August 2008 Grocery Challenge

mumoffour77

Cooking seems to be the only thing that is holding all their attention at the minute....DS1 13, DS 2 10, DS 3 8 and DD 6!! also SDS 15 and SDS 13!! although they only come here alternate weekends and every Wednesday!!

Thank goodness, as they are all constantly bickering with each other over computer games:(

Queen of string, my grandma taught me how to cook! She turns 92 this month! And still remembers the first time we argued over me stirring the pot, well actually i wanted to stir it and she said no as it was starting to boil over, I was only 4 years old at the time, and I remember hiding under the settee when she scolded me!!....Im now 31 and I am so panicy about my DD stirring the pot!:)
Your comment had me questioning myself about how I learnt to cook and I was transported back immediatly to that memory!! Thank you!

annifranakapan

I'd really like to join in this month please.

Food Budget is £300 pounds for the month (includes cleaning products) for 4 adults and 1 dog!

My shopping is coming from Tesco tomorrow so I'll keep a record of the total it costs.

Thank You :T

Annifranakapan

Money_saving_Diva_2

Just wanted to say that I will hopefully be joining this challenge when it hits September - for now I am collecting receipts and pulling my horns in a little but without knowing exactly how much or how little I can spend. I only spent £25 in the last fortnight as we ate virtually from our freezer and store cupboards, but now we are back to normal except I am cooking a lot more frugally!

It will all make sense on Sept 1st I just know it!! And then I can set a real budget and work to it, for now I am just randomly moneysaving where I can! Training my OH to bring home receipts is a major challenge but one I like to think I will win.:rotfl:

Hope that made sense...:o

angchris

my target is £100 this month for 3 adults (have given up calling my nearly 16 year old lad a kid as he eats twice as much as we do :rolleyes: so from now on i`ll just call us 3 adults....:eek: i feel old calling him an adult...) could someone add me to the list pretty please :kisses:

Pip-squeak_3

Hi
Declaring for July £79. 51. Allotment comes into its own in the summer and cuts down on the bills.
Happy saving

OrkneyStar

Morning all, hoping for another NSD today :money: . Not too nice out there but the washing is out- hoping the wind will dry it before the rain comes!
SC on o/n so made the meat part for the steak pie......looks ok, just to make pastry later.
Need to also make DS some more porridge today as he's only 1 tub in the freezer- I use an Annabel Karmel recipe (creamy oat porridge with pear and dried apricot) although sometimes use different fruits/dried fruits in it. He loves it for brekkie. I make huge batches and freeze them in tubs.
The plum cake is vanishing and all the cookies from Tue are gone (there were quite a few). The Bounty bars served from the fridge are yum (I ate one this morning before I even thought about brekkie!! )
Hope everyone is well and welcome to everyone who is new :T
:wave:

susan946

mumoffour77 wrote: »

Hi all:)

My Friend is getting married tomorrow and I bagged a bargin in a charity shop today, I got my outfit for £4.... its a fitted suit from principles:)

My parents are going to babysit for me! So no cost there thank goodness!

I when we go to Mr T and Mr A on sat nite that i will buy ingredients and we can make our own treats, the kids are getting very excited about this and are trawling through cook books looking for inspiration!!.....now im worried about the baking tins and loaf trays, lol I dont have any, but i will beg and borrow from my aunt, who loves baking!!

Enjoy the wedding, mumoffour, I'm sure you'll look fabulous in your new suit

What a great idea to get your kids interested in cooking. I think I might try that with my gson when he comes to us for a week later in the month.

I need to eat :rotfl: into my August budget today as we have my son and his OH coming for supper tonight. Think I might get some fish - future dil doesn't like any food that is wet - so anything with sauce, gravy, etc is out although I can always serve it separately.... Have yummie new potatoes in a grow pot thingy on the patio so just need some veg. Bought some pud thingys they love back from France as a treat, so they came out of the July budget.

This board is getting huge - I really must count up how many there are on the list on the first page, but with new people joining every day it just keeps getting longer and longer! Fantastic :T

Hope everyone has a good day.

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

We have just started to get a lovely cooling rain shower here -so i have the patio doors wide open -it lovely ..and smells great - i love the smell of rain

Anyway -today is the end of my 1st week of my August challenge -which seems odd as its only the 1st :rotfl: ..and i only spent that 2c :j so thats almost 7 NSDs in a row and my 1st €20 stashed for super whoopsies if i see any -once i have room to freeze them:D -if not then it is staying in the bank;) . Lets see how i do in week 2 -with hubby off work :eek: :rotfl:
Its our 6th anniversary on Monday so weather permitting im going to pack up a picnic and we are off for a wander around the lakes -have had a think and i have everything in i need to do a nice pack up -so not only a lovely way to spend our anniversary but "free" too

Tonights dinner -im going to use the aubergine and patty pans from the garden... so im going to saute them off with onions, mushrooms and peppers (from freezer), add a few frozen peas, a dollop of cream cheese n herbs and a dollop of wholegrain mustard.. then putting chorizo/salami in hubbies share and some smoked salmon(whoopsed and from freezer) in mine and having it over pasta ..

This weeks meal plan in no particular order is :-

1. roast chicken, HM stuffing, roasties and veg
2. jacket potato, cottage cheese and salad
3. goats cheese salad with steamed potatoes
4. chilli n rice-hubby /soya and veg casserole and rice for me -both in freezer
5. feta wraps and salad
6. hm salmon fishcakes with wedges n veg
7. honeyed pork stir fry with veg n noodles

I need to make some baguettes today and i think thats about it.... going to sit and x stitch

right i will get off and get my brekkie.. have a great day everyone and keep up the great work

taplady

morning all! I'm finding it hard to keep up with this thread but today is the first day of my August challenge, I failed miserably in July for some reason - think I took my eye off the ball but need to get back on track this month! My target is £285 - again!

Herewegoagain

Hiya guys,
Not been on for a while as been unwell, :eek: typical when on hols, still never mind eh.
Feeling really weird not being in control of budget while away and worried about how well their doing on spends:eek:

DS got a new job started yesterday,:j Spent a fortune from my savings re he doesn't get paid for 3wks so needs start up monies and OH had his card ate in machine, can't get another for 10days and they wont give him any money until he gets the card as it's a basic account:eek: His wages are trapped in his account:eek: This account was supposed to make it hard for him to get money out, but that's ridiculous

So it's a good job spends I make this wk don't count from GC:j and It will def be cheaper for me to go back to work:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Good luck to all on august challenge,I will catch up with posts with interrest, love and hugs to all, we all need them:D

Mrs M or anyone which is the best way to freeze veg, raw, part cooked or cooked, please bare with me as I am def a freezer novice?