January 2009 Grocery Challenge

redmel1621

Just updated sig again. Needed milk, so nipped to the local and ended up coming out with Milk, 2xcoke, 2x galaxy bars...total spend £5.03...the coke is for dh to have a drink tonight which is quite rare so I don't mind really...

I now have £87.07 to last me the rest of my month, which is until the 6th Feb:p can I do it????

Mel x

tessie_bear

good evening....its freezing here but no snow (yet) for tea we had the first in the trilogy of rubber chicken ive planned....roast today....chicken and mushroom pie tomorrow....chicken and sweetcorn pasta on monday.....carcass boiled up for soup for lunch monday and tuesday....i had a bargain from the fruit shop in town a box of blueberries and a box of raspberries for a £ for both...ive made some blueberrie muffins .... we are having raspberries/blueberry/banana smoothie for breakfast and rest of berries scattered over a cheesecake tomorrow ....33pr3 per portion not bad imo have a nice weekend tess

Penny2myName

Well I only count my food in my challenge, as budget for food/cleaning/toiletries all separately (as I stock pile last two) Anyhow so far this month I have spent £19.16 on foodleaving me with £30.84 for the rest of the month.

lauradora

another £8.11 today for this weeks shopping. didn't need much just a veg top up

Julimk

Popped into Mr T after dropping DD with her Dad & just got more milk (still can’t believe how much we get through, though a little better now back at work & school), some Muller Little Stars for DD’s pack-ups (79p – currently half price) & butcher’s sausages (99p – also currently half price).

Still 1½ weeks to go & less than £15 left; but I know there are 30ish HM meal portions in the freezer as well as enough meat for another 30ish, so plenty of dinners in. Should just be odd bits now (famous last words …)

I like to put 1 fresh fruit & 1 dried fruit portion in DD’s pack up but she doesn’t like currants/sultanas/raisins. Tried dried apricots & got a rather cheeky response along the lines of ‘Nice try Mum, but don’t do it again’! She wants fruit flakes or fruit strings, but I don’t want to buy those both for the price and the processing. I have downloaded some recipes for fruit leathers & jerkies to try. Anyone got any other ideas? Thanks v much.

princess_leia_3

Another £11 for me - milk, rolls, some f & v, dh bought an extravagant roulade pud too!!!

Frugaldom

I should have gone shopping but the bad weather kept me in, so I just nade what I could, instead. It was my first attempt at baking chocolate sponge without eggs and I was surprised at how it tasted - no different! :j
Half of it's gone already, as DS scoffed it and then we had some with custard after dinner tonight. Also baked a loaf and a couple dozen small rolls, so this should keep me out of the shops until Monday, possibly longer if I do soup & pudding lunches rather than sandwiches. :T

CurlyTop

Have DN2 staying with us and consequently I am going through milk like billy o, so have had to make two visits to Mr A over the last two days. Got bread and baking apples, so DN2 made lovely apple crumble which was scrummy. Signature updated.

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

Julie... would your daughter go for those little chunks you get of mango, pineapple, papaya etc.. you can get mixed bags and just pop a few in a pot.. my nephew loved them as a tot -they were his version of "dolly mixtures"

clutterydrawer

nykmedia wrote: »

I should have gone shopping but the bad weather kept me in, so I just nade what I could, instead. It was my first attempt at baking chocolate sponge without eggs and I was surprised at how it tasted - no different! :j
Half of it's gone already, as DS scoffed it and then we had some with custard after dinner tonight. Also baked a loaf and a couple dozen small rolls, so this should keep me out of the shops until Monday, possibly longer if I do soup & pudding lunches rather than sandwiches. :T

That cake sounds useful - do you have a recipe?