September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

tq16

cammumof3 wrote: »

Hi
all

Just 1 question before I toddle off to bed.

I want to bulk cook a chicken curry this week, but have 2 problems.
! dont know how to
2 cant eat hot or mild curry, has to be very mild.
i have asked on cooking thread but just in case no one answers or something, I thought I would ask here.
has someone may be got a very mild recipe, please

thank you so much
Caz

If people have already answered this please ignore, still trying to get through all the posts. Have you tried tesco value curry sauce at 4p a tin, fool proof chicken curry. It really is mild-both my 3 year old and my 11month old love it. enjoy

shaz_mum_of__2

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Me too, hence why i'm trying to get my budget down, what are you going to study?

Social science at Lincoln

But not at Lincoln at my local college !!

what you doing

Shaz

gillaman

Philsmum - so sorry to hear your dreadful family news. Nothing much one can say, but you know everyone on this thread is thinking of you.

Got paid my GC money today but won't rush out and spend it until tomorrow. Will HAVE to then, cos I'm running out of stuff! I've made my list and priced it - comes to about £58ish and contains quite a lot of stock items like flour, haricot beans, tomato puree, tomato sauce etc.

Might go to a local garden centre this afternoon though because last month I noticed they sold the dog food I like to get for Max (the corgi) and it's about £1 cheaper than where I'm currently getting it. Hope they haven't put their prices up - this won't come out of GC money.

I made a lentil roast for dinner last night and had it with roast pots, cauliflower and grilled toms. Haven't had roast pots since Christmas. Anyway the lentil roast was lovely and I had some for lunch today and will freeze the rest. I also made some apricot and raisin flapjacks - I add a couple of ounces of plain flour to the mix as this makes them softer - and I chopped up and froze the peppers from the greenhouse. Only about 12 oz in all, but 100% more than I had last year. Just for me that's enough for 4 meals. Might start freezing the courgettes now as well. Also have some home made tomato soup in the freezer.

Lots of beetroot to dig up and have found a reasonable size cardboard box so will put some dry compost in that and bury the beets in the compost and keep it all in the garage. If I don't get them up soon either they'll be slugged or they'll go woody.

I'll have tofuburger in a bun with broccoli tonight, no potatoes, not much else in the way of veg - but I think I might have a couple of carrots in the veg plot, could have those. No salad stuff at all and I'm not sure any of the toms left on the plants will ripen, either in the greenhouse or outside, so might start thinking about making green tomato chutney.

shaz_mum_of__2

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

put me down for £500 for the month please.

had a shock at school today youngest buys a carton of milk to have with his pack up. it was 15p last term i gave him 20p in case it had gone up. I got the messagwe back i owe the school 6p as the milk is now 26p for a third of a pint!!!!:mad: .

ill be getting a little bottle and an ice pack and sending my own in future.

hoping this week is a light shop as not buying ant frozen stuff, still eating to empty the freezer so it can be defrosted

I know Mr M do small fresh milk in a carton and i think all the supers do Mooo long life milk in cartons not sure about prices though i guess dividing your own is better - shame the school dont do this too ie sell a cup full rather than a carton


Sorry if this is repeating what someone else has said not read whole thread yet

Shaz

taka

I'm sorry to hear your news Philsmum. Its not easy when things like this happen...

Well I'm up to £20.45 now and its only the 1st!! I was on £19.85 until lunchtime when I clocked wedges in the canteen and had to have some :doh::o I have no willpower... :mad: I wish we didn't have to walk past the food to get to the (free) drinking water! :wall:

saffouri

Good [strike]morning[/strike] afternoon all (that's what happens when you go to bed at 3 a.m., DH gets up at 6:30 to go away on a work trip, and I don't reset the alarm! )

Came back last night from having been away at friends' this weekend to discover that the HM soup I'd made on Thursday night is starting to sour :mad: if only I'd remembered to put it in the fridge that first night instead of leaving it out to cool. This is one of our simple faves just leek carrot and potato soup with bay leaves and peppercorns - we tried freezing it once but the texture of the veg wasn't great afterwards. When we make it with all organic veg from the veg box delivery it really does turn out tastier. Can't remember who mentioned being far from a supermarket but I think getting an occasional veg box this way is cheaper than a supermarket anyway, and because they grow different varieties of veg for taste rather than size or perfect looks (even some supermarket organic is grown for size which often means less flavour), it's a good way to go. I find it motivates me to find ways to cook them up instead of (mostly anyway!) forgetting about them and having them go off.

Welcome to everyone doing the GC for the first time - it's good fun :hello:

I've just tried catching up on posts by starting at the beginning of the thread and using the thanks button for each one - not sure I will be able to keep that up though as I've only finished page 6, and at some point need to think about making a living, tidying the house, etc., or else I'll have a month full of NSD's just through being stuck at this computer :rotfl:of course I could still spend loads of dosh here though.

I noticed a few posters (sorry my mind is a blur and don't remember who) being a bit hard on themselves for 'failing' or 'blowing it' - others have said this before but I'll say it too there is no such thing as failing here - we all fall off the horse and then pick ourselves up and get back on again. Noticing that we've fallen off is the key 'cause only then do you know you've got to get back up!

DH got a letter saying his post is at risk of redundancy (likely in 6 mos), making anything MS now even more important....

OK going to unstick myself from this screen at last

saf

Purple_Sparkles

Could you please add me for this month starting today. My budget for my 10 year old son and I is £80 for the month.

I have a freezer full of things, which I want to use up so I hope this challenge will help get the food eaten.

I'm also going camping at the weekend but I'm not going to buy anything, I'll take food with me from the pantry, it's only for three days. (I'm glad I made some wine, I can take it with me)!

airedaleterrier

Count me in for £200 this month. Used a lot of store cupboard/freezer items in August so unlikely to do as well. Great Challenge, keeps me focussed as I go shopping!

ysatiss

Hello!
May I join you?
My first time on this thread although last month I did the challenge without joining. I had no idea how much to put down but ended up spending £56.23 for my partner and I, which I was very happy with. The cupboards were quite full at the start of the month though, which isn't the case now.
So I'm going to set myself a target of £80 for this month.
I've been reading up some of the advice and have found that meal planning really works and that rubber chicken is great as long as I don't set the kitchen on fire (I put the chicken on to make stock on the 3rd day, forgot about it and went out. I didn't set the kitchen on fire but i reckon another 30mn would have done it... Woops!).

Debz66

Hi all,

Now I have an idea of what I actually spend after guessing last month and adding it up I am going to go for £80 for this month for myself and DS.

It is his birthday this month, but planning to bake quite a bit for his open house/party type thing and only buy a few bits, so hopefully wont blow the budget too much!

Fingers crossed I can get in closer to this than I could last months

Good luck to everyone, I know I need it :rotfl: