January 2009 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

sorry me again....in sainsburys ttd brandy butter 10p a pot date good until 9th the xmas stuff 75 % off paper cards xmas cake etc also literature explaining the basics range how wonderful it is and some quite nice recipes also a voucher at till for sainsburys mag for a quid not £1.40 it says it had coupons in so i will check to see what they are tess

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Hi oldMacDonald, more determined then ever to reduce the budget.

Has been a good start so far, stuck to shopping list and today have surprised myself by making carrot soup with some very sad carrots, made pastry and blind baked, ready for HM quiche for dinner tonight and bread rolls proving now, ready for packed lunches tomorrow.
Time for a cup of tea before school run starts.

OrkneyStar

save-a-holic wrote: »

Just thought I'd mention that I use normal bog-standard value SR flour with equal results to bread flour and it's around 26p a bag. I can't use the 1-hour function on the breadmaker for this - it needs to do the full 2 hours cycle, but other than that it is exactly the same (and a lot cheaper!) :T

Where is it 26p a bag ?

Steel_2

Great start to the challenge....just found half a pack of sausage meat balanced on the first aid box on top of the freezer. I forgot to put it back after I'd rearranged the freezer Sunday afternoon.

Grrrrr.....leftover chicken and sausage-meat roll not happening tonight then. Plan B....chunky chicken soup with pasta.

princess_leia_3

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Ooooooo, are they open again? I've looked in a couple of times in the last couple of days but there is a message saying they are closed until the new year'

*skips off to see if the store is open again*

Well I did order even tho they are shut......so just hope it goes through ok :rolleyes: Bit odd, but all the stuff is still in my basket so not really sure if they know about my order or not (I paid through google checkout)

oldMcDonald

princess_leia wrote: »

Well I did order een tho they are shut......so just hope it goes through ok :rolleyes: Bit odd, but all the stuff is still in my basket so not really sure if they know about my order or not (I paid through google checkout)

Did you get a confirmation email?

sistercas

stoopid me
took the kids food shopping with me :eek:
now my purse is £98 lighter:o

highland_fling_2

hi everyone,
How quickly this thread is growing. Lots of advice, thankyou.
Back to work tomorrow so I am spending today trying to organise menu for packed lunches etc. Have made and frozen various soups in individual servings to make it easier to carry and also to avoid waste. Have also frozen individual helpings of chicken etc for sandwiches. Just take a little bag out each night and it will be defrosted by morning ready to prepare. I carry a thermos to work, saves fighting over microwaves. Have mince and dumplings organised for this evenings meal, warm and comforting on a dull cold day and relatively inexpensive and very filling.
Re hoarding food, have just discovered six packets of dried pasta that I had hidden and forgotten about!!! Hopefully as I become more organised this type of thing will no longer happen.

keld

Happy new year everyone.

Well didn't do too well for December (basically we have two weeks off as we're in construction:rotfl: and all we did was entertain - which was great fun:D, but bad for the purse:eek: ).

So I'm going to try again £500.00 for January. I've already updated my spreadsheet with this weeks shopping, my freezers full, so if I can keep out the shops.

Now to update my signiture.

nickynoo08

Ok doing my first and hopefully only big shop for the month today, i've just written a list of about 20odd meals and written my shopping list based on that. I'm determined to make meal planning work for us. What i've decided to do is to make a list of all the meals from the stuff we have in and leave it pinned to the notice board and cross it off once we've eaten it/used the stuff iyswim. Do you think it'll work?

Might sound like a daft question but do teabags have a use by date? Only asking cuz netto have 1560 tetley teabags on offer for £15. I drink a lot of tea but this would easily last us a year + but i obviously dont want to be wasting them either. What do you think?