July 2009 Grocery Challenge

fallen_angel_shelley

xx_Jo_xx wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I thought I was doing really well and had stocked up for the month on EVERYTHING (cleaning stuff, toilet roll, kitchen roll the lot!) for £45.49.

That should have left me £54.51 for the rest of the month for fresh milk, bread and fruit when needed.

However - its my birthday on Saturday and Im having a BBQ - Im going home tonight to think about what will be on my menu and what I can do with what I already have in, hopefully then, I can keep my spending down to an absolute minimum......

Does anyone have any ideas to help - ie where is the cheapest place for BBQ foods/meat etc.

Thanks

Jo x x

Have a look in iceland, they do some good BBQ stuff, I got DD a big bag of mixed BBQ stuff, chicken, burgers and sausages for £5 for her birthday BBQ. How about making your own pasta salad and potato salad? HTH

Shelley

scotsaver

xx_Jo_xx wrote: »

Does anyone have any ideas to help - ie where is the cheapest place for BBQ foods/meat etc.

Thanks

Jo x x

Hi Jo - not sure whether you use Free Range Chicken or whether you only buy British Meat - Lidl's Free Range Chicken is only £3.98 a kilo if you don't mind jointing yourself and they do lovely sausages made from British Pork. Alternatively Iceland do a large BBQ bag for £5, contains 25 pieces, burgers, sausages and chicken and they also do Kebabs etc.;)

Money_Fritter

Hi Everyone,

Can you put me down for £80.83 again for July

Thanks

Money Fritter

firstyearisthehardest

I wish we had an Aldi over here! Grapes are £3 in our local shop and DD loves them! No spending yet for me - probably wont until Friday when I do week shop but have to meal plan before I go!!

helen_jelly

Hi everyone
My spend to day will be £2.28 for bread and milk and that should be it till tomorrow!
Helen

SunnyGirl

Just updating my spends. I'm very pleased as I got everything on my list for the week for £70.32 :T I've still to go to Aldi to get their Super Six and a couple of local cheap shops (a bit like Home Bargains but with freezers ) for cat food. I'm currently buying Iams lamb for £1.99 per kg bag which is more than half the price of Asda or Tesco :eek: The totals shouldn't come to more than £15 though hopefully. I'm trying to keep it down while everyone is still at school/college!

xx_Jo_xx The Iceland bags are great. Also get some of the Aldi bananas, make a slit through the skin down one side, stuff with chocolate buttons, wrap tightly in foil and put on the barbeque for a few mins. Delish with squirty cream or ice cream :drool:

MrsM Please can you post your recipe for cream tomato soup it sounds lovely. All of your recipes that I've tried in the past are brilliantly easy & foolproof thanks for being so generous :A

cazzasmazza

Hi, I'm new to this thread, so hello all!

Please can you put me down for a budget for the month of £225.

This is the first time me and my OH have set a strict food budget for the month. This amount will also have to cover toiletries, cleaning products and cat food.

There's just me, my OH and our 2 (fussy!) cats, so we will see how it goes!!

Thanks to this wonderful site and its members for being a mine of incredible information and such an inspiration to read. :T

Caz
xx

spendaholic

Armed with (a) a freezer full of food, (b) a pantry full of food, (c) a budget of £40, and (d) just a shopping basket as opposed to a trolley, my first week came to ... (drum roll please ...) £14.21. :T

MRSMCAWBER

Hi SunnyGirl

By some miracle I actually weighed and measured when I was making the soup -not something I usually do..good job I did as I would have been gutted if I couldn't get it the same next time -it was just a use up the odds in the fridge job too

I did mine in the remoska but I will do it for a pan....

1. drop of oil
2. 150g carrots peeled and chopped
3. 150g onion chopped
4. 1tbs flour
5. 600g fresh tomatoes -those over ripe ones are best
6. 2tbs marscapone
7. 600ml fresh chicken stock
8. plenty of seasoning

• cut the tomatoes into chunks and drizzle with oil and sprinkle with cracked black pepper and rock salt -and shove in the oven for about 20 mins until nice n squishy
• put the drop of oil into a pan and throw in the carrots and onions, stick the lid on and cook until soft (stirring occasionaly)
• add the flour and stir until absorbed
• throw in the tomatoes and stock, stir well, stick the lid on and cook for about 15 mins until everything is soft
• add the marscapone and blitz with a stick blender or in the liquidiser (allow to cool a little first if liquidising -don't want to be responsible for tomato soup on the ceiling )
• add plenty of seasoning

you can strain it if you like really smooth -but I don't mind it as it is... its probably one of the nicest soups I have made.
Im doing another chicken at the weekend just so I can make some more :rotfl:
oohh if anyone wants to do the remoska version...


just :-

1. put the oil in and warm up,
2. throw in the carrots n onions and cook for 10 mins
3. add the flour and stir in
4. throw in the RAW chopped tomatoes and cook until nice n soft
5. add the stock and seasoning and cook until all hot
6. tip into a large bowl and blitz in the marscapone
7. then tip back into the remoska and re-heat

Hope those ramblings make sense :rotfl:

Phoolgrrrl

Please put me down for £100 this month for me and OH. Knocking £10 off as last month was under. Already had a £6.50 spend at the butchers, freezer and cupboard pretty full and stocked up at chinese supermarket last month