October 2010 Grocery Challenge
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Just back from my weekly shop - the last one for Oct for me, my month ends on the 20th.
Have ended up £2.01 over budget, but I'm more than happy with that as it was a 5 weeker for me and I cut the budget from £200 to £170 this month.:cool: I bought tahini paste to make hummus for lunches next week and it was that which drove me over the edge!:o
Have been really trying to not waste anything this month, so tonight its HM sausage rolls made with leftover puff pastry and sausages with chips and beans!
Thanks for all the support you guys give - it really helps!:A
you will always be rich enough to be generous.0 -
Wow! That's one hell of an achievement jinty, fabulous! - well done you :TAug11 £193.29/£240
Oct10 £266.72 /£275 Nov10 £276.71/£275 Dec10 £311.33 / £275 Jan11 £242.25/ £250 Feb11 £243.14/ £250 Mar11 £221.99/ £230 Apr11 £237.39 /£240 May11 £237.71/£240 Jun11 £244.03/ £240 July11 £244.89/ £240
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Updated sig with last night's bits - OH had list, it includes wine & beer, partly because we'd have bought it anyway, but also we have friends coming for the evening tomorrow.
Still need to buy the food, am planning on the Aromatic slow-cooked pork that Hippeechiq mentioned as it sounds good and shouldn't cost too much! - plus probably rice and stir-fry veg.
We have blackberries in the freezer, and cooking apples still (both free) so will be deciding on a pudding. Not sure whether to do a starter or not, maybe just nibbles.
Apart from that need to get the place respectable - OH's work is all over the dining end, it'll have to go in the 'hideit' cupboard;)0 -
goodness Jinty thats brilliant well done :T i think you can forgive yourself for the tahini paste0
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Can't believe its the weekend already. Small spend today on Mozarella, ham and chocolate - essentials for the weekend:) Making Calzones again tonight.
Payday not until 27th and cupboards are looking very bare so going to have a freezer hunt tonight and make a meal plan to last us. Wish me luck!
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
February Grocery Challenge £301.46/300
To feed - Me, DH, DD, DS and 1 dog0 -
£2.54 spent today in Mr S on some reduced Pork Chops and a can of Diet Coke...should have just gone to the corner shop to get my can of Diet Coke really...need to figure out how these Pork Chops are going to fit in the freezer! :rotfl:Grocery Challenge Jan 24 0/300
Grocery Challenge 13 -spent £1453.06
Grocery Challenge 12 -spent £1565.510 -
I feel like I'm doing quite well this month
Got my 3rd weekly shop of the month tonight, and have made my list so hopefully will get everything for less than £60.
I am loving my new slow-cooker- everything I make in there does us two dinners, and it makes cheap meat so tender and yum (I know you all know how great they are already, but I'm a late-comer to the club )
Hope I'm this positive when I update with tonights spends later!Mortgage£148,725 Student loan£13,050 HSBC loan£12,221
AprGC:£/£3200 -
Sent DH to pick up milk and OJ last night. I haven't got the receipt yet so will update sig later. I did a monster cooking session last night to use my very cheap mushrooms. We now have a freezer full of spinach and mushroom lasagne, mushroom chickpea and green bean curry and enough mushroom soup to launch a ship in. I still have mushrooms left so am making mushroom stroganof for a us and a visitor tonight. I now have a problem because my freezer is full to bursting. I have 10lb+ cooking apples in my fridge and the very nice lady across the road might be bringing me a carrier full of damsons next week. I had planned on stewing the apples and freezing them in batches (I have already got 6 bags of this in freezer!) and making chutney or jam out of the damsons. So I can make the chutney/jam asap when damsons are delivered but that still leaves the apples. Help! Every time I make a cuppa the apples mock me! What can I make that is apple heavy to use them up. (I am making crumble whenever I think my family wont moan "Not again!"). Thanks in advance.:)0
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Help! Every time I make a cuppa the apples mock me! What can I make that is apple heavy to use them up. (I am making crumble whenever I think my family wont moan "Not again!"). Thanks in advance.:)
Try this - we do it every year:
Spiced apple chutney
Ingredients- 225g/8oz onions, chopped
- 900g/2lb apples, cored and chopped
- 110g/4oz sultanas, raisins or chopped dates
- 15g/½oz ground coriander
- 15g/½oz paprika
- 15g/½oz mixed spice
- 15g/½oz salt
- 340g/12oz granulated sugar
- 425ml/¾ pints malt vinegar
Simmer for 1½-2 hours, stirring from time to time to stop the chutney sticking to the pan.
When it is very thick and you can draw a wooden spoon across the base of the pan so that it leaves a channel behind it that does not immediately fill with liquid, the chutney is ready.
Turn into sterilised jars, seal and cool.
Store in a cool, dark cupboard for two to three months before eating.
Super-duper easy0 -
Try this - we do it every year:
Spiced apple chutney
Super-duper easy
Thanks LannyLee! When we had apples galore last year I made an apple chutney (we love chutney in our house:D) but no-one liked it (oh there was 1 lady and she got given 6 jars when we realised we weren't going to eat it!). If I mix apples with the damsons I might get away with it, so I will try that. It would be great to get more meal planner filling recipes:D in the spirit of GC!0
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