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greent

You can freeze pasta but I've always found it goes a little weird - perfectly edible, but a bit chewy. I'd eat it tomorrow instead, personally!
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tattycath

greent wrote: »

You can freeze pasta but I've always found it goes a little weird - perfectly edible, but a bit chewy. I'd eat it tomorrow instead, personally!
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We will eat it tomorrow. Thank you.

tattycath

I've been out and spent money...I am classing this as a no spend day.
I took with me £7 worth of scratch cards and £3.69 in APG vouchers. I spent £2.45 on drinks in cafe and £4.97 on cleaning products and mushrooms.
I cashed in scratch cards and used the vouchers and I'm still up by £3.27. :j

tattycath

Due to a couple of unexpected but welcome sales, I'm now up by a total of £15.27 today. :j I think I might start a special pot just for extra money from sales, APGs, scratch card, finds etc. My pot target is £100 by end of December 2016. :j

tattycath

When you decide whether or not you've had a no spend day, do you count just yourself personally? Or do you include any spends of a significant other?
If the former, I've had another no spend day today. :j
If the latter, I've had a low spend day.
I've also had some good news today...after doing some digging around, I've discovered that the horrendous unexpected bill, isn't quite as big as I had at first feared, well, on the one hand it is, but another bill I thought I had, is irrelevant and been replaced by the more recent bill, so I owe 5/8 of what I thought I owed and this week I'm hoping to be able to pay half of it off! :j :j:j
I'm still pulling right back on expenditure.

greent

tattycath wrote: »

When you decide whether or not you've had a no spend day, do you count just yourself personally? Or do you include any spends of a significant other?
If the former, I've had another no spend day today. :j
If the latter, I've had a low spend day.
I've also had some good news today...after doing some digging around, I've discovered that the horrendous unexpected bill, isn't quite as big as I had at first feared, well, on the one hand it is, but another bill I thought I had, is irrelevant and been replaced by the more recent bill, so I owe 5/8 of what I thought I owed and this week I'm hoping to be able to pay half of it off! :j :j:j
I'm still pulling right back on expenditure.

I count NSDs as both myself and OH not spending - but I think the majority view is no spending by yourself, but I'm also not fussed on NSDs personally as long as my budgets are met. (I appreciate that spending anything gives rise to the possibility of blowing budgets - the scenario of going to a smkt for bread and milk and coming out having spent £30 )

Good news re the bill and ultimately owing less than what you feared - and great that you can clear a big lump of it this week :T

xx

tattycath

greent wrote: »

I count NSDs as both myself and OH not spending - but I think the majority view is no spending by yourself, but I'm also not fussed on NSDs personally as long as my budgets are met. (I appreciate that spending anything gives rise to the possibility of blowing budgets - the scenario of going to a smkt for bread and milk and coming out having spent £30 )

Good news re the bill and ultimately owing less than what you feared - and great that you can clear a big lump of it this week :T

xx

Thanks greent.
I've paid nearly 60% of large bill. :j hoping to be able to totally clear it next week-fingers crossed.
Lots to do today, but I felt a bit under the weather yesterday and although I'm feeling better today, it's taking enormous effort to get on and get things done.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

tattycath

89% of large bill paid.
I bought fruit and veg today for the week-out of my grocery budget. I'm sure I've read somewhere that if you wrap carrots in foil and put in veg box in fridge they keep well? Please, someone, correct me if I'm wrong.

Tonight we are eating out of freezer:chicken kievs, chips, onion rings and veg.
Tomorrow I think we are going to have salmon out of freezer.

tattycath

No spend day today.
Dilemma tonight...I took chicken out of freezer yesterday and managed to 'forget', I have since taken salmon out too. So they both need cooking today and we won't be eating both today... So, do I eat the salmon and make a curry out of the chicken to eat tomorrow? Or do I just cook the chicken as I would for carbonara but not add pasta and then reheat and add pasta tomorrow... Can't decide...

A_Frayed_Knot

Do it all :rotfl: if you have enough. I would have the salmon tonight and the chicken tomorrow, but of course, salmon is my very favourite Enjoy your dinner(s), whatever you choose.