Fiscal Fast – 7 days no spending (at all)

peony40

Morning all,

Well, it's the start of a new month for me money wise and I have spent the last hour totalling up my spends for April and it is not pretty. I am ashamed of how much I have spent on little bits and pieces online, so my fiscal fast starts now!

I have budgeted all my essential spends for the next month, so apart from these I don't need to buy anything else. My hubby is on holiday for a week at the end of the month, so I have set a little money aside so that we can go out for some day trips.

Nice to read all your news, and it's encouraging to know there are others who understand.

Off to sort out my pantry and freezer and do an inventory and menu plan. Please wish me luck!

Erica, how are you doing?

Peony

peony40

Afternoon all,

Had my first grocery shop of May delivered and it came to £124.82, this leaves me with £55.18 until the 27th May.

I have made a menu plan, but I need to fine tune it as both hubby and myself are unwell so the plan has not been adhered to.

The pantry and freezer are full of good food, so I am determined to use what we have in, before buying anything else.

Have two bags of apples to freeze, and also need to make a cake.

Hope you are all keeping well.

Peony x

craigywv

I fell off the wagon today, was seduced in farm shop by cyprus spuds so threw the head up and went to pot in lidls too spent 30 quid, disgusted with myself away to sulk! ..............................prob be back tomorrow xxx

EricaDawnCali

Hi Everyone! I am good. I have been forgeting my password to log in lately. My birthday was May 13th and I just turned 33. I still get mistaken for 26 or 27. I had a difficult time last month with the FF but, am doing better.It's hard to afford anything because our local store is too exspensive and I can't always get to the big city to do shopping that is cheaper.
I was in the hospital for a few days last month. I got really sick and had some complication due to my Poly Cycstic Kidney Disease.
Unfortunantly I had to throw away quite a bit of food because I was gone for several days.
I have received a lot of birthday money, so hopefully I will stay on budget this month. I haven't bought a lot of food these past few weeks. I think my stomach shrunk in the hospital. Hospital food is terrible.
Anyway, enough rambling. I hope everyone is well. I hope to be on more since I created a password that is easy to remember.

whichwhydoIturn

Morning , I've been reading a girl called jack online ,some fantastic recipes that use what you have .
Also, have a look at a site called supercook , you tell it what you have in the cupboard and it generates a recipe for you .

[Deleted User]

Hi chums been AWOL for awhile due to hospital op.s etc but back here again.I have £30.00 left from my £60.00 food budget in my food purse and nothing to buy for a few days.So halfway through the month and full cupboards at JackieO Towers:):):)
Tonights dinner will be a piece of smoked cod from the freezer with mash and green beans also from the freezer with fresh fruit to follow.Having converted completely to crackers instead of bread I find I am eating less which is good for the waistline, plus there are some good crackerbread offers around at the moment I tried the Lidle crispbreads and I liked the seseme seed ones ,good as ryvita but half the price.I have also started to use UHT long life milk a bit more and found it does keep longer than fresh milk and is a bit less expensive .tesco's dried milk is pretty good for using in puddings or custard and works out about 15p a pint
Hope you are all doing well with the f/fasting
WhichwhydoIturn I had the 'A Girl called Jack's ' cookery book bought for me and its excellent and her recipes are extremely good.I love the beanburgers really cheap and easy to make.She is working on her second book I believe
Onwards and upwards chums
Cheers JackieO xxx

craigywv

RIGHT , that's me in again for the long haul! freezers filled and lists of contents taken, cupboards same! hope someone else joins me xxx

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craigywv I'm with you honey,its batten down the hatches time as the holiday needs paying for in three weeks time.So my purse is going into deep-freeze I think.I have only just got in from a very busy weekend and haven't even had time to do my menu's but fingers crossed I will get my lists sorted and menu's planned tomorrow morning.I intend to spend as little as possible for the next three weeks at least I know I have more than enough in the freezer and I'm going to use up my fridge stuff if I can before buying more.nothing on th shopping list and I'm out to dinner tomorrow night as my eldest DGS Danny is treating his Granny to a nice meal in Maidstone as he's just had a promotoin at work and he likes to give both of his grandparents a treat when ever he gets a bit of good luck .
On Tuesday my brother who is over from France for a few days is taking me out to dinner in the evening ,so I have no dinners to cook for a couple of days which makes a nice change :)It will be freezer roulette on Wednesday as I want to try to use up some of the unidentified stuff in there .wish me luck ,who knows what I'll be eating :):)

craigywv

Oh goody jackio your here with me yayyyy. Just finished making a massive pot in sc of carrot and lentil soup got 6big potatoes and just halved them and put them in pot and switched sc off they will cook overnight in residual heat, so that's lunches sorted for next week also excavated some Christmas Day ham from freezer see I throw nothing out, we'll it will be cut up and put into the soup too.made my own pastry with trex and made a sausage meat and baked bean pie so that's dinner for tomorrow night sorted will do veg with it and baked spud, will freeze the rest in slices S son aged 10 likes it cold in his packed lunch euwwwwwwwww.plan on making scones possibly cherry and also plain ones as have done baking cupboards earlier and found some glac! cherries which need using up. Worst part of fasting is I end up baking And filling freezers up again with home baked goods. On diet too from tomorrow so I won't be eating most of what I make. I plan on having porridge for breakfast, soup for lunch and a piece of fish and salad for tea the boys are having the stodgy gorgeous pie drool drool lol.well have a good night I off to bed with my book in hand to meal plan xxx

craigywv

GOOD MORNING DAY 2 ... alls well,the soup I made yesterday was really lovely, so lovely its all gone!caught son aged 10 gorging on it after scouts last night so ab none left. thinking peppers and carrot for today with bits of this and that threw in. tonights tea will be beef sausages and peas and mash,over here hasn't been getting the sunny weather like the mainland we have torrential rain for 4 days now, well at least the gardens happy. back to drying clothes indoors I hate that.just made toast for breakfast now I feel like sleeping lol. but I cant, I have to make bread and am baking coffe cake and coffee cupcakes. have a good frugal day all.xxx