May 2010 Grocery Challenge

Billie-jo

Another NSD for me :j

Have got cheese and onion bread in the BM and its smelling lovely and looking good, cant wait to try some as never done this one before :drool:
Hope it turns out ok although couldnt find a recipie so just put in what I thought it ought to be and hope for the best:rotfl:

Soup hopefully with a chunk of the above bread and then fish cakes with salad for tea and if we want it there is plenty of fruit or cake in.

Winchelsea

Got back from hols last night, tired out from a horrible train journey (replacement bus between Birmingham and Gloucester just one of the snags!)

Tired or not, I put a load of washing in the machine, and, set up the bread machine so we had fresh bread this morning. In the "old days", I would have popped up to the C*-*p for bread etc on the way home (it's open to 10pm every day), but knew we could manage without - also made up some powdered milk and left it in the fridge overnight IN A MILK BOTTLE! Even I didn't notice this morning that it wasn't proper milk until I remembered!

Have been to S**nsbury this afternoon to get a few basics - butter, eggs, cheese, fruit etc (not veg as have organic delivery tomorrow, or milk - also comes on Tues) and spent £14 exactly.

Also bought wine - great bargain - 25% off if buying 6 bottles! - but I don't include alcohol in my GC.

Nottoobadyet

First big shop of the challenge - £48 spent today at Mr S.

Im going to try and make Fajtas tonight, for the first time. Wish me luck!

Snow_Angel

Hi. I've been away for a while...busy with work. I easily made my April GC challenge because I forgot I was on holiday for a week...so feel I was cheating a bit with my challenge. This month I'm going for £90 for the month.

Good luck everyone :T

kittynortheast

Mrs Mac, please can you put me down for £375, Thanks!
Hope to do a little better this month but heyho!!:D I can't do any worse than last month OMG- I hope not!!:eek:

Long_tall_sally

NSD today for me. We had the left over beef from yesterday in tortillas & was quite pleased with myself as didn't go to the co op to get hoison sauce as I thought I would have to as had intended to have it with rice. Also had a half tub of sour cream in the fridge which would previously have been thrown out plus a bottle of salsa & we just did without the packet of seasoning that you get if you buy the tortillas as part of a package.

Just wondering though whether to go to Sainsburys tomorrow to stock up on wine - is tomorrow the last day does anyone know?

Long_tall_sally

Sorry, me again! Just wanted to say that whilst I was rummaging in my freezer to see if I had any icecream to give to DS who was saying he really wanted some, I found a big tub of homemade chicken soup and a homemade lemon drizzle cake! Sometimes I find it a bit of a pain or difficult to find the time to do home baking / cooking but it sure is nice when you find things that you have previously made! That's lunch sorted for a good few days!

slowandsteady_2

Hi everyone,

sent dh to Mr T for teabags and a few other bits. Told him under no circumstances was he to get the pyramid teabags unless they were on offer, and in any case not to spend more than £3 anyway even if they are on offer. So what does he do-gets them at £3.50:eek: To add insult to injury i also needed cheap scouring sponge things that are about 25p for 6, they had none of them so he got another make for 70p:eek:

Wish i had gone myself, in fact i usually do:( Im very annoyed about the teabags though as i only get them if they are on offer and £3 or less, usually from Mr M, and i would have gone to the pound shop otherwise, could have got 400 for just 50p more!

Never mind. So thats another £12 to add to my sig.

I am not going near the shops now untill we run out of milk, i have bread in the freezer so thats fine, and next time i will go myself lol

Night x

wssla00

Hello all another NSD for me... well in grocery challenge terms....

Went out whilst away and popped to Tesco in the petrol station. They were doing £1.99 for 6 cans of coke or diet coke... buy one get one free
Bran flakes 97p (under half price)
Coco Pops £1.49 (under half price)

When I get back I may well get some

thriftyscotslass

Mrs Mac - Please could I join in at £400 for May. Many thanks, Thriftyxxx