Grocery Shopping budget thread

MrsE_2

mardatha wrote: »

I'm doing bread every day but trying to find the cheapest place to buy flour! I don't know where best to post it though !

I but Lidls (someone o here recommended it) & its great. I get my flor & EVOO there.

mardatha

Oh I've never seen flour in my Lidl, I need to look again, thank you!

Justamum

mardatha wrote: »

Oh I've never seen flour in my Lidl, I need to look again, thank you!

I don't have a Lidl near me, but Tesco white bread flour in the pink bags is 71p at our Tesco. The wholemeal is £1.03 (I use 20% wholemeal, 80% white flour in my bread). It might well be cheaper near you - I think our prices are a bit higher over here.

abby1234519

I was thinking about buying myself another bread machine, I'm sure its cheaper than buying nasty cheap processed bread

andy40

My partner and myself, budgeting for £300pm and hoping to get it down to £200pm.
We cook from scratch the majority of the time.
He eats like a horse and drinks gallons of juice but will eat pretty much anything, as long as its spicy!

brighthair

I spend about £40-£50 a week and I live alone!
I can afford it though and I am trying to cut back
I try to bulk cook, and freeze stuff and use leftovers for lunches. I work 12 hour shifts so go through a lot of food at work!
I had crispy fajitas tonight, so am taking left over crispy chicken tomorrow with lettuce, cucumber, spring onion and coleslaw

abby1234519

Well I have finished my budget today. £15 pw MAX. This allows me to cook a weeks worth of dinners in the slow cooker and freeze it. It will be less if I decide to have a meat free week, thats me accounting for buying casserole meat or something but I sometimes don't fancy it. And quinoa, pitta bread and peppers for lunch. Porridge for breakfast because I love it!! And I'm going to go and buy a massive bag of pasta to have with whatever I cook in the slow cooker. If I have any pennies left over, they'll go into a pot to buy squash and things. I'm pretty chuffed, this starts next week when I ge my student loan and grant

JillS_2

poppy-glos wrote: »

my favourite pud of all time is this one, http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/536253,the recipe is for six big wineglasses full, but i make it and serve it in shot glasses (does about 20), and guests who want a little pud have one and the sweet tooths may have 4 or 5. I have the recipe book somewhere, i think its in a gary rhodes book i have, but easier to do a recipe search than find an exact book in this house!!

This sounds lovely. Will it freeze well?

chocolatepennyfarthing

Not heard of vanilla sugar, is this difficult to get hold of?

thriftlady_2

chocolatepennyfarthing wrote: »

Not heard of vanilla sugar, is this difficult to get hold of?

No, easy Buy some sugar, buy a vanilla pod (in the spice aisle), bury the pod in the sugar, store in an air tight container.