£300 -6 months shopping list help needed

mum_of_4

Well last night i sorted my kitchen cupboards out so i could make a list :rolleyes: of what i have in them. Well all i can say at some point i must have had a thing about red wine vinegar - found 4 bottles oh and 7 x 1litle of Guava juice. Both must have been on offer at some point.

So anyideas of what to do with guava juice my only thought was ice lollies

Before school went to Mr T and bought the rest of the shopping list, bar the salmon. Cleared the shelf of flour and porrige oats. and yes children thought i'd gone made.

Cupboards

2kg dried Kidney beans (just over 2kg)
2 x 500g Dried Chick peas - plus half open pack
7 x 1 litse Guava juice
1 x walls sausages (used one pack on Monday)
1 X Tin of 8 hot dogs
2 x 125g tins of mackerel fillets in tomato sauce
3 x 185g tuna chunks in water
2 x 200g princes ham
1 x 500g Lingunine pasta (unopened)
1 x 500 quick cook spaghetti (unopened)
1x 730g tomato ketchup ( unopened)
700g of pudding rice
2 x baked beans tins
500g dried apricots
1x 1kg Cous cous (finished opened one today for lunch)
200g fine egg noodles
1 x 250ml Lime juice
1 x 250ml lemon juice
1x 1litre washing up liquid + 1 opened bottle
about 8 months supply of washing powder
over years supply of toothpaste and shampoo
4 x 1litre Bleach
i also have most herbs some dried and some already frozen in icecube portions, stock cubes, salt pepper and balsamic vinegar
- oh and a river of red and white wine vinegar

£30.00 - 10 x packs of fresh mince (buy 2 1kg for £6)
£20.00 -20 x packs of walls sausages £1.00 each
£20.00 -20 x bags of 800g peas £1.00 each
£00.00 - 6 x Salmon 8 pieces £5.00 a bag not on offer yet so will wait
£15.60 - 8 x value white fish pieces 800g £1.95 + 1 in freezer
£21.42 - 6 x whole 1.55kg chickens £3.57 + 4 in freezer
£3.98 - 2 x whole chickens 1.55kg reduced to £1.99
£8.73 - 9 x Lamb mince 500g reduced to 97p

£12.40 - 4 boxes of Tesco 240 tea bags £2.48 each
£1.98 - 2 boxes of Tesco 160 tea bags reduced to 99p
£13.34 - 23 bottles of tesco squash 58p each
£11.60 - 10 baked beans pack of 4 £1.16 each
£24.00 - 50 x 1.5kg Strong white flour 48p each
£1.58 - 2 daisy 1l washing up liquid 79p each
£12.64 - 16 x sugar 1kg 79p each
£0.99 - 1 x suger 2kg reduced to 99p
£8.40 - 10 x Tesco Red Split Lentils 500g 84p
£7.60 - 5 x 1kg red lentils £1.52
£12.50 -5 x Pasta dried 3kg £2.50
£4.72 - 4 x Cous cous 1kg £1.18
£14.50 - 25 x 1kg Value porrige oats 58p
£6.60 - 20 x P flour/SR flour 33p
£3.45 - 5 x honey 69p
£1.86 - 2x caster suger .93p
£4.44 - 4 x Value Toilet roll £1.11
£2.32 - 4 x Tesco cream bath 58p
£3.80 - stork 250g 38p

Total £268.45 once i've got the salmon i'll have £1.55 left

donnajt

mbaz i not surprised to see you are off to a flying start and i agree with the poster that your family are lucky to have you!

i tried a fish pie on Monday -huge success -somebody (apologies can't remember poster) posted a really simple haddock mornay recipe on one of the meal plan threads, which i adapted to suit us

Easy Fish Pie
1/2 pack frozen white fish fillets or pieces (approx £1.68 in asda)
1 pint cheese sauce (butter, cornflour, milk, salt & pepper, cheese)
broccolli (optional)
mash potato
bit of extra cheese for top of pie

basically i cooked the fish in the microwave, cut into bite size pieces, put in the bottom of a dish, cooked broccolli - pulsed some of it and mixed into the cheese sauce (tip be careful as you don't want the sauce to be "bright green"), poured cheese/broccolli sauce over fish, topped with mash and sprinkled the remaining cheese on top of pie and placed under the grill until cheese had melted - it was divine served with remaining broccolli

you can throw anything your family likes into it, handful of peas, sweetcorn, prawns etc

we are a family of three and there was enough with plenty of leftovers

hope that helps, dtx

mum_of_4

Just made 3 cottagepie - someone else will have to price this up as i'm not upto date with veg prices.

2 x 500g lamb mince (reduced to 97p each)
2 x large onions
2 x large carrots
2 x handful of chopped red pepper
2 x two handfuls of frozen peas
good handful of red lentils
1 x garlic clove
herbs
550ml of stock (I used lamb)
few glugs of worcestershire sauce
I used about 2kg potatoes and 3 parsnips for the mash

well it made three family sized cottage pies so one for tonight and the other two for the freezer.

Tip - for the first time chopped up some of my red peppers and put them in the freezer. Used them for the first time today and they are fine so maybe a good idea to do this when they are on offer in the shops.

mum_of_4

sandraroffey wrote: »

jamie olivers 'fantastic fish pie' is the best!! i make it using whatever fish i have to hand but i find that always adding a bit of smoked haddock makes it even better. and lots of veggies in it as well. and never mind spending the change on a big bottle of multi vits - you've more than earned a very large bottle of wine!!!!! do so envy you; that is one hell of a shop and so carefully planned as well. bet you make all your own preserves as well??? thought so!!!!! great stuff.xxxx

Big thankyou to sandraroffy and Hamish222

They fish pie was a great success :j cheap and tasted fab and was really easy to make. I couldn't freeze any as we had seconds. Oh said he'd be happy to eat it every week.

I can't believe i've never made fish pie before.

applemella

This thread is so inspiring!!
Has anyone any ideas what I can put in the 2 raised beds that I created in my garden? Had masses of runner beans from 1!
Had a look at the backs of some seed packs yesterday and couldn't find anything that could be sown now to grow over winter.

Scubabe

Apple - suggest you visit the Greenfingers board for gardening advice - there's loads of info there on what to grow over winter.

demented_2

Hi Mum of 4, Have you thought about blending some granulated sugar in to Caster sugar? This would save you buying Caster sugar or even icing sugar as they can be sooo expensive to buy. If you need Caster sugar, just blend ordinary Granulated sugar down to caster sugar size and if you need icing sugar, blend it down abit more to the consistency of icing sugar. That would save you quite a bit of money.

mum_of_4

demented wrote: »

Hi Mum of 4, Have you thought about blending some granulated sugar in to Caster sugar? This would save you buying Caster sugar or even icing sugar as they can be sooo expensive to buy. If you need Caster sugar, just blend ordinary Granulated sugar down to caster sugar size and if you need icing sugar, blend it down abit more to the consistency of icing sugar. That would save you quite a bit of money.

OMG is that what caster sugar is?:o I had no idea.

Well that is something i will be doing from now on and yes it will save me money. I can't believe that for the last 15 years i've been buying it, gosh what a waste.

Maybe i'm slow but the icing suger seems more powder like so does it work i guess i'll just have to try.

Thanks demented for a great tip

morwenna

mum_of_4 wrote: »

OMG is that what caster sugar is?:o I had no idea.

Well that is something i will be doing from now on and yes it will save me money. I can't believe that for the last 15 years i've been buying it, gosh what a waste.

Maybe i'm slow but the icing suger seems more powder like so does it work i guess i'll just have to try.

Thanks demented for a great tip

My mum used to make icing sugar in her blender, it does work but the icing isn't as white when you make it up. She just used food colour to make pink icing

demented_2

Hi Mum of 4. Yes i know what you mean about the waste of money on buying both Caster and icing sugar, when all you really need is either a blender or if you haven't got a blender, a good old fashioned rolling pin plus either a plastic or paper bag, with the rolling pin method, you just put the sugar into the bag and roll it heavily with the rolling pin until you get the consistency that you want. When your making Icing sugar in the blender, just keep your eye on the consistency and try not to get too carried away with "Blending" Although saying that you haven't lost anything, just gained more icing sugar, also it does work just the same as the bought stuff.
Got to say well done on your shopping list.