Hello there ...
I hope you have had a pleasant day ...
We have done very little today .. its too cold to move much out of the house.
But what we did have to do today .. was visit the dentist for a check up.
I cannot praise our dentist enough .. I have rubbish teeth ..
they are weak .. crumbly and altogether quite ..
well .. rubbish.
I have always tried to do my best by my teeth and visited the dentist regularly ..
Thankfully .. Oh Thankfully !
I have a NHS dentist .. he is excellent and he does his best by my rubbish teeth.
As you may know NHS dentists are like gold dust .. and I cling on to mine for dear life ..
I never miss appointments and attend regularly ..
I do not want to be struck off his list .. I have a horror of having toothache and no where to go with it.
And the icing on the cake .. it is so inexpensive!
Today we both went for a check up which entailed xrays ..
one each side of the mouth .. lots of poking about with his mirror and poke-y stick thing-y .. a polish up with his whizzy/ scrubby brush and a dab of something around my gums for good measure.
It was £13.
Hubby P had the same .. plus a couple of fillings which came under last times 'treatment' so it wasn't charged for.
Its so nice to be pleasantly surprised by the cost of something.
Just a case of doing all we can to look after the old gnashes now.
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A bit of a Thrifty Snippet .. well sort of ... I know you like a good bit of thrifty
Nosing around the market on Sunday I noticed the butchers van had some huge blocks of cheese for sale.
He had half rounds of fancy stuff .. you know the kind of thing cranberry whatsit and herby and garlic something or other ..
well I didn't really want that ...
I just wanted bog standard cheddar or similar ..
something I could either have ... on crackers .. or to cook with.
At the back of the stall I noticed these huge blocks of double Gloucester cheese a kg in weight .. made at our local creamery.
I asked the price and of course he said .. 'to you .. £12'
Well ... I kind of pulled a face and shook my head .. too expensive ... and I said to him that really I had wanted cheddar.
Well he said .. in a whisper ..'how about £10' .. so I brought hope a huge lump of cheese.
As you know cheese is not cheap and so I treat it like I would meat or eggs for that matter .. a major part of the meal .. a good rich source of protein.
The trick is .. because you have huge lumps of it in your fridge ..
not to get carried away and use it willy nilly!
(unlike some ... umm Husbands .. who get carried away with a butter knife .. trying to hack off great lumps of cheese to nibble away at like a demented mouse)
I forgot to take a pic of the whole thing .. but here it is roughly chopped into four...
I shall pop two in the freezer and keep two in the cheese box in the fridge.
Do you like my cheese box ... well .. its an enamel tin really .. a lovely green colour...
I have two of them .. they fit just nicely in the fridge.
One holds the cheese .. the other cold meats and the like.
So for tea ?
A portion of the cheese used in some thrifty cheese scones (with lashings of butter) and a nice warming celery soup.
So that's been my sort of Thrifty buy ... I think maybe if I had shopped about I could have found it a bit cheaper .. but it is buying local .. locally made produce etc .. and all I did really was invest in cheese rather than meat .. and it will go a lot further than a few lamb chops.
How about you .. any Thrifty Snippets to share ?
Bye for now x
