Fiscal Fast – 7 days no spending (at all)

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Hi chums NSD no 2 for me today.I cooked the 'gammon joint' (I still call it boiling bacon )that I bought last week for lunch today as I had my friend down to visit for the day, and have lots left over for tonight and probably a couple of days at least.
4 weeks this Saturday I am off on my spring holiday break so I am definitely staying away from the shops this week(and probably for the following few weeks as well if I can )I still have a fair bit of cash left this month to go into the holiday pot which I am really pleased about.
We all seemed to have taken to fiscal fasting very well and isn't it exciting when you look in you purse and there's still cash there for a change.I made a creme caramel pudding this afternoon for pud for the next few days and my sliced 'gammon ' is going to be streeeetched to its limits.Tonight I am having some with salad potato's and peas and pickle and tomorrow I think I'll have a go with some pasta and a cheesey sauce to go with it.I found a jar of tangy carrot and coriander pickle in the cupboard left unopened from Christmas and it is delicious with salad,very moreish I love different pickle with my food and it makes it so colourful as well I think it was from Asd*s on the offer at the time and I had forgotten about it .Very nice though and I wish I had bought more.
Well done everyone keep up the good work :)

westlothianlass

Hi all,
what a beautiful day today turned out to be:T.
I had to get some milk today as the teenage monster drank it all at the weekend, but apart from that have been doing okay. If i excuse the milk this is day 3:).
Pasta bolognese bubbling away at the moment, and some bread dough rising for the morning toast so all in i'm rather chuffed.
Lovely to hear how everyone is doing and lally so glad your son is better.

Hope you have all managed to enjoy some free sunshine x

craigywv

Hi all, day 2 of fasting cant believe how much my cupboards are hiding, Just made a recipe i found on here called twinks hobnobs................i shall say no more only i had the local kids in my garden sniffing and slobbering my son being the ring leader! They cooling now i tried one 3rd degree burns to mouth dont care deeeelllishhhhhhhhhhh! I feel like i have been given a new pair of eyes to actually see just what i had in my cupboards and how to use it i dont need to go to shops for anything as i tend to hoard stuff why i dont know i live in center of town so no snowing in or running short, and i always had plentiful in my house as i was growing up, so would love to know why i am a food hoarder. Anyway thanks for all the ideas and keep them comingxxx.:)

7_week_wonder

Evening all,
I'm still lurking and enjoying all the inspirational posts. Alas I'm definitely not fasting at the moment, a combination of leaving do's at work and different relatives visiting for the next couple of weekends is making it impossible not to spend at all, so I'm making do with the odd NSD here and there: and thoroughly enjoying it too.

I managed a NSD today: had some yummy bulgur wheat salad for lunch (concocted from stuff in the cupboards) and right now I have a loaf of spicy fruit bread in the BM. OH and I are at home tomorrow to do some serious gardening so I thought if I made the bread as a treat we wouldn't be tempted to head to the bakery at the end of the road for a mid-morning snack!

Keep up all the good work and inspiration everyone.

modern_millie_2

Hi everyone,
had a NSD yesterday, mostly at home in the garden enjoying the sun,and getting rid of some stubborn brambles!

Decided that I would do a smallish AF order as part of my shop this week, have spent £25 inc postage but I shouldn't need to spend more than £15 now on fresh food to see us through the week until next Tues/Wed.
Other than that, and OHs tobacco (!) no ther spends today.

Dinner was quorn fajitas with whoopsied peppers, and 10p yoghurt instead of sour cream.

Shopping tomorrow eve instead of Wednesday this week, as I have to go to town then for DDs concert, so will save on petrol. Dinner may well be soup or beans on toast, as it will be very early or very late!

Lally, glad to hear your son is OK - very frightening for you.

Catz, one of Mr MMs options for upcoming dentistry was an implant, he did consider it but decided to go for a cheaper option as it's a back tooth. Will still be a couple of hundred pounds though. Good luck with the treatment.

Hope everyone's having a good evening, keep watching those pennies!

lisakay_2

Lally, pleased your boy is home x

other news...ooops, i'm not sure i want to share. on sat i took my girls, my friend and her son to the park, they all took a bit of money for the icecream van while we were there (i bought one too!) I ate mine, them i ate dd2's after she had had enough, then dd1 didn't want any more of hers either...
then friend and son came back for some tea, which was stuff i had in but we fancied a drink and nipped to the off licence (£17 later:o:o:eek:).
sunday me and girls decided we were fed up of making do and went shopping. to be fair it would normally have cost upwards of £100, but even including a months cat/rabbit food and 2wks dog food and 210L compost it came to £68.
today really should have been a nsd, but i ran out of seed trays and the girls school socks are all manky/grey/too small, dh decided he needed beer and i somehow spent another £36.
so, if my adding up is right, £104 of aprils grocery budget (of £150:eek:) spent before april has actually begun:eek::eek:. leaving me with £46 to last until 25th with 2wks school hols, oh !!!!!!!!!

looks like i have my work cut out!! although strictly speaking, the seed trays, socks and compost could be taken out of the equation;) which would make me £24 better off for food...

forever_saving

I haven't spent any money since the 24th. Although it was my main shop (although there wasn't an awful amount there for my money) i would have spent extra by now. I am now hopefully going to be having my 3rd nsd. I can't even remember the last time i had a nsd day, let alone a possible 3 in a row .
Thankyou for all of your inspirational posts.
Tea tonight will be a gammon joint with salad potatoes and mixed salad. I will try and save some gammon if i can.
Beautiful day already at the moment. Hope everyone has a good day.
FS x

Kiwisaver_2

lally666young wrote: »

So god knows what I spent so I am sorry. I can only read elle decor so many times!

No apologies required, it's hard going when you have any family member in hospital and doubly so when it's one of your kids. All normality and routine goes totally out of the window. Glad all is okay now.

Another good day for me, lunch was acceptable, dinner was a 'spanish' omlette, with a bit of sliced potato, onion, ham, peppers and tomato along with the last of the bread. :eek:

Tomorrow's dinner is lasagna, duly taken from the freezer, but now I have to rally myself and go and figure out the lunch conundrum. I fear cheese and crackers and a cuppa soup is about as good as it is going to get. :rotfl:

greent

Well, I've just eaten up 2/3rd of a tub of past it mushrooms and half a pack of soft tomatoes for breakfast with 1/2 scrambled egg (toddler mugged me for other half! ) We still have another pack of mushrooms and another of tomatoes to use up before going away on Saturday - will use some up in pasta tonight (We have kilos and kilos of pasta and lots of tinned tomatoes, so more using up there )

We're off on a balloon ride today - fantastic weather for it, so it should be good!

May make courgette and tomato soup for lunch - uses up some more of the passata stock (yes, I have a large stock of that as well as tinned tomatoes...!) and some frozen courgettes from the garden last summer..

Have dough proving to make a loaf - not everyone in this house will eat hm bread, but it should stretch out our supplies hopefully enough until the weekend....

determined_new_ms

Morning guys - menus are looking very "creative" - high five!!!

Today's gormet menu is:

porridge for breakfast. Wrap, peanut butter & banana, tinned peaches & yogurt for lunch. Apple & satsuma for snacks. Dinner will be LO pasta bake for me & LO lasagne for oh with possibly a chicken breast

Still going strong for food at the moment :beer:

Not going anywhere near a shop today today so should be a clear NSD :T