September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

queen_of_string

Hi everyone, didn't join you in Sept due to hols, but am back now.

going to go up to £200 this month please, as I am planning a pre xmas costco visit.

Any surplus will go towards the stock piling. Have updated my freezer list and despite my best efforts it doesnt seem to be any less. I cant resist a 50p yellow label!!

smetf

Hi

Mrs M- £470 target for October please

For anyone that's interested this for 4 weeks normal shopping (one Ocado then 3 smaller Mr T shops plus top ups of fruit and milk) at £270

October half term £200 large quantities of booze plus catering for 14 - we will probably do what we did last time and do some BIG shops then split the bills four ways- decided to be extra generous with this part of the budget as holiday budgeting always seems to be more than I expect and out my control really!

Thank you for keeping us organised

Smetf

PS Will declare Sept when I find that missing Netto receipt- we are over though!

Pip-squeak_3

Hi
September declared at £88.07
Please put me down for £100 in October.
Getting harder to keep to £100 now theat winter is coming and there is not so much on the allotment. May 50p ver continue for a long time!!!!
Good luck everone

susan946

Good morning everyone

Mrs Mc Please would you put me down for £350 again.

I haven't declared yet for September as we had been to France and I came home first leaving hubby and laptop - with all my accounts on it - to follow later. As he's only just got back I haven't sorted all my receipts out yet. Lo and behold the sun has come out and somehow sorting out the garden seems so much more attractive than sorting out the money:rotfl: Should be just under so I'm not too worried.

I've been processing batches of runner beans and autumn fruiting raspberries for the freezer and have started making grape jelly. We have a vine on the front of our French house which was dripping with grapes which hubby harvested and brought home. Thought I'd try some grape jelly as we tried it in the States earlier in the year and thought it really good.

May have son and future daughter in law for supper tonight so I bought a chicken for us all. I say may have because he went out on his stag night last night so it depends how he's feeling.....Only two weeks to go now so we're getting really excited :j :j :j

Sue

rosieben

Pink - I've done this in 2 posts as its a long list - I can try to condense if you need me to?

This is the Recipe list for the October thread which techno-wizard Pink will move to the new thread later

Main Meals & Side Dishes

Baked potato pizza

Broad Bean Burgers

Chicken Cannelloni

Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup

Chicken Fried Rice

Chilli

Chinese style cabbage

Creamy Chicken and Potato casserole

Curry Sauce

Diet Coke Chicken

Duchesse potatoes

Fishcakes

Fish Pie

Iced cucumber soup

Individual chicken pies

Lemon Chicken

Lemon chicken with basil and tagliatelle

Meatballs

Mediterranean Mince and Potato 'Pie'

Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta

Mince & onion pie

Minced Beef Curry

Mini Goat's Cheese, Pear & Walnut Quiche

Moussaka

Open top 'pizza' pie

Parsnip & Apple Soup

Pizza / Pizza Base Recipe

Potato layer bake

Quiche Lorraine

Sausage Meat Patties

Spaghetti with courgettes, tomato and brie

Spicy Bean & Sweet Potato Stew

Super Tasty Bacon, Bean and Sausage

Sweet & Sour Chicken/Pork

Thai green curry

Toad in the Hole

Tofu burgers

Vegetable Casserole

Veggie Haggis


Bread

Bagels

Baguettes

Breadsticks MrsM's / angelnikki's (No Salt Recipe)

Cheese & Potato Bread

Cheesy Bread Rolls

Chewy Soft Flour Tortilla

Chocolate Bread

Focaccia

Herb Quick bread

HM Bread

Naan Bread MrsM's / OrkneyStar's

Oatmeal bread

soft bread rolls

Super Seedy Bread

rosieben

Dips, Jams & Chutneys

Alioli / Traditional allioli

Jams & Preserves

Pineapple Salsa

Tomato Chutney


Cakes, Biscuits, Snacks & Desserts

Apple delight

Apricot Flapjack bars

Banana and lemon drizzle cake

Banana and Walnut cake

Banana Ginger Parkin

Bounty Balls

Bran Fruit Loaf

Bread & Butter Pudding

Bulk pancake mix

Cheese n marmite twists

Cheesy Biscuits

Chocolate fudge

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Chocolate Krackolates

Coconut Cake

Cookie Dough

Courgette Tea Bread/Muffins

Cranberry And Chocolate Brownies

Currant Loaf

Custard Cookies

D&DD’s Apple Braid

Date, Nut and Oat biscuits

Eggless Chocolate Cake

Flaky Bars

Flapjacks

Gingerbread Men

Ginger Raisin Crunches

Golden Syrup Tart

Iced Buns

Impossible Coconut Pie

Jammy Buns

Key lime pie

Krispie marshmallow bars

Lemon Curd Cake

Lemon Curd Ice-Cream JeniD's / MoneySavingDiva's

Malt Bread

Mascarpone and Lime Torte

Mascarpone Ice-cream

Millies Cookies

Muffins: Basic Recipe / Chocolate Orange Muffins / Gingerbread Muffins / Kiwi Muffins / Sticky Date Muffins / Strawberry Muffins / Toffee Apple Muffins

No fat sponge

Oaty Shortbread Biscuits

Peanut Butter Cookies

Scones

Spiced Apple Bars

St Peter's Mud Pie (no cooking required)

Sticky gingerbread

Teacakes

Twink’s Hobnobs

Weetabix Brownies

Weetabix Cake

Wonderbites

Yoghurt: Homemade yoghurt, Slow Cooker Yoghurt

Yoghurt Cake (the easy way)


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jinky67

Can I just be put down as a FAIL?:rolleyes:

OH cant find some receipts for stuff he didnt need to buy:rolleyes:

But I know that i am over:mad:

And be put down for £250 next month:T
with OH taking his lunch and the dog now, budget needs revising so hopefully this will do it nicely:cool:

~Yorkshire_Belle~

Well September was a spectacular failure in this house I'm afraid. Were on track until OH went shopping and spent DOUBLE what I estimated from the list I'd put together. Example of extravagance, 4 tins of tomatoes, I'd bought them previously at 20p/tin Value = 80p, he bought 4 tins for £3.98 :eek:
Am too embarrased to even write the total for September.
For October please can you put me down for £400 again. It will be a 4 week month and I'm going to try and do all the shopping!
Belle

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I have my October meal plan and shopping list all sorted. First I did the meal plan. Then I wrote a shopping list. Then I divided the shopping list into meat, fish, dairy products, bread products, fruits and vegetables and store cupboard items. Then I wrote which shops I would get the items from (two supermarkets, a butchers and a market). Then I divided it into weeks, food categories and shops.
I should not be left alone with lists.
I'll declare my September total later when I've witten down the last shopping list.

MRSMCAWBER

Bullet :rotfl:

Im as bad..oooh Im constantly listing, checking, re-listing :T
I Know pretty much everything I have in the freezer, fridges, cupboards off the top of my head...very sad i know.... ask me what i did 2 days ago and I won't have a clue
So i have made a meal plan for the month base on that -and it looks like I should only need milk, fresh yeast, and a bit of fresh veg toward the end of the month :j unless there is a major calamity I should NEED nothing else