April 14th 2015 - Aldi

April 14th 2015 - Aldi

Prior to moving North nearly 2years ago I hardly visited Aldi for my shopping, despite there being 2 where I lived.  Both were out of town and involved 2 different buses each way - not fun or easy with kids and shopping!  So we would occassionally nip over in the car.

When we moved house, we started off by shopping at Morrisons for most things as thats what we had got used to as our regualar supermarket.  However, on the same site as Morrisons there was a Lidl, so we would nip in there and get few bits. We then had to go to the other retail park to go to Iceland for any other bits we had't managed to get.  Next door to Iceland is Aldi!

We decided that we would try and do our shopping at Aldi as they say its much cheaper than the other supermarkets.  Yes they are cheaper BUT we still found we had to go elsewhere for few things.  But on the whole we manage to do most of our weekly shopping at Aldi and Iceland.

We were sppening in the region of £90-100 a week in Morrisons and then extra in Iceland.  By swapping to aldi we have reduced the main shop down to £60-70 a week.  Which is great, this extra money comes in very handy with 3 boys who are growing out of clothes and ruining school shoes like you wouldn't believe. 

I wish I had started using Aldi alot sooner than I did and would certainly reccomend it to anyone.  As I said abov we do have to get a few things from elsewhere but I would say 85% of main shop is done at aldi, 10% at Iceland and 5% elsewhere - for the reason Aldi don't sell the product or don't have it in or we don't like Aldi's version.

January 27th 2015 - FIMO

January 27th 2015 - FIMO

Today has been one of those mad days.  We usually go shopping on a tuesday morning, today being no exception.  Except for the fact I needed to do some bits in town as well.  So rather than leaving food in the car and then doing town we did town first.  Makes sense right???  Well you would think so but it seems the world and his wife were in town and the supermarkets all at the same time.

We usually get to the supermarkets just after 9am once we have dropped the kids off at school and the shops are very quiet and we get really quickly.   But today with going into town first which was really busy we didn't get to the supermarkets until nearly 12.  And it was heaving, you couldn't move down half the ailses and people were pushing and shoving!  I'm NOT doing groceries this late again!

Well after finally getting the shopping and lunch and getting home there wasn't much time left before getting my boys from school so I hav done a very easy pin for today - the instructions for how to use FIMO Modelling Clay.  I have bought a white sparkly pack of it that I am going to turn into 2 unicorn horns to go in jars to be added to my witches potion shelf for halloween.

I have even found instructions on how to make them from air drying clay, so it wont be much different for the oven baked clay which FIMO is.

I remember when I was little me and Mum had loads of FIMO and I was always making things, beads and animals and things for in my dolls house.  I didn't know it was stilll made until I was looking for clay to make the horns from.  Then to the madness of it I asked my friend if she had used it and could tell me how long to bake it for as it came with no instructions...... see bottom left of picture!  DUH.  LOL!  I didn't even see it on there until she asked me for a picture of what "Type" I had bought, as they vary slightly.  Never mind.

I also bought a book in the charity shop for 99p to start making my old spell book from.  I did look in the old/secondhand bookshop in town and he had some LOVELY really old leath bound books which would have been ideal, the only downside was the price of the £6.50 for an A5 and upto £50 an almost A3 size.  They would have been great but I can't justify the cost of it for use of a few hours 1 night a year.  Watch this space for the advancement of the spell book.