July 2010 Grocery Challenge

katholicos

£10.45 p with Approved Food today (I'm not including the p & p or i'll have no money left for food LOL!)

seductivesmile

Hi all,
Hope you are all doing well and looking forward to the weekend.
Unfortunately my meal planning for this week has gone completely out of the window, with decorating my kitchen and now not wanting to eat with my broken heart (unfortunately 'love just isn't enough - i love you to pieces but there has to be more, this hurts me as well you know) my freezer hasn't been touched since monday.
I took a pot of home made potato salad with bacon, onion, pepper and peas in it (all bar bacon from dads garden) to work, but brought it home with me again... will try to eat that tomorrow, all i seem to be eating is kitkat chunky's - thank goodness for the grabbit board!
Another 2 NSD's so my total for july is now at 7/9 - and i dont think i need to buy anything over the weekend as have salad from the garden and fruit from the garden too.
Is there a forum anywhere or, how do i start one, of recipes to try with the ingredients in my freezer and cupboards, i know there is internet sites but i would love first hand experience of the recipe being made.
Sorry for the long waffling post... need to find a cuppa tea and wallow.
Have a good weekend all
xxx SS xxx

Hippeechiq

raven 333 You're doing well to even attempt the grocery challenge then. My daughter has similar problems, and like you, has no idea how long her passion for a particular food will last, although at the moment she's off food altogether. Medication plays a big part in that I think, so well done you for being here and giving it a go :T

seductivesmile Not much that anyone can say, but hang in there hun :grouphug:

ralloctiger wrote: »

Back to the Pink one. I was pleasantly suprised at the results. Both shirts in hot water two scoops (nothing to loose) overnight longer than the rec 6hr max and then washed in powder and another scoop (couldnt hurt) rinsed with vinegar and they look white not new white but no greying so I would use ir again.

Oh well, perhaps they have improved it then - thanks for that

~moneysavingnovice~ wrote: »

Spent £2.90 for lunch in Mr S because oven&hob broke last night and I was planning to cook some pasta and bring it to work with me. Rubbish.

Oh dear that's awful news. Mine went about 18 months ago, and it's just horrible, not to mention a big expenditure :grouphug:

Not a good day today, all good intentions went out the window, bought big jar of Kenco on offer at Te$cos £3, then from £idls, 1/2 price Iceberg 50p, 1/2 price baby plum tomatoes 50p, bunch spring onions on offer 29p, pack of peppers on offer 99p and 3 tins of Tuna on offer for £1.87 instead of £3 ......none of which were part of this weeks budget Plus a couple of things that were, totalling £11.52

So that's £124.77 spent out of my £275 budget (sigh)

dobs

Hello thought i'd better post on here as i didn't last month and that's probably why i totally failed! Spent way too much again, going back to junk cos i swear healthy eating is dearer! Have bought Asda vouchers as hubby gets mooney off them through work but have also popped to Lidl as milk cheaper, also don't get change from vouchers so if bill comes to over £25 say £27.11 then we pay the difference in cash so it's taken me a while to work out what we've spent!
So far since 1st we are at £87.71!:o:eek: originally only wanted to spend £40!:rotfl:Did go strawberry picking too and spent alot but that was entertainment for the boys and we gave most of it away so not including that. Will try harder for rest of this wk and actually get back to listing what i have in the freezers! Hope everyone has a good day, we're off to the school fayre later so that's another 30 quid gone ! x

muffin_man_7

Raven333 and Hippeechiq i know how you feel trying to get my son to use whats in this week is not easy thats probably why my spend yesterday hit me hard £36.12 ouch but we did manage a compromise i would get a couple of the foods hed asked for and he had th use up some of the ones in the house because apart from bread milk and cheese the money in the pot gone probably even gone over my £100 target will check my book later im going to have to do some serious tweeking every one wants what i havent got and i dont mean just food i forgot to pay wtr rtes and elec im not used to payment cards only direct debit i need to try to get organised reminder on my phone might be a start going to do it now before i forget and before granddaughters arrive

Gintotmelinda

Hello everyone!

Rummaged around in the fridge and cupboards yesterday to find something for tea(not meal planned this week!) and made a frittata with mushrooms, potato (the last one) cheese and sweetcorn. DH and I had this with a handful of salad leaves from the garden, home grown radishes, and the last two cherry tomatoes and spring onions in the fridge. DS had the other half of the frittata when he came back from his girlfriend's. I'm getting there-before I joined I might have just gone over to the supermarket and picked something up!

Must plan this week's meals but keep forgetting to take stuff out of the freezer. Anyone else have this problem?

Now I have identified how much I am spending every month I am looking forward to getting it down. Is internet shopping and delivery the key? I find that I often buy small portions of meat and just cook for one evening. I do cook up mince and do spag bol and chilli for more than one meal but am not good at rubber chicken....It's a bit hot to put the oven on methinks.

What do you all put on the table this weather? Can you recommend hot weather standbys? We are having chicken salad tonight.

Take care.

fedupandskint

Caved in last night with a takeaway which was rubbish so that was £7 down the drain :mad:

Serves me right, I should have stuck to my meal plan as have done all week. Got tempted by a menu leaflet in the letter box when I got in from work. Today have chucked them all in the recycling bin as kept thinking I could have made this for much much less than this. Well lesson learnt and I don't tend to eat takeaways that often and don't miss them, just get a bit tempted sometimes by the idea that'll be lovely.

Stayed out of the supermarkets all week until yesterday when did the weekly shop for work lunches, weekend lunch and to top up what I've planned for teas. My main aim is to continue eating from the freezer and create some space in there

Spent in Sainsbugs £23.52- off to update siggy now and see how much I've got left for the month then meal plan for next week after tea of pasta bake using up lots of things in the fridge - now that's nicer than a bland takeaway

Will bake potatoes in at the same time in the oven and then freeze to use for work lunches when I get sick of salad

hex2

fedupandskint wrote: »

just get a bit tempted sometimes by the idea that'll be lovely.

You know we all do this sometimes, and better to have waste £7 and it be rubbish than it is wonderful and you are tempted again.

Our local chinese does a set menu for £38 delivered that is fabulous and far too much for 6 of us, and it is a constant temptation when I have worked late, etc.

I did end up going to the co-op today because I hadn't defrosted anything, so another £16 frittered on sweets for snack boxes, smoked gammon, banananananas, and ham for next weeks lunches which we would have managed without otherwise. We had the gammon for dinner and there is enough left to stretch so not as bad as it might have been.

Gained 4lb of cherries from next doors tree (in exchange for 6 eggs from our hens) and 1lb of blackcurrants from the school garden, plus another couple of handfuls of raspberries from our garden frozen so a positive day on balance. I made Black Forest Gateau with some of the cherries which went down well, the rest have been frozen for Ron.

Gintomelinda, we had gammon, new pots (from the garden - outstanding) and salad (from the veg box). Fish pie as wwas schedules just didn't seem right.

katholicos

Today was a NSD so it means that i bought no grocerys. I opened a 3 kg tin of chick peas form my storecupboard and made a chick pea curry for tea and a chickpea spread thingy for lunch, and home made pizza also. Phew! Last night i organised my pantry shelves (small pantry) and my kitchen wall cupboard. I have jars jars and more jars and they are filled with all sorts of stuff. Will post pics shortly when i find the cable thingy that goes in t'other end of my phone. Oh yes, i had home grown salad leaves and radish with my lunch too!

wssla00

£20.26 spent in Asda today. This weather is AWFUL, rain, cold, rubbish so got some lovely comfort food then some kelly's cornish ice cream. But that's me declaring, as I get paid on Tuesday and will not need anything till then! WOO HOO! Total for this month is: £169.75

Gonna keep it again at: £200 for August

Is anyone else worried about how quick this year has gone???? Oh well....... Almost Christmas!!!! :rotfl: