July 2009 Grocery Challenge

elantan

so we do ...i never noticed that ...great minds eh ...it is a very true saying ...one of the ones i live my life by ...that and to thine own self be true ...

Triker

Here sweetie, here's some fantastic Chinese home made takeaway recipes, dunno if these'll help

Chinese food

elantan

thanks triker ...hubby loves cooking chinese ...he is quite good at it as well ...but we need new ones ....so these will deff help him look for alternatives ...i love mse ...sigh ...its like coming home ...just perfect

CommitedToChange

Well my budgeting has been rubbish - just got enough to cover my veg bags for the rest of the month - but that's ok, I can live out of the freezer with that.

Sadly the cat can't so will hope and pray T's take all my coupons when I go to get cat food and litter.

Triker

elantan wrote: »

thanks triker ...hubby loves cooking chinese ...he is quite good at it as well ...but we need new ones ....so these will deff help him look for alternatives ...i love mse ...sigh ...its like coming home ...just perfect

Awww you're among friends you should know that.;):D xx

Triker

Here's a really long thread re cooking for the freezer, seeing as you're working long hours it may help to batch cook when you can and then just defrost what you want for tea that day.


Cleaning, stardrops is wonderful stuff, as is vinegar, as are microfibre cloths.

elantan

ok this might sound like a silly question ...but i am going to ask anyway ...if we have £8 a day for food etc but say i do a washing and use some sauce for cooking ...should i put something like 50p into a different place so that i can afford to replace them? cause i dont want it to get to the stage where i have used the £8 a day then ran out of soap powder and say i need to go buy some more but will need to take it out of the £8 (i buy big sizes usually about £18 a time lasts for ages and cheaper) which wont cover it so in order to buy the soap powder i will need to go without food for at least two days ?


did that make sense?

do you think it would work ?


should i also price every meal ? rather than just going to the shop and buying things?

elantan

Triker wrote: »

Here's a really long thread re cooking for the freezer, seeing as you're working long hours it may help to batch cook when you can and then just defrost what you want for tea that day.


Cleaning, stardrops is wonderful stuff, as is vinegar, as are microfibre cloths.

that will deff help me next week triker i am night shift all week and the truth is all i have energy to do is sleep and work ...so if i have a look at that i can batch cook at the weekend and take something every day ...i am going to have to get used to not having what i want every day ...i usually wait till the day and then say oh i fancy .... but if i am going to make this work i am going to have to accept that i dont have that option all the time ...especially (spelling) when i am doing a long stint of shifts

Triker

Elantan, well its a tough question really.

I would do this, I'd take all the money and use it as a whole.

You could do online shops and price it up as you go along, there tends to be money off codes on the discounts codes thread to get your shopping down more.



Approved food is another fantastic moneysaving resource that has many fans on here. The food is either getting to or slightly out of date but you can get some brilliant bargains, just work out postage and also you can build up your cupboards this way.

Triker

Here's a thread on freezing sandwiches for packed lunches, if all you can do is collapse when you get home you'll not be in the mood to make yourself some food for the next day.;)

There's loads of tips on good, nutritous and cheap packed lunches.