Fabulous food find today was a HUGE – SEEDLESS watermelon from Costo in Aberdeen at £2.99. Absolutely fabulous and the kids are hugely impressed with how much there is in the bowl after I sliced it all up to put it in the fridge for nibbles.
Watermelon works out at about 30 calories per 100g (according to my iphone diet calorie checker). A whole kg worth of water melon would only set me back 300 calories. Now that is a stomach filling prospect.
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Read what it says on the tin.
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a tin of coffee from Costco for a Saturday Club that we do. Bear in mind, that the other lady who also buys things had bought a tin of coffee for the October party, which should have covered it, but when it was opened, we discovered was actually fine ground coffee for a percolator although it doesn’t say that on the outside. Now that’s all very well if you have a coffee machine, or you are happy with floating coffee granules in your cup.
At the club, we have to take large flasks of hot water so that’s not an option. So, she bought some temporary small jars to tide us over.
Cue shopping for the Christmas party (which was cancelled due to snow, but thats another story). I take all the food for the Christmas party home. I had checked the tin to make sure I didn’t buy the same coffee, and I settled on dark roast, find grind (you can see it coming, can’t you).
My mother arrived at my house later that day with another tin of the coffee because she thought that was a good buy at Costco. She never keeps receipts, and I lost the Christmas one in all the madness getting stuff home.
It is a week before we are out of instant coffee and break out the big tin for the house. Yup, you guessed it, coffee grinds, and now we have two huge tins of this at home, and my friend has a tin at her house.
Cue post Christmas sales, and we have had to admit defeat, and now buy a coffee machine for the house. So that has cost us another £20 to buy one that matches the kitchen, and we probably have enough coffee to last us for about 10 years.
We still need to buy more coffee for the club. Third time lucky !!
Do I feel silly ??????
It’s here. The first flush of snow. Nothing signals the coming of Christmas quite like the first real snowfall. This is nothing like the snow of two weeks ago that was a light dusting on the ground overnight, which was then to disappear by 10am
Today has been rip roaring lovely white snow with big flakes. The kind of snow that is pretty to watch, and children just love to play in. We do lots of sledging in the snow when it comes, so today is not the best day for it to happen.
It’s a school day, and as all the children come out of school, there will be snowballs a plenty, whizzing by parents heads as they wait for their own little cherubs to come out of school.
For my own boys, It will mean that by the time they reach me, they will be soaked through to the skin. I have two very hyperactive boys to pick up, and they will use the slope to get out of the school playground instead of the path that winds to the top (as boys do). They will both slip many times on the way up the slope, and end up on hands and knees in the slushy snow (which by this time will be mixed in with the mud slurry that used to once be a grassy slope).
They will of course, have their jackets stuffed into their schoolbags, which will be bursting at the zips to stay closed, and their hats will be at the bottom of their bags, along with the half open, and spilling trail of a bottles of water that they are required to take to school every day, but which get used at playtimes as water pistols, or mud dubs makers. They will, however, have managed to fish out their gloves from the other eclectic mix festering at the bottom of their schoolbags so that they can throw snowballs.
When we get home, there will be a quick change out of soaking school clothes into fresh play clothes, which will also be soaking wet half an hour later by the time son number three arrives home, and then they’ll want to go out again. They have perfectly good salopettes in the cupboard, but think it’s not cool to wear them unless they are sledging. More wet clothes.
There has been just enough snow for their Costco bodyboard sledges to go bombing down the big hill at the back of the house, but sadly, mum here does not have the time to take them until Friday after school. This will be a huge #mumfail, but I’ve got the carrots out and ready for them to make this years first snowman.
And I will be the one out there throwing snowballs at my little cherubs while they roll the snow to make that snowman, before I need to get changed and go to a parent council meeting at the school. Cue more changes of clothes.
TIme for my washing machine to really see what it is made of this year. It’s a new one, but can it cope with a scottish winter??
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