July 2010 Grocery Challenge

guccigoo

£1.15 spent today on a loaf of bread, also bought the good food mag (different budget) and theres a few recipes in there im going to make Will make a change having something different to eat so looking forward to being a bit more creative

seductivesmile

Hi All,
A small spend last night -
Jacket potatoes, coleslaw, tin of custard and a swiss roll as i really fancied cake and custard, and had no potatoes fresh or in the freezer :eek: - practically unheard of for me, and cuz the deal was so good, i got the 50p for 4 baking spuds in Mr S.

Total now stands at £19.25 - on the 16th of the month - under half my budget - but i will have to get some veg / salad / fruit unless i can live on the frozen green beans and broccoli - i may try that actually - see if i can have a week of NSD's - as i have food and milk in the freezer -

Does anyone have a recipe for banana muffins please?
i have some VERY ripe banana's and instead of throwing them i want to make soemthing yummy!

Thanks
SS x

franby64

Afternoon

Just bought some eggs, milk, choccy biscuits and bananas today - £5.56.

Long Tall Sally - I agree about the price of food and particularly processed stuff like those desserts which must cost them just pennies to make.

Reminds you that supermarkets are a business designed to give us as little as possible for as much as they can squeeze out of us! :mad:

But you all know this!! Who am I telling :rotfl:??


I reckon I've got about £10 a day left so not too bad so far...

elizabunny

Hi everyone,

Dinner tonight 'whoopsied' Pasties with new Pots and Swiss Chard from the garden. 2 NSDs this week, today might be another, but there again, it might not.

Kitchenbunny

Evening, everyone. Just reporting another NSD today, and something tonight for tea with a whoopsied turkey breast that I had in the freezer. I have no idea what to do though! I might try my hand at a curry. Have a good evening, everyone!

KB xx

missy_dee_2

Hi all,
Quick update. Spent £40 on Monday - £30 online tesco shop. Stocked up on a lot of essentials -tea,coffee, cleaning stuff, cat food, loads of tins and packs of chicken breasts, large mince and 6 portions of salmon - most have gone in freezer! I spent about £10 in local farm shop on lots of fruit and veg, local cheese and some garlic stuffed olives(yum!)

I've been so busy(and hassled!) at work this week spent another £12 on lunches and bit's I didn't really need. So not a good week re: my budget but at least I've started stocking up freezer again.

Going on holiday 2morrow so will not need ant more food until next weekend - so should be okay. When I get back I really want to sort out my store cupboard - I was really inspired by the post that showed the photo of all the pretty jars.......oh to be so organised!

Bye for now & good luck everyone

freakyogre

£7.80 spent in Sainsburys today. That was for milk, bananas, sausages, bagels, 2 x bandages and 3 x body spray.

I'm still working my way through my freezer and cupboards which is saving a lot, but no doubt I will need to stock up on quite a bit when i've used it all. I considered doing an online shop, but have decided to wait as I will just make use of what I have in. Still got over 3 weeks in my boot and on crutches (getting very bored of them now) so no popping to the shops for me for a while!

Going to open my giant tin of chickpeas this weekend and make a bit more food to fill the freezer with!

katholicos

I nipped Morries to get some groceries for my Mum and didn't spend anything myself. Don't ever recall going straight to the items i wanted to get before, i usually peruse all the offers. Better still, after my daughter filled up her car with petrol, i gave her my Morries Milescard and she came back with a £5 Morries shopping voucher for me. Yay!

muffin_man_7

16 days into gc and ive failed another spend total £19.67 has took me over my target of £100 but without this challenge things could of been worse i also think maybe £100. was a bit too low given its my first gc i am going to continue bytrying to keep spending to the bare minimum to the end of july then add up actual spend and start August with a new target knowing my limits and working towards getting spend as low as possible for as long as possible by targeting my weeknesses one or two at a time i might get closer to my target in August or at least nearer than this time as log as i learn from the mistakes i've made this time it will work out soon i hope having a place to share my challenge and for people that understand how important it is for me to succeed soon is helping if we can all share our good days as well as our bad days we can all keep each other on track i take something from every post i read and it helps me one way or another so thanks im going to catch up on posts i've not read yet cos of dam migraine other day left me with double vision not good for reading two of everything gets confusing hope everyone else doing ok

catznine

seductivesmile wrote: »

Hi All,

Does anyone have a recipe for banana muffins please?
i have some VERY ripe banana's and instead of throwing them i want to make soemthing yummy!

Thanks
SS x

This is the recipe I use and makes great muffins!
Banana bread
(great for using up those over ripe bananas)

3 very ripe bananas (almost walking) or use defrosted frozen bananas!
pinch of salt (I don’t add this)
6oz melted butter
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
6 oz caster sugar
1 egg
9 - 10 oz plain flour

Smash bananas (food processor is great for this recipe).

Add remaining ingredients, mix together. Pour into 2 greased or paper lined 1lb loaf tins or 1 lined 2lb tin.

Bake in moderate oven (180C/350F/Gas mark 4) for 45 minutes. Will also make as muffins, freezes well and is lovely sliced, toasted & dripping with melted butter.