July 2009 Grocery Challenge

Hi folks

Did my main shop today in Sainsbury's and have just updated sig. Only have £25-50 left to last till 31st! Hm, might be a question of damage limitation I think!

In case anyone's interested Sainsbury's 1% fat milk is down to 75p per 2ltr bottle.

Will be out at my baby bro's birthday barbie tomorrow and MIL has inivited us to supper on Tuesday, so that's two fewer meals to worry about.

Have just made a luscious lemon cake as I needed to have the oven on to cook the fish florentine I have for supper tonight and I hate heating up the oven for just one dish. Smells great and makes me feel hungry.

Hope the rain hasn't ruined anyone's evening - have a good one.

Moniker

Well I made my toad in the hole, and I really enjoyed it. I made more mix then I needed so I have now got 6 small yorkshires cooked, to freeze as well. Only snag was that the dish I used was a camping pan,(one of the kids Army Cadet stuff), and it wasnt non stick, so I have a dish to scrub now. I also used powdered milk instead of fresh. It worked well, and they were the best Yorkshires I have done in an electric oven in years!!!! (pity nobody was here to witness it!). No camera to take pictures. My mobile is out of memory. Need to find the wires to download pictures of grandchildren etc before I can use it again.

Hi all well been good do far since the other day when i spent about £8ish on stuff, puff pastry and veg, cheese.
Yes i cant make puff pastry tried and failed many times so now resort to buying it, its cheaper in the short run.Bought a double pack so used one yesterday.

Anyway decided to use the sausage meat that been in the freezer for a few months so thought i would post it up here.

Sausage and stuffing plait.
1 large onion
4 cloves of garlic
1 pack of sausage meat (494grams)
1 pack of puff pastry
1/2 small pack of sage and onion stuffing

Fry onion and garlic, whilst cooking mix stuffing with some water, till cooked.
Mix the above with the sausage meat.
Roll out pastry into a rectangle shape.
Fill the middle of the pastry with the meat mix, then fol pastry over into a sausage roll shape.
Place onto a greased baking tray and cook till pastry is brown, about 25 mins.
Serve hot or cold.

The above did us two meals with extras for the boys.
I served it with veg, mash and gravy for one meal and chips and beans the other.

Got about 12 bags of asparagus in the freezer in the as well as loads of leeks whoopsied from Mr M.

The summer holidays are here :rotfl:and its been raining for 18 hours straight, everywhere is flooding.
Grrr stinking rain grrrr

My name is Juli & I am a cookbook addict … and I know there are a few others on here.

I didn’t have any actual grocery spend today. But I was meeting a friend for coffee after work (no cost to me) & as he was late I wandered into a nearby bookstore (Waterstone’s), which had Caribbean Food Made Easy for half price.

I have Indian Food Made Easy, though I prefer her earlier book Indian Food Everyday, which is well used. And I have Chinese Food Made Easy, which is also well used. So it seemed obvious that I ‘needed’ to buy this book (& I am 1/16th Caribbean! LOL)

Read it on the train home & loads I want to try, especially the fish dishes & first the fish pie with a sweet potato & coconut topping!