we go. Day 1
Today's food is.
Breakfast: porridge with yoghurt and pineapple. Oats, yogurt and milk already accounted for, pineapple 5.5p.
Lunch: beans on toast and muffin (the American kind). Bread and butter already accounted for, beans, 12p (half a can, savers), muffin 5p
Dinner: turkey meatballs in tomato and veg sauce 53p, pasta 8p, pineapple and yogurt 5.5p
Coffees through the day x 4 = 12p I have it black with no sugar.
Total for day: 96p plus things already accounted for.
Already accounted: 11-98
Today's spend: 96
Total so far (out of £60) £12.94
Today's food is.
Breakfast: porridge with yoghurt and pineapple. Oats, yogurt and milk already accounted for, pineapple 5.5p.
Lunch: beans on toast and muffin (the American kind). Bread and butter already accounted for, beans, 12p (half a can, savers), muffin 5p
Dinner: turkey meatballs in tomato and veg sauce 53p, pasta 8p, pineapple and yogurt 5.5p
Coffees through the day x 4 = 12p I have it black with no sugar.
Total for day: 96p plus things already accounted for.
Already accounted: 11-98
Today's spend: 96
Total so far (out of £60) £12.94
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