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February 2010 Grocery Challenge
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I have adjusted my meal plan and I have enough stuff for at least the next 10 days and more if I am clever with left overs which I will be.
Louise x
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My dd has promised to keep all the receipts if she picks up any shopping and I've allocated a special teensy drawer to keep them in.
I’m just about to make some microwave flapjack to store away for a week as it improves with keeping and the spending so far is £8 on bread, milk and not much else!
The fridge will be raided for tonight’s tea as a general use up is in progress before I go out and shop again – I’m having a food expedition round the house as it’s a very tiny place and everything needs putting together so I can stop buying 5 tins of the same thing!
I have now got a sort of larder cupboard which hubby has built from 2 kitchen cupboards from B&Q put on top of each other and covered in old pine –it looks lovely and I’m just about to start using it - I’ve got more dried fruit and flour than you can imagine and I’m finding pasta in every nook and cranny!
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without:cool:
Off to start at the beginning of the thread now!!
greent x
Purpleclutterbuck - Do you just use a normal flapjack recipe but then microwave them instead of baking them? What sort of dish do you put them in?
Thanks Longtall sally
Plus they had loads of offers on. 50p each for mushrooms and savoy cabbage, half-price grapes, £1 each for Hellman's mayo, Shreddies and Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, 8 rolls of quilted toilet roll for £3.50 (saving £1.30), Muller corner 6 packs 2 for £5 (saving 98p), and their own low fat yoghurts 3 for £1.20 (saving 45p).
Feeling pretty good about that, and shouldn't need to do more than top-up shops until big Tesco delivery next week. :-)
LBM June 2009, Debt Free (except mortgage) Sept 2016 - DONE IT!
3oz margarine/butter
2 tbs golden syrup/black treacle
3oz sugar (any type)
5oz porridge oats
Grease a 7 or 8 inch container (I use a silicon one) Put marg and syrup into 1 ltre jug (large jug) Cook uncovered on full power for 3 mins or until fat melted
Stir in sugar and oats Mix well
Spread mixture evenly in container
Cook uncoverd for 3and half or 4 mins on full power Turn halfway and level mixture again be careful as mix is very hot!!!!
leave to cool in container for 5 mins and mark into squares
When cold break into pieces - this is very chewy to start with but improves with age in an airtight tin for up to 4 weeks!!!
Hope you try it! just alter times for your microwave as required
Pcb x
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without:cool:
I use a round glass pyrex casserole lid as it's nice and shallow.
Edit:I must try and make a black treacle and raisin one... have the stuff in the cupboard already
January declutter: 10/21
tomatoes i don't know either :rotfl:, but i would happily freeze them as they are then make to make soup or to go into casseroles or stews. then when used i would put them in the cooking liquid, cook for a bit, then fish out the skins.
Me, 10 yo dd, and the dog. all food and drinks, in and out, plus household shopping.
Last month i started off really well, then got caught up with at the end! so going to try to spend very slowly this month.. so there is a bit of capacity left later.
oh, i made soft flour tortillas yesterday, i knew about it with aching wrists afterwards from the rolling, but they were delish.. at about 40p for 8 when making them myself i'm happy to put up with the short-term discomfort.
Good luck then all, my intention this month is to keep my eye on it all and not go over, but at the same time if i see bargains that i will use offered cheaply to stock up on a few.
I was laughing at the stockcupboard and finding pasta everywhere quote, i stopped buying pasta in october and still have bags stashed in two places and opened bags in the cupboard
Me, 10 yo dd, and the dog. all food and drinks, in and out, plus household shopping.