No Spend Day 1
For the first day of my No Spend month, I didn’t spend anything. I’ve been buying a half-dozen of “last night’s” bagels at the bagel place near work on Monday mornings, microwaving one a day for breakfast, for the past two weeks. It’s filling enough, and it’s a cheap way to eat since I can get 6 for $2.50. On days when I’m hungry for more a bowl of oatmeal supplements breakfast nicely.
Lunch was two frozen veggie chik’n patties on tortillas. I bought a good supply of tortillas and veggie burgers/chik’n patties when Simon Delivers went out of business, so I’m pretty stocked on those. MOst days I’ll eat two of them, one around noon and one around 1:30. Spacing out the times I eat lets my body process the food better and keeps my hunger on more of a level throughout the day, rather than fluctuating from stuffed to starved.
Dinner was a couple of the veggie burgers with some tomatoes, mushrooms, and cheese. This was the last of the vegetables I had on hand, so I’m going to need to make a trip to the grocery some time this weekend. I also need to get ingredients for some of the recipes I’m hoping to make, and for salads.
Entertainment for the evening was reading a book, watching some videos I had, and reading online. I cleared out a few saved items from my RSS reader, and just enjoyed a pleasant evening at home. I also turned down an invitation to meet some friends out at a bar.
One day in it’s hard to say how this will all play out, but I’m enjoying myself so far. I like these challenges and seeing if I can meet them. I just checked my credit card balance to make sure I hadn’t accidentally charged anything to it online, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that, since my last statement, I have a positive balance. A refund was posted to the card for more than I’d spent on it before deciding to hide it away for a month. Quite a nice little bonus.