Payday!

It;s finally payday! So I celebrated by going to town on the bus and putting money in my savings account. I also bought the dog his birthday present (a filled hoof from the market, costing a bargainous 50p).


So today I have spent:

£0.50 - dog treat
£5.20 - Bus fare for two people

And I have banked £210.

Tea is pizza and salad - costing worked out at 72p for two, due to the base and toppings being either ys or free. Is it sad to price up meals so precisely?!

Soup

Like any good poor person, I make soup. I'm not that evangelical about, in the way that some frugal bloggers seem to be, but I like soup and it's cheap, so I'll make some every now and again.

I bought a pack of soup mix veg for 13p, and it's got carrots, swede, onions, potatoes and parsley in it. Chucked it in a pan with 125g of yellow split peas (14p), a paprika stockpot (13p from approved foods a while ago). Cover with 2 litres of water, bring to the boil, simmer til the split peas are tender. Normally I'd blitz a soup in the blender, but as I've only got one working electrical socket in the kitchen I'm leaving the soup chunky. Got 5 portions out of it, so each bowl of soup costs 8p.

Tastes acceptable, but at that price there's no complaints from anyone. They know better than to risk objecting to whatever food is put in front of them. No photos, cause it's not a particularly pretty looking soup.

Another no spend today, so that's all good.

Walkies and blackberries

Today has been a no spend day. First thing in the morning I needed to return my Dad's car to him, so decided that rather than getting the bus home we'd walk back. We took the dog up with us and walked home through several parks and woods. Got back after an hour and a half and had an exhausted and happy dog and an exhausted and only mildly grumpy 12 year old.

After a nap we then went blackberry picking. Turns out the local brambles haven't been cut back at all since last year, so whilst there's masses of berries there weren't that many that were easy to get to. As such we're going to go tomorrow, armed with secateurs and we'll add to the 500g we managed to pick today.

Tea was cauliflower rice with tomatoes, salad and a chicken kiev for the girl and a chicken breast for me. Everything was reduced price, so total cost for the two meals was 73p. Which is good.

So no pennies spent today. Hurrah and huzzah and all that.

YS Rampage!

Whenever I have access to Grandad Badger's car, I like to go to my nearest big Tescos just when they're doing the end of day reductions and pick up the yellow stickered gubbins. Today I had the car and no food, so at 3:30pm me and the girl hit up the aisles.

We bought loads of salady bits, masses of sandwich meat, 6 pizza bases, loads of bread, a few desserts, some gluten free bagels all reduced to 90% off the original price. I also picked up a few essentials at full price and paid £17.54 for the lot. If we'd paid full price it would have been £81.42. Obviously I wouldn't buy this kind of stuff normally (A quid for a pot of cauliflower couscous? I don't bloody think so), but it makes meal planning more fun and helps ring the changes. So for tonight's tea I had 2 stuffed peppers (23p) and some salad leaves (3p) and a pack of cherry tomatoes (7p). The girl had half a pack of cooked chicken (10p) in a giant bap (free, donated to us by Gdawg Badger). Afters was a chocolate pot for me (2p), the girl had a strawberry sundae (10p)

So my tea cost 35p and the girl's was 20p.

Today's total spend £17.54

Skint badger

My house needs rewiring as a matter of urgency. This means I need money. I have no money, so therefore this blog is going to be about me saving money, and documenting my misery and self-sacrifices along the way. I'm trying to save £1000 over the next 3 months.

Let's see how long I keep this up for...