December 2008 Grocery Challenge

mrs_miser

hello all ,please can i join £280.00

ZLS1984

Question?
I would like to know how to make a scotch broth out of left over leg of lamb with bone.. This is my fravourite soup in the whole word and would love to know how to make it minus the pepper.


Can any one help me please, a boot in the right direction would be good.

KAAT_LADY

http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/scotchbroth.htm

THERE YOU GO ZLS1984

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/scotchbroth_8116.shtml

http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_broth.htm

HOPE THIS HELPS XX

ZLS1984

Thanks sorry for being a pain in the bum. When I try to google things it never brings up what I want lol.

nimbo

i would like to aim for £170 this month, which is not much less than last but this month is Christmas...

went a bit over last month, (well by 77p...)

blissfullydebtfreewannabe

Hi all,

This looks a great challenge, and you have all inspired me to cut back and make do. Can I join please? I'll go for £75 this month seeing as it is my first. That is my half of the monthly groceries.

turbo5019

JennyBee wrote: »

Condensed milk idea....There's a Nigella fudge recipe that is good for pressies at Christmas..... condensed milk, chocolate, pistachios and something else...will go and look it up if you're interested turbo Think it's just heat it up, mix it together, chuck it in the freezer type cooking

Thanks for that never thought about fudge. I google it and found it really easy thats what I like will let you know how it turns out.

WelshWoofer

Morning all!

My good intentions of just sticking to what was on the list whilst shopping on Saturday completely went out of the window during my Mr T visit. I ended up spending £61 but in my defence I have bought enough toiletries for the next 2 weeks and dog food to last for a while too - although there were plenty of naughty items too! I think the lapse was due to being tired and a teeny bit hungover and succumbing to Mr T's cunning marketing ploys - sweets on the end of the aisle at half price, easy to cook rubbish etc.

Anyway, this week it really will be meal planning and cooking what's in in order of what needs using first and trying to make it last. I'm aiming for just F&V and milk and bread during this weeks' shop next Saturday and try to use some stuff up in the freezer vefore the mega Xmas shop (different budget thankfully).

Tonight for tea its salmon (for OH), quorn escalope (for me), lots of nice salad and a jacket spud - I'm determined not to throw [EMAIL="the@bought"]the "bought[/EMAIL] in haste" fresh stuff out - IT WILL GET EATEN!!!:mad:

Anyway, off to try to think about this week's teas and to stop OH eating random stuff.....

Good luck to everyone else.

mummy2mygirls

JennyBee wrote: »

Condensed milk idea....There's a Nigella fudge recipe that is good for pressies at Christmas..... condensed milk, chocolate, pistachios and something else...will go and look it up if you're interested turbo Think it's just heat it up, mix it together, chuck it in the freezer type cooking

I would love to know this aswell, if you dont mind.....going to get the kiddies to help make some fudge for the grandparents so looking for recepies........

Has anybody ordered from approved food and drink before?? just wanted to see if anyone had a bad deal with them etc before ordering......

hope you have had a good weekend.
x

PurpleSkies

Did a shop at the weekend which I'm counting as my first December budget shop and it came to just under £20!!! :eek:
Thing is there wasn't really that much food involved. I just seemed like all I had bought was ingredients for Christmas cake and baking! Although I did stock up on a few essentials so now have enought bread mix, tea bags and peanut butter to last me until about February! So maybe it wasn't that bad after all!