Madness, "May"hem & MoneySaving: Welcome to the NSD Challenge

pure_dead_dopey

Good morning

This is an early morning declaration, feeling a bit iffy and talking with an very sexy drawl because I feel as if I have a cut throat so will not be going out and therefore will not spend anything!!!!
Jinty I hope you're all wrapped up but it did say it was to get warmer at weekend, so fingers crossed, you can be really lucky in May.........
Had to spend yesterday since company CC wrecked a machine and crashed the system.........don't think it was my fault......................

Have a good NSD all.

ps WARNING WARNING I am cooking some doggy treats WARNING WARNING
could be worse than the ash............

jintyb

Thanks for all the lovely holiday wishes - much appreciated!:A
BMF - am hoping to get past the Braveheart Checkpoint without any trouble - me being a native an all! Mind you I may be recognised from the CCTV footage from Glasgow so I'll get my wig and dark glasses out. Arthur has not recovered sufficiently from the going over you gave him - his Seat:eek: will never be the same!
Keiss - Im an Eastie myself but Im a sappy Lowlander, not like you tough guys from up North!

OK I'm off to bet organised - have a great week , you bunch of mad things!:rotfl:

thrifty_fifty

curlygirl1971 wrote: »

I was exactly the same when I found out I had high cholesterol. I actually wanted to have a tantrum and cry! I take it you've had information on what foods to avoid (if you can) and which foods help?

Bad foods for Cholesterol
Offal (Liver, Kidneys)
Shellfish (prawns etc)
Eggs
Foods containing saturated fat as sat fat is converted into cholesterol by your liver (so in other words go for low sat fat)

Good foods (found to lower bad cholesterol)
Porridge Oats
Almonds
Soya products (I like Mr T's own brand unsweetened Soya Milk and think it makes porridge really creamy. There is also Tofu and Soya spreads)
Plant Sterols (So LOTS of veg and/or use a yoghurt drink)
Wholemeal versions of things like Pasta & Bread

I was found to have very high cholesterol (7) when I was 35. It scared the bee-jesus out of me and for about a year I was super-strict. I felt better and I looked better. I did reduce my cholesterol some but they realised that it was naturally high and was told that my diet was not making enough impact on it and am going to have to go on Statins when I'm around 40. I thereafter lost all motivation to follow my previously strict diet and have put on 3st!! I was doing much better when I believed I could make a difference and wished very much that that was still the case

Best of luck with it. You will get into the swing of things and find what works for you.

Thanks Curly

Just looking up some recipes-meesly tsp of this tsp of that. But one saving grace is that breakfast is larger than I have now, so that should fill me up.

Just dining on my last artery busting cheese and onion pasty, thorntons chocolate for pudding. All washed down with some diet coke and a cup of tea. I don't eat like this everyday, but just cramming as much in as possible during my last hours of bad food eating. Poor stomach will think the throat has been cut next week. Oh the hunger, I can feel it now.

solventsoon

jintyb wrote: »

Thanks for all the lovely holiday wishes - much appreciated!:A
BMF - am hoping to get past the Braveheart Checkpoint without any trouble - me being a native an all! Mind you I may be recognised from the CCTV footage from Glasgow so I'll get my wig and dark glasses out. Arthur has not recovered sufficiently from the going over you gave him - his Seat:eek: will never be the same!
Keiss - Im an Eastie myself but Im a sappy Lowlander, not like you tough guys from up North!

OK I'm off to bet organised - have a great week , you bunch of mad things!:rotfl:

Hi jinty
Hope you have a super-splendiferous holiday, lots of treats and a lovely relaxing time.

Make sure your disguise is ready if one of the policemen we encountered that night in Glasgow is on the border - might not get through otherwise.

Have a lovely time.
spoon
x

verynewmoneysaver

Managed day no 3 yesterday.

elfen

Yesterday was an NSD, today wasn't. Broke up with the boyfriend so I had to pay out £950 for first month's rent and deposit on a new place.....

slowlyfading

number 9 feeling down today, sigh.

cw18

Declaring today as NSD #9

Managed to get out of work without opening my purse, and am now in the midst of a 'quick turn-around' before heading up to OH's for tea and the evening

niccatw

Awww elfen, I know there's probably little else I can say at the moment. Take care of you and try to pamper yourself. xxx

jintyb wrote: »

Keiss - Im an Eastie myself but Im a sappy Lowlander, not like you tough guys from up North!

Are you an Auld Reekie Jinty? I'm originally an lowland Eastie, then moved West for uni. Then went back to uni in Edinburgh. So have a mad hybrid accent that changes depending on where and who I'm talking to .

We need to be careful on the beach guys... I saw this news report http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIIog_yqNQ :rotfl:

Today isn't likely to be an NSD as I'm meeting my friend and owe him money for a gig (which is where I happen to be meeting him).

katenut

solventsoon wrote: »

And hello to everyone else:
katenut: hope the meeting goes well and, equally importantly, that your boss pays for everything again, fingers crossed;)......
Love the avi - is that your horse?

x

My boss paid for everything!! And we all got a bit tipsy after the meeting and stayed up far too late, considering it was work it was good fun!

That is my lovely gorgeous beautiful horse (i'm not at all besotted with her, honestly!) - she is my only treat and the best thing I ever got. She is even a MSE horse - she is on free loan to me as long as I want her, and all the tack and equipment we've got has been loaned or given to me by my friends. We look like the poor mismatched relations! So I only have to pay her livery fees each month, which basically counts as my 'entertainment' spends as she keeps me away from shops and pubs (except when we ride to the pub of course....)

Anyway, I could go on about the four-legged beast all day but I'll bore you all!

Big hugs to Elfen :grouphug: and look after yourself xx

Today was a spend day, just a few groceries and a couple of bottles of cider for DH as he's been really good at staying out of the pub, and he had a hard day at work so he must of been dying for a pint when he finished bless him :A We had great fun unpacking the App Food order when we got home, a huge amount of food for a quarter of the retail price. Cupboards are overflowing!

Better go and cook some tea I suppose instead of waffling on xxx

PS: Can anyone smell something strange round here?!? A whiff of liver and garlic perhaps? :):)