A busy week...

Well, Ive had a busy week the past week, including Bank Holiday Monday yesterday.

Ive set myself a budget of £50.00 a week for everything except necessary bills ie Credit card repayments, mortgage, water, electricity, sky, mobile bills.

Last week I spent a total of £49.75, and that inlcuded managing to only spend £1.00 on food the whole week! My spending was as follows:

Dog Bowl x 2 = 1.98
Chopped tomatoes x 4 = 1.00
Dog Food x 2 = 11.00
Dog Eardrops = 10.79
Eye Shadow = 3.99
Mascara = 3.69
Dog Haircut = 15.00
Sandwich= 2.30

Total £49.75!

Hopefully I wont need to buy dogfood again for another 2 months, and the mascara and eyeshadow should last me a while. Instead of getting these items from Superdrug as I would usually, I got them from an ebay shop for much less money so a good saving made there! Also, the dog food is usually £7.99 a bag and I got two bags for £11 while it is on offer at Pets @ Home so another good saving there!

I have also finished transferring my Credit Card debt to my new card, so now I just have one card to pay off. Pity the one card has £8500 on it, but heyho! I have also closed my other 5 cards so that I do not have the extra temptation and also to hopefully increase my credit rating a bit, as I do not have access to so much money!

Also, I have been doing pretty good in my being Thrifty at home, on Saturday I made a massive batch of Lamb Stew in my slow cooker, I used lamb I found in the freezer (which at the time I thought was beef!) and added water and lamb stock, broth mix and made dumplings for the top. I had this for my tea Saturday night and managed to freeze an additional 5 portions!

I also made pea soup yesterday, randomly, as everytime I opened the freezer peas kept falling out and it was doing my head in! I made this just with peas, an onion and vegetable stock and a couple of potatoes. I was pretty annoyed I had no mint sauce left, so I Improvised and added in a sachet of lamb & mint gravy to get the mint in there! My soup is now a little bit brown but still delicious. I had a portion yesterday for Lunch and today for lunch again at work. I am also going to freeze the rest tonight when I get home.

Also yesterday I made some Strawberry Jam using frozen strawberries and jam sugar i already had! I got 4.5 portions so that should keep me going for  a while :-)

I have however put on 9lb which I am most unhappy about, I am booked in for Spinning tonight so If I can be bothered Ill go! I do however have an issue with having my puppy with me at work, so will need to find a babysitter pretty sharpish if I want to make the 630 class!

Almost forgot - another Thrifty thing I did this weekend was go to Newcastle Library! It is MUCH better than Gateshead Library and I got 10 thrifty books out, almost all of them were on my Amazon Wish List :-)