February 2009 Grocery Challenge

elaina79

This has to be the lowest I have spent on my weekly shop in ages. Shopped online at Mr A's and spent £72.42.
Most expensive thing was my diced beef for stew on sunday, but seeing as it's really cold and supposed to snow I figured it would be a nice winter warmer.

hamish222

Was hoping to be a NSD but bad day at work and bought a Wispa out machine for 50p

scotsaver

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Does anyone have a good recipe for using pork belly slices? I have some close to UB date, and no space in freezer.

PG x

Hi PennyGrabber - You could try this Belly Pork recipe, really simple as it all goes in one tray and very tasty, there's probably loads more in the Complete Index, look on the first page of this Thread where all recipe links are stored.;)

Thanks MRSMC for the Corned Beef Hash recipe, really scrummy and just what we need in this weather, we all loved it and there is a little bit left which I will make into an individual Pie for DD1, the rest of us are having HM Bacon and Egg pie which she doesn't like so that solves that problem.:T

Yesterday I also made Kidney Bean Pate from Weezl's thread, you have GOT to make this as it's the easiest thing to make and so yuuuuuummmmmyy.:D

Hope you all have a good day.;)

PennyGrabber

Woohoo! It's a snow day for us as my school is shut!
This means that we will be eating food here that I hadn't budgeted for, as the children eat at the childminder's house during the week for lunch and breakfast. Still, you have to have fun once in a while!
We're going to make some cakes or biscuits - still haven't got round to Twinks, so may need to make those! And I'm just about to put a loaf into BM. I made some soup for my packed lunches this week, so may eak that out for the ch, otherwise it'll be beans on toast for lunch.

Thanks for the pork belly recipe! I can't make it this time as I don't have some of the stuff, but I shall do a similar type of thing and see how it turns out! If it's any good, I'll post it.

Have a great day all, and keep safe.
PG x

mudgekin

I think now that DH is being made redundant that I should really join up here.

I have no idea really what we spend but I do know that since coming to the forums I have cut the £140 pw Mr T spends. I think for me, DH, OM (old mum) and furbaby I am going to start with £350 just to see how we go.

IIRC my shopping on Sunday came to £46.50 and so fat I haven't done any nmore shopping

dazzle21

Hello Mudgekin! Everyone is really helpful on here - certainly helped motivate us to reduce our grocery costs without feeling we were missing anything! Lots more snow here today! so not planning a trip to the supermarket today! (good as still loads needing using from freezer) Spent £9exactly on takeaway lastnight as i had a migraine so got o/h to get them to deliver his tea very naughty but better than sending him to Mr T (he'd spend £25 on dinner!!). Trying to decide on dinner now, something warming..like the idea of SCOTSAVER's bacon and egg pie, is the receipe on here? or could you share it with us? - please! Hope everyone is well and keeping warm! x

nmlc

Morning all

I'm on days off now and children's school is closed due to snow. I had planned to do some baking/cooking ahead - maybe the children can help!??? Have done a Mr T online shop for tommorro - just hope they can get here if snow continues! I'll have to be really inventive if not! Have had 2 NSD - the start of the week is easy - I work two long days and half day on Wednesday's, it's the rest of the week that's the problem!
GC update Balance at 31/1/09 £238.31/£350.00
04/02/09 Spent £1.50 at farm shop on baking potatoes
05/02/09 £236.81/£350.00
Keep safe everyone - roads here are really bad x

scotsaver

dazzle21 wrote: »

something warming..like the idea of SCOTSAVER's bacon and egg pie, is the receipe on here? or could you share it with us? - please! Hope everyone is well and keeping warm! x

Hi dazzle21 - here is the recipe for Delia Smith's Bacon and Egg Pie, I've made it loads of times and it's really nice.

Hi mudgekin - sorry to hear about OH's redundancy, you'll find loads of tips on here that will hopefully help you to cut back on Groceries.

Off into the Kitchen now to make a start on pastry - have a good day everyone.:D

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi everyone

NSD for groceries, am making bacon and chinese leaf pasta tonight out of the storecupboard. Am briefly going out to the osteopath, then coming straight home and not spending money otherwise, DON'T NEED ANYTHING lol.

Cheers
Casper
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IsoChick

Whoops, I popped into Coop last night specifically for some mozerella and spinach; but they didn't have any. Rather than walking out of the shop, I bought a sticky-toffee pudding and a bottle of wine :rolleyes:

I still managed to do the recipe without the cheese or spinach though! That's the first 'slip' I've had in 2 weeks, so I'm not too worried. About to do online shop for delivery tomorrow night (as it's cheaper than Saturday morning)