Mooooving Into 2010 - Bovine Adventures In Budgeteering!

mooomin

Just back from Tesco/Costco.

Spent around £100 in all I think. :eek: Full update later once I have helped Mr Fresian sort the unkempt garden and made dinner.

Pippilongstocking

moo2moo wrote: »

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1/2 cup veg stock (I cheat and save the flavourings from the 9p noodles - I am a cheapskate)
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Easily sucked in by the words 'unkempt garden' - twitching to help

Those wee sachets - me too!

Stolen recipe

my flatmate use to make a wierd (but delicious) tuna curry when skint (we ate it alot)

Tin tuna
Tin carrots
Tin potatoes
2 tbsp curry powder
Tin tomatos
Tin mixed beans or any beans/chick peas you have

Open several cans - put into pot with curry powder - simmer for 1/2 hour - done - I know it sounds disgusting but it was remarkably nice - if we were feeling flush we'd even put an onion in.

Takes longer to recycle the cans than make the curry!

Bends at the knee and say's evening all

mooomin

Hi di ho

Apologies if you subscribe to the Grocery Challenge, what follows is a copy and paste job. In my defence, I left the house at 8.30am and got home at 4pm due to overtime and shopping all sodding day. :rotfl:

Here is what I bought...

Costco

Catsan £7.80
Loo Roll (40 rolls of bum-loving Quilted Velvet for £10.34, split with friend) £5.17
Frosties (2 muckle big packs) £4.79 Mr Fresian is a 13 year old trapped in a 30 year old body
Brioche £1.79
Tea (320 Twinings everyday) £1.90 Was BOGOF at £3.79 so one bag each for me and my friend!
Mince x 2 £22 (Works about about 5kg of mince!) I forsee a lot of chili, bolognaise etc in Fresian Towers this month....

Total spend = £43.45

Prices above include our coupons which got us BOGOF on tea and £3 off per pack of mince.

Tesco

A spend of £45.52 in Tesco today. This included the following:

Condensed soup (For sauces) x 6 or 7
Canned tomatoes x 4
Cheerios (Mr Fresian again) Came with a free Roald Dahl book :A
Shower gel x 4
Lentils/porridge/broth mix
Beans/chickpeas
Pasta & Rice 2kg pasta, 1kg rice
Tatties
Chicken (Lots!) 2 x chicken breast, 1 x chopped fillets (whoopsied) and a whole chicken for dinner tomorrow
Sausages (24 for £2.78)

There was plenty of other little things, but all in all I'm quite happy with this.

Total spend today was £88.97 which is actually less than I thought!!!

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So, in total I was able to get 12 decent portions of mince out of that, 11 of which are in the freezer. I also froze 1 portion of diced chicken and split the chicken breasts into 3 portions. I have divided up the sausages - 12 have been frozen in bags of 4 and the rest are going to be Sunday Breakfast and some in the leftovers meal on Monday.

I have a whole roast chicken which shall be dinner tomorrow. I have plans for the leftovers there too. I think a meal plan may be in order shortly....the last one is still in my purse :rotfl:

I have done another 3 hours of overtime today which brings me up to 7 for the month. This works out at about £75 before tax. I would like to do more but if I work too much I end up cranky and sleepy (According to Mr Fresian, and we had massive domestics towards the end of last year, in part because I was so narky!)

Right, meal plan to decide what best to do with my overflowing freezer

mooomin

fayjmck wrote: »

Easily sucked in by the words 'unkempt garden' - twitching to help

Ooh, it's blooming awful (Hehe)

Feel free to drop in for a tidy any time :rotfl:

mooomin

Meal Plan

Sunday - roast chicken, mashed tatties, peas & gravy
Monday - cheat's chicken cassoulet
Tuesday - fried fish
Wednesday - Out for dinner
Thursday - Stew
Friday - Chilli
Saturday - Chicken casserole (Chicken thighs)
Sunday - Roast pork belly

Once I've used the fish and the stewing steak I will have a little more freezer room for the leftover chilli that I will undoubtedly have on Friday. The pack of chicken thighs is huge too, so using that means more space and I can make bolognaise the week after.

mooomin

Money - is there any?

Usual budgetary updates are going to be more frequent as I attempt to keep myself on the straight and narrow :rotfl:

Spends - £55.30 Although I still need to pay Mr Fresian's overdraft interest and credit card from this.
PAD - £39.72
Entertainment - £29.23 (Took friend out for lunch today as thanks for ferrying me to supermarkets etc. Closest budget I could use was this one!) Transferred money into PAD account as I paid cash, so it will go to Barclaycard I think eventually.
Groceries - £107.34
Purse - £9.75

There are a mere 27 days till payday. It's looking a lot more doable than I thought it would. I'm going to be really sick of mince soon though...:rotfl:

Hopeful1

flying_fresian wrote: »

I'm going to be really sick of mince soon though...:rotfl:

Ha! I know the feeling. I am trying to avoid spag bol-ing / cottage pie-ing the family out! I've done chilli and am going to attempt my own lasagne at some point :rolleyes:

mooomin

Plans for today

[strike]Two days worth of comping[/strike]

[strike]Hang up washing.[/strike] Two loads done and hung up

[strike]Play on BingoPort and try and win [/strike] Done!! Have redeemed for £5 Foxy Bingo meaning I should have £10 in my Foxy account once the redeems are processed.

Sort out Washing Mountain into the drawers it's supposed to be living in.

Try and clear enough space on the bedroom floor to allow me to walk on it.

Make roast chicken dinner (Om nom nom)

Make chicken soup.

mooomin

I've done a bit of BingoPorting and have sat and comped for ages. I'm tired now :rotfl:

I still have about 50 to enter to catch me up. Time for breakfast I think.

*Jellie*

I rarely tire of mince- so many things you can do with it!

Sounds like you're doing really well with grocery challenge at the moment. It's always inspiring hearing about peoples meal plans etc.