Tuesday, 28-02-23: low spend February

 Morning, everyone!

Yesterday's meals:

I really fancied a bit of marmite on toast for breakfast so I 'paid' another three syns of one slice of bread.  It was lovely!

Lovely, crunchy cheesy turkey toastie with salad and one syn's worth of 70% less salad cream.  Dessert was fruit and later in the afternoon I had a yogurt then instead of after dinner.

Very nice leftovers of the cheesy potato and corned beef pie.  I had planned some other veg but forgot and prepped cauliflower and broccoli so had that instead.  It's all nice.

I finished off the gravy from Sunday for another two syns.

The syns for the day were still within range - nine and a half.

Today's plans

B:  fruit and yogurt

SW:  half a syn for yogurt

L:  soup with added turkey, bread or pitta to dunk; fruit

The soup is leftovers from Saturday, blended smooth and the turkey is Sunday leftovers.

SW:  one healthy extra B

D:  Greek style baked chicken, side salad; yogurt

The one I didn't have last Friday evening and from the Fast Feasts book.

SW:  one healthy extra A for feta and one and a half syns for eight olives (both more than the recipe says) while the yogurt is half a syn.

Ex:   Groove today

Summary:

one healthy extra A

one healthy extra B

two and a half syns

What do I mean by low spend?

February is a low spend month.

Through January, I spent very little on non essential food and other items.  The idea was to spend nothing on non food things and I didn't quite achieve that but I was happy with how it went, all the same.
I was so pleased to be able to make some charitable donations as a result; it's so nice to see positive outcomes.

'Essential' means  food such as fresh fruit, veg and dairy/eggs and other essentials including things like cleaning products and toiletries although I think I am fine for the latter, plus anything necessary that comes up through the month

As for all other spending, there are a few items I need but not an awful lot so I'm really hoping it will also be low spend.

(Of course, all regular bills, direct debits, etc, will still be paid as usual)