August 2008 Grocery Challenge

Chell

fluffysox wrote: »

Hi catmum you can also buy the bars of value cooking chocolate and cut into chunks- works out cheaper. I made some of the Milles cookies with white cooking chocolate from Mr Ts value range. They were gorgeous- they disappeared quickly though- I think the fairies pinched them cos it wasn't me honest:p . One bar of choc made enough chunks for two batches of cookies. (In between batches I just put the rest of the chunks in a sandwich bag in the fridge)

I use bars of normal chocolate (not cooking chocolate) or even chocolate buttons, it is cheaper than chocolate chips.

princess_leia_3

Chell, I did post a question on sept thread for you or Nikki about the coconut dahl recipe, I can't find the sachets of coconut anywhere so wondered how much this was out of a tin?

cammumof3

HI all

I have now wrote down the yogurt recipe, (done the one for the flask)
Thanks any one who helped me.
I still have to go and see about banana bread, will do that in a min.

My month dont end till Sunday but I think I will declare tomorrow, as I am going shopping tomorrow for leggings for DD1 and I may get some stuff like yogurt indegrients and stuff.
I did get Mt T's own chocolatre today, to break up in to my own chunks for the cookies.

I do so want to go over to September.
I have got a few new recipes and WILL be putting more effort in for my Sept budget to do more cooking.

Mariel

I'd like to declare £149.67 out of a budget of £160 but I'm sure that's wrong and I must have lost a receipt somewhere. Still it's not too bad and I'm going to increase my budget for September to £200 and not lose any receipts!

cammumof3

Hi all

I will now add the recipes I keep putting off till later. lol

Sausages in oxtail soup.

ingredients
sausages, (how ever many you want per person)
1 tin of oxtail soup
onion
carrots/peas
any other vegetable you want to add
mushrooms
oil/butter

cook sausages and once cool, cut in to 4 or 5 pieces each.
fry onions
cook mushrooms (I cook mine in saucepan in butter)
cook diced/sliced carrots and peas

once sausages are cut in to 4 or 5 pieces put them in to casserole dish
pour over oxtail soup
add your veg,onion,mushrooms (what ever you want to add.)

gas 5/ 375 f/ 190 c.
for about 30 to 45 min

with this recipe you can add what ever you like to it.
I was brought up on it but my mum never used onions,mushrooms just veg, I have adapted it my self to our tastes.
Everything is cooked so it is just a case of warming the soup and allowing the taste of the soup to go through into the sausages.

I serve this with potatoes or mash, my kids love it.
(this wa my nans recipe, my mums mum. As far as I know it dont go any further back than that.)
My brother,sister and I loved it as kids and my kids now love it.

Chell

princess_leia wrote: »

Chell, I did post a question on sept thread for you or Nikki about the coconut dahl recipe, I can't find the sachets of coconut anywhere so wondered how much this was out of a tin?

I don't think I have any in but I'll look when I've fed DD. I got mine from Tesco.com. They are made by Pataks and come in a box that contains four. They are solid (like the blocks of coconut milk) so you'd need to reduce the amount of liquid in the dahl by the quantity of coconut milk in the tin.

Sorry, I'm not ignoring anyone but struggling to keep up. Whenever I am on I am typing one handed while feeding DD.

poppyoscar_3

Blown it!!

£45.36 instead of £40. But in my defence I've been home all the time!

PO xx

PS - My September target will be £50.

egon

I declare my total for August at £169.96

It is £16.96 over budget. Just too many tempting offers.......

See you all on the september thread.

Egon

annelouise_2

Declaring budget at 298.35 euros....

Will see you all at September grocery challenge.

See Yah,,,,......

annelouise

ifonlyitwaseasier

hello!!!!!!!

well i'm back and i have no idea what my total was for the last month, i know we were under but no idea how much.

yes the honeymoon and wedding were great and i'll sort out some piccies for you all soon