Reformed shopaholic? please can you give me the benefit of your advice

Anglea

So you're a veggie normally then and the steak was a one off?

ThinkingOfLinking

No, but I was veggie for 8 years, vegan for 2 and have been considering going back to being veggie...just don't really like meat and it's so pricey...

CompletelyLost

I could live without red meat very easily... but I would miss chicken and fish.

I live at home so I basically eat whatever my mum cooks. If I lived alone I'm sure I would eat a lot less meat - I could happily go without meat 5 days a week. This summer I'll be spending a couple of months alone (so doing the food shopping, etc, myself :eek:) so will try to live frugally. Lots of veggies, pasta, rice, etc etc - it'll be a whole different experience for me and I'm quite looking forward to it. Out of interest FE, how much to do allow yourself for food per week?

Anyway, I have just been for a run, am feeling pretty good. Nothing works better to get your frustrations out! tomorrow I have to be up at 6am so I'm off to bed.

Will no doubt report back tomorrow with a recap of my shopping trip

littlekitty2010

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

No, but I was veggie for 8 years, vegan for 2 and have been considering going back to being veggie...just don't really like meat and it's so pricey...

Flickering ember i am exactly the same i just dont enjoy meat at all:(. I can just about stomach chicken but the rest of my family are big meat eaters so its more of a pain to do something seperate for me as if i sat something veggie down to them i dont think it would go down well lol:eek:
And yes i agree the price of meat is extortinate

NGlady

Angela To be honest, Im not one of those girls who owns a lot of makeup, only recently i.e this year have started to feel the need to wear it in the past my skin was so much better than it is now and id often look like i got makeup on when I hadnt :O So my makeup collection is very small Awww look at me all grown up now and needing makeup lol.

Meat wise, I dont like pork/lamb but I do love beef chicken steak etc, for me though fish wise I can very happily leave it to somebody else, I enjoy a salmon cob but thats about it!

I have a sore throat and flu like symptoms today, but no suprise as the other girls on the team have had poorliness over the past week. Ah well a girl o nmy team got lots of sales last week cos she had a huskey voice haha. Oh news girls I went on the phones with my buddy yesterday and managed to make a sale on my first phone call was very happy with myself.

ThinkingOfLinking

CL, I don't have a budget as such, but I try to keep it to a minimum; this week I stocked up on vegetable cuppa soups (asparagus and minestrone) and supernoodles etc (I admit I got chicken flavour) so I always have something there ready to go and save some money as I really need to stop spending so much; my steak was almost £5 and I didn't enjoy it !!!!!!!! I was also eating it to replenish my iron as last week was my time of the month. I prefer using spinach to get iron.

DietCokeBreak

Hi all,

Thank you for not judging, I must admit I was a bit worried! Its really nice that people understand and I hope that I can get my anxiety issues sorted so that I can curb the spending!

Hope you all have a good day

Anglea

Hi all Dietcoke, nothing to worry about on here, so please post as much as you need.

NGlady - hope you feel better soon - don't want you ill and missing your next date (as I want to know all about it as you didn't tell us about your last one ). Well done on your first sale!

ThinkingOfLinking

Sold another book this morning as I was literally on my way out of the door to post the 3 I sold yesterday...Also sold some bits to Cash Converters and CEX so cleared some space and made the princely sum of £9.60 although the book money isn't included in that as it takes a week to reach my online account before it can be cashed in anyway. Think there's about £40 in there now...

Souk08

Hey, I spend about £40/£45 a month for food for me and keep my food money in a seperate purse. If I cook for mates then I don't count that out of my grocery budget though, it comes out of my fun budget iyswim. I know this is low but I eat really well and am very organised ie a bit of an anorak about it. The less I spend buying food for lunch at work the more I have for fun.