Attack April with An Alternative Approach; the NSD Challenge.

blueelephanttrunk

Managed a NSD today, making my total 3 now!
I have a feeling the rest of the month till payday are going to be NSD's as I've just looked at my balance and there is nothing to spend!

niccatw

Incidental NSD today, through sheer laziness! NSD 6

My occupational health appoinment ended up taking 3 hours in total (getting there, waiting around as they were an hour behind schedul but never thought to tell me, nurse faffing about... the GP would have had me in ad out of ther in 2 minutes flat!)

Anyway, the upshot is that I didn't go to visit pregnant friend, therefore didn't pick up cakes, ink for printer or post bookmooch parcels en route to pregnant friend as visit postponed until tomorrow.

Which will work out better as tomorrow I need to post 2 birthday cards for birthdays on 22nd.

So I've also accidently been more organised than usual!

3Dogs

NSD number 11 for me today Spoon :j
We've been in all day and did not run out of anything so no unplanned spending like the other day when we ran out of milk - hope the loo rolls will last to Friday though or my planned NSD's for Wednesday & Thursday will fall apart - makes mental note to buy extra loo rolls this week

Nottoobadyet

Ohh everyone is doing so well and Im sputtering!

Not an NSD today as went out to dinner with a good friend. It was great to see her though so non-NSD well spent! Will really have to work to round off the month though...

karmachilovething

Another NSD for me. On target for 2 a week (that's the plan anyway;)).

I intended to have one yesterday, but realised I needed cream in order to make dinner. so was a low spend day at least. A lot better planning is needed if I'm going to get anywhere close to jet's performance :rotfl:

curlygirl1971

Forgive me SolventSpoon.....but I have sinned.......rather badly.......

The secret to my success in the NSD stakes has been food planning - easy peasy as it's generally just me interrupted by weekend visits to or from boyfriend. Popping into Tesco's for a pint of milk and spending £15 is a thing of the looooooong distant past. But it means revolutionary tactics such as planning - and utilising the freezer. I'm a different person!

Anyway I've been coming towards the end of my freezer stocks and I knew that soon I was going to have to do a big shop and then do some batch cooking. So this week I knew I was going to be scrabbling around looking for the odd rogue fish finger in the deep freeze and stretch out my big shop until the weekend when BF is up.

In my sleepy state this morning I pulled out 2 tortilla wraps and a turkey breast.....I had half a sachet of Fajita Mix in the cupboard. DING DONG. I was going to have me a tasty mexican feast tonight (without Sour Cream and Salsa but who cared. I was a hard-core NSD-er). But as I drove to work and woke up a little I realised that both items were a little ancient. The wraps were likely to shatter into a 1000 pieces and the turkey had what can only be described as Yellow Chillblains on it. I stewed on this all day and realised it just wasn't to be.

I also had a fairly pants/crappy/soggy-seat/naff day. Feeling rather sorry for myself on a couple of counts - one fairly sobering and one, well to be honest, down-right childish. But couldn't shake myself out of it. Couldn't just loop those loose stitches back into lifes rich tapestry. So I errrrm went to Tescos and bought a number of ESSENTIAL items:-

Pack of 3 Free-range chicken breasts (sorry won't do the normal stuff), tortillas, small sour cream, medicinal 2 mini bottles of wine (2 for £3), a pepper, an onion, some mushrooms, a Tinkerbell cup for my niece (it was cuuuuuute), LF Choc mousse (more medicine)............and before I knew it I'd spent £15 chuffing pounds. But I reasoned that I would make enough Fajita mix for 3 meals using 2 chicken breasts and then another meal with the rest of the veg and last chicken breast. But didn't quite pad out the fajita mix with enough veg........"Okay" I thought "So I've made two portions". However then I started to eat my really tasty scrumptious FIT Fajitas and the portions d i d n ' t q u i t e w o r k o u t a s p l a n n e d .........as I happily munched through just about all of the fajita mix I'd made tonight.........oh dear. Gosh it tasted fit.....and I feel a little less sorry for myself or is that just the glow of half a bottle of a half-bottle of wine?

As pennance I would make myself eat Gruel tomorrow night but I'd already arranged with my pal to go to hers and it's my turn to buy the takeaway. It's one of her rare social arrangements so won't be cancelling it. Soz

butdoineedit?

Definitely not a NSD for me today but had a birthday :beer: for you all this evening!!! :bdaycake:

Will reply more appropriately tomorrow when me & my hangover are not worrying about heading to Doncaster at the crack of dawn!!!

niccatw

You typed the words right out of my head curly girl (though I'm veggie so it's minus the chicken and replace the wine with a couple of bottles of beer for me!)

But today I gave those pesky supermarkets a big swerve! I hope you've now polished of the wine and the chocolate mousse - no point letting go to waste now it's by your side !

solventsoon

butdoineedit? wrote: »

Definitely not a NSD for me today but had a birthday :beer: for you all this evening!!! :bdaycake:

Will reply more appropriately tomorrow when me & my hangover are not worrying about heading to Doncaster at the crack of dawn!!!

BDINI, hope you've had a lovely day - you deserve it after the last couple of weeks.

curlygirl1971

niccatw wrote: »

You typed the words right out of my head curly girl (though I'm veggie so it's minus the chicken and replace the wine with a couple of bottles of beer for me!)

But today I gave those pesky supermarkets a big swerve! I hope you've now polished of the wine and the chocolate mousse - no point letting go to waste now it's by your side !

I used to be Veggie! Don't each much meat now...........love my veg and quite happy with a meat free meal. Don't know what turned me to the dark-side really........It was a long time ago and I used to really struggle getting Veggie meals out. And I used to be a lousy Veggie - was uneducated and didn't eat properly - teeth and eyes declined and had asthma throughout that period of time. So meat came back in bit by bit..........but not at lot because for one thing - it's expensive! But then I met my BF and he's started eating more veg but I've started eating more meat but veg is still the lions share