Weekly Spend Challenge W/C 20th January 2013

Verityemilia

Morning - snowing here although I am tucked up all nice and warm inside

Target £30 - spent £2.50 = £27.50

Desperate not to spend this week but its my weekend with the BF and a visit to the local is always in order :eek:

Quandary - I have £20 still in my purse from last week :j - Do I add to the Sealed Pot Challenge 2013 or save for my visit to the local ? Maybe should convince BF to stay in and cook a nice goulash with crusty bread for when I finish work

Decisions Decisions

Skint_Catt

Goulash with crusty bread sounds fab to me & then you can add the £20 to the sealed pot after the weekend xx

Lottie1987

Goulash and crusty bread sounds good to me!

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Ours was spent holed in from the weather.

Sun - NSD (the £10 put into savings tin)

Start of my week off today. So far have made chicken korma in slow cooker and a carrot and coriander soup on the hob. Am going to go into town shortly for a few bits and bats. Have got 40 voucher for A***s to use so may look at getting a pressure cooker with some of it.

Have a good day everyone xxx

rellaella

Can I join? I would like to set this weeks spend at £30 THANKYOU

EverTheOptimist

Welcome along rellaella. :wave: Good luck with the challenge.

Spend day for me today after yesterday's NSD.

£25 on petrol
£1.60 ish from misc budget.

That should be it for today now. Rest of the day tidying around the house in between spending time curled up on the sofa.

Verityemilia

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Goulash with crusty bread sounds fab to me & then you can add the £20 to the sealed pot after the weekend


I will let you know

Baileys_Babe

We were away last week visiting my parents, we ended up staying an extra day due to the weather, safely at home now.

Last week spent £4/£20

This week I plan to spend no more than £5

Sunday NSD friends came round for dinner
Monday NSD playing in the snow & sledging locally, very good fun.
I am anticipating the rest of week to be like today.

Baileys_Babe

abundant1972 wrote: »

Yup - I echo that!!! Thanks for the thread...

New week new start. Resisted doing a massive online shop today - loads of things I use as standard on offer and temptation to by in bulk was huge... Resisted... What does everyone else do if that happens??? It was microwave rice bags that I take to work most days down from £1.59 to 79p!!! Bargain!!! Suppose I should really cook the rice the night maybe, then zap it in the microwave at work...

Anyway - off to bed so catch you tomorrow!!!

I buy microwave rice for my OH in home bargains 49p a bag or if I'm disorganised I get it from Aldi where it's about 80p a bag.

EverTheOptimist

Baileys_Babe wrote: »

We were away last week visiting my parents, we ended up staying an extra day due to the weather, safely at home now.

Last week spent £4/£20

This week I plan to spend no more than £5

Sunday NSD friends came round for dinner
Monday NSD playing in the snow & sledging locally, very good fun.
I am anticipating the rest of week to be like today.

Hope you had a lovely time away and glad you're back safe and sound.

abundant1972

Hi everyone!!!

I think I'll come over for goulash and crusty bread... sounds YUM!!! You got a recipe???

Thanks for the tip on rice bags BaileysBabe... Don't think I heard of Home Bargains... not sure we have one around here... Alde good... Will cast my net further!!!

Am using up all my store cupboard and so far my budget for this week is still in the bank! Yippee. Have a prescription to pick up Wednesday so will have to break into it but hey!

Have a great day!!!