July 2008 Grocery Challenge

queen_of_string

Doing well with my first month's challenge, seem to have the local Mr T veg reductions nailed, but they never seem to have meat ones. Have to get back to Mr A for them. Have only spent £9.60 over the weeekend and , despite being on a course, made some hobnobs and 2 lots of muffins. Course participants all demolished the hobnobs. tonight used some of the macdougalls puff pastry mix (7p in Mr T at the mo) and made cheese and onion tart and a roasted tomato one, with 10p mt t whoopsied toms. :-)

busy_mum_4

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Just back from Mr T, spent £30.50 and have updated signature.

Country Life Butter still on 2 for £1.60
Onken Biopot on 3 for £2
Supercook stuff mostly sold out, got a couple of things, however i think someone else mentioned this too, some of the Dr Oetker stuff is going through at the reduced supercook prices:D Got jelly diamonds and lemon/orange slices at 12p each, sugar strands/sugar flowers 9p each. May make some fairy cakes later.
Grr, just noticed my 4 for £2 didnt work on veg because the guy at checkout put my peppers through as orange rather than red. Orange peppers arent part of the offer:rolleyes: I would have saved £1.04 if he had put them through right, wonder if this is a ploy on tescos behalf?

Don't let them get away with it :mad: ring them up and get them to log it and next time your in the shop take reciept back and get a refund;)

philsmum

Hello everyone
Just a short mail to say that Mr M is not doing the price crunch offers this week, apparently they were supposed to be doing it every week,
Manager said that because of the chaos last week they had decided not to do it. Thought it was too good to be true.
2 NSD on the run:j
Hope you all sleep well goodnight

JayJay14

Well my first day at the new job was interesting - I arrived at 9.30 had a quick tour and was asked if I wanted to take the minutes of the meeting at 10.30:eek: So it was a baptism of fire really. I actually did more 'jobs' than I expected to do so I think things have gone ok. I had my lunch in the park which was really nice but when I finally got home I felt like I hadn't slept in a week!!!

I decided that rather than fester in front of the TV OH and I went to Asda to get in some groceries - needed lunch things. Managed to get a few woopsies, 1kg cooked ham for £1, couple of loaves of bread which saves me having to bake, pork steaks for 96p and a chinese meal, (OH got this for his dinner tomorrow night as I am going to DD2's straight from w**k.)
Glad to see the 10 for £2 muller corners were still on offer.

Anyway I think I will finish as I am in need of sleep ready for day 2;)

Thank you everyone for all your support it is really apreciated.:A

sashanut

angelnikki wrote: »

That was sashanut's recipe she posted in the april challenge. Sounds really yummy, still need to find a tin to make it in...




Nikki
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What a coincidence :j - I was just making the Impossible Coconut pie tonight too! yes I am the guilty party who first posted it & it's a firm fav in our house - if you like egg custard than this is kind of another dimension IYSWIM :rotfl: BUT it does need a big tin - I have a large deep pie plate I use, I also put it on a baking sheet in case of spillage..... Tonight's one was HUGE - but be warned, it does deflate -wish i took a photo.. but don't panic thinking it will take over the world, just make sure those oven shelves have enough space in between......... we have ours with a kind of fruit compote - usually a roundup of any bit of frozen summer fruits in the freezer, sad-looking rasp/straws in the fridge. Just put a bit of water & sugar on them in a pan, heat up & thicken with cornflour....service with a slice of Impossible pie mmmm. It will last for 3 afters in this house if I get it clingfilmed & in the fridge quick enough, & not too bad for you as only 2oz butter/marg...:eek:

sashanut

jackk wrote: »

sashanut wrote: »

Wow £130 is alot :eek: , we are with VM and have broadband, phone (free local and national calls), TV all channels (we have the box in the lounge that you can stop, rewind, record etc, can't remember what it's called + an extra normal box in our bedroom), all the sky movie channels and sky the sports channels, and we pay £85 per month + any calls that don't fall into the national or local catagory, so normaly max £90 per month.

Jackie x

Yes it IS a lot - we have BB, 2 phones ( no free calls ), TV with sports - no box thingy that you describe. Sorry for discussing it on here but it seems like a heck of a lot every month...... thanks for telling me:T

chocolateteddy

Hi all
Thought I'd let you know when I went to Asda this morning strawberries were on roll back to £1 a punnet (454g) great bought two one already gone. I'm getting the hang of this now took a list and only bought what was on list!! Came in under £35 wow despite milk being back to normal! £1.48 for 4 pints (prefered the 2 for £2 offer!!) but orange juice had gone up from 50p for 2l to 63p what a rise!! but then I filled the car up £48 didn't know my car could hold so much.
Thanks for all the great recipes don't know which to try first!!
Night all

ragz_2

Hmm. Lots of spending for me today, £30 at Lidl and £40 at Asda but should have enough for the week and did buy things like washing tablets that will last ages. Have lost a few of my reciepts so will have to guess at what spent so far this month all together. Did have two birthdays last week including eldest's 2nd birthday party so haven't spent that much considering, and all parents were very impressed with my HM pizza fingers as party food!

savingfortravel

Hi Everyone!!
Bit dull at the mo but supposed to get brighter. Don't want it too hot as its our Sports Day and the children suffer.
Hope you all have an excellent MS day.

JayJay14-Glad your first day went well.

SFT

WendysWorld

SAV3R wrote: »

Not sure how we will go on with the meal planning this week, Ds1 away with school, Ds2 now off school with broken arm. Feels like all routine has been thrown out. Spent last night and most of today at hospital. Had to have operation to put back in line. We had all this with his other arm only 15 months ago. Feel like a bad parent.

It's a nightmare isn't it? You're not a bad parent, that's just boys for you. My son fractured his collarbone last week and as he's only 19 months, there's no keeping him still. He just keeps running around and I'm terrified of him falling over and damaging it more. He's climbing onto the tables, sofa, up the stairs etc. I think God is punising me for being such a lazy girl by giving me two extremely active boys! I need eyes in the back of my head.

He's now trying to climb out of his high chair....we have his check-up today - hopefully he's recovering well!
Best of luck and put the GC on the back burner for now -you don't need it on top of everything else.

BM