December 2009 Grocery Challenge

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Flat_Eric wrote: »

Im also a tad annoyed as the £3.50 voucher I retrieved from the cashier at Tescadiddles on Fri. doesnt appear to be valid? might have to ring them up. this was the voucher that I handed over but the discount wasnt applied. all very strange. does anyone know if you don't spend a voucher, do you get it again as part of your next lot of points vouchers ? I can't see how this can be the case however as the vouchers are valid for two years??

No you don't get it sent out again. If they did that, then you could spend it twice......

Sounds as if it was scanned and the computer recognised it, hence no longer valid. But no idea why it wasn't knocked off your shopping if it got that far through the system

thisismoneysaving

Morning MSE's!
Sorry to hear about the voucher
I haven't got lunch with me AGAIN... grrr
I have a nandos voucher for a free 1/2 chicken, so I'm trying to rope someone into having Nandos with me! Then dinner at family's again! I blame Christmas!!!
I'm very very excited about Christmas right now - it's getting very close and I have a lot of time off work coming up! yippeeee!!
Have a great day, everyone
x

SunnyGirl

Morning all

Just updating today's food shop £51.63 in total so very pleased. I also got a Stollen cake as a treat for DH & I

I did my meal plans through to the end of December yesterday & the accompanying shopping lists so I have no excuse for buying half the shop up 'cos it's Christmas' :rolleyes: We have our christmas lunch on christmas eve this year (the 6 of us) and my parents are coming on christmas day for hot roast gammon & the usual things to go with it. Soup or melon salad will be the starter & I'll make a fresh fruit salad and a cake/mince pies for dessert but I'm going to buy a nice ice cream as well.

Oh well enough wittering from me I'm off to make the fab soda bread recipe from yesterday now :T

Winged_one

LongTallSally, the recipe said salad potatoes and we tend to have similar ones from the allotment (Anya - like Pink Fir Apple). The baby new potatoes from the shops work well also - from experience. Just cut any larger ones to make sure they are all a similar enough size.

But if you wanted to use regular potatoes, I'd say you could - especially any that are a bit waxier rather than flourier. (So UK preferences rather than Irish ones). Probably peel them (unless you think the skins are ok for eating) and chop into reasonably large chunks - size would dictate cooking time. Cook for as long, roughly, as you'd do roasties of that size and then check if cooked with a knife. It might also work as a sliced potato dish - but you'd have to be careful about getting the sauce spooned over every layer and mixing in the chorizo slices.

SarahNeedle1872

Had shopping delivered yesterday, £76.90, so need to update my sig... seem to have started Dec a bit better than Nov

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russetred

Just updating my totals.I'm not spending as much as I'm busy sorting the scout post this week so no whoopsies for me.My spend includes all food,booze and anything else from the supermarkets.I must make my pumpkin marmalade and stollens today.Oh and sort out the greenery for my wreath.In fact its not grocery money I'm running out of its time!

poohbear59

I spent another £18 on veg and a few whoopsies to go in the freezer. Just £143 left.

SunnyGirl

Just adding another £1.76 on for a tin of chick peas for falafel on Saturday and 2 more bags of plain flour as I made Skintbint's soda bread for lunch today & it was amazing. I will certainly be making again so stocked up on flour :T Thank you again for posting it.

mark55man

NSD yesterday but today will see a trip to Mr L, to top up on (yet) more cola and F&V. managing to use up some of the storecupboard stuff, but I find it hard to resist baked beans at 29p and kidney beans at 20p so may get a tin or two.

just off to read the thread - after 2 days I may be some while

elizabunny

Hello Everyone

A small spend today as I needed some of those foil trays and some water filters. DH collected these for me, so that meant I wasn't tempted. He did however, treat me to a large bar of choccie (I will share:D) as I have been feeling a tad low lately.......don't know what's got into me

Two naughty cooking nights where dinner revolved mostly around Eggs and Oven Chips:o. Ie Tuesday evening Egg, Bacon Chips & Beans , Weds evening, Cheese Omelette, Peas and Chips. In my defense I haven't been feeling 100% and am beginning to wonder if I have some bug or other.

Must try and get myself into gear soon, as I still need to make the sausages, sausagemeat and sausage rolls for Xmas. I still have money in my December budget..........but I don't think it's going to be enough as we are feeding visiting family over Xmas. Just got to do my best.

Have a nice evening everyone.