Nearly at the end of the month and getting pretty squeaky for the first time in ages. Not really a surprise after having to buy an outboard motor and a car in the same month. So we're pretty much starting from scratch with our savings next month. That's fine. It's uncomfortable not having a back up but if we are frugal it won't be too long before we have a little safety net again. The girls birthdays are coming up in a couple of months which is unfortunate. but we'll make it work. I never planned to buy them hundreds of presents anyway, and I think they both want low-key parties, which I can give time to rather than money to make special.
Half-term this week. The weather is wet today so I'm going to give some time to getting the house back in order this morning, and then I imagine we will go for a trudge in the rain.
Yesterday for supper I made the vegan cheese sauce from potatoes, carrots & cashews. I've done it a few times & am surprised every time how good it is & the kids love it. I really want to go more to that way of cooking, using good, unprocessed foods to make something tasty.
Yesterday we went to a world food shop that we've never been into before. There are a lot of different world food shops in our neighbourhood, so we tend to just stick to the ones we know, but I've been getting a bit fed up with one of the shops we often use as it just seems to be getting dirtier and more cramped, it's super stressful to shop there. The one we tried yesterday was the absolute opposite of that, clean and quiet and spacious, so I'm looking forward to doing more of our shopping there. Generally I would like to move away more and more from big chain supermarkets. Things like dairy free milk and butter we'll probably still have to get from there but if it's just basics like that, I can limit that to a once a month shop and hopefully do my weekly at our local independent shops. They sell all of the good healthy food I want us to be eating like beans, tahini, spices and fresh veg, and so much less of the rubbish.
This morning I made potato hashbrowns for the girls. I snuck a couple of eggs in, as my eldest isn't a big fan but will eat them cooked into things, and I think they're probably good for the girls. They didn't enjoy as much as plain potato hashbrowns, although neither of them said anything, and honestly I didn't either, so I won't make them again.
Will suggested yesterday that I go through my old blog posts and publish it as a book on amazon. I can't see myself doing it, I'm not a hustler.
Time to make the bed and sort the laundry now, tooodleoo.
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