Gentle Jump into June? Did we mention NOT spending...(well this is the NSD challenge)

honey

Herbaholic wrote: »

The lavender in the garden is almost ready to harvest so more lavender biscuits to make and dough for the freezer and some lavender vinegar for the mop bucket and may make some lavender & lemon curd. My chocolate peppermint is ready to harvest for drying to make tea and for using fresh to make infused honey, so may do that when the sun isn't so hot. I love herb harvest time, need to turn the roses into more wine as well, last lot we made has run out. Hope the sun is shining on everyone

Herby x

Wow, you make great use of your lavender! I adore the smell of it but I've never tried to cook with it. Unfortunately since we've moved we have no lavender in the garden. I'm going to treat myself to some plants soon and then I'll be pestering you for recipes

No NSD to report today, I popped in to town to get a couple of bits to go with my nephew's birthday present and ended up spending a bit more than I should have on other things! If I was organised I could have done the food shop too but I had no list and LO was grumpy so we had a run around on the grass instead. Unfortunately that means I still have the delight of food shopping to do

honey x

kathy40uk

:hello: Hi all xxx

Well it's not been good

Was so tired on Sunday after 10 late shifts that I couldn't be bothered to cook and got a takeaway :mad: so cross with myself!!!

And Monday was MOT day and today has been MOT repair day so was a VERY high spend :mad::(:mad:. If it hadb't been for that I wouldn't have spent anything, I have been too tired to leave the house LOL

Back onto earlies for three days tomorrow then five lates, don't think I need anything (except to be well disciplined on payday). Here's to tomorrow being better

Well done everyone so far :beer:

See you all tomorrow with better news hopefully

Herbaholic

pure_dead_dopey wrote: »

oooh Herby wish I lived next door to you, have you tried lavender chocolate crispies, scrumptious!!!!

Nope, will add that to my list of things to try, I have made lavender chocolate truffles though, they are VERY yummy, did a demonstration for a herb group for Valentine's Day and they wolfed them down. You can use fresh or dried lavender so if anybody wants the recipe let me know and I'll post it. I made the same recipe recently but used white chocolate and lemon verbena and they were yum yum as well :EasterBun

honey wrote: »

Wow, you make great use of your lavender! I adore the smell of it but I've never tried to cook with it. Unfortunately since we've moved we have no lavender in the garden. I'm going to treat myself to some plants soon and then I'll be pestering you for recipes

Honey, if you're going to cook with it make sure you get Hidcote or Munstead, both are great for cooking, Hidcote has a lovely purple tinge that transfers to liquids if you use white vinegar or make you own lemonade it will go a lovely shade of purple. If you have other lavender plants it's best to use the ones that don't smell 'piney' the Spanish Lavender (Lavandula Stoechas) that also gets called Butterfly and French Lavender is not suitable for cooking and the pretty lace leaved lavender (Lavandula dentata) is also not suitable for cooking. Stick with Munstead and Hidcote and you can't go wrong. I have a Lavender cookbook and make loads of things out of it, lavender jelly glazed pork chops lavender are yummy, lavender is my first favourite herb, sorry it's the herbaholic in me I can't resist

Herby x

karenccs67

Unfortunately not a NSD for me today :mad:, hubby had an emergency ultra sound appointment at hospital this evening so £2.50 later for car parking and then a cheapy chip shop tea, also after stripping the beds discovered I'd ran out of washing powder :mad: so a quick trip to Asda to buy Daz £2 (27 washes). Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

dmb_2

NSD for me today

Hoping for one tomorrow as well.

Dorastar

NSD today - back at work and back out of the way of shops

3Dogs

Reporting NSD number 15 for me Mistress Spoon

We did pop out to dump an old freezer at the tip (just got it from freecycle but wiring started smoking when we switched it on so definitely not using that!) and dropped some eBay parcels at sorting office but I print & pay for postage through eBay/PayPal. Anyway, no spending incurred.

LuckyBiscuit

Herbaholic wrote: »

spend days and May make some elderflower cordial if there are any elderflowers left.
Herby x

Have some in my fridge my neighbour made is very yummy!!!!

Another spend day for me, bought some more clothes and shoes!!! WHOOPS!!!!;)
and seeing as i' was already spending went the whole hog and had my hair cut, a pedicure and a manicure!!!!
Will have a NSD tomorrow though as now need to sort my wordrobe and draws out to put all my new clothes in!!!:D
and going to colour my hair!!!

cw18

Declaring today as NSD #13 - but it was a very close call........

They had more of the bread I got yesterday in clearance this morning, but after 2nd reductions (the last I'd see before leaving, as I finish at 4pm on a Tuesday) it was still 50p - and I only paid 25p yesterday. By the time I actually left it had all gone, but they still had one of a 'crunchy' version left. However, at 50p I decided I still wasn't going to take it.

Biggest problem was the doughnuts though..... I flagged up to management as I left last night that we had no packaging for today, and nothing had been done about it. In the end a manager (on a later shift) picked some up from another store on his way in, so it didn't arrive until 11:30am and we normally have them on sale by 8am. This meant they weren't there for the school-kids (secondary school) on their way in, so there were still looooaaaaads left when I came home.... and I knew this meant there'd be loads in reduction (almost certainly down to 19p/pack instead of 69p). But I managed to keep myself busy doing jobs until the store closed, so I retained my NSD

karenccs67

cw18 wrote: »

Declaring today as NSD #13 - but it was a very close call........

They had more of the bread I got yesterday in clearance this morning, but after 2nd reductions (the last I'd see before leaving, as I finish at 4pm on a Tuesday) it was still 50p - and I only paid 25p yesterday. By the time I actually left it had all gone, but they still had one of a 'crunchy' version left. However, at 50p I decided I still wasn't going to take it.

Biggest problem was the doughnuts though..... I flagged up to management as I left last night that we had no packaging for today, and nothing had been done about it. In the end a manager (on a later shift) picked some up from another store on his way in, so it didn't arrive until 11:30am and we normally have them on sale by 8am. This meant they weren't there for the school-kids (secondary school) on their way in, so there were still looooaaaaads left when I came home.... and I knew this meant there'd be loads in reduction (almost certainly down to 19p/pack instead of 69p). But I managed to keep myself busy doing jobs until the store closed, so I retained my NSD

Wow what great will power you have, could you send some my way please, I'm deffinitely in need of some .