SC - budgeting question

[Bonne of Traquair]

For me, it worked both ways.  My first feast I needed to learn a new 
technique and I wasn't sure of what the instrcutions said, so my family had 
a lot of similarly prepared chicken in the months before my feast.  When I 
did a test run of the feast, with the autocrat and other event VIPs and 
their spouses as my guests, I paid for the basic food, but some special 
ingredients and materials I saved the receipts for.  When it turned out that 
I hadn't used my whole budget, I included those receipts with the others.  
It was maybe $10 and I wouldn't have cried to miss it had I been over 
budget.  The autocrat and canton officers had told me I could include feast 
test food if I wanted, but the purchase hadn't increased my grocery bill 
that week by anything noticeable, I considered it a party and my family did 
eat the leftovers another night, so I didn't.

My second feast involved much less home testing, and a few times I brought 
tastes to canton meetings, but no formal practice feast such as the first 
time.

Bonne
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