August 2008 Grocery Challenge

perrywinkle

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi Gailey,

I've added your post into the Grocery Challenge as it may inspire others. Do be careful not to overload though! :eek:

Pink

have I missed something??

angelatgraceland

perrywinkle wrote: »

have I missed something??

Shopping on a Vespa Jamie Oliver style. Reminds me of when I was young with my Honda 50.
Bordering on dangerous though to be honest-I prefer a home delivery.
however-I do understand how easily the stuff in the trolley soon mounts up! Well done-but do take care.

Flylady_Flower

perrywinkle wrote: »

have I missed something??

Hi Perrywinkle, I thought the same, but if you check back to pg 59, I think it is the last post that has been transferred over - there are a few replies to it on here too...

Nikki, big blunder this month, have been merrily going on my way and have just realised that it is a 5 week month :eek: (well, didn't just realise, have 5 weeks on spreadsheet so god knows what I've done?) Please could I change my budget to £300 for Groceries and £100 for extras instead of £240/£80 - thanks, sorry to mess you about...

ifonlyitwaseasier

morning all,

well i spent yesterday sorting out wedding music (making the playlist for the ipod) and making carrot cake for a party we went to, was nomnomnom

spent some on friday so will sort my sig out in a mo,

am going to catch up on my dishes and washing now,

ioiwe x

gailey_2

Thanks evryone for response It was a bit scary up hill at 5miles per hour, luckliy it was quiet, late and dark wouldent have attempted in day as may get pulled over by the police and more strange looks.!
I have a huge back box which fits 2 bags and underseat fits 1, next time will take rucksack as dont like hanging stuff off handle bars even if jaimie did in his naked chef series!
Must admit did get bit carried away hence the 18quid overspend! But its liek when u get basket insteda of trolly or small trolly instead of basket to limit the amount brought.

Im just so fed up of running out of food, doing expensive top ups as well as overspending in supermarket.

I think I brought wisly, have mealplanned for whole weeks im sure we will run out of biscuits and crisps by end of week!

I know theres sopme debate over supermarket prices and I guess sainsbury deemd pricey but they have some fab deals on at the moment, free recipie cards, good range of basics own value mena they not hugly expensive for us, its our prefered supermarket if we had lodas of money but I fear tesco is costing us more.

Might alternate and try morrisons or aldis next week as weekly shop better for us.

Really dont wnat to fail my first grocery challange but am finding it so hard!

Le_Foot

Mrs. M,
I've had a go at your baguettes this morning, but when I took them out od the tea-towel 'moulds' to put them on the baking tray, it knocked them back, so they are now a bit dense...can you offer any advice please ??

angelatgraceland

When I feel I need some inspiration I take a look around Waitrose at their chilled ready to cook section. I look at all the pretty pictures on the boxes and the even prettier prices and then look at the main ingredients. They have some weird and wonderful concoctions. Last night I bought one of them-well it was down from £3.99 to £1.29. Interesting-it was.
Anyway it was baked beetroot,butternut squash and spinach in a tray with sunflower seeds and a little pot of feta cheese. Well Im sure I could do it for no more than 50p.
It was a nice change-all veggy and as a lot of people are now growing beetroots and butternut squash I though I would pass it on.
Other things I looked at-like Lamb in an apricot sauce-none going cheap though.
Got my chicken cooked by 10 am today as only me and dd at home-oh-its lovely and quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just have to inspire myself with the minced beef now which I thawed out. Well Im sure there are a million things I can do with that-maybe meatballs-anyone want to inspire me?

gillaman

NSD again today and probably tomorrow as well. Tuesday I shall have to buy fruit, veg and milk as gs2 (age 9) is coming to stay Wed, Thurs and Friday and dd will come round after work to have dinner and take him back home each night. Have enough in for all three of us so won't have to buy ingredients for meals. If I can keep going should have enough to pay extra money off the cc at the end of the week - first time ever!!

Herewegoagain

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

morning all,

well i spent yesterday sorting out wedding music (making the playlist for the ipod) and making carrot cake for a party we went to, was nomnomnom

spent some on friday so will sort my sig out in a mo,

am going to catch up on my dishes and washing now,

ioiwe x

IOIWE,

I attempted a carrotcake once but ended up with masses of carrot leftover and the topping running everywhere. God knows what I did wrong:rotfl: :rotfl:

MRSMCAWBER

Hi Lefoot

I have just taken my 1st batch out of the oven.. i divide the dough into 8 at the moment -so have to bake them in 4s... sometimes the 2nd lot that have to wait are a bit more of a pain to move :rolleyes: ...*note to self..get a 2nd non stick liner so i can tray them all at the same time*:o

You could try sprinkling a little flour on the tea towel before you put the baguettes on...
I find that they roll off and on to my hand quite well -most of the time

The other thing i have started doing is proving them in the tea towel..then when i have to move them over to the tray to bake them - I give them and extra 10-15 mins to carry on proving -so if i have knocked the air out of any they can recover....
Hope that helps