July 2008 Grocery Challenge

ifonlyitwaseasier

evening all,

Moniker, - sorry to hear about your BIL, hope you're ok :grouphug:

spent a little at lunch, £3 on lunch at the pub. massive jacket spud and tuna mayo.

Oh in his daftness, ignoring the fact there was hm bread on the side, took a frozen loaf out (toast only!) and it's now defrosted :eek: :eek: :eek: and so i have a glut of bread. luckily he's a carb addict so if we don't eat it all i'll be making bread pudding for saturday night.
think i might make some weetabix brownies tonight. feel like choc cake

mama67

savingfortravel wrote: »

Hi everyone
Dink1 and anyone else interested the printable coupon site is:
www.Couponnet.co.uk
Tried to make this a clickable site but it won't let me so you'll have to do a search. Sorry guys.
HTH

Will probably post again later when I've caught up on the threads.
Hope you've all have a good weekend.

SFT

Thanks SFT for this, have printed off quite a few coupons ready for my next shop.

heres a link hopefully

savingfortravel

Hi everyone!!
NSD for us today..but we'll probably pick up some of that milk on offer at Tesco tomorrow.
Moniker-Big Hugs to you and your family.
Mama 67-Glad you're getting the coupons ok.
Denisefowler-Thanks for your message... It made me smile..
But I do know what people mean about whoopsie hunts.. and sadly some people are just rude to the sales assistants. Mum and I are so polite, it only helps doesn't it.
SFG (my relation) -Yes we are growing lots in our garden this year and just debating whether to get another freezer so we can keep some of the fruit for leaner months.
SFT

shala_moo

Hi everyone :hello:

They have a great offer at Morrisons at the moment, if you feed your cat on Roasted Felix pouches, i know not very MSE but he's only a little cat and cans are too big for him...:rolleyes2

It's £1.92(half price) for a pack of 12 BUT they have 3 vouchers worth 50p inside the pack. I have been buying the pack at £1.92 plus using a 50p voucher against each, therefore costing £1.42 for 12 pouches = 11.8p (usually 31p each)

Have stocked up on over 3 mnths worth at the moment!!

Opinions Please : How does everyone deal with things they stock pile for other months? do you still add it to your total of this month?? i will be seriously over my target if i do this!!

Thanks
Moo x

mama67

DS2 school have just finished the unit on WW2 so have had an exhibition and a street party.

I was asked to help prepare all the goodies:eek: . 2 days later i had

Made:

4 fruit loaf cakes ( for the parents to eat whilst looking at displays)
1 chocolate sandwich cake
1 batch iced fingers
raisin crisps
macaroons
gypsey creams
chocolate biscuit cake (uncooked)
shortbread
trifle
blancmange
hm vanilla icecream
cheese biscuits
sausage rolls

sandwiches:
sardine & cress
egg & cress
lettuce & cucumber
spam

there were also cucmber, carrot and pepper sticks

drinks were hm lemonade ( diff mum made this)
elderflower cordial (mine)


there were 20 children in all and wasn't much left over at the end.

All thoroughly enjoyed the food, atmosphere and the topic.

Will see if teacher can email some photos so i can add in to show the spread.

perrywinkle

Hi :hello:

Turned out to be another NSD - fifth in a row but will probably all change tomorrow. Had potato, onion and bacon hotpot for tea which is a recipe I got from a grocery challenge thread (I think). I don't know the original poster but its certainly worth a go if you haven't tried it.

tasty and simple to do.

Slice a medium potato per person into thin slices (2mm thick)
Slice one large or 2 small onions
Chop up some bacon or ham (1 rasher of bacon per person?)
Make a basic white sauce (we made ours cheesy) Half pint milk quantity.
Grease a deep oven proof dish. Layer the potato, onion and bacon, season with pepper. When you've half filled, put some of the white sauce in then continue filling and finish with white sauce on the top.
Bake in oven at 200c covered for 1 hour then remove cover and finish for another hour at 180c.
DELICIOUS.

Perrywinkle

JayJay14

Ifonlyitwereeasier - Thanks for the pm I really am quite exited now the reality has set in.
Felinefantastic - the job is helping to plan events with the local coucil - just missed out on the Queen's visit 'cos she has postponed due to an election but hopefully I wll be there when she rescedules as it will be interesting. I just have to get through the first month without making a hash of it:rotfl:

Haven't spent anything yet today but will be going to Asda later for munhies for the journey to Norfolk tomorrow. We will be staying in Horning in a newly refurbished hotel - just reopened about 6 weeks ago - right on the river so we should be able to relax for a few days, will probably get a boat one day and have a pootle.

Back later to record my spends, hope everyone has a pleasant evening.

mumzyof2

denisefowler wrote: »

Hi all,
Not sure if anyone will have the answer to this, but I have just seen the Mr Kipling advert on TV which has made me hungry for cakes, so I wondered if anyone would have the recipe for Viennese whirls?
I know the filling is just jam and butter-cream, but how do you make the whirls?
They are my favorites and I would love to be able to make them.
Many thanks x

viennese whirls are half price in Mr M and there only 55p for 6 so they prob cheaper than baking your own.

searching_me

well done mama67 cant say id be able to do the same :rotfl: ....
bought a few things today i need a few NSDs to get through the rest of the month hope your all doing better xxx

angelnikki

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

Oh in his daftness, ignoring the fact there was hm bread on the side, took a frozen loaf out (toast only!) and it's now defrosted :eek: :eek: :eek: and so i have a glut of bread. luckily he's a carb addict so if we don't eat it all i'll be making bread pudding for saturday night.

Bread is one of the few things that is OK to refreeze HTH

Nikki
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