NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

Lynplatinum

Evening all

I priced up some of my stuff on e-bay (i.e. checked out what others are charging similar items) and then am going to put stuff up on there tomorrow! Really need the cash at mo! all this decorating costs monies!!

Today was another NSD cos I made my own oatcakes from a Hugh FW recipe and they were really tasty!! :j

So ended up Not Buying It by making my own and not being tempted.

Also did a lot of sanding down ready to paint gloss work and walls this week so I have been really busy!

Nite all :A

chirpycheap

Well I'm a year late boarding this particular ship and I'm just wondering if the 'Not Spending It' ocean liner will continue sailing into 2016?
It seems like a really useful and interesting thread. It would be a shame for it not to continue.
I've read through a lot of it but 271 pages may take me a while! I'm very impressed by people's resolve not to throw their hard earned cash into the ocean of consumerism.
It is exactly this time of year when the advertisers and media are trying to get me into a spending frenzy that I find my purse being firmly closed and a stubborn refusal to spend silly money on silly stuff coming over me!

DuranGirl

Wasn't sure quite where to post this on the many threads I'm subscribed to, but had to share...


I made a "gravy dinner" last night for me and my DS. I had beef stew from the SC, and he had a Quorn pie as he's veggie. He fell asleep after I'd told him it was ready and then decided he didn't fancy it, so I clingfilmed it and popped it in the fridge. When he got up for college this morning, he wanted "something warming" for breakfast rather than cereal, so he reheated and ate it at 7.30 am!!!:rotfl: But as he said, he knows how much I hate waste... I just didn't expect him to have a pie with mash, broccoli and gravy for breakfast!

firesidemaid

117pauline wrote: »

I am into my third week of doing a low FODMAP diet which the dietitian has recommended for my stomach issues and it's going well so far although I do seem to be Buying It rather than the opposite.

Basically it is wheat, gluten, lactose free diet as well as banning onions, mushrooms, peas and various other fruit and veg. I was dreading it but the worst part has been avoiding onions and mushrooms as all my winter recipes include them.

Thankfully it seems to be working apart from yesterday when I must have eaten something off the banned list and I was really poorly!!

Hi Pauline. OH has just started doing this, so interesting to share notes. I agree re. the onions and pulses/beans, also eating out!


We have been using Garlic Oil and I have made cakes & biccies using gluten-free SR flour; lactose-free milk and vegan marg. My attempt at a pizza using substitution flour was disappointing and as you say a lot of things are dearer.....

[Deleted User]

Well the purse will get used this morning as I have to go to get some food shopping I spent a tiny amount yesterday only 73p on a carton of UHT milk and a bag of reduced carrots, but my main shop will be today and only the second 'big' shop of November.
I had a misshap with my freezer box the other day I went to pull it out and the whole front came away in my hands.So I shall have to use everything up in my freezer first before I buy anything else or it will fall out :):) Eldest DD will get me a new drawer for it no problem but I am going to use the old one up and empty it first so no more YS bargains to freeze for awhile My old fridge freezer had wire drawers and was great but this freezer has horrible plastic ones that eventually crack and split.Built-in obsolescence I think as the drawers only seem to last a couple of years.

I came home from the wedding on Saturday with a few left overs which I have been using up this week.My tinned store is slowly going down ,but I still seem to have lots of stuff still in stock.But being careful to use it up first has meant that I really am only buying stuff that I have run out of, and absolutely no impulse buying at all. Yesterdays bag of reduced carrots will make a vat of carrot and coriander soup for lunches this week and at 24p its a pretty good bargain as I should get at least 4-5 lunches out of them with cheese and crackers to accompany it :):) The surplus cash left over at the end of the month goes into my holiday food fund for next August when we all go away as a family to the IoW

Anyone seen vhalla at all,I hope she hasn't sailed off to sunnier climbs

Have a good day everyone what ever you are doing
JackieO xxx

[Deleted User]

Just got back from the shops and very pleased at how little I spent.Managed to snaffle two mango's reduced to 15p each as well not too sure what I'll do with them yet but at 15p they certainly won't go to waste

Waiting for a text from DGS Ben who is in Snowdonia camping with his G/F, they seem to love the weather when its rough ,better than when its nice .I think they love the challenge :):)

Just going to have a wrap from the freezer and I'l fill it with salad and maybe some grilled houlami cheese, as I have two packets as yet unopened in the fridge.

Lyn I'd love your recipe for oatcakes as I have quite a stash of oats in the cupboard at the moment .Thinking about it I may swirl some mango pulp through the porridge tomorrow morning, :):) any other ideas for my bargain mango's ?

candygirl

JACKIE how about mango chutney?:p

Nargleblast

Mangoes blended with cream or plain yoghourt make a lovely dessert - mango fool.

candygirl

Nargleblast wrote: »

Mangoes blended with cream or plain yoghourt make a lovely dessert - mango fool.

Sounds yummy! When we used to go to Goa, one of the hotels had a mango tree, n we were aĺlowed to pick as many as we could eat:j

[Deleted User]

Mangoes with plain yogurt sound nice , I only really like red onion chutney to be honest, good thinking though
No more shopping at the moment for me ,especially with the impending cold snap promised this weekend. I was quite pleased that I stuck to my shopping list yesterday and I am doing my utmost to free up some space in my freezer, takes ages though as I only have to cook four dinners a week.Sunday night I am at DDs and always come home with a covered plate for Monday nights dinner, and Tuesdays I am at quiz night at the pub where we get a meal as well So I only have to cook Wed-Sat in the evenings. I made a sweet potato curry yesterday with the huge sweet potato that my neighbour gave to me as she was going away for a few days and there was enough for two portions for the freezer and one for me last night. It really was a giant of a spud (size of a small galia melon ) :):) so it didn't go to waste, chucked a few odds and ends of veg in it as well.I love curries or soups as they are great for padding out with veg that's perhaps past its pristine best :):)

Hope you all have a good day despite the awful weather at the moment
Cheers chums
JackieO xxx