September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Not going at all well this month... I'm too depressed to add up the last few days so I'll do it later but it's not looking too good... and I have a friend staying for a few days next week!
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Darn. Think I may have been a little over-zealous in transferring the extra from last month:rolleyes:

Summercherry wrote: »

I found £10 in the road yesterday and spent it on groceries today!!

Do you think I should include it in my budget or not??????

I wouldn't include it in my budget as my husband put it its FREE food. He is really getting in to this.

Not spent much this month trying to get the freezer down. I did get a NOW on sun but I think I will be spending it on nappies if this baby ever comes out. 5 days over now and had enough.

Right better get BM on and slow cooker.

Hi all:) . Feeling a bit better today. Had shopping delivered yest. and they had run out of tinned toms, so I sent hubby on his return from work. I needed them to make planned soup for tea. Anyhoo he was supposed to have nipped to shop across the road. He comes back 1/2 hour later, saying he treked into town, as he didn't want to pay more expensive supermarket across the road.:rotfl: Mr T forgot my refuse sacks, and kindly refunded them plus £2 off my delivery. Also ordered next weeks, just come within budget, had to tweek a lot, but used £3-50 off coupon.Every little helps:D Hope you all have a good day x

Morning all, not caught up with thread as been really busy. Just updated my sig total so far this month £193.93, spent £38.98 in MrS yesterday. Should see me through till next week. Only needed veg, milk, fruit, and bits. Got catfood as on offer - ½ price whiskas meat and 2 boxes of go cat biscuits for £3.75, if any use to any one. Got enough for next 2 weeks or so.
Mrs M - When I was at school yesterday one of the mums said her husband has soo many tomatoes in his garden they were going to go bad. I said no do what my friend does (couldn't go through the palava(sp?) of explaining about the site) and roast with oil and herbs or whatever and then freeze them, she said they are lovely. This morning she said she did that and is going to take some out tomorrow to see what they are like. She was very pleased.

Back to the grind stone! Catch up later.

My DH (still) thinks it's not wintery enough for chilli/ lasagne/ cottage pie (and doesn't do spag bol) so I decided to use some of our many packs of mince up on quesadillas:

Brown mince off (drain fat if necessary) and add some chopped fresh or dried chilli to taste, along with some garlic (I used a smidge of puree). Set aside. The mixture should be quite dry.

In a large (already hot) frying pan place a tortilla wrap - dry fry this for a few seconds to warm. Sprinkle a small amount of grated cheese (I used cheddar) over half of the wrap. Then cover this with a reasonable sized layer of the mince (ie over half the wrap only). Add chopped tomatoes - fresh ones - I used cherry sized ones, so used about 3 or 4 per wrap and then some more grated cheese. Fold the wrap over in half. Then flip it over in the pan so the cheese on the top layer becomes the bottom layer and melts. 30 seconds should do it.

Serve with a side salad, sour cream, salsa, tortilla chips etc. the wrap is slightly crunchy on the outside and one serves an adult (filled my DH!) and is economical with mince

I have also added some very finely diced peppers to the wrap whilst cooking.

The mice mix freezes well :-) or can easily be adapted to form chilli/ bolognese etc.

You can also do this with chicken pieces or turkey mince or a veggie alternative.

Twas yummy!


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