August 2008 Grocery Challenge

russetred

We spend around £75 on groceries a week for all meals,booze,cleaning stuff and toiletries.There are 5 of us,3 adults and 2 kids.We grow veg and haunt the reduced section!

bails

Wonderful news Angchris, congratulations! And congratulations on your 20th wedding anniversary Denise! Have a fab hol SFT.
SmileyS, everyone spends such different amounts I think it would be difficult to say. It quite often depends on how long people have been doing this challenge and what is included in their budget (eg cleaning stuff or not). Perhaps someone with a similar household can help you out, or look at people's sigs as sometimes they include family details alongside the GC totals.
Got a few whoopsies at Co-op last night for OH's lunches, along with some cheap new pots and a melon for 40p :T I'm hopefully making a big batch of chilli today to help stock up my new freezer. Isn't the weather awful?! Have a great day everyone x

busy_mum_4

HELP
I have just made the mixture for the custard cookies and the method said roll in to a sausage shape, but I can't do this as my mixture is like cake mixture not dough. I did use butter not marg but I don't think that would have mattered (would it). Can I just add more flour??

SavvyStudent_2

Congratulations Angchris! :beer:

Smiley S - sounds like you're doing a lot better feeding a family of 5 than I am feeding just me and the bf - we normally spend £40+ a week! I've cut that back on here to £30 (and maybe further as things get going, who knows lol...). I come from a big northern irish family of 6 (if anybody wants a recipe for proper irish stew just say!), and my little mum is the best bargain hunter I know - she'd spend £70-80 a week in tescos on groceries for all of us before I moved to england? That was about 6 years ago so £75 for 5 people sounds about right.

Busymum - don't panic - add a touch more flour!

Popped home over lunch and our noticed washing machine is broken so I'm going to have to spend a fortune at the laundrette this week... <sigh>

4Moneysaver

Hi everyone.Angchris, that's really lovely news. Big hugs to you and everyone else who needs one.Should be a NSD, they get quite addictive don't they.

KAAT_LADY

AFTERNOON ALL

This is my 5th NSD ,,have been making bread and twinks and chhese scones so we havent needed to go out for anything,,

Taking Archie to the vet this afternoon as we now think he may have been poisoned and if that is the thing then my neighbours life will not be worth living ..

Soon know

See you son

KAAT

teedy23

good work angchris. happy anniversary denisefowler.
Hoping for an NSD today, I do need more of them. Off me hols on friday so gave away coupons that are going out of date before I get back, I like to see someone getting the use of them. Got back in the saddle with Amazon today, so a couple of quid coming my way. All these things, though never making serious money, all help out. Still on my list of must buy are anew shower and a new hall carpet, I,m getting embarrest at the state of it now.
Also my spelling but thats another thing. Have a good day all.

perrywinkle

busy_mum wrote: »

HELP
I have just made the mixture for the custard cookies and the method said roll in to a sausage shape, but I can't do this as my mixture is like cake mixture not dough. I did use butter not marg but I don't think that would have mattered (would it). Can I just add more flour??

Hi busy mum,

I have always used butter when making these and certainly the mixture is soft and sticky but I just splodge (technical term!) it onto the cling film in a line and then when I have the cling film round it I then shape it into a cyliner carefully so as not to rip the cling film - it really firms up in the fridge then just cut off slices - really delicious and short. I'm sure that you will have added a bit more flour by now as suggested by savvystudent so I hope they turn out well.

HTH
Perrywinkle

gunsandbanjos

KAAT_LADY wrote: »

Taking Archie to the vet this afternoon as we now think he may have been poisoned and if that is the thing then my neighbours life will not be worth living ..

OMG:eek: Why would they poison him?!

busy_mum_4

Thanks Perrywinkle, yes I had already added more flour and rolled out and put into fridge, but thanks for advice. I seem to have lots of long thin sausage shapes does this matter. Has anyone taken and posted a photo of their custard cookies? Will let you know how they turn out