August 2008 Grocery Challenge

susan946

Good Morning!

Just popped in to update my sig. Bought some bits for Friday supper when my son and dil in waiting came over. Haven't sen them in a while so decided to spoil them which was a bit naughty. Shall have to make amends to the budget!!!!

I was up early this a.m. as I couldn't get back to sleep for the dreaded back ache. Tossed and turned until dh remarked that I seemed a little restless, but had already decided that I couldn't stay there any longer. Have prepared another batch of apples for bulk apple crumbles for the freezer so the time wasn't wasted.

savingfortravel

turbo5019-I'll have a look on the newspaper summary on Discounts thread for you. They list what special offers/coupons are in each newspaper everyday.
SFT

savingfortravel

No voucher today according to that thread. Sorry Turbo..
SFT

turbo5019

savingfortravel wrote: »

No voucher today according to that thread. Sorry Turbo..
SFT

Thanks for that. I hope you have a good time in Norfolk where abouts are you going? I'm just over the border in Suffolk bit damp here at min but hopefully it will get better as day goes on.

Well NSD for me then

LearningToSave.

annifranakapan wrote: »

5lbs of runner beans into the freezer and about a hundred more lbs yet to come:p Will be lifting the spuds on Monday if the paper sacks for storing arrive.



Anni

can i please ask where you get your paper sacks for storing from??? we have had no luck getting any so far and have already dug up two full rows from allotment with another two rows yet to come.

Chell

mumoffour77 wrote: »

Also bought flour, and caster sugar and eggs for baking with the kids, oh also value oats, which i could use in flapjacks???? any ideas would be appreciated:)

Twinks Hobnobs you'll find them on the first page of this thread. I made them for the first time this week and am doing more after I've restocked with ingrediants tomorrow. My two children loved helping me to make them (5yr/3yrs) as they could squash the balls with a fork as I put them on the tray.

savingfortravel

Turbo-Off to Wells next the sea for carnival week..See you all when I get back!! SFT

turbo5019

savingfortravel wrote: »

Turbo-Off to Wells next the sea for carnival week..See you all when I get back!! SFT

It's beautifull up there. Have a great time

catnap53

I always use this recipe for cheese scones - not sure where it came from though so hope it is OK to post.....

Thanks susan946, my recipe did not have egg or baking powder in, but otherwise the same, so perhaps that will help. I make ordinary scones successfully and I did only shape into two rounds and cut to make the handling less, so will give this one a go.

Won't do it today though, as after getting my mother's shopping on Friday and mine at the same time she 'needed' some more things yesterday so went to Asda with DS and DD, thinking I might at least pick up some bargains. Unfortunately it wasn't to be, but spent over 36 pounds mostly rubbish, but a bit more (too much) F&V. (Need to update)

I decided I would buy some extra things for mother that she always 'runs out of' as I know it is hard for me to go to the shop and just get what she wants.

So I got some extra cheese crackers (the ones with the 'cheese filling') bread for freezer, biscuits (only likes rich tea fingers) etc, and when I took them to her she asked why I had got them and she didn't want them all, but she had just run out of coffee (only likes Nescafe, that I don't buy so can't just give her some of mine):mad:

Ended up bringing them home and DS and DD have started to eat them before I could hide them, so overdosed on cheese flavoured stuff, 'E numbers' and salt that I had weaned them off.

Still wondering how one elderly woman can 'need' shopping nearly every day when she doesn't eat anything. My teenagers took her to 2 supermarkets and the opticians and bank on Tuesday, then she sent them out to another shop when they got back.

She sent them out again on Wednesday which is the day they normally visit (but weren't going to as they had already been on Tuesday), and when I picked them up I got another list, but didn't do it until Friday. She even added to this list by phoning me while my sister was actually out doing the weekly shopping for her on Friday evening. And she gets a neighbour to get her 'bits and pieces'

Her cupboards are always virtually empty, we are beginning to think she is throwing it all away.

Oh, and can anyone tell me if it is possible to buy tinned 'sockeye salmon' as it is the only one she likes. She won't believe me when I say it is now called 'wild red salmon' and is caught in Alaskan waters to distinguish it from farmed or local salmon. For someone brought up in the war years and on a low income for all her life I can't belive she is so picky.

Think I will make soda bread now with the milk I have on the turn, (I think it was OK till I looked at it and my evilness made it go off ) or normal scones.

mumoffour77

Is anyone able to tell me if i can substitute baking powder for baking soda???