November 2009 Grocery Challenge

Spent another £15.26 today at Tesco but it was mostly nappies / pull-ups which were on special offer. I had checked on MySupermarket.co.uk before I went out so I knew where to go for the best deal. I wouldn't have thought of doing this before spending so much time on the OS board so thank you all! :beer:

Made dinner with the left over chicken from Thursday (frozen and then thawed). I added two bendy bits of celery, an old leek, an onion, garlic and some barley and the cooking water from some sweet potato I did earlier - cooked it for two hours and it was DELICIOUS!

ariarnia wrote: »

Just spent £72.33 at tesco online - well not really, with b1g1f and multibuys, I figure it's closer to £47 and I get £5 cashback from topcash back (if it tracks) so more like £42 but won't know until it arrives if they actually have the stuff in.

I always mark down no subs, and they never seem to have the gammon joints I want from the 3 4 10 but hayho. :rolleyes: I kinda hate the fact that they only tell you a guide price, but what can you do? if I go in store I spend so much more...

That plus the asda spend of £50.78 should be all for this month (less bread, milk and eggs which are delivered and already paid for in advance for this month)

I'm going to add it to my budget as 92.78, but I should be getting £5 back from the asda spend too, plus should be able to update with the actual cost of the tesco shop at a later date.

Did you see Anne Robinson mention on Watchdog that Tesco will be doing away with Buy one get one free ?? instead, you buy one and get a voucher to get one free at a later date?? Dont like the idea to be honest - would rather the item was half price so you could just buy one.....

She also mentioned about how the multipack / large packs of food stuffs are not always the cheapest option. I found this when I was in asda last week. It was cheaper for me to buy two boxes of cereal that had been rollbacked to £1 per box instead of the large box..... sneaky because I would always assume that the largest quantity available would be the cheapest.

Evening all,just got a traybake fruit cake out of oven to take to work tomorrow!Heard today I had passed the course I have just done.
If something nice (or not;)) happens at work then we have cake-blowed if I was going to pay >£10 for tatty cakes from a shop-tidied up the edges and it tastes good:D
Defrosted freezer at weekend-had duck legs stuck in the block of ice at the back-binned.(What a waste-sorry)But 'found'3 chickens,thought there was only 1-do they breed in the cold and dark?
Also found some anaemic redcurrants,turned them into rather nice jelly with the addition of 1 blackberry to gee up the colour-tip from Mum,she's even more OS(tight)than I am.
Now got 1 empty shelf,just right for a Lidls turkey-hee hee.
Sold my first item on e-bay,one way to clear out the carp.But 1 every 10 days will take an awful long time,will try to get organised and do more together.
Nearly NSD,but window cleaner came-£8-no,I don't do windows(or ironing for that matter)perhaps extravagant but am less stressed.How's that for justification.:o
Had swine flu jab last week,and still here.
Looking for NSDs this week.
Night all
mrss

Morning everyone - hope you all had a good weekend.

I've updated my total with recent spends and still confident for the rest of the month.;)

Dinner tonight will be Sausages, mash, carrots, peas and sweetcorn. Not decided on Pud yet but as the weather is turning colder I may do a Steamed syrup sponge.:D

Have a good day everyone.;)

JillS wrote: »

Is that the dried stuff or fresh pasta? I can't imagine eating dried pasta.

cw18 wrote: »

Dried pasta isn't as bad as it sounds - though spaghetti is the best (fussilli is a bit tricky to nibble at )

I normally end up with a raw strand when doing a spaghetti meal, if DS is in the vicinity he pinches one too, and if I manage to drop any the larger dog tries to get to it before I have chance to bin it!!! Fortunately the dog doesn't get nasty about having food removed, so if I get a hand (or foot) on it before he gets there, then he knows he's lost it and finds a corner to sulk :rotfl:

I'm with cw on this, all the way Whether it's because I was a light smoker in my earlier years SIZE=1]a pack of 20 per week was heavy going for me![/SIZE or some other subconscious reasoning, I get a kind of satisfaction just holding a bit of spaghetti in my teeth. I usually roll it back & forth till a little groove appears & the end drops off

I made my first ever sauce using cornflour yesterday & wow! Isn't it easy :cheesy:--can't see me going back to the marg & flour=roux method any time soon. We had cauliflower cheese with those value gammon steaks & mixed veg, but I'd used the water from boiling the cauli to make the sauce so we got all the vitamins too :T
I found a nice piece of lamb in MrM's last week so stuck that in my largest pot along with various root veggies, red lentils & pearly barley, gravy powder & a goodly dose of various dried herbs. I stripped the meat off the bone about 10mins before the end & stuck it back in the pot, then served with mash & green veg. There was around a third left so I warmed that up in the oven for Monday & popped on a suet crust & served again with mash & greens, so my little £2:80 lamb joint helped to feed 10 hungry peeps..ree-solt :T
I suddenly realised last night, as you do, that I should be checking things like mysupermarket & various other sites every Weds morning to see what their deals are for the week, so I'm going to try making this a routine. I used to belong to fixtureferret, who give you a greater scope of stores & focus on just the deals, but couldn't renew as I don't have that a/c you need for eb@y shopping So if anyone else has a similar site, I'd be grateful. Thanks.x