August 2008 Grocery Challenge

fluffysox

Good afternoon folks, cheer up those of you feeling stressed
NSDs for me yesterday and today. Will do grocery shop tomorrow- love school hols, means I can shop on a weekday instead of usual Saturday.
Have to buy my best friend's OH a gift for his 30th this weekend- men are so hard to buy for sometimes. Also we have a wedding reception and two more birthdays before the end of the month. Including previous events this month we will have spent more on gifts than we have on groceries and that is sticking to a £20 per person budget. I feel stingy with this figure but it really adds up throughout the year.

MRSMCAWBER

oooohhhh sooooo excited

Hubby has just come in armed with 10lb of apples from his ex bosses tree :j they are cook or eating -so im going to pop them in the basement until the weekend -when hopefully i will get some blackberries to go with them :T ... it seems he has a cooking apple tree too that aren't ready yet -but he will bring me some when they are ready..oooh i like freebies

of to look through my recipe books for ways to use em without freezing em -if possible.. I get something here called apfelmus... basically stewed apple in cartons or jars so i might do that with em to save on freezer space.. *wanders off a happy bunny -in search of recipes*:rotfl:

Nessa56

fluffysox wrote: »

Good afternoon folks, cheer up those of you feeling stressed
NSDs for me yesterday and today. Will do grocery shop tomorrow- love school hols, means I can shop on a weekday instead of usual Saturday.
Have to buy my best friend's OH a gift for his 30th this weekend- men are so hard to buy for sometimes. Also we have a wedding reception and two more birthdays before the end of the month. Including previous events this month we will have spent more on gifts than we have on groceries and that is sticking to a £20 per person budget. I feel stingy with this figure but it really adds up throughout the year.

:wave: Hi I don't know if this will help but I found this great thread on doing your own hampers/baskets for presents, some really great ideas on here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=309335

Hope that helps

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meanmarie

Spent €25.46 today...bought vinegar, potatoes, chops, beef skirt (flank steak) and 2 kg breast of lamb...brings my spending money for rest of the month (31st) to €61.21...will certainly need to buy potatoes....paid €3.99 for 2.5 kg today!!

OH and I are both pensioners and have several small pensions each....2 of his and one of mine are paid monthly, one of mine is paid fortnightly, and we each have weekly one as well, try to have monthly things paid by monthly pensions and other things by weekly and fortnightly ones....doesn't always work out but does most of the time.

Having chops, red homegrown red cabbage and potatoes for dinner

Marie

Moniker

Meant to say that Sainsbury's have Cravendale milk for 99p for 2 ltrs - at least mine does - don't know if it is nationwide. (And yes, I have been doing the housework - I have done upstairs and am having a cuppa and a catch up before tackling downstairs!)

Moniker

patentgirl

Hi

my new month starts tomorrow as well both OH and me get paid on the 25th (due to bank holiday getting it earlier) probably because we work at the same place!!
will be a hard month though as DD1 is getting married next week so plenty of visitors plus going on holiday first week in september although DS and DD3 are not coming so need to get fridge stocked for them and we will be self catering so I am going to struggle but with the help of all you lovely people on here it is manageable

Mrs M I keep looking at Remoska thread uming and ahhing as my birthday next week and could use money I know will be getting to buy that almost made my mind up to get one

MRSMCAWBER

Patent girl

Make sure you ring your order through and say you saw it in the summer catalogue... and that you heard they were honouring THAT price until the 31st August...
Makes the regular one £79.99 instead of £89.99 and the grande £99.99 instead of £109.99 :T

cookinmummy

Hi everyone

Not posted as things are chaotic - had a couple of days away, leaking bathroom, DD1 had a nasty allergic reaction, but was well enough for first day of pre-school today (kids in Scot go back earlier and yes I cried).

Anyways I have kept tabs on the spend and been pretty good - spent £107.33 in total since last post so have updated sig. Hope you are all well and keeping up the GC!;)

princess_leia_3

Well I have made my dinner, I decided to try and make chicken stock with the bones as I have never done this before either and then make my lasagne sauce with that as the base.
So I reduced the stock and just added some herbs and made it into a sauce with cornflour, I then layered this with the sheets of pasta (only had 1 layer and then on the top, I used some of the green hulk breadcrumbs (bread whizzed with spinach) put on to make a crunchy topping then I have added some cheese :drool:
I just hope it tastes nice, I am sure Dh will look at it and have something to say but I will just :rolleyes2
I am going to make some more hulk breadcrumbs tomorrow and freeze whatever don't use for nuggets as its looks great and you could use it for so much, so thanks to whoever mentioned it :A
Will update my sig once Mr A has been

russetred

We finally have a very small farmers market type thingy in our area.I got pork belly 2.5 kilos for £12 but no free range eggs left.I'm chuffed with the pork though,Tamworth free range,roll on Sunday:drool: