Fiscal Fast – 7 days no spending (at all)

Kerfuffle

Hi Folks,

Well I didn't make it to the 10 day Fiscal Fast target. I totally forgot when I posted that I had a hairdressers appointment on Tuesday, and because I managed to get all the chores in town done quickly I had 20 minutes to waste, so I went for a coffee. So it was a fail for me this week.

Anyway, I'm going into town today to do my weekly shop, I brought the day forward seeing as I'd failed, which means I will be able to avoid the shops this weekend and also see me beyond the Bank Holiday that we have here on Monday.

So after today I'm aiming for a 7 day Fiscal Fast, planning to next go to the shops on Friday 6th July, and hoping that today I have as little a spend as possible and keeping under my budget of 45.63GBpounds.

The $4.20 that was left in my purse from last week's shopping diminished to $2.20 after the coffee so that's gone into my debt pot for this week.

Great tip with the broccoli stalks JackieO, I've always thrown the extra long ones away, I'll definitely be saving them for soup from now on.

Thanks for the tips and the chat, have a good day everyone.

lessonlearned

Day 2 - going well.

Broccoli soup sounds lovely. I sometime use broccoli stalks in a stir fry. Peel off any woody bits and then slice thinly.

Tonight is morrocan chicken for two. I add lots of peppers, spring onions, a few black olives etc so only need one chicken portion between two people. Nice economical meal.

Pooky

My girls fight over the stalks of broccoli and cauli, I steam them normally (sliced)

I've managed 7 days but really, really need to shop tomorrow. Ive got great stocks of lots of foods but I've run out of squash, fresh fruit and veg (used the last of it tonight) and only have two tins of cat food left (with 6 cats, that doesn't go far)

I've had a good reorganisation of the kitchen this week and have discovered a few things I'd forgotten I had and a few things that really needed using up. It's meant a lot of disjointed meals with 1 of this and 3 of that etc but we've managed and I've not actually used any main items from my meal plan.

It was my birthday on Monday and I got a very generous cheque from MIL, I treated myself to a new bread maker, ours died a few years ago and whilst we don't eat a great deal of bread I managed to pick up a huge bag of bread mix from AF that makes 17 loaves, for 99p!!! I got 2 bags and it's made the most amazing bread so I shall order some more. Saves the freezer space I normally allocate for bread for something else andill just make a loaf every other day.

Kerfuffle

Happy belated Birthday Pooky

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Hi Chums well looking at my fridge its now down to half an ice berg,2 radishes,half a cucumber and a bottle of sliced beetroot and one carrot and half a diced up red pepper. The salady bits are almost gone ,but I still have three quarters of a kilo of new potato's and 7 apples and four oranges and a bag of grapes so I can utilise what I have over the weekend My Monday shopping list now reads

1 head of celery
Tomato's
Bananas

I am going to use up what I have in store of fresh stuff before I buy any more .I have worked out my menus over the week-end and
Today
:lunch HM veggie soup + crackers
:dinner salmon fillet, chessy mash,peas(all from freezer)
Tomorrow
Breakfast :last of the bran flakes,and orange
Lunch veggie soup and crackers
Dinner Sausages ,new potato's half a tin of baked beans,apple chopped up with some sliced orange
Sunday,
breakfast Boiled eggs plus ryvita
rest of the tinned beans with some chopped up bacon on top and sprinkled with grated cheese and under the grill
Dinner :I go to my DDs on a Sunday night for dinner.
So I can easily get over the weekend without going near to a shop at all
This will mean that the £22.00 plus I have in my food purse will go stright into the holiday stash:j:jI shall get my little bit of shopping on Monday then start again with my f/fasting as its a new month and I have £100.00 at the start of the month as my budget
I sorted out all of my fridge freezer yesterday and I am suprised at how much food I still have available in there .It is going down slowly and hopefully I can get it low enough to defrost it and start again.The HM veggie soup made me a litre and a half and it tastes superb.its got every bit of veg I could find, plus a good dollop of lazy garlic to add flavour.Tomorrow I shall also be doing some baking to refill my tins as they are running a bit low as DGS Ben has been popping in this week to do bits of my garden.I have some wholewheat pastry in there left over from a week ago and its enough to make me a small savoury flan I think which will be nice slice up cold for lunches during the week.
Onwards and upwards chums

lilian1977

Good morning everyone.

JackieO - what an inspiration you are, you're doing brilliantly!

Kerfuffle - that's not a fail, as you were having your hair cut think of it as a pamper day - you can allow yourself a coffee on a pamper day

Pooky - Happy belated birthday


Well it will be a spend day for me today as it's my day with my DS so I am taking him to a playcentre to meet Bob the Builder (although I've got free entry because I write a blog about local places to take kids, I'm paying for my friend to get in as she's driving there) then we're going to Pizza Hut for lunch with the boys - although I am using a 2 for 1. Won't need a grocery spend though I don't think so that's 2 days out of 30 of my grocery budget saved.

Have a good day everyone xx

Popperwell

I am not planning spending anything or going out until Monday to the Dr's surgery for my blood tests ready for my hospital appointment with my Consultant on Thursday(hope everything is ok)but this means 4 days of living on what I have in the house and almost a week of no buying. I'll see if I can extend that to a whole week.

mrs.butler

JackieO wrote: »

Anglesea Villa at Sandown on the Isle of Wight with my DD, son-in-law and four grandsons and myself.Its in the cottages4you.co.uk site and looks fabulous.Right almost on the sea front so not far for the boys to go for a paddle

Hope you have a lovely time. Its about 3 doors away from my parents house!:o

mcculloch29

The bad weather has meant a lot more NSD's than usual. Most weeks it's just 2 days for me, Tuesday and Saturday / Sunday that are spend days.
I could probably do a full 7 days FF if only adult DS didn't get through phenomenal amounts of fruit.
He usually eats around 10 items a day minimum. He is 6' 5'' and very muscular though so it doesn't seem to harm his digestion. He's also capable of wiping out a 2 litre bottle of milk in one day but does this sporadically, so it's not possible to lay in milk in anticipation of this. Sigh.

pinkypig

Well I've finally done it. I have read this lovely, inspirational thread over the last week and have plucked up the courage to cease lurking. May I join?
I really need to give my savings a boost in these credit crunching times as a need to move house has coincided with a poorly self employed Mr PP - so not much in the way of sick pay.
However, looking on the bright side I am reasonably frugal, reasonably organised and like cooking .
Planning to stock take, meal plan and shop tomorrow so will start FF on the first of the month. Feeling nervous and a little liberated ...:j