August 2008 Grocery Challenge

savingfortravel

Welcome Bree-The crazy gang will help you in any way they can!! Good luck for your first challenge!! SFT

carolt2

Evening everyone:hello: ,

Popped to the shops yesterday and spent just over £40. Managed to get some reduced meat to top the freezer up as well as a few essential things.
Also got some of the reduced supercook things to add to my baking collection.


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Flylady_Flower

angelnikki wrote: »

One Orange Marmalade

Lemon Curd
Grated zest and juice of 2or3 unwaxed lemons.

Hi all, still trying to catch up - am up to page 23 now, although I have been reading new posts as they are coming in - will come back on again later...

Nikki, these sound WONDERFUL, numnumnum - can you grate the peel of the orange and add to the marmalade? hubby likes shredded marmalade so would be good if you can.
Also, DS LOVES lemon curd so will definitely be making this too - quick dumb question - what are unwaxed lemons and are they the regular ones they sell in Lidl, MrT, etc...? (sorry, guess the others are waxed or something but needed to ask )

See you all later, x x x

savingfortravel

Denise-sorry to hear about OH's job. Sounds like your new job is going well though. X SFT

Pablosmummy

Ok i'm back. I was on here..in may/june for a while but then I got a job and kind of forgot about it ha ha ha.

So my problem is that we've gone from living off my b/fs wage to having both of ours and our spending has got out of control! before we were spending about 25 pounds a week on food. Now we're spending around 50!!!!

so I'm going to try and aim for 45 a week at first. I cant believe how easy it is to spend money though!!
I'm off to plan my weeks meals now, I'll let you know how i get on in asdas tomorrow (its gonna be hard..so much nice foooood)

Bella79

Hi all

Ive just come back from a trip to sainburys and im so chuffed ! ive just got

2 x 500g packs of best pork mince 99p each
so organic pork sausages 1 pack 65p
pork ribs fresh 1 pack £1.50 ( theres were £5.00)
lamb buna and rice 99p (ready meal for hubby)
2 x 500g packs chicken thighs 69p each

So the grand total was £6.50 !! :rotfl:

Honestly im so happy its made my day my hubbys been laughing at me i was like so weird woman waiting for more stuff to come out , Getting a bit tetchy when other ppl where about in case they stole my bargins :rotfl:

Never thought id get excited about reduced meat lol

lx

angelnikki

Hiya Den :hello: :grouphug:

denisefowler wrote: »

Nikki - can you grate the peel of the orange and add to the marmalade? hubby likes shredded marmalade so would be good if you can.

Yeah, I think the recipe means do it with the peel on So just do it as per your preference. I like shredless marmalade so will peel them first.

denisefowler wrote: »

Also, DS LOVES lemon curd so will definitely be making this too - quick dumb question - what are unwaxed lemons and are they the regular ones they sell in Lidl, MrT, etc...? (sorry, guess the others are waxed or something but needed to ask )

most lemons have wax on the peel so you need to buy the ones that specifically say unwaxed. The unwaxed ones are more expensive but you only need 2 or 3. Its easier to grate untreated zest and better to eat lemon curd without wax in it HTH

Nikki x

Flylady_Flower

savingfortravel wrote: »

Denise-sorry to hear about OH's job. Sounds like your new job is going well though. X SFT

Thank you honey - Lots of work for me at the moment, but not sure what will happen when it finishes in a couple of weeks, but hopefully we will last till his new job starts - hopefully he will get agency work too which will really help.

Still looking for the pic of your hair - I am still catching up but will get there...:D

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

Denise -if you can't or don't want to get unwaxed lemons you can get ordinary and just scrub them under a warm tap with a nail brush -it removes most of the wax

Flylady_Flower

angelnikki wrote: »

Hiya Den :hello: :grouphug:

Yeah, I think the recipe means do it with the peel on So just do it as per your preference. I like shredless marmalade so will peel them first.

most lemons have wax on the peel so you need to buy the ones that specifically say unwaxed. The unwaxed ones are more expensive but you only need 2 or 3. Its easier to grate untreated zest and better to eat lemon curd without wax in it HTH

Nikki x

Makes perfect sense now, thanks for that - see, plain English dumbed down for me always works :rotfl: (as the great Homer Simpson says - dumber, duuumer, duuuummmmer...hehe )

EDIT: Ohh, thanks Mrs M - will bear that in mind if I can't find any. Dx