July 2008 Grocery Challenge

ifonlyitwaseasier

flipping heck, 5 pages to catch up with!!!!!

well went shopping with my folks and think my portion came to £30-£40, but mum wouldn't let me pay or look at the receipt :j :j so i'll have a look on my supermarket and add what it should have been up, may add it in brackets as a supplemental total not decided yet.

apart from that today i

PICKED UP MY WEDDING DRESS!!!!!!!!!:j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j

IT'S LOVELY AND FITS FAB AND omG I CAN'T BELIVE THERE'S ONLY 4 WEEKS!!!!!!! sorry forgot about the caps

ANY_CHANCE

ANY_CHANCE wrote: »

We had omlette on wed tonight its corned beef hash

my OH started to cook b4 i got home he put onions carrots mushrooms and the corned beef in a pan now he is boiling it he said he put a stock cube in as well
and making mash to go on top

surely he should be doing something different
I thought cook the onions first then mix with corned beef tomatoes and baked beans and layer in a dish then put mash on top then cheese (i wouldnt have put in the carrot or mushroom)

What do you think? how do you cook corned beef hash?

Just found a great thread which answers my questions

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1030545&highlight=corned+beef+hash

Sunny_Donny

4 NSD's IN A ROW !!!!
Off to Mr T tomorrow after work for a few buts (well enough to keep me within my total if I'm luchy - Have just enough fruit left for tommorrows pack up and my dinner is sphag bol to reheat that Hubby had tonight for his tea. Will declare tomorrow as pay day at the weekend.

KAAT_LADY

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi there KAAT_LADY

caraway seeds.... have a slightly aniseed flavour -just dashed to the kitchen and chomped a few to make sure i was right ..its strange because i don't like aniseed at all -but like these in bread
Whacking it in the bread machine is fine -i used to use mine to mix my dough -i just added the seeds right near the end of kneading.
My box is an airtight long thin box i got that came with a big loaf tin inside.. its brilliant, but for the bigger white loaves that "mushroom" i struggle to get the lid on :rolleyes:
To help keep it fresher for longer you can always add a spoon of oil of spoon of marge/butter (i find oil made the loaves more dense) ..but i don't use anything ...trying to save eating empty cals

Hey there MRSMCAWBER

I can just see you running into the kitchen to chomp on a few seeds :rotfl: I didnt mean you to do that I will havE to get some,, I have sesame .. pumpkin. sunflower,, and poppy seeds and linseeds also walnuts,, hazelnuts,, but I have no caraway ,, will have to get some

will get some tomorrow and some rye flour all these different types of flour it must taste nice

Thanks

kaat

DH is making dinner we are having macaroni cheese,,,, he makes it better than me and we got 10 blocks of cheese @ 29p each so we are freezing it after

skintscotslass

ANY_CHANCE wrote: »

Just found a great thread which answers my questions

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1030545&highlight=corned+beef+hash

I do mine slightly differently ANY CHANCE. I marinate the corn beef in a mixture of worcestershire (sp??) sauce and wholegrain mustard. Then I chuck it in the pan with onions and potatoes. BF always has a fried egg with his and we both have big splotches of tom sauce

KAAT_LADY

hey guys

I am now full of macaroni cheese,, there seemed to be something missing but we could not think what it was ,,, DH made it with double gloucester not used that before maybe its a bit bland,, he did forget to put mustard in it

will have to go on greenfingers as DH has a small bonsai tree and does not know what to do with it.


will have to google it

see ya Kaat
ps i've got my magic back guys

KAAT_LADY

SKINTSCOTSLASS

did you see them on the other side

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Herewegoagain

KAAT_LADY wrote: »

SKINTSCOTSLASS

did you see them on the other side

Is this like a black hole, I must have missed something:rotfl: :rotfl:

Sosh

OrkneyStar wrote: »

LOL no it was a plain blue top which someone else, whose child/grandchild/Godchild or whatever has the same name as DS, had got stitched on.
Hmmmmm, I do think if you were called George it would be cool as you get socks with 'Baby George' on the sole, akin to 'Baby Gap' but then who would call their child Gap ?:o

:rotfl: DS is called George and DH always says I can save a fortune on name tags when he starts nursery.

Thanks for your kind words earlier in the week. Also to Sav3r & Denise. I would love to stay at home, unfortunately, our mortgage is too big for dh to cover on his own. I do feel very lucky that my children are looked after by family though. School has now broken up, so I'm back at "home" for 5 weeks, although at the moment I have now kitchen, not even a sink! I am taking the children away for tomorrow until dh has finished fitting the new one.

As tomorrow is payday, I'm declaring at £241.79. That includes savings transferred into my pin money pot, so I actually spent less than this :j Can you put me down for £260 in August. I'm hoping to spend less, but with the holidays, who knows!

Sosh

denisefowler wrote: »

Hi all,
Just catching up on some filing then down to watch NCIS (Oooh, Gibbs is lovely..., specially when he smiles :happyhear - sad I'm into older men now, a few years ago it would have been DiNozzo :rotfl: )


See you all tomorrow - have a good night x x x

Oooh Gibbs, I totally agree, but then I've always gone for older men, especially bald ones.... (starts salivating at the thought of Patrick Stewart...)

p.s. Sorry, just caught up with all the posts, will stay on topic in future.