The Moneyless Chicken

The Frugal blogger says "I track no spend days - that's no eating out, no takeaways, no coffees, no alcohol, no paying for anything that isn't the bills and the food shop," says the 35-year-old teacher and mum-of-two.................. She does it for January, many of us do it all year round.

It amused me that this is Newsworthy.

Such an American thing - to think life isn't complete without all those things. So many Americans, particularly in the cities, never ever cook - they always eat out or takeaway. It saddened me that the last time I went into Leicester (quite a long time ago now), one central street that used to have very high class shops - men's outfitters, ladies hats, quality china, (even a furrier back in the day) - now consists solely of eateries and take aways