Fiscal Fast – 7 days no spending (at all)

craigywv

hi all been awol yesterday...I think! my minds dwindling. anyway not been out the door shopping. collected a massive bowl of raspberries from my bushes and washed froze them in lieu of sons birthday tea next week. I have plundered through freezers and am pleased to say I don't need a thing to do the tea for us all. so here goes tell me what you think............this is to feed 12 peeps. a bag of cocktail sausages. hm mini sausage rolls,11 chicken drumsticks done all sticky in honey and soy sauce, 2 platters of egg and onion and ham sandwiches,few bowls of crisps,tray of hm cupcakes, hm pavlova topped with my raspberries and sliced after 8s,achocolate cake with flakes crumbled on it and jelly and hm choc icecream. I will bake cakes /cupcakes and pavlova day before also will make the hot food so just to be heated only thing will be sandwiches on the day. not healthy but its a special day.xxx.what is great is that its all in the freezers and cupboards only thing I do need is 3 tubs double cream. jelly can also be made night before.xxx hi ava-adore nice to see new folk xxx forgot also doing mini stuffed baked potatoes with fried onions and mushrooms and garlic baguettes.

Ninno820

Sounds great craigywv - almost as if you've planned it and then gone out and bought the groceries!

pablakeman

Does anybody do an NSD just with regards to groceries etc... I would love to get involved in this, but having just started a graduate scheme, being in a new city and finally living in the same city as my girlfriend after a year, it will be difficult to not spend anything at all as we want to get out and do stuff (all groupons/offers normally, my gf is getting used to it and is secretly grateful I think ).

So does anybody do this just with regards to groceries?

craigywv

Ninno820 wrote: »

Sounds great craigywv - almost as if you've planned it and then gone out and bought the groceries!

I have been putting the stuff away in back of freezer as I have been buying ys stuff,as far back as Christmas ...sausage meat for the sausage rolls,cocktail saus also ys from January. I have tried to keep it all in one place in freezer, got ys chicken drumsticks a while back too, so the expensive items are all ys. and the rest I will bake myself.xxx

Ninno820

I just do groceries. I try to avoid other spending if I can but I'm following jackieo's example and have a grocery purse with my target spend for the month in it. Looking forward to having something left over at the end of the month!

GreyQueen

Running late tonight, but have successfully completed a NSD, despite being surrounded by shops here in the city centre.

Work,library, visit shopkeeper pal for a natter, home, snack, allotment, pal visited for 2 hours, nattering with YS donuts they'd bought with them, then natter to a pal on the phone then up here for a wee visitoid.

A busy life is one with no time for shopping at all - big fun.

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craigywv sound gorgous what you have planned and what a great idea that you started stocking up when you could, great way to do a birthday thrash without it costing a fortune.I try to stash odd bits if I see them on offer in my 'Holiday box' which we take away with us when my DD OH myself and four kids all troop off on our annual holiday in August.Stuff like pasta,tinned stuff etc and even a large box of soap powder that I spotted in January reduced because it had a damaged lid(not damaged enough to lose anything from):):):) every little helps.

I only use my little brown purse for food and once its empty then that's it until the following month .I started by over estimating how much I needed in there, and slowly worked it down by month from then.

Any leftover goes into the 'holiday money tin'which pays for treats for my four grandchildren over the holiday fortnight, at the moment I have around £60.00 odd pounds in there which will buy more than a few ice creams next month :):)

Well Day 8 has dawned and nothing needed to be bought today.I have got a small gammon YS steak from the freezer out and I'll have that with salad for lunch then tonight its Quiz night so I get supper there thrown in with the quiz money(usually a jacket spud or some pasta.)

This morning is U3A coffee morning but I have vouchers for coffee from Dobbies in my purse so that too will be free . I am planning for Thursday for my first shopping day as I have a small list of odds and ends that need buying.

I'm really pleased about how this month has progressed though and using up stuff from my food mountain :) has cut back on my shopping trips.
Well done chums for all your hard efforts you are all doing splendidly, I think just by thinking twice before shopping for bits makes all the difference (gives you more time in the glorious sunshine as well)
Cheers chums
JackieO xxx

boultdj

Well since getting the furry owner's food on sunday I'v managed to keep my purse tightly closed, and I'v now got a second draw empty in the freezer,2 more to go then it's defrost and 'organised' restock.

Frugalsod

Well I have completed 7 days without spending at all. Though am running low on milk. This month so far has been very good.

GreyQueen

Frugalsod wrote: »

Well I have completed 7 days without spending at all. Though am running low on milk. This month so far has been very good.

:T Blimming heck, that's very very good. Big pat on your back.

I've spent very little but I've still spent something. I would have gone to my archery class tonight (£10) but I'm feeling exhausted and ill, so not up to going. It requires a lot of concentration so is rather tiring, so not going to waste my money when I'm not feeling well enough to benefit from the practise.

Am slowly cooking a curry based on random ingredients and seasonings. Not so much a recipe, more a case of what can I substitute for what? Good to start from what you have to use up, rather than just throw money at a problem.

I have a feeling that it'll be either very good or decidedly peculiar, only time will tell. I'll eat it anyway. One of the unheralded joys of living on yer tod is that if the meal doesn't turn out exactly as planned, that you don't have to countenance mutiny in the ranks.

Doing my accounts at the end of July will be a wheeze at this rate, there will hardly be anything there.

July to date: £10 archery lesson last week, 89p deodorant, £1.48 on food. Total £12.37.