It's the 2nd day of a new year and progress has been a tad slow here at catzscorner! Still going forward slowly is better than staying still and making no progress at all! We have had 2 No Spend Days in a row! Hurray! We will be running out of milk soon so that won't last :)
I managed a healthy breakfast of yogurt and hm muesli with dried cranberries and it was delicious and lasted me until lunch.
Lunch was a couple of freshly baked rolls with some leftover cheese and tomato (it needed using up)
Dinner tonight was my friends recipe - chilli tuna with wholemeal pasta, fairly healthy, cheap, filling and made enough to be able to freeze away a couple of "ready meals" in the freezer for later.
Although we are eating up the fruit for snacks, I also remembered to take my vitamins and suppliments, to pick me up until I get this diet under control! I am having to remind myself to drink more water instead of putting the kettle on for tea (a weakness here I am afraid) but I have the sweetie urge under control - 1 treat a day while we have so many lovely treats around, so todays treat was half a slice each of my christmas cake, which had worked out well, the royal icing had stayed soft with the adding of some gycerine to the icing mixture. I shall slice up and freeze away most of the cake, ready for packed lunches. Unopened packs of nuts, crisps and crackers that have a long use by date have been put into my store cupboard, ready for any entertaining and a family barbecue later in the year.
Today we sorted out the recycling ready for collection day next week, it certainly keeps the dustbin fairly empty! I emptied the families selection boxes and boxes of chocolates in order to get the cardboard into the recycling bag. After seeing how much plastic was in the packaging, I will not be buying those packs again! The greening up of my family is going to take a bit of time but I am working on it! We then packed away a fair amount of the decorations. Just the tree left now (my favourite decoration)and that will come down on 12th night and be packed up in the loft ready for next year.
Helping out at our local hospice charity shop warehouse looks like a definate possibility! So that should be another achievement reached soon. I have still to work on the budget though! I was always bad at maths!:(
Daughters pain is under control now and she should be back at work on Monday! Only 10 days to go to extraction day! Thank goodness for anti biotics!
6 comments:
It's amazing how much you can reduce your household rubbish by recycling isn't it?
Shocking also the amount of packaging you get with some products!
Well done so far..
You're right about boxes of chocolates and selection boxes being more packaging than chocolate. Next it'll be Easter eggs and all the excess packing there.
Glad to hear your daughter's got her pain under control :)
Interesting blog, thank you for sharing this
You've made me hungry.
Yummy!
I found your blog via Sharon J and have enjoyed having a quick read through ..... and you have reminded me it's dustbin day so I must put the rubbish out. Just one small bag when my neighbours all too often have 4 or 5 bags. But each person who resolves to recycle more is step in the right direction and hopefully we will be able to stem the tide of some much rubbish.
Happy New Year and good luck with those resolutions.
Rosie x
Our council is really good about recycling, in fact this week we have 2 collections! The first was for plastic bottles and paper. Today is cardboard and bottles and tins.
Mr C has noticed I have upped the amount we are recycling now. :)
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