August 2008 Grocery Challenge

Rowan9

Spent £3.71 on cheese and half price baked beans, orange juice and cauli. The cauli is a lot smaller than the one I got the other day but ah well. Going to make some veggie soup either today or tomorrow - it does seem like soup weather now doesn't it? I love autumn though, my favourite month. Collected my ordered books from the library and one is Betty's Wartime Diary. I'll let you know if there are good snippets re groceries and recipes. Haven't looked in it yet but it was recommended somewhere.
Good luck with the spending (or not spending!) folks
w

SavvyStudent_2

wmf wrote: »

Spent £3.71 on cheese and half price baked beans, orange juice and cauli. The cauli is a lot smaller than the one I got the other day but ah well. Going to make some veggie soup either today or tomorrow - it does seem like soup weather now doesn't it? I love autumn though, my favourite month. Collected my ordered books from the library and one is Betty's Wartime Diary. I'll let you know if there are good snippets re groceries and recipes. Haven't looked in it yet but it was recommended somewhere.
Good luck with the spending (or not spending!) folks
w

It is definitely soup weather! Roasted a chicken last night and i'm [STRIKE]skiving[/STRIKE] working from home today so the leftovers have just been made into a cauldron of proper chicken broth with barley mix just like my little granny taught me! Has made me really homesick for NI!

Now officially over budget but not by a huge amount, still a week left but I reckon I can do a lot better next month...

Lx

perrywinkle

EagerLearner wrote: »

It was my second try at making batch #2 of yoghurt, from batch #1. It failed as yoghurt, but worked as my own soft cheese!

Anyone out there managed to make yoghurt again from the 'first' batch?

Tesco delivering later so will update siggy tomorrow...

Hi EagerLearner,

I made yoghurt from the first batch and its fine - I think I read in a post that you can normally do this twice then need to start with bought yoghurt again but I can't say if that's true or not - I'm sure somebody else will confirm this. I use a lakeland electric yoghurt maker but amend the amounts slightly - when I do the first batch I put the full small tub of natural yoghurt in and a whole carton of UHT milk and then when I made the second batch from this I used about a tub size amount of that yoghurt and again a whole carton of UHT milk.

HTH
Perrywinkle

Orkneystar - hope you're feeling better soon

PurpleSkies

Is it too late for me to join in?

I realise it's quite near the end of the month but I've been doing a lot of cutbacks recently and have given myself a monthly grocery budget of £40.

I'm doing quite well at the moment but it would be great to share the experience with everyone else!

WendysWorld

Managing to stay in budget just! But I have had a two week holiday so a bit of self-cheating going on. Currently on £124 but going away for a couple of days. Would like to keep to under £200 before the end of the month!

Hope everyone's doing well - I'm freezing! Came back from the south of Spain two days ago from 35 degrees of scorching sunshine and I'm still acclimatizing.

Wendyx

kymbogs

Hurrah! Mr T brought all 20 packets of my Hovis bread mix!

EagerLearner

Hi Perrywinkle - that's about what I am doing, so I am confused... but it came out too liquid on batch #2. I had added more powdered milk than batch #1 had as someone suggested but no good. I am making it in a batch cooker but shouldn't be any different as it's all about heat...

Anyhoo, I then re-heated it and 'made it again' with more powdered milk. It came out too powdery so I will have to learn... however, seeing as I have made soft cheese with it I don't feel it's been wasted.

jackk_2

Just updating sig, have had a really pants couple of days. I had to have my little Boo (cat) pts yesteday, a long illness finaly beat him . Today i had to have 2 teeth out (big back ones), came away with stitches, AB's and a really painful jaw, so i can't even eat chocolate or drink wine to make myself feel better , hubby is cooking shepherds pie for later though (comfort food). I'm going camping on sat and sun so i will feel better then, i'm determined of that as it's the only time were getting away this year, and i'm going to have a good time :j .

Goodluck with August everyone.

Jackie x

angelnikki

kymbogs wrote: »

Hurrah! Mr T brought all 20 packets of my Hovis bread mix!

Hurrah :rolleyes: anyone in [strike]halifax[/strike] bradford who cant get any now because you cleared the shelf will know who to blame :rolleyes:

I'll make sure I dont post any more bargains on here in future otherwise people like you (people who buy more than they need) will buy the whole lot and not leave any for anyone else.

WendysWorld

princess_leia wrote: »

Morning all,

Kymbogs - the hovis mix is a promo price as when i first saw it, it was over £1 not sure how long it will stay cheap for tho, so I am tempted to do an Asda shop to get more and stock up!!
I need cereal as kids eat so much, does anyone know if you can make 'ready brek' byt whizzing value oats up or is it a bit more technical than that?

I've been buying supermarket own-brand (think it was Waitrose :eek: but it could have been sainsburys - both my nearest supermarkets). It was no different to ReadyBrek but cost about half the price!