Another new day to add to July: The No Spend Day

LuckyBiscuit

Was a spend day for me, had to buy a sympathy card for a friend who's son died of a brain tumour, so decided since we'd spent to have lunch from the chip shop (yum yum)

Better luck tomorrow

Love to all...................

cw18

Oooooooohhhhhh !!!!


Just realised that I may have to stretch the food (and milk) for slightly longer than I'd planned

My second Direct Debit day of the month is 10th, so I was working on that being my next grocery shop day. But I've just spotted that 10th is a Saturday, which means the payment won't go out of my bank until 12th :eek:

Going to try my very hardest to last until then if I can - especially as that would give me 10 NSD's straight (very much doubt it'll happen given I'm off work all next week though )

Keiss_21

Herbaholic wrote: »

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Got the first 6 strawberries from the garden today YAY, ...... we had Strawberry, Lemon Verbena and Mascarpone Fool, yum, yum, yum!

Think the salad spuds are ready to pull up as well, and I have a few lettuces ready to use, so will alter the meal plan to accommodate them..

Love the smileys Herby....glad to see you are eating out of the garden now. We had our own potaotes and sugar-snap peas with the lamb on Sunday, then strawberries too with some icecream , yum!!

On Saturday we made lettuce soup with some of our super-abundance of lettuces...it it was wonderfull! I have made stock with the chicken thigh & leg bones left over form last night's tea, just so I can make more soup and freeze it. Off on holiday next week and so want to make the most of what is ready in the garden so far. Looks like the broad beans, more peas, the first courgettes, more strawbs and loads of black and red currants (just ripening) will have to find a home in our stomachs or the freezer in the next few days!! Also plan on sowing a few more seeds, so they will be well up when we get back...oh the organization of it all! Just hope my watering systems work until DS1 gets back from his holiday

In awe of your planing cw18 - much braver then I am! Good luck with it all.

Off to bed now..want to get some more gardening (and shopping) done tomorrow morning before picking DS1 from uni.

Night, night

Keiss_21

TMVen wrote: »

Was a spend day for me, had to buy a sympathy card for a friend who's son died of a brain tumour, so decided since we'd spent to have lunch from the chip shop (yum yum)

Better luck tomorrow

Love to all...................

(((((TMVen)))))....sorry to hear about your friend's loss. Glad you enjoyed your lunch.

Looking forward to a few chip-shop meals on my hols. My sis (not li'l one) runs her own chip shop/bakery/cafe/restaurant and B&B!! Too dangerous to be visited too often!! :rotfl:

solventsoon

TMVen wrote: »

Was a spend day for me, had to buy a sympathy card for a friend who's son died of a brain tumour, so decided since we'd spent to have lunch from the chip shop (yum yum)

Better luck tomorrow

Love to all...................

Sorry to hear that, TMVen, that's awful. Hope your friend is OK (or as OK as can be under those circumstances).

Glad you enjoyed your lunch though, can't beat fish and chips occasionally, yum yum indeed

x

solventsoon

Keiss_21 wrote: »

We had our own potaotes and sugar-snap peas with the lamb on Sunday, then strawberries too with some icecream , yum!!

On Saturday we made lettuce soup with some of our super-abundance of lettuces...it it was wonderfull! I have made stock with the chicken thigh & leg bones left over form last night's tea, just so I can make more soup and freeze it. Off on holiday next week and so want to make the most of what is ready in the garden so far. Looks like the broad beans, more peas, the first courgettes, more strawbs and loads of black and red currants (just ripening) will have to find a home in our stomachs or the freezer in the next few days!! Also plan on sowing a few more seeds, so they will be well up when we get back...oh the organization of it all! Just hope my watering systems work until DS1 gets back from his holiday
Night, night

It's times like this, Keiss, that I wish I had a vegetable garden... sadly I live on a bog (literally, about 300 yards from the edge of one!), so unless anything likes practically drowning it won't grow in my garden - got some great bog plants though:)

solventsoon

cw18 wrote: »

Well, today must have been my biggest spend day of at least the past 4 years :eek: (other than 01/08/2006, when I got my current car - second hand, but still a cash purchase)

But the really frightening thing is that I've realised this would once have been 'normal' for me..... I could easily spend £200/week on the main grocery shop alone (feeding 5 of us, and including toiletries, cleaning and pet food - and that was on top of school dinners for 3 and canteen meals at work for 2), plus £20-£30 a couple of other days each week on 'top-ups'. £100-£150/month on clothes was 'nothing', and I'd have been buying myself a new laptop at the same time as getting one for DS (having done all the research, it would have been as easy to upgrade mine 'now' as in another 6-12 months!)

Today I'm just feeling totally shell-shocked - even if I do have all the groceries in I should need for at least the next week (including milk as I bought 12 pints today, and also bought 12 litres of pop for DS which he'll guzzle as an alternative - though he has been told that's all the pop he's getting this month)

Wow, Cheryl, that's some spend for one day but you're right, something like that really makes the point regarding how much was spent in the past. I'm just the same, I can't believe how much money I used to waste buying food that was normally thrown away, it's criminal.:o:o..

Well done for being your usual organised self though, like Keiss, I'm in awe of your organisational skills:T

spoon
x

Lucky we've changed our ways really

solventsoon

cw18 wrote: »

Congratulations in advance :beer:



Spooooon...

did you see that?????

Another party to gate-crash

I did indeed, Cheryl, adding to the list - new hats all round:rotfl:

solventsoon

Kayleighpea wrote: »

Including mine! Put the 17th in your diaries everyone Will be 25!! Eeeeekk!! :eek:

I suddenly feel very old:(:(:(:(

anonymoose wrote: »

Well today definitely won't be a NSD I knew it wouldn't be anyway cos it's food shopping tonight but I've just bought tickets for the Manic Street Preachers tour in October
They're one of my favourites and I saw them years ago in Manchester, never thought they'd actually tour anywhere near to where I live so I've gone for it and ordered them. OH doesn't like them that much but he'll have to come too cos my best friend who does like them will either be a) very heavily preggers or b)have a new born.

xx

Sounds great, anonymoose, I love the Manics:j

solventsoon

pure_dead_dopey wrote: »

Can I please be picked up at my house by the Tardis, all this bumping up on down on Hubert isn't doing my back any good, and I don't want to squash my frilly knicks, must have upstanding navy blue and white frills for Andy, don't you know?

thanks in advance Elfen, I'll bring us a wee aperatif for the journey..........

Now that's an idea dopey.... elfen, could you do a circuit of the UK on Sunday and pick us all up, won't take long in the Tardis and it will save us clogging up the roads on assorted elephants, camels, broomsticks, donkeys and dogs:D:D:D