August 2008 Grocery Challenge

savingfortravel

Welcome to all the newbies!! I agree this month's GC seems bigger than ever? Any idea how many members angelnikki?

IOIWE-Sounds like your big day is immenent..have a magical time!!

Thanks for your messages Big Bird, egon and deniseflower.

Lady Herbacholic-Hope SS behaves himself!!! Thank you so much for your lovely, encouraging message..I am determined to have a special day that suits us. We will also walk down the aisle together but to be honest my dad is so nervous in such situations he'll feel relieved
You described your wedding day so well, I felt like I was there!! Should we now call you Lady Herbacholic??

Mumoffour77-What a bargain your suit was, I bet you'll look great.

Bunzee-34p a meal. Wow!!


Mrs Mcawber-Happy Anniversary for Monday (I won't be here and didn't want to forget!!)

Hoping for a NSD. Finally cooking my Feed your family for a fiver recipe tonight. OB and I love cooking together thanks to this thread but I have to admit he has the real talent..which works out well when he wants to pamper me...

Take care all

SFT

OrkneyStar

Just nipped on to update sig as spent £1.99 in local shop (£1.01 on raisins for DS and £0.98 on coconut as ran out making bounty bites!)- NSD did not happen but tomorrow will be (unless I spend the 61p lol).
£39.39/£40 spent for wk1, which am happy with for the first week. Staying in tomorrow and then shiny new budget starts on Sunday.
It is so awful here that washing came in wetter than it went out, and its bloomin cold too :eek:,
bye for now
:wave:

Rachel021967

Please may I try. My last few shops have averaged at about £150 a week so I'm going to try and get down to £130 a week which works out at £650. Hopefully I will spend less than that; but I'm going to start small as in the past I have been way to optimistic. The £650 will include toiletries, cleaning products and the odd ice cream when we are out.

poohbear59

NSD for me today and eggs (from the hens) and chips for tonights dinner. Hi, Rachel, good luck on the challenge, starting small is the way to go.

ailz95

Hi,

Could i join please?

Put me down for £150 for the month for 2 of us

greent

egon wrote: »

Hi all,

NSD for us today.

I have some puff pastry lurking in the fridge, which need using up. I am not sure what to do with it. Done pizza wheels and cheese sticks with it before, but the kids and hubby are getting tired of it.
Any ideas, what I can do with it?

Egon

not sure how many answers you've received to this - haven't read on yet!

Sausage rolls? Remove the meat from the skins and do it that way (2 sausages make 3 long s/rolls, I find) - veggie ones usually okay to put in 'as is'

Cheese & veggie tarts - square of pastry, cut around it about a cm in, not going all the way to the bottom. Brush with milk, cook briefly then push the centre square down and top with stuff. I like mozarella & toms & basil, but it works with lots of stuff. Put back in oven briefly.

Sugared twists? Beaten egg and demerara sugar. Naughty but nice!

GT
x

ps: HUGE congratulations to SFT re wedding & also to the 2 new mums!:T :T :T

gsysezz

Money_saving_Diva wrote: »

Training my OH to bring home receipts is a major challenge but one I like to think I will win.

I am so with you on this one. Biggest part of the challenge in my house.

princess_leia_3

£3.50 for me today and I got some baby bits with my boots points :T

Made the pizzas with the failed tortillas, which the kids loved making and eating. We are out over the weekend so will just need to get a few things for the car journeys like and I might make some of twink's hob nobs thinking about it - yummy!!!!

angelnikki

egon wrote: »

I have some puff pastry lurking in the fridge, which need using up. I am not sure what to do with it. Done pizza wheels and cheese sticks with it before, but the kids and hubby are getting tired of it.
Any ideas, what I can do with it?

You could do a similar thing to sausage rolls, but put some tuna and cheese in the middle to make tuna parcels yummy yummy

SFT theres about 305 doing the GC this month :cool:

Thanks ZOE (PS I wasnt having a go at u b4 everyone on here goes OT at some point, it was just that you mentioned my name so I felt the need to reply. :grouphug: glad you're still posting)

welcome all newbies :hello:


Current offers at MrT

Hovis best of both £1 ends 19th Aug

hovis white bread mix 29p/ hovis granary bread mix 35p

4pck burger buns/ 6pck hotdog rolls 50p ends 19th aug

mcdougalls puff pastry mix 7p

minute maid OJ NFC BOGOF

Del monte OJ 54p

8 alaskan salmon fillets half price £5 ends 12th Aug

lakeland chicken breast fillets 650g half price £3.29 ends 12th aug

Lynx shower gel BOGOF


Nikki x

KAAT_LADY

hi there

just back have been out all day,, went to see my member of parliament about my mothers neighbours,, and he says we can do something about them ,, they cobbled all their front garden and then cobbled the shared path and now my mom has a 12'' step to climb if she wants to get out of her garden,, so I went to see him and he says we have a case,,

the BM is on for the second time today as before Iwent out I put it on for my bread,, seeds and spinach,, and now I have to put it on again for DH's bread,,just plain,,

have just updated signature,, I seem to have spent an awful lot for just one week,, or is it two weeks will have to look back and find out when I started this months GC


hope you are all well will get off now and try to read the thread which seems pretty long these days

see ya soon



KAAT