Wishing you all a safe and tasty turn of the year!

Oh dear, uhm how bout a new year's resolution?

I shamefully have to admit that I have fallen off the wagon, ALREADY!!
I drank my 3 ltrs of water had my 2 pieces of fruit, controlled my portionsize but stuffed my face after 8 p.m. It's not my fault really, I blame the hubbie! He has been bringing temptation into the bedroom (different kind than usual (wink))and eventhough I have resisted the chocolatecake he brought last night and took a fuji apple and some popcorn instead. it's still eating past 8! So far I have eaten after 8 for every frickin' day of the valentine's challenge! From bonbons to popcorn to somewhat healthy apples. So I promise myself from now on (xcept for 2-night come on ya'll I can't stop eating at 8 tonight when I will be up till next morning/afternoon) I will NOT EAT AFTER 8P.M. Tonight I will share my new years resolutions with dh and I will make sure he understands that NO FOOD is to come into the bedroom! NO HE AIN'T ALLOWED EITHER! Wonder how that last sentence is gonna go down but a girl can try right?

So say goodbye to 2007 and the undercover eaters! Hello 2008 full of healthy wise food choices!



Signed a recovered undercover eater!

Too the love of my life..

If ever a song was written about how I feel about my dh it's cater 2 U from destiny's child. Eventhough most women I know think that the lyrics are nauseating, I think this is the way every women should feel! Face it if ya don't feel it that man is not the right man for you! I love my boo and I enjoy catering 2 him. How could you not want to serve the man that provides for you, takes care of your children and all of that with a smile and gentle heart?! So for all you ladies who love and need to cater to their men. Enjoy! For the rest of ya'll I pray that someday you will find your soulmate that you will want to cater 2.




Baby I see you workin' hard
I want to let cho know I'm Proud
let you know that I admire what you do
The more if I need to reassure you, my life would
be purposeless without you
If I want (got it)
When I ask you (you provide it)
You inspire me to be better
You challenge me for the better
Sit back and let me pour out my love letter

Let me help you
Take off your shoes
Untie your shoestrings
Take off your cufflinks
What you wanna eat boo
Let me feed you
Let me run your bathwater,
What ever you desire, I'll apsire
Sing you a song
Turn my game on
I'll brush your hair
Help you put your do rag on
Want a foot rub
You want a manicure
Baby I'm yours I want to cater to you boy

Let me cater to you
Cause baby this is your day
Do anything for my man
Baby you blow me away
I got cha slippers ya dinner ya dessert
and so much more
Anything you want just let me cater to you
Inspire me from the heart,
can't nothing tear us apart
You're all I want in a man;
I put my life in your hands
I got cha slippers ya dinner ya dessert
and so much more
Anything you want, I want to cater to you

Baby I'm happy you're home
let me hold you in my arms
I just want to take the stress away from you
Making sure that I'm doing my part
Boy is there something you need me to do
If you want it (i got it)
Say the word I (i will try it)
I know whatever I'm not fulfilling
No other woman is willing
I'm going to fulfill you mind, body and spirit
I promise you
I'll keep myself up
Remain the same chick
You fell in love with
I'll keep it tight, I'll keep my figure right
I'll keep my hair fixed,keep rockin my
hottest outfits
When you come home late tap me on my shoulder,
I'll roll ova
Baby I heard you, I'm here to serve you
(i'm lovin it i'm lovin it)
If it's love you need, to give it is my joy
All I want to do, is cater to you boy

I want to give you my breath, my strength,
my will to be here
That's the least I can do,
Let me cater to you
Through the good
The bad
The up and the downs
I'll still be here for you
Let me cater to you
Cause you're beautiful
I love the way you are
Fulfill your every desire
Your wish is my command
I want to cater to my man
Your heart
So pure your love shines through
The darkness we'll get through
So much of me is you
I want to cater to my man

Day one of the valentine's challenge :-)

I made some new tickers to track my waist and weight for the valentine's challenge.

As you can see I gained some pounds due to way to much eating and the time of the month. I also changed my goal from 125 to 121 will I make it dunno but it will be fun to try :-P

Today I will drink at least 2 ltrs of water and eat 2 pieces of fruit






Hope everyone had a wonderful christmas and is ready for the battle against the lbs!

Remember my virtual model?

Goal~~~~~~~~ 09/12/07~~~~~~ Today

Not bad right?! I'm getting there slowly but surely :-D

Last day of the Fall Challenge!

Today is the last day of my fall challenge! My goal was to loose 15 pounds as you can see in the chart below I have lost exactly 18 pounds!!!

I need to loose 6.2 more pounds to be at my ideal weight of 125.4! I have set myself a new challenge, the valentine's day challenge ;-) I will have to loose the remaining pounds before february 14 th 2008. I will start on the 28th of December this way I can tackle the inevitable christmas pounds.












Hope all you ladies have reached goals/ changed patterns and are feeling ready and able to tackle anything!
C-you all @ the valentine challenge!

4 days till christmas eve!

And I still have loads to do!

Dust vacuum and mop my bedroom

finish the bathroom buy new showercurtain I am tired of the circulating 2 :-)

Clean out pantry reorganize and check what needs to be bought

Empty all laundrybaskets well at least till tonight when we fill them up again we all know that that is a neverending story!

Work on homebinder for 30 min

cook

walk with my walking buddy so much fun :-D

Okay off to do my chores!

Define me! ( I dare you lol)

Christ-mas (yes Christ-mas not christmas the time that evolves and revolves around gifts and loads of food but Christ-mas the actual celebration of Jezus Christ) time is/was always the time to reflect on my faith and religion.

This year is a little different well no a lot different. I was born and raised a Roman Catholic and as a little girl I've always enjoyed going to church. After moving to Amsterdam, it took a while but I joined the church my great-aunt (may she rest in peace) was a member of and felt right at home. A few years ago I moved to a dutch town, now having a family of my own, the first thing I did after making sure my family was comfortable at home was find a Catholic church.

The father was a great man, he welcomed us with open arms, the church members where a different story! The members consisted of elderly white people only! With the exception of 3 young (white) families. All the time that we were in the church for mass and for after church coffee and tea there was not one word spoken to us! Dh decided never to go back to that church but I felt like we needed to give it some time and went to mass every sunday with my son. 3 months later still not a word uttered to me, my son who was going to sundayschool in the church was asked again and again how come he was brown and why his daddy was white by the other kids. Now I understand curiousity in kids but I feel that the sundayschool teacher was supposed to talk about it with the kids once and than kindly ask them to stick to the subject of the day, and not my son his race! My son did not experience any trauma from these incidents he just kept repeating his answers caus he is and always was extremely comfortable in his own skin. The thing that creeped me out the most is when I saw a picturebook the sundayschool teacher was using with a blond haired, blue eyed Jezus!!! Come on people are you really that racist that you would change the appearance of the LORD to make you feel more superior?!!! For me that was THE sign I walked out the church after mass to never return. The father came to visit us and talked, pleaded for us to come back promised he would talk to the congregation but I just couldn't! I mean is my family really that repulsive that the father needs to talk to the congregation to accept us? Merely because we are an interracial family not because we are rude or antisocial or for any valid reason but for the colour of our skin?! After that I visited more catholic churches in the village but all felt the same to me. Uninviting, cold, rude and dare I say racist. I decided to pray at home with my family, when visiting family in Amsterdam we would go to the church I went to as a teenager. I felt at ease with my decision.

When Pope Johannes Paulus II died in April 2005 (may he rest in peace) I was praying for a more liberal more understanding more connected-with-this-time new pope. I was excited about the con clavus and felt a little disappointment every time I saw black smoke from the chimney. See to me it was clear who the new pope should have been I will not speak of it anymore caus it is decided. When white smoke came out the chimney I was thrilled for me this meant a new ara a new time for all catholics in the world a time for needed change. I was extremely disappointed that the new pope was not only extremely old (no disrespect to the elderly but this did not make sense to me!) he was also an old member of the Hitler-jugend!!!! I was extremely disappointed we were "blessed" again with a pope who continued to preach abstanance and continued to shove childmolestation by "fathers" under the rug!

I could not take it any more! I understand that as a catholics or christians we should abstain from sex untill we are committed and united in GOD with our mates. But honestly in this day and age I feel that we are irresponsible to teach our youths only about abstinance! I teach my son about all consequenses and aspects of sex! Yes afcourse I would be delighted if he abstained till marriage but if he doesn't I pray and beg GOD to keep him safe! To make him use his common sense and a condom! Has the vatican never heard of aids? Have they never even talked amongst themselves about the situation in africa where our fellow catholics still don't use condoms because they keep preaching that it is a sin! Have they no sense of resposibility??!!! I am blessed to be with a trustworthy man that would never endanger me and sleep around to bring a std home to me! So yes it is easy to claim superiority about the fact that we do not use birthcontrole but instead opt for natural family planning. Would I do the same if I knew I had a man that cheated?! I sure hope I wouldn't be that gullible! I am not even going to talk about the sexual abuse of little boys in church wich would make any mother more than hesitant to send her son for altar boy! I know I am! All I have to say on the subject is that it sickens me that those who we turn to for protection and guidence have proven to be the biggest predators.

As the world evolves truths are revealled the truth about the catholic church burning documents in order to surpress women. Documents that some claim would reveal the truth about the relationship between Jezus Christ and Maria Magdalena whether or not they were a family or whether she was an apostle. I really honestly think that portraiying the woman of most influence as a cheap whore is yet another way of the church to keep women in their "place"
As you can tell from my rambling I am not a catholic any longer I have fallen off my religion no not my faith but my religion! So I dare you to define me! While the world and people around me try to stick labels on me trying to define me as rastafari, christian, atheist (this one confuses me lol I know that GOD is simply caus I am!) I will continue in my journey to being a virtuous woman a Proverbs 31:10-30 wife and mother.

I know who I am and GOD knows who I am no middle man needed no need for definition. Wich ever path GOD will take me on I will follow.

Blessings,

Blessed Monday

Good morning everyone!

My to do list:
Go to the wholesale and get dh his christmas gift and my binder I have just 2 more gifts on my christmasshoppinglist and than I am all done :-)

I also found a very nice binder I have the orange version.

organize 2 shelves in my walk in closet
my afternoonroutine:

12:00 Lunch and meds Done
12:30 vacuum livingroom
13:30 fold laundry
14:00 read with lil man (he's in the daycare today so this is off the list)
14:30 Task of the day from my forum wich is clean out bathroom wastebastkets Done
14:45 1 hour in the zone wich is the bathroom Done
16:00 tidy kitchen and prepare stuff to cook Done
16:30 cook
18:00 dinner with family





Ok I am going to shower and get ready to leave now

Nice and quiet sunday!

I just love sundays, the only day of the week with no obligations, errands, chores or long to-do lists. The day passes by slowly, while the kids play upstairs with lego and dh plays some kind of civilization game on his laptop. The perfect day to start working on my own christmas gift. I spend more than an hour looking for new inspirational pictures and quotes for my control journal, I found wonderful pictures like this one to make the journal more appealing to the eye and fun to use.

So far I have the following "chapters or tabs" for my journal:
Menu's
Recipes
Homework (lil assignments I do with the boys)
budget
hobbies and decor ideas (free patterns etc)
cleaning scedules (morning/afternoon/night routines and zones)
calender and planners
birthday and holiday card sending list
Miscellaneous
Medical info kids (vaccinations, allergies etc)
Bible and kebra nagast studies (starting january I want to finish both in 2 yrs time)
Blessings ( I use this to write down the lil blessings of daily life)

If anyone thinks of one that would be useful please feel free to share!

I need a new binder, I used a normal ringbinder but that is too small to fit all the recipes and ideas I collect over the year. Being the only girl in this house I want a pretty girly and frilly binder lol one that is not appealing to the lil and big men so no one will be tempted to read and misplace my journal. I am soooo jealous of all you american ladies with all kinds of cute binders and accesoires too put in the binder, I guess I will have to get creative behind the sewingmachine and make a cover for the new binder. I am going to the wholesale tomorrow and intend to spend a good while in the officesupplies section. 2008 is going to be the year of orginazation and making my house a home, so I want to be prepared ;-)

I have always dedicated new years to certain goals somehow it makes it more achievable. 2006 was the year of selfimprovement and stimulation I made a promise to myself to eat healthy and to move a lot more. I also started a special training for the dutch IRS and not only finished it with distinction I was asked to move to a more advance training in order to collect taxes and to make settlements with defaulters (hate that word) I finished that with distinction as well but sadly enough I became severely ill and had to quit. 2007 became the year of finances and gaining a healthy BMI. My BMI is a healthy 24 now and I have never been more pleased with myself LOL I made a plan to pay off all studentloans, debit and creditcards, and to save a lot more than we had been doing before. A week ago I made the last payment to dh his studentloans and most of goals set were achieved. I pray that my goals will be met in 2008 and that life will keep smiling at me and my family. 2008 is also the year I want to start taking balletlessons again and most important 2008 will be by the grace of GOD filled with little blessings! We are expecting 3 babies (no not dh and I but my cousins and my brother and sis-in-law) I am sooo thrilled and I can't wait to cuddle and kiss my sweet lil nieces or nephews. I am demanding to babysit them at least once a month so I will start putting on boxing gloves to fight off cousins and sis-in-law when I run off with their babies ;-P



Blessings,

Groceries 12/15/07 till 12/21/07

Grocerystore 30.82 euro
lemonade
rice
cereal
muesli
garlicbread 2x
gouda cheese
pizzadough
salmonsalad (take to work and school lunch)
tunasalad (take to work and school lunch)
sandwichbags
half full milk 2x
frozen fish 2x
grated cheese
whole weat bread

Budget left: 69.18 euro

To Do list 12-14-07

vacuum living room

clean tiolet

Hang laundry

wash one load

fold laundry that is on the line now

make home cosy for the weekend

Cook

Off to do my chores!

Edit:

All done!

Friday Menu's

Saturday: Homemade pizza

dried italian herbs

4 cans of tomatoes

1 can tomatomash

garlic

onions

zucchini

can of tuna

can of salmon

grated cheese

pizzabase

Sunday: Fried rice

rice

salt fish

tomatoes

eggs

onions

garlic

chinese herbs

parsley

homemade pickled cucumbers

Monday: stir fried noodles with grilled salmon

noodles

sweet and sour sauce

salmon

onion

garlic

ginger

kai lan (chinese veggie)

Tuesday: Rice, fishcakes and stringbeans

rice

onions

garlic

stringbeans

tomatoes

2 cans of salmon

egg

breadcrumbs

parsley

Wednesday: Spaghetti

Spaghetti

Canned tomatoes

3xcourgette (zuchini)

2xgrated cheese

1xdried italian herbs

onions

garlic

garlicbread

Thursday: breadday

french bread

croissants

eggs for omelette

sausages for the boys (they wanted to eat some meat so I decided on a bread day I so don't want to smell raw meat)

sardines

whole weat bread

custard

fresh fruit salad

Friday: Rice, tilapia, cabbage

rice

tilapia

cabbage

onions

garlic

Yeah me ;-)

The babysteps are working really well! I have portion control again and I drink 3 liters of water daily. Not eating after 8 and 2 pieces of fruit a day are still somewhat of a challenge but I am getting there. Yesterday I walked for 3 hours with a girlfriend, it was the most fun I had since ages we laughed and talked and had so much fun it didn't even seem like excersize LOL We were really good girls too, we ended up in a lil snackbar for cups of hot cocoa and when we were asked if we wanted whipped cream we kindly refused



After defrosting we walked some more! How cool are we?! We are planning to do this weekly and I know that in 6 months times we will have fab toned legs and flat stomachs.

Frugal skincare

I used to spend way to much on skincare/make-up/bodycare products, 60 euro's a month was not uncommon. I still had breakouts (mostly because I didn't stick to my routine) and was looking for a more simple and definately less expensive option. I started researching how to make my own skincare products. I found an article online called The Oil Cleansing Method and after reading it through I decided that this was something that I could do, however I was scared I would break out because of all the oil. I decided to give it a week and if I had rash or breakouts I would immediately stop. Almost 3 months have passed and I have beautiful skin no rashes no acne and the blemishes of the acne in teens are disappearing, even the lil whole's are filling up!!! All of this without spending one dime! I cook with olive oil and I use castor oil for my locs. I use a mixture of 50/50 for the "oil wash" and rub a lil of that same mixture for skincare.

If you are looking for a frugal working way to take care of your skin, click on the oil cleansing method and read the whole article.

Tackle it tuesday!

I found this site while surfing ;-) I haven't fully explored it yet but I like the sound of tackle it tuesday!



I have to move mountains today, or at least that is how I feel. It's after 9 a.m. and you guessed it I am not dressed yet, ofcourse I have an excuse I have to scrub the bathroom and figured I could do that right before showering. (yes I remember saying no excuses allowed LOL)



My to do list:



take 2 loads of wash off the clothesrack and fold them Done

hang the one that is in the washer now

clean breakfast cupboard

clean shelves kitchen

clean cutlery drawer

clean bathroom

clean tiolet

vacuum downstairs

vacuum eldest son his room and make the beds caus my auntie is staying in there. Edit: The room was a bit more work then just making beds. I dusted and cleaned the windows and after my lil break I will head back upstairs and finish it.

Make livingroom clutterfree (I am doing this after the kids are in bed)



That's enough more might have to be added to the list but this is enough for now any more would depress me.



Will be back with progress (I hope)

Edit: Thanks for the comments ladies! I was able to do all the things on my list but my internet was cut off because of a mistake the phonecompany made. They promised to reconnect it right away but right away turned out to be 20 hours later. I wasn't able to come and update :-(

Flylady?

Some members of my forum and I started using the flylady system to get organized in april of 2006. We all started with babysteps and after that we all had a simple morning/afternoon/night routines in our control journals.

Some of the ladies have since than kept their home in perfect condition. They get up in the mornings make their beds, groom themselves while swish and swiping the bathroom, get dressed (shoes and all), have breakfast and start their days. I am not one of those ladies, everytime I am in pain and/or get hospitalized(wich both occur far to often) I fall off the routine and have to start the babysteps all over again. There have been times that I even had to restart babysteps in the midst of doing them because I was out of routine again.

There are 2 habits that I have taught myself to really stick too the first is making a menu and the second is shining my sink every night now I am not able to do the second one always and my sweet dh has made that his fly-task

As christmas gift to myself I am making a brand spankin new control journal. The one I have now is just not functional for this family. I am planning to make it extremely cute so I will want to look in it daily. I am also promising myself that even if I am in pain I will make an effort to get dressed and groom myself every morning before 9 a.m. no exeptions!!

If you are looking for a way to get organized and stay that way i highly recommend this system! Next to the daily routines the house is divided in zones and each week another zone is focused on this way all zones get thoroughly cleaned once a month. The zone is cleaned from ceiling to floor focusing on not just cleaning an decluttering but making the space more inviting for the familymembers and guests. This week is zone 2 the kitchen, last month I gave my tiny lil kitchen so much love I am still feeling it every time I walk into it. I started in the zone today and because I have a raised temperature (due to inflamations) and a hecke lot a pain I decided to do 2 cupboards today. I went inthere set the timer for 15 min and before I knew it I had cleaned 3 cupboards, one shelf and my messy drawer (you know the one I know you have one too :-D ) I might be in too much pain to go to yoga today but i got my zenn from spending time in the heart of my home

Babysteps to healthy eating

This post was a comment that I left on Micah's blog Since I fell off the wagon I decided that it would be a great day to start with babysteps again. I have been taking antibiotics again so fasting is not an option so it didn't really matter wich day i started. No time like the present right? OOOh and I am so excited dh decided to join in

Are you familiar with the flylady system with babysteps to teach you new habits for keeping your home in order? I made babysteps in order to teach myself new eating habits simular to the flylady system. The members of my forum and readers of my website used this system along with me and all of us lost a minimum of 5 pounds in the 30 days!

The steps with a * are to be repeated everyday.

For example day one drink 1,5 liter of water day two drink 1,5 liter of water and eat 2 pieces of fruit. These steps are going to become your habit and doing these lil things daily will change your way of eating forever.

Day 7, 14, 21 and 28 are fasting days on those days you are only allowed to drink fresh fruit and veggie juices, water, veggie or chicken stock and herbal tea. I fast as a way to release the week and prepare for a new week mentally and spiritually, it also helps the body to release toxins (wich cause weight gain) and to heal. I fast with water only but that is not recommended when just start! (Read this for some more information and tips on how to start http://www.healingdaily.com/juicing-for-health/how-to-fast.htm) I fast on sundays but you can choose any day that works for you.

Day 1) Drink at least 1,5 liter water each day *

Day 2)eat 2 pieces of fruit *

Day 3)rub yourself from toe to shoulders with firming bodylotion *

Day 4)replace one snack with a healthy snack of choice *

Day 5)get up 15 minutes earlier and eat a healthy breakfast *

Day 6)prepare yourself for fasting tomorrow (light meals non-fat)

Day 7)fastingday

Day 8) make a control journal ( I use a a5 map with plastic cases inside to slip in ideas, recipes etc and some lined paper to journal)

Day 9)search the net and magazines for healthy snack ideas and put them in your controle journal

Day 10) weigh your dinner *

Day 11) go on and find some more recipes and ideas for your controle journal

Day 12) make a healthy filling lunch for example 2 slices of whole grain bread with some cheese (or lean meat if you eat meat) tomatoes, lettuce and on the side a nice cup of tomato or other veggiesoup*

Day 13) prepare for fasting (see day 7)

Day 14) fastingday

Day 15) go on and find some more recipes and ideas and file in your controle journal

Day 16)no more solids after 8 p.m. (get some different flavors of herbal tea to help when you feel a urge to eat)*

Day 17)build up a sweat for 20 minutes a day (doesn't matter how, go jogging, go to the gym, do jumpingjacks at home, just break a sweat!)*

Day 18)write away negative thoughts (seeing these horrible things our minds tells us on paper will soon help to shut up up the negative innervoice)*

Day 19)ask your partner to give you a nice massage (or splurge and get a proffesional massage)

Day 20)find inspiration for your contole journal. prepare for fasting

Day 21)fastingday

Day 22)find pamperingmissions for your controle journal. Make it a habit to pamper yourself at least once a day *

Day 23)walk around the corner on your break the fresh air will help you concentrate better at work, if you are a sahm take the kids to the nearest park for a quater of an hour. It will do you and them a world of good!*

Day 24)take 1000 mg of vitamin c daily (this will help the skin to stay firm while loosing weight)*Day 25)on the right track? Check here to see if your daily intake is what it should be (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html) and pls remember portion control!

Day 26)Try a new veggie!

Day 27)Yeah you have been moving for 20 minutes daily for 10 days now! Time to kick it up a notch and make it 40 minutes a day! * (prepare for fasting)

Day 28)fasting day

Day 29)find some new inspiration for your controle journal

Day 30)congratulations you've build a health routine for yourself! Keep up the good work!

Because this is a refresh course ;-) for me I decided to do more than one step at a time.

So far I drank 1,5 liter water today and it's only 1:30 pm. I was dreading fruit again (I think it's the antibiotics everytime I take them I loathe fruit) but I forced myself to eat some anyway. So I made a fruitsalad with peer, apple and banana and shared it with my lil man. It was fun eating it since lil man decided that he would pick wich fruit we would have in wich order before I knew it the plate was empy :-D

I had 2 slices of wholeweat bread toasted with aioli ( I am so addicted to this stuff poor dh I smell of garlic all day) and I am going to make some tosti's for me and the lil man now. Right on track not bad for a strayed weightloser (<---- is that a word lol)

Okay my coffeecup is empty, time to get moving again. (As you can see I am taking this blogging thing a bit more serious now

Blessings!

Fallen off the wagon

Okay so I fell of the wagon, I have had no portion control for the last week and a half and I have not been moving enough. Just yoga once a week and sporadicly a bit of pilates at home. I studied my habits and motivation and came to the conclusion that I am not motivated when I have no goal. My initial goal was to reach a healthy BMI now that I accomplished that I am suffering from lack of motivation. I decided to reach for an old hearts desire. My ultimate goal is to take up ballet again. I haven't danced in 11 yrs!! I used to dance a few times a day (jazz ballet, african dance and my favorite classical ballet) then I got pregnant with son#1 and got really really ill. I never fully recovered since the pregnancy triggered my anemia. Anyway I am straying from subject. I will start balletlessons in september of 2008. Wich means that I have 8,5 months to get lithe!

1st goal is to re-teach myself this stretch

2nd goal is to re-teach myself this one

Well enough goals to reach for now, I will be keeping you posted on the progress.

I am soooo exited by the thought of buying a ballet outfit next summer! I used to visit this lil shop almost weekly when I was a dancer and I was shocked that they didn't go bankrupt when I stopped dancing LOL

Blessings,

Groceries 12/8/07 till 12/14/07

I try to spend a max of 100 euro's weekly on the groceries (food, tioletries, cleaningsupplies etc) In about six months time I want to spend a max of 75 euro's. Sadly enough groceries especially biological/organic fruit and veggies are extremely expensive in NL (not all but most of the tropical fruits and veggies and as a caribeangirl I like my okra/stringbeans and what nots ;-)

Market 6.99 euro's

1 kilo tomatoes

1 cabbage

2 zuchinni's

1 cucumber

1 kilo banana's

Healthstore 3.59 euro's

1 biological/organic tioletcleaner

1 roll of biological candy

Grocery store 37.62 euro's

Gouda cheese slices 2x

biological/organic patatoes

spinach

kitchentowel

juice

cola for dh

muesli

strawberry and vanilla custard

e.v. olive oil

smarties

bulb

paper hancherchiefs

tomatosoup 2x

coffee

biological/organic handsoap

seasalt

veggie sausages

whole weat bread

corn (can)

lettuce

Xenos 9.83 euro's

casa fiesta wraps

naanbread 2x

salsa mild

joy strawberry (healthdrink for kids)

green punch soda 2 lil cans for sunday after dinner treat

sweet and sour saus

capri sonne 4x

Total: 54.63 euro's

That leaves me with 45.37 euro's I still need to buy fish and milk/bread for the rest of the week.

Update:

Grocery store 17.95 euro

Tilapiafilet 1500 grams

2x whole weat bread

1 plant for fishtank

vanilla yoghurt

Budget left: 27.42 euro I am probably going to overspend this week because I am getting guests. My auntie and niece are coming to spend a few days with us so I need to adapt the budget to 6 ppl instead of 4 wich is perfectly ok caus it's going to be fun the kids love having family around and I haven't seen my aunt in 2 years (she lives in surinam)!!

Edit:

Grocery store 15.36 euro

caprisonne 2x

low fat milk

whole weat bread

cookies

gouda cheese

pancakes

prunes

stroopwafels this is actually a gift for my dh his american collegues, I send some over for them when dh was last there and they have all become somewhat addicted lol

Market (wednesday) 4.25 euro (auntie paid the fruitman she was so quick I could not even protest)

1 kilo banana's

5 pears

5 apples

10 tangerines

2 zucchini's

1 cabbage

Budget left: 7.81 euro I fed a family of 6 and still stayed within my budget. The 7,81 one will go straight into my saving can.

Friday Menu's

I decided to share my weekmenu's with you. I will do this on fridays but since I came up with this brilliant idea today this one time I will do it on a saturday. I make my menu's every friday and go to the market and grocery store every saturday.
* We don't eat meat or poultry, however we do eat fish and animal by products like eggs and milkproducts. The only time we do eat red meat is when I am anemic and need the iron.

Saturday: Rice with steamed cabbage and fried fish
cabbage
butterfish
tomatoes
onion
garlic
rice

Sunday: wraps with tilapia
tortilla's
salsa mild
grated cheese
tilapiafilet
spinach
onions
garlic
burrito seasoning

Monday: tomatoe soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
bags of tomatosoup 2x
whole weat bread
cheese

Tuesday: chile con "carne"
kidneybeans
ground mushrooms
tomatoes
bayleaf
onions
garlic
rice

Wednesday: homemade fries with vegan or fishnuggets and salad
patatoes
fishsticks
lettuce
tomatoes
cucumber
corn (canned)

Thursday: spaghetti with zucchini
Spaghetti
Canned tomatoes 3x
courgette (zuchini) 2x
grated cheese 1x
dried italian herbs
onions
garlic

Friday: dhal (yellow split peas) with naan (indian flat bread)
yellow split peas
onions
masala spices
garlic
gira
naan

Blessings,

Errhmmmm yeah so I.....

was playing around with the looks of the blog and couldn't remember wich one I had to begin with

I decided instead of driving myself nuts trying to find the old lay-out to just go with the flow and choose a new one. So TADAAAAA I introduce my new blog lay-out and background