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Atomic pink said:
Sounds like you would definitely be entitled to a crisis loan in that case. Its a much more immediate benefit - you phone up the social fund and request a crisis loan for essential living expenses and it gets agreed while you are on the phone. You then just have to get down to the local benefit office to collect the giro at a pre-agreed time that day. I only have the numbers for England but I am sure a quick google would find you in the number you need. A word of advice though would be to phone as early as possible (they open at about 8:30am) as they lines do get pretty busy later in the day.
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Thanks chick - everything's closed for bank holidays today and tomorrow but hopefully hear back soon about my application and will ask about this! Although money is still an issue it's not a massive problem currently as I know I have help to pay bills and food so I'm not too worried about anything else as I've already cut my spending right down over past few months of being off.

Speaking of spending cuts I popped to Asda as needed carrots and onions to make soup tonight love that it cost like 80p for both and that will make loads just need to add my tesco value stock cubes and a little thai curry paste :) oh yeh the point was they had bitesize wholemeal pasta reduced to 20p a bag! Bought 4 so that will feed me for ages for pennies a serving :) might get more actually when I think about it such a bargain and do use a lot of pasta! X
 
Week 3 day5

B- Greek yog
Couple tinned peaches
Alpen light 2pp

L- Thai carrot soup
Toasty- ww bread, quorn ham, salsa

D- possibly wholemeal pasta with kale pesto type stuff using oil allowance?

Snacks- rest of tinned peaches
Toffee yoghurt 1pp

Drinks- water
Chai latte
Flavoured sugar free black currant water

Exercise- 2 hour walk :) plus going to shopping centre later so prob another hour can't buy anything but OH needs bits for going away to festival this weekend

Weeklies used-
 
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The kale pesto sounds interesting, would kale break down enough for pesto? I love the iron-yness of kale so thats sounds lovely as a pesto.

Great bargain on the pasta shapes. I struck jackpot last Autumn with Tesco who for no apparent reduced all of their wholemeal pasta to 25p a pack for a few weeks. I stocked up well so still have about 5 packets in the cupboard. I could probably happily eat pasta 6 days week but have been trying to limit it to one or two days a week and cut down my portions quite a bit too but sometimes you just can't beat a huge bowl of pasta for dinner.
 
CAKE RELATED INCIDENT!!!!

Ok so I popped to shopping centre with OH as he needed some bits for going away to download festival this weekend and popped to morissons to get kale to make dinner. Lack of kale so got a mixed bag of mixed rocket, ruby chard and spinach that was reduced to 25p also picked up grapes and peppers since they were on offer and OH was paying and then it all went wrong...

Passed the reduced bakery items and saw this amazing red velvet cake that I have admired before at full price. It was reduced from £6 to.... Wait for it.... 49p!!!! It was a teeny tiny bit squished on one little bit of icing but other than that perfectly good. So umm yeh I got the cake.

Normally I would be able to resist but I'm really struggling at the moment, feeling a bit shitty about my injury/finances etc and gave in.

On the plus side it was amazing triple layer beast with chocolate and vanilla filling oh wow!

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Probably a bit of self sabotage since was already expecting a gain this week ah well just got to not use it as excuse to go off the rails! X
 
icklerockchick said:
CAKE RELATED INCIDENT!!!!

Ok so I popped to shopping centre with OH as he needed some bits for going away to download festival this weekend and popped to morissons to get kale to make dinner. Lack of kale so got a mixed bag of mixed rocket, ruby chard and spinach that was reduced to 25p also picked up grapes and peppers since they were on offer and OH was paying and then it all went wrong...

Passed the reduced bakery items and saw this amazing red velvet cake that I have admired before at full price. It was reduced from £6 to.... Wait for it.... 49p!!!! It was a teeny tiny bit squished on one little bit of icing but other than that perfectly good. So umm yeh I got the cake.

Normally I would be able to resist but I'm really struggling at the moment, feeling a bit shitty about my injury/finances etc and gave in.

On the plus side it was amazing triple layer beast with chocolate and vanilla filling oh wow!

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Probably a bit of self sabotage since was already expecting a gain this week ah well just got to not use it as excuse to go off the rails! X
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Red velvet very tasty. But never truer than a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips lol. What's done is done its how you move forward that counts. Hope you feel better soon xxx
 
That is one hell of a cake! Looks delicious, hope you enjoyed it suitably. Are there leftovers? You could freeze them and that would limit the damage a bit?

I am a sucker for bargains like that in the supermarket and they are the things guaranteed to make me deviate from my healthy intentions every time - its rude not take advantage of such reductions!
 
It's pretty massive it lives beside the birthday cakes normally as a posh alternative eek!

Going to get OH to take the leftover cake to work so that others get to benefit from its tastiness and I'm pretty sure I would struggle to bin it.

Got a vaguely healthy ish bargain too - these was a couple of the big tubs of skinny glorious soups in the reduced section for 19p each so that's some easy lunches sorted and it would definitely cost me more than 19p to get butternut squash to make it myself ;-)

I had a big chunk of cake but not totally gorged on it til I feel sick so that's a bonus I guess, did really enjoy it too! X
 
bulldogdaisy said:
Cake looks worth it so don't worry and well done on the bargains! Some good finds :0)
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It really was lovely but between it and the cocktails and BBQ at weekend I must have used my weeklies several times over!! So silly when I was doing so well - ah well right back on it tomorrow must stop messing about! X
 
You might be ok though,sometimes our bodies 'let's us off' if it's not done too often! Plus you can gain control tomorrow as you say :0)
 
Week 3 day 6

Ended up making it a propoints day as had no appetite all day then bf was getting a readymeal from asda and I really couldnt be bothered cooking and hadn't ate much so I did too.

Brunch- latte with skim milk 3pp
1 bit of toast with ww spread 2pp

D- asda kids veggie lasagne 6pp
tear and share garlic bread 8pp

snacks - icecream 7pp

drinks - water
squash

exercise - 70min walk

pp used- 26/26
weeklies used - 0

Today was horrible :( had an emotional breakdown at the doctors eek been bottling it up and pretending i'm ok but truth is I am finding everything really difficult at the moment. Was always pretty happy easy going person but the injury has made me pretty down and anxious etc. Got some more time off, offered pills but declined and got info about therapists if I want to go speak to them about it.

Not looking forward to this weekend at all - bf goes away to festival tomorrow morning until Monday night. I wish I was going too but couldn't afford it or deal with all the walking about all weekend. Normally if hes away would just go see my mates but they are all away to another festival this weekend :-( so probably just have a lazy weekend try and get out a couple walks and spend the rest of the time watching shows on Netflix - just started "the gates" yesterday and totally love it, also rewatching invader zim as it's one of my fave cartoons ever :-D x
 
icklerockchick said:
Week 3 day 6

Ended up making it a propoints day as had no appetite all day then bf was getting a readymeal from asda and I really couldnt be bothered cooking and hadn't ate much so I did too.

Brunch- latte with skim milk 3pp
1 bit of toast with ww spread 2pp

D- asda kids veggie lasagne 6pp
tear and share garlic bread 8pp

snacks - icecream 7pp

drinks - water
squash

exercise - 70min walk

pp used- 26/26
weeklies used - 0

Today was horrible :( had an emotional breakdown at the doctors eek been bottling it up and pretending i'm ok but truth is I am finding everything really difficult at the moment. Was always pretty happy easy going person but the injury has made me pretty down and anxious etc. Got some more time off, offered pills but declined and got info about therapists if I want to go speak to them about it.

Not looking forward to this weekend at all - bf goes away to festival tomorrow morning until Monday night. I wish I was going too but couldn't afford it or deal with all the walking about all weekend. Normally if hes away would just go see my mates but they are all away to another festival this weekend :-( so probably just have a lazy weekend try and get out a couple walks and spend the rest of the time watching shows on Netflix - just started "the gates" yesterday and totally love it, also rewatching invader zim as it's one of my fave cartoons ever :-D x
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Just sending you some hugs x
 
Sorry to hear you've been feeling so down,that's good that you have planned ahead for your weekend and don't forget that we are always here for you aswell :0)
 
Hey Laura just catching up, sorry to hear you felt so rubbish. I think it was good that you managed to let out some of your upset and anxiety, it's much better than bottling it in. This weekend try to do some lovely things that you enjoy doing alone that you don't get the chance to do. I find it hard when my boyf is away and have no friends around to play with, so try to plan nice things for myself, sounds like you've started to already. Hope you feel better today. Xx
 
Thanks for your support ladies it means a lot :)

Just feel bit silly as I used to be relatively care free as could always put things into perspective and knew that I should be thankful for everything I had and that there's so many out there in much much worse situations. I just seem to have lost the ability to put things in perspective and instead just feel sorry for myself over silly reasons.

Just try and keep myself busy but it's to be crazy horrible weather again so mostly reading and tv I guess. X
 
bulldogdaisy said:
How about a pamper night? Even if it's not normally your thing,it's relaxing and would help to pass the time :0)
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Sounds like a plan! :) my epilator just arrived had been dabbling with the idea of trying one for a while and it was glittery and half price and I discovered I had loads of points on my boots advantage card so bought it with my points so didn't cost anything :-D not often you can treat yourself for free! I get really lazy And only shave my legs when I need to as I am usually in jeans or leggings! So got it on charge now and I'm sure I can find a face mask somewhere in the house :-D

Has anyone tried one? Heard its pretty painful first time but I'm thinking that if tattoos don't bother me then getting all my hairs pulled out cant be TOO bad can it?! X
 
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