September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

suzybloo

OOOppps: Went to Tesco to pick up some milk, bread, rolls and cold meat for the rest of the week but unfortunately saw a nice jumper I liked and also needed some tights for work and ended up spending £33 - so only have £42 for the rest of the week. We will just have to muddle through, but will go for a walk at the weekend and pick some brambles, so that will do for a crumble as have some old apples to use up, along with some homemade soup and bread should pull things back a bit. made up for the two NSD!!!

Hollysan

Having problems with the Thanks buttons - the computer seems very slow tonight.

Anyway, good evening to everyone. Thought I would do a mid-week post for a change, just to report I was thinking about getting some more bits tomorrow but I did go to Morrisons yesterday, so I think I will resist and try and use up what is in the fridge and garden. I am inspired by all your posts, especially reading about all the NSDs. I had an NSD myself on Monday, very rare, but I took the children out with a friend, and we were so late back that I put shopping off till the morning.

Total so far includes £84 internet shop from Tesco last week, so I think we are doing OK. Just as well as we are broke after the holidays, plus paying for essential maintenance to the house. September will be a lean month!

Hollysan

scotsaver

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Scotsaver..can I ask why your mincemeat is going in the oven? never heard of it going in the oven.. wont the suet/fat just melt ?..

MRSMC - I see Shelbel beat me to it but she is right, the recipe I use is from Delia Smith's Christmas book, you put the Mincemeat in the oven so the suet melts and then you remove from the Oven and stir it as it cools to coat all the fruit etc - apparently she recommends this to stop the Mincemeat fermenting allowing you to keep it for longer. Once it has cooled completely then you stir in the Alcohol.:D I always make more than I need as I give some to Family & Friends - I'm the only one who cooks from scratch!!;)

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Scotsaver and Shelbel....

thankyou for putting me out of my mysery :rotfl: I have over 85 cook books, went to catering college for 2 years to qualify as a chef and have made mincemeat for yonks... but have NEVER heard of doing that ...so thankyou for teaching me something new ..i will sleep tonight now, otherwise i would have been awake all night "pondering" how sad am I

melsen69

I'm a bit of a newbie to this. I thought I hade already posted a message, but i appears to have disappeared into the ether.
Anyway I know we are into September already but I would love to join the challenge. I need to do something to make some savings.
My household consists of me, hubby, two teenage sons (three at the weekend, plus a girlfriend)!
We don't eat out and all have packed lunches for work/school.
I will try £350 for this month.
Cheers.

Mel

superstottie

Just had to go to Tesco and get some bread - forgot how much we get through when making packed lunches for four! Ended up spending £3.79 as we are also running short on tea bags and cant be running out of them!

wornoutmumoftwo

Can I join up for this month please, will be starting from tomorrow as that's pay day.

Aiming to spend no more then £200 for the month (2 adults/2 kids)

Thank you

samarnesen

quick update banana bread made in the bm turned out ok ended up baking it for 1.5hrs though cos it just wasnt changing colour ds loves it and is having some in his lunch box tomorrow although he did ask if he could have it with cheese slices sounds awful to me

PizzaLover

Hi can I join please? :j

My first month so I'm not going to set my sights too high (or should that be low?:rotfl:)

So can you put me down for £320 please? (That's a lot less than it was last month :eek:) fingers crossed!

TheBees

Started a new job on Monday and haven't had much time or inclination to go shopping which is good news. OH bought some FR eggs, cat food and milk on the way home so total spend for Sept is £15. Waiting for a Sainsbury delivery tomorrow evening which will be a big one but will set us up for the month with the staples.

MHE - I also managed to defrost the contents of the freezer by accident when I turned off all the kitchen switches before going away on holiday for 2 weeks. :mad: The smell was revolting when we got home but fortunately we didn't have too much of value in there. Really annoying though!

Will update again tom when delivery arrives.