August 2008 Grocery Challenge

PurpleSkies

Well I've unofficially been doing the August challenge and have spent £31.44 out of a £40 budget so pretty please with that.

Next month I'm going for a budget of £30 since I'm staying at my parents for the 1st week of September so I'll be getting well fed without spending a penny!

Quick Q: Have some left over curry sauce and don't know what to do with it. Would like to try something different rather than have chicken curry for another day! Any suggestions?

ShelBell

maybe make a kedgeree style dish with it?

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi Everyone.

Hope you are all enjoying a nice long weekend.

Unfortunately I have gone over budget.:mad: I had unexpected guests for the bank holiday. So had to get a few things I didn't have in. Shouldn't need to spend any more this week. Have got plenty in the cupboards and freezer.

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

Kymbogs-Jacket potatoes freeze..but they seem to re-heat better if you take out the middles n bash in some filling before freezing, cooked onion and grated cheese is a good one

Fertyskids -Leftover chicken... I posted a lovely chicken canelonni recipe the other day and it uses very little chicken:p , Chicken pie -bulked out with onions, mushrooms n sweetcorn and either a pastry or potato top, chicken n sweetcorn soup -again uses very little as long as you have the chicken stock ....so without being to tight fisted i would get at least those 3 meals out of it ...there are only 2 of us..but we don't do "dainty":rotfl:

Pink Princess -not sure if you have enough time to get the peppers to fruit..but if you have the compost etc anyway i would give it a go... They will need plenty of warmth -so i would be tempted to have them in a greenhouse(if you have one) or in a sunny window bottom,,, and then pop them outside on really warm days....if they start to flower then i would put them outside so they bees etc can help them along ...ooohh and i would give them a bit of tomato food a couple of times a week to give them an extra bit of help... don't forget to save some seeds in an envelope for an early start next season.... i have chilli/peppers and tomatoe seeds lined up un bottle tops at the moment -until i can get some little envelopes:D

PurpleSkies

ShelBell wrote: »

maybe make a kedgeree style dish with it?

Just had to google that! Sounds really nice but I don't have any fish unfortunately. Might have to give that one a go next time though.

angelnikki

redmel1621 wrote: »

I have been frantically copying and pasting the recipes I want to try from the first page, are they all from August GC? So if I want to find some older ones I would have to go back through the old threads. Also will these ones be carried over to next month or do we start a new list each month?

The recipes are from the last couple of months, I carry the list over each month

I'm so chuffed cos my mum has come over to visit for a few days and has got me a BM. She had bought me an ice-cream maker for my birthday (in may) but had forgotton that she had already got me one :rolleyes: so she took it back and swapped it for a Morphy Richards Fastbake instead :j So no more yukky shop bought bread.

Better stock up with some of them hovis bread mixes :rotfl:

Nikki x

fertyskids

Thanks MrsM, i might try the pies tommorow!

At the mo im using disposable nappies and baby wipes. both of these are comming of my grocery budget, i spend at least £25 month. :eek:

i want to find out about reusable nappies. i know nothing and want to put little one into them. i need to get some very very cheaply, preferably free as money is so tight. i dont know what size my little one would be or what type i would need, id use any!!

im sorry to put this on here, but as its part of my grocery budget i need to do something!! id love to be more enviromentally friendly and of course save money!!!:money:

thanks karen

greent

fertyskids wrote: »

Thanks MrsM, i might try the pies tommorow!

At the mo im using disposable nappies and baby wipes. both of these are comming of my grocery budget, i spend at least £25 month. :eek:

i want to find out about reusable nappies. i know nothing and want to put little one into them. i need to get some very very cheaply, preferably free as money is so tight. i dont know what size my little one would be or what type i would need, id use any!!

im sorry to put this on here, but as its part of my grocery budget i need to do something!! id love to be more enviromentally friendly and of course save money!!!

thanks karen

Try freecycle in your area - they frequently come up in on f/c our area - it's where I got most of mine from & then gave them away to :-)

Also google real nappies for your area - we have a scheme subsidised (I believe by local council) where parents can try them for a month free and if they buy them get cashback Your health visitor/ local clinic may be able to point you to such a scheme if you have one locally

Gt
x

Essex-girl_2

Evening All

Just about to add up this weeks receipts and add to my figure, think I might be already over but thats because of our party which I really shouldnt have added. However September is back to being a normal month so will see how I go then.

After buying the food for the party I am really concerned how much the Xmas food shop will be so will start adding items each time I do an online shop, I do this every year normally but will start earlier this year.

*BigBird*

My budget is blown Popped along to MrT last night to get veggies to make my own soup - that would have taken me a little over, but then I spied 2 packs of whoopsied organic free range chicken breasts, reduce to half price so I had to have them. They are huge! Must be some kind of mutant chickens! But that should be all the chicken I'll need in September.

I have a batch of HM spicy carrot and tomato soup cooling on the worktop. Far nicer than tinned stuff. Over the next couple of days I'll also make apple and parsnip soup and BNS, sweet potato and carrot soup. So I should have plenty of soup to get me through september too

nikki, I have a Morphy Richards fastbake BM too and I love it - it's far better than the cheapy one I had previously. I'm going to have a go at making jam in it soon, to use up some of the blackberries I've picked.