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Lunch Log Challenge 2008

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  • mouche
    mouche Posts: 902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    2nd week on the challenge and determined to have a second NSW. That will make it almost 25 quid saved!

    Monday: HM Mushroom & pea tortilla wrap £0
    Tuesday: HM pasta (have got 5 boxes of this in the fridge so as long as I remember to bring it work, that's this week sorted) £0
    Mortgage (original/ current):193,000 (23/09/11)/ £102,500 (07/11/2019)
    2019 Challenges: Make £300 a month: £9.71/£300 (January)
  • good luck Mouche!

    £1.90 today - but it did take me over 2 hours extra to get to work on the train today! So I kinda deserved a cup of tea & Crisps once I finally got in!
  • redsquirrel80
    redsquirrel80 Posts: 12,457 Forumite
    Afternoon everyone!

    No spend today, good start to the week. Need a bit of a health kick too as I weighed myself last night and wasn't too happy :rolleyes:

    Mon 10th - £0 (leftover curry & rice - that's all I've had time to eat so far, have got fruit & crackers with me)
    Debt@16.12.09 £10,362.38, now debt free as of 29.02.2012.
    "I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better."
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    hi all! Terrible week last week. shoot me now!

    Mon - ham n cheese sandwich toasted
    Tues - tin of soup n bread (call it £1, as bread taken home for groceries)
    Wed - shop bought sandwich £2
    Thurs- shop bought sandwich £2.50
    Fri - OH treated me to panini in garden centre cafe in my lunch break. £0 spend for me.

    Quite miffed with myself for being so bad.

    Better today;

    Mon - toastie (ham n cheese of course!) yog, drinks, all from home. NSL!!! Yay!!!!

    Fletch, glad to see i'm not the only one with an Irn Bru addiction!!
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • bobbadog
    bobbadog Posts: 1,606 Forumite
    Hi all!

    I was off sick on Friday, so NSD there.
    Today a NSD - leftover rice from last night, frozen veg, a beetroot and a blood orange (very very wierd concoction!!)
    x
  • A great start to the week. Found a mozeralla and tomatoe pasta bake in the freezer so had that today. Brought a packet of crisps as was feeling quite down today so only spend today was 55p.
    MAY NSD's

  • fletch3163
    fletch3163 Posts: 900 Forumite
    ........... HOORAH!!

    Well done to all of us for a good day (yes, even you Platinum Horse with your £1.90 mercy-spend). I'd have given you an extra quid for all that travel delay :D

    Let's all see if we can make it a collective excellent week shall we? Repeat after me............ GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Lunch Loggers (excuse the pompoms, they were too long in the wash, it's cold and this doesn't normally happen to me :p )

    Monday - £0 - Sandwiches with leftover roast chicken, Irn Bru, Snack a Jacks
    Grocery Challenge M: £450/£425.08 A: £400/£:eek:.May -£400/£361 June £380/£230 (pages 18 & 27 explain)
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Woohoo!! day 2 and I've just made my lunch! You have no idea how proud of myself I am (wait till I come on here around 11am and say I've eaten it for breakfast :rolleyes:)
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
  • lesley1960
    lesley1960 Posts: 976 Forumite
    jo1972 wrote: »
    Woohoo!! day 2 and I've just made my lunch! You have no idea how proud of myself I am (wait till I come on here around 11am and say I've eaten it for breakfast :rolleyes:)


    If you come on here at 11 am to say youve eaten it , i would say well done , its 8.12 am and I've just eaten mine ! lol
  • jo1972
    jo1972 Posts: 8,901 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lesley1960 wrote: »
    If you come on here at 11 am to say youve eaten it , i would say well done , its 8.12 am and I've just eaten mine ! lol

    It's 8.48am and I'm waivering :undecided
    DFW Nerd no. 496 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!!
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