NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

pm2326

After a longggg week at work and then shopping tonight, decided I couldn't be bothered to cook and wanted a takeaway....

Wandered round tidying shopping away, debating on whether I wanted pizza or Chinese.....

20 mins later sitting down to fish finger sandwiches :rotfl::rotfl:

least it saved me opening my purse again and helped reduce freezer stock a teeny weeny bit!

Have a confession though bought 4 500g packs pork mince in aldi reduced to 95p each...in freezer already:o

Lynplatinum

Ahoy there all

Suki - one of the points of NBI is surely to secure ourselves some time to kick back, look at what we have achieved, and enjoy it all :j - rather than spend our days stressed out of our heads running around chasing money to buy !!!!!! we dont need! good for you havin an afternoon with your chooks - awesome!! what an excellent way to spend your day! You deserve it friend!

Pm - the mince is an investment!! :T Fish finger sanis!! YUMMM! Nowt wrong with that - probably less calories than TAway! :cool:

(slight pathetic groan here - I'm not allowed fish finger sanis @ mo - am trying to unburden myself of some weight and they are not in the Sl!immin world way of eating! Still I should not complain - having to loose weight is such a First World problem! I have only succeeded before when I thought of how wrong it was that I should be so fat when there were others in the world starving! I am also now trying to view it as a form of decluttering - do I really want all those lbs in my way - stopping me walking as far as I would like to/going swimming/being as good at my yoga as I used to be/ wearing half the clothes I possess? We ll see if this works for me! )

NBI today included saving some plumbs from the bin as I turned em into a crumble which also warmed the house (heat from oven) So I did not need to turn heater on! Its been raining and miserable here - so I snuggled down with books/the dog/the crumble and had time to potter round the net and look stuff I have been curious about for some time. Such luxury - time (sigh of contentment) thats what holidays (am dog and house sitting for a friend) and NBI are for...... :A
Set for fair weather tomorrow so am off to look on web to workout where I can take little cute woof for walkies!
Nite all

pm2326

Morning peeps

Think today will be a mini spend day, the local airshow is on and I may just pop along, will cost me about £5 for train fare (can't remember what it was last year)

If I go I'll be on my own, sad as it is but I have no friends outside of work, colleague said she would go but then on Thursday night 'remembered' about a wedding she's going to! Even asked my mum and she won't go.

Was going to stay in but thought what the hell, I'm old enough and big enough to go it alone, will do a pack up lunch to save money and enjoy the day

bexster1975

Morning pm

I hope you have a fab day. If your weather is anything like here it will be a great show!

I know there are lots of us in Kent area, but maybe we need to out ourselves a bit more and find out roughly where we all live. OS meet ups seem like a great idea, and may even stop people having to go to events alone.

I am happy to out myself as a west midlander. Anyone else Birmingham/ Warwickshire way we could arrange a meet up. Where abouts are you pm?

Bexster

pm2326

bexster1975 wrote: »

Morning pm

I hope you have a fab day. If your weather is anything like here it will be a great show!

I know there are lots of us in Kent area, but maybe we need to out ourselves a bit more and find out roughly where we all live. OS meet ups seem like a great idea, and may even stop people having to go to events alone.

I am happy to out myself as a west midlander. Anyone else Birmingham/ Warwickshire way we could arrange a meet up. Where abouts are you pm?

Bexster

Hi bexster, I'm in Northumberland

Weather forecast is for showers at 11, 1 and 3 lol (I use accuweather) but I can take my brolly! Even if air events are delayed there is nearly 2 mile of land stuff to look at, just have to watch out for the other 20,000 + people walking into you :rotfl:

bexster1975

Hi

Bit far from these parts then. Sorry forecast isn't great. Have a fab day. With 20,000 + people there, no one will be able to tell you are on your own

Bexster

ivyleaf

I expect you've left by now pm, but I hope you have/had a good day

WeeMidgie Thanks for your lovely post, and Lynplatinum for the one which followed it :T

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Good Morning fellow matelots, weather here is looking fine for today and rubbish for the next four days, so I may try to get the washing all done today so it can be blowing on the line and dried for free
(I don't have a tumble dryer anyway),but hate drying stuff on the airer, so do the washing when the forecast is good :):))

Only 20 days until our holidays so NBI is writ large across my purse in huge imaginary letters :) I will be using as much of the stuff I have in stock already and not going anywhere near a shop at all if I can.

The more I manage to save the more going into the holiday savings tin. DGS Ben is going to come down with us to the IoW for the first week with his G/F Katie, so it will be a full house of 9 of us all told

I had a rummage in the freezer last night and found some YS fillet steak which will be my 'treat of the week' for dinner tonight.

I like to 'treat' myself to a nice meal from my freezer stock on a Saturday night I have also some nice flavoured butters that were given to me free from Sainsbugs when I bought the meat that have been in the freezer so I may have some lemon herby butter to go on top of a jacket spud with a small salad to accompany it. I have some tinned pineapple in the cupboard, so some of that with some madagascar vanilla ice cream to top it off (had some Carte D'or stuff on offer thats been lurking at the bottom of my freezer as well)sounds like a nice meal for me tonight .

DGS Danny loaned me a set of 'True Detective DVDs' to watch as he said its a series well worth the watch, so my entertainment is sorted as well :):)

Yesterdays de-cluttering went well and DGS Jack's bedroom looks a bit more like a bedroom, and less like the local tip

Most of the trainers were past reclaiming with a wash, and not even possible to hand down to one of the younger boys His brother Henry is 14 and takes a larger shoe size anyway.They really were only fit for the bin

I have four sad looking peeled carrots in the fridge which I will turn into carrot and coriander soup this morning,if I chuck some lentils in the mix as well I can streeetch it to at least a litre and a half
I seem to have a large stock of tinned chickpeas for some reason I will have a think about what I can renovate them into. Any ideas would be great chums.
I shall also be doing some baking this morning a large victoria sponge cake for Jack and his brothers and probably some choc chip cookies

Tomorrow I shall make a baked bean lasagne to take to DDs house for Mondays lunch for the boys. Having four ravenous boys home all day in the holidays is quite expensive for DD as they seem to be permanantly eating :):).Like feeding locusts at times
right onwards and upwards chums
Have a good day whatever you are doing
JackieO xxx

Lynplatinum

Ahoy there fellows sailors on the Good ship NBI

Pm2326 - earlier this year I went to the cinema on my own for the first time in my life (I m 56). I really enjoyed the experience :j selfishly I did not have to compromise on where I sat or buy anyone else ice cream (with fudge sauce!!). but on the way out I had an interesting conversation with another Sci Fi fan!! Feel the fear and do it anyway! I will happily now do more stuff on my own I decided! :)

Jackie O - sounds like a wonderful meal isnt amazing what we concoct from fridges and freezers!! :beer: I have so much food here I am fighting against it going off before I can use it! So tonight I poached 3 chicken breasts - made my own gravy - and ate up the swede and carrot mash and cauliflower I cooked the other day! YUM :j

Poaching chicken recipe:

Place enough water in a saucepan to just cover the chicken. place 3 peppercorns; strips of lemon zest (about 4 from one lemon ie skin of half a lemon) and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Bring gently to the boil and simmer for about 20 mins. Leave breast to stand in the liquid once cooked for about an hour - unless planning to eat straight away. The 'juice' makes excellent gravy - for one person - place 1 heaped desertspoon of plain flour in a frying pan slowly mix in the liquid - at first forming a paste and then slowly adding about 1/4 pt of liquid. Add 2 shakes of soy sauce 9for colour and more saltyness). Put over a medeum flame and slowly bring to the boil - stirring all the time - the liquid will go 'clear' rather than cloudy - this means the flour is cooked. I never buy stock cubes or gravy granules - such an NBI!

(If no meat juices I fry onions slowly till they go brown - then add flour and proceed as above)

Hope this is useful to folk. :rotfl:

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The steak was delicious and working out the cost and the rest of the meal I had a slap up dinner tonight for under £2.50, result I think .
Did lots of baking and made some soup and tomorrow will be doing a bit more to fill DGS tummys up this week
DGS Henry got his first paypacket this weekand dutifully handed over £15.00 of his £17.00 paper round money to me to save for him.Once he has bought his football game for his Xbox he wants to save for a new bike.
I have promised him if he saves half the cost I will spring him for the other half, bit of an incentive and he is pretty good at saving for things.If its in my house its where it stays, until he has enough saved .His eldest brother Ben did the same when he was 16 when he wanted to go to Reading pop festival and always coughed up the cash weekly.weather looks a bit gloomy for the next few days, my eldest DD and her OH and In-laws are staying at her caravan in Deal for a week, I hope it brightens up a bit as her Ma-in-law (78) has been looking forward to getting away for a break as she is virtually housebound because she has a couple of discs crumbling in her spine and cannot walk far at all.such a shame as until this year she has been so energetic and full of life Her OH is 84 and is not well himself either, but bless him he has been very good at looking after her.Fingers crossed they will celebrate 60 years of marriage this Christmas. lovely couple and have been very good friends of mine for almost 30 years.
Right I'm off to bed for a read I am reading my book club book which is called 'Old Filth', :0 not in the least filthy its about a retired lawyer and quite funny,Filth being an acronym for 'Failed in London, try Hong Kong' :):)
Night all
JackieO xxx