February 2009 Grocery Challenge

mummyyof5 · 2 February 2009 at 1:08PM

Its a NSD for me today,will just need veg ,bacon oats and loads more carrots later in the week Carrot and coriander soup being consumed at the mo it is soooo nice...must make loads more.

PurpleSkies · 2 February 2009 at 1:20PM

Crikey! This thread has grown a huge amount over the weekend!

Well I did my shopping in lidl & farmfoods this weekend and spent under £8!!! How did I manage that?! Even managed to let a sneaky deep dish pizza slip into the basket which I scoffed last night. So that was my treat for the week!

The snow is making me want to make soup so I think that shall be a plan for tomorrow as I already have tonights dinner sorted.

Savvy_sewing · 2 February 2009 at 1:41PM

Sorry late declared last month. I would like to do this month on £315 for 7 of us.

Cazzie_2 · 2 February 2009 at 1:55PM

Am in again this month.. came in about £15 over budget for Jan

so will stick with £200 for 5 of us

tessie_bear · 2 February 2009 at 2:00PM

hi hope all are well and warm ....have u had snow ? weve been out playing in it.....i love the pic of the doggy in the snow what a cutie...it really facilitates nsd the snow unless u dont get milk delivered and have to pop out...iv just told my son to eat his packed lunch(his school closed)he didnt seem very impressed but i thought waste not etc we are having a turkey crown for tea fro xmas....its been in the freezer not just sitting about in the kitchen i got it reduced in the coop on xmas eve.....thats the last of my xmas bargains so ill have to collect stuff on easter sat .....i was looking over the recipes at the start of the thread...its very impressive....im going to try some moreof them...bounty balls maybe....sounds nice.....have a great day tess

Girl_least_likely_to · 2 February 2009 at 2:37PM

Didn't expect to be spending on groceries today, had to go to local town to get cold mixture etc for OH's man flu and popped into Sainsbury's to see if I could reclaim my £1 parking fee as I park there. It's only a £5 spend to get the fee back and didn't have to look too hard. Muller light yogurts are 4 for £1, so I got 8

and my fave NY bagels were on BOGOF but I managed to get 2 whoopsied and they still went though the till on offer :rotfl: . Also got some basics mozzerella as DD wants to make pizza and some beans and banana's. So £4.52 to add to my sig.

orchid-96 · 2 February 2009 at 2:58PM

I went into my MrS shop today to allocate it to a delivery time sometime Thursday and all the slots are gone till Sunday

spoke to them and apparantly as not much being delivered today all the customers have been on re-booking for the rest of the week, I am sooo annoyed at myself as I had thought I had booked the slot at the weekend but I obviously didn't checkout.... I had been working on that for ages and it had all the stuff for ds birthday party on Saturday as well as some good offers and lots of their great basics..

oh well, will have to go shopping instead now and maybe still have a MrS shop for next week, I had gone onto MrT to do it instead, but everything I seem to need is way more expensive :eek: might try asda but I find their site difficult to navigate and havn't got loads of time now....

Anyway will hopefully be a nsd today as weather keeping us all in anyway...

Hope you are all ok in the snowstorms

TrixieB · 2 February 2009 at 3:02PM

Spent £10.26 in the Co-op - alas no 5p bargains today!! Also put my fortnightly Tesco order through to be delivered this week - guide price is at £57 not including offers of course, plus used xxsave to get £5 off over £50

Off to update my signature

rosieben · 2 February 2009 at 3:26PM

jessie18 wrote: »

..... Can someone please give me a recipe to make some (easy pastry) for a pie please, ive been looking but i cannot find anything as i never seem to find the right place
many thanks x

I presume you mean shortcrust pastry, so here are a couple of links to start you off

there's the best mince pie pastry ever thread, Pastry economics or Making pastry
also a recipe for basic pastry here

offsite links - several options to choose from including oil based pastry at
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,easy_pastry,FF.html

and there's a shortcrust pastry recipe with pics here;

I'll put those links on the front page

edited to say - if anyone has good pastry links please tell me and I'll add them too

scotsaver · 2 February 2009 at 3:31PM

Hi TheBees - thanks for the advice on going to the Butchers, really helpful and thanks to all others who have been discussing this - looks like a lot of us are going for this option.

OH didn't make it to work today, no buses in London and no trains and both of my kids School's were closed so we headed off to the Park, chasing each other with Snowballs - great fun.;)

We had Roast chicken yesterday so the Carcass has been boiled to make Stock so soup tonight and Chicken pie with the remainder of the chicken stripped off, doing Jacket potatoes to go with the pie and some baked beans.:D

Hope you are all staying safe and warm in this deep snow.:snow_grin

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