December 2009 Grocery Challenge

Long_tall_sally

cw18 wrote: »

4x 454g sausagemeat (two for Christmas Eve, and the others to make 2 more meals for 2 of us next year)

I've been meaning to ask people what they do with sausagemeat? I have bought some to make some HM stuffing but think I have bought too much. CW18 can I just fry it like you could a sausage or does anyone else have any other uses for it?
Thanks in advance

poppy-glos

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

cw18 wrote: »

4x 454g sausagemeat (two for Christmas Eve, and the others to make 2 more meals for 2 of us next year)

I've been meaning to ask people what they do with sausagemeat? I have bought some to make some HM stuffing but think I have bought too much. CW18 can I just fry it like you could a sausage or does anyone else have any other uses for it?
Thanks in advance

hi, sausage plait, with puff pastry and the sausagemeat mixed with chopped onion, as a filling for the puff pastry, delicious!

franby64

Hi all.

Just updating sig - I've also noticed that I'm getting a bit lax with the updating at exactly the time when I need to be very careful. So from now to 23/12 I will update every day.

Today was milk, chips, bananas...the usual.

I've got a few Xmas bits in - four tubs of half price Ben&Jerry's (not found yet by kids) and some Pringles (found but I fought them off) but like other people I'm really trying to avoid buying a load of junk for Christmas - not least because I am doing Slimming World and am going to have to tread very carefully! I've got deliveries booked for 15/12 and 22/12 (£6!!!) for all the vital stuff but I'm not sure if I'll need them both. Time to do a bit more planning I think.

skintbint_2

hi folks hope every body doing better than me this week - really dont know where have gone wrong, took the eye of the budget and well its kind of gone a bit pear shaped!! but back on track with more cutbacks next week - iwill get through to the end of the month spending only £260 on groceries. !where there's a will there's a way! beans anyone?

SarahNeedle1872

£4.92 on lunch for me today because I got up late:mad:

cw18

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

cw18 wrote: »

4x 454g sausagemeat (two for Christmas Eve, and the others to make 2 more meals for 2 of us next year)

I've been meaning to ask people what they do with sausagemeat? I have bought some to make some HM stuffing but think I have bought too much. CW18 can I just fry it like you could a sausage or does anyone else have any other uses for it?
Thanks in advance

I just mash it into the base of a pyrex dish (so that it moulds to the shape of the dish) and bake it. I do it with the lid on the dish, though I've known others do it without (but I often find their's dries out too much for my taste).

I then serve up a 'slab' with chips, veg and gravy. I like it with mash instead of chips, but the boys prefer it with chips so it tends to get served that way.

cw18

Got my meal deal from Mr M today - but only just. Finished at 12:40 for my lunch break, to discover there were no veg packs left Apparently the reason for the 'shortage' of these (and the trifles yesterday) was that people are buying just those items !!!

Came home, had something to eat and drink, and headed back for my last few hours of work. As I walked through the store I spotted someone had found some veg packs, and there were 4 on the shelf (not sure when they'd appeared, but as the meal deal signs had been removed before I went to lunch due to being unable to supply them I don't think people realised the significance of the items on that unit )

Decided they wouldn't still be there by the time I left work, so took a gamble on my locker being cool enough and grabbed and paid before clocking back in.

Everything still felt chilled when I finally knocked off (45 mins late, so 4 hours after stuffing everying in), and is now in my fridge at home - but I forgot to get the baby potatoes I wanted for tea today, so am going to have to dig through my cupboards and see if I still have my "emergency" tinned potatoes

ellemm

Well have done the shopping for the week more or less, got the Mr M pork deal, lovely bit of meat, which we will have on Sunday.

Total between Mr M and Aldi £16.71.

Well pleased.

Enjoy your Friday evening everyone

rosieben

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

I've been meaning to ask people what they do with sausagemeat? I have bought some to make some HM stuffing but think I have bought too much. CW18 can I just fry it like you could a sausage or does anyone else have any other uses for it?
Thanks in advance

Aunty spotted a recipe for Brian Turner's All day breakfast bap, you could try that with sausage meat.;)

albacookie

Spent £1.45 the other day on bread and milk. (Also got the Harry Potter DVD for £6.71 - might watch it tonight)