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Monday morning…

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Its Monday morning here and I’m back to work today, not really looking forward to it as I am now quite behind and I know its going to be busy! I’m tired already and I’ve only been back a few months – at least this week is a short week with Good Friday off.

I saw my dr on Friday and she was very pleased with my progress. I have a month to get my weight down further before blood tests to see if insulin resistance has improved. So more exercise, more healthy eating and less snack foods for me!

I made a batch of almond biscuits using this recipe as a basis, they taste great and satisfy my need for crunchy foods.

I also cooked up a batch of veggies – pumpkin, carrots, onions, sweet potato so I can just reheat them as needed.

I used $30 worth of vouchers for the shopping this week but I’ve still spent too much this month. Will add it all up for the end of month tracking.

Overall it was a good weekend, feeling much better after being sick,  but I just have the Monday morning blahs I think….  anyway I’ll keep plodding along – only four more years to go 🙂

Chicken Soup & Mortgage Progress

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Well at the moment I’m off work sick, feeling pretty second hand at the moment but at least I can rest up at home. DD made a lovely big pot of chicken soup and we’ve been eating that – its the perfect comfort food when we’re all sick with the latest bug thats doing the rounds.

I love making soup and I love eating soup! This recipe had lemongrass and ginger in it which gave it a lovely warm feeling on my sore throat. Its a recipe we’ll make again.

Here is the recipe she used: Chicken Stock & Soup Recipe.

On the mortgage front today I made some extra payments to bring the balance down to $158,975.  Thats takes us to the end of Year 10 on the original amortisation schedule.  It means we’ve paid 5% off the mortgage since we started this blog.  The next goal balance is $155,123 which will take us to end of year 11 balance.

To reach my end of year goal of <$100,000 we will need to pay $1475/week. A big goal but I’m going to just keep believing I can get there somehow. My extra work starts next week which will help but I still need to work on reducing expenses further.

Tomorrow I’m off to see my doctor for an annual checkup and then back home for the day to curl up on the lounge and rest.

Grocery shopping & some of this weeks meals.

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Its week two of our $60/week minimum spend at Coles. I forgot to use my triple points voucher so will use it next week. Heres our grocery spend for this week.

IGA: $11.54  2 litres milk, 1 litre iron enriched milk, 460g sundried tomatos

Butcher: $11.82  4 chicken breast halves

Bakers Delight: $14.50  1loaf bread, 4 turkish rolls, 6 cheese & bacon rolls

Corner Shop: $14.52 12 xsparkling water , pkt ham, slices roast beef, pkt lollies

Markets: $17  1 kg honey 1 jar orange whiskey marmalade

Coles: $86.15   savings $42.44 + $10 off – total shop value $138.59

 Our cat wanted to be in the picture…



1 red cabbage $2.50
1 green cabbage $2.90
7 bananas $3.36
650g red capsicum $5.75
4 pink lady apples $2.38
700g red grapes $2.75
300g green capsicum $2.08
125g raspberries $4
1 bunch coriander $3
500g pasta $3.15
4x 48 pk carefree pads $9
2x 42 pk carefree pads $5.10
2x 100 Liptons teabags $5
1 kg bread flour $3.40
2 decor containers $4
10 pk AA batteries $8.48
5 x 400g cat food $7
6 pk cat food Dine $4.80
2 x 432g pineapple $4
600g yoghurt  $4.50
1 BBQ chicken $9

Total Spend this week: $138.53

Good buys this week were the half price specials:  carefree pads, teabags, batteries & decor containers.

Only one trip to the corner shop this week and that was DH.

We ate two pkts of frozen vegetables & a pkt of potato wedges from the freezer and some frozen beef which I stewed in the crockpot. Tinned baked beans & tomatos eaten from the stockpile.

I’m managing to eat more veggies and fruits and am cutting back the chips and chocolate…   Heres a few of my meals from during the past week:

I took a tin of baked beans, the last half rasher of bacon and the perino tomatos that were going soft and half an onion in the pan with a bit of olive oil.

The next day I baked a sweet potato and put the leftover beans over it with half an avocado over the last of the mixed bag of lettuce – tasted fantastic!

This is meat I did in the crockpot. I put if on before work and when I came home at lunchtime I emptied the bag of baby potatoes into it. Had it with broccoli and the frozen veggies done in the pan with some onion added and cheese on top.

I’ll weigh in the the 1st of March again. I do feel like I’ve lost a bit of weight so am curious to see what the scales say.