September 2010 Grocery Challenge

sistercas

~moneysavingnovice~ wrote: »

Does anyone know what I can do with a jar of lemon curd??

It's just sat in my cupboard staring at me, and I have no idea why I bought it or what to do with it, but I don't want to throw it away either!

lemon tarts - yummy

back from shopping
apart from milk it should my last shop for this month
tesco £16.74
sainsbugs £31.14
it has taken me £16 over , but on the whole i am pleased

heads up sainsburys have 3litre juicee squash for 50P orange or summer fruits

russetred

seasalt wrote: »

Fridge is looking a bit empty. I have got one week's shopping money left but October will be a five week month so will have to plan more carefully. All three children have birthdays end of this month/beginning of next too. Co-op keep giving me vouchers for £8 off an £80 shop but I have not used one of them yet as do not spend that much at one go and they are also very time limited so can't eg do a bigger fortnightly shop - even if I had a big enough freezer, which I don't. Hate that I'm wasting eight free pounds though!

You're not wasting £8 you're saving £72

Lemon curd is quite nice if you put a tsp full in the middle of little cupcakes or muffins before baking. Mr T does lemon meringue muffins this way with wee bits of mallows on top.

elf06

:eek: Just back from mr T where I was heading for bread, milk, shower gel, a couple of bakers and a bag of mash (I know how lazy this is but I do love it ) and ended up spening £18.29 :mad:. I am quite cross with myself because I have been doing so well this month and although I am still within budget I could have done a lot better had I been 'behaving' during this shop. I got some things that were completely uneccessary!!! Got a few freddo's for DS for 90p, a tin of reduced soup (why oh why - I normally make my own ), some pain killers which werent on list but were needed, castor sugar (this should have been in next months as its for my xmas pud but for some reason i felt the need to buy it today), a bar of galaxy (:mad:), daz liquid (not needed but it was half price), some reduced bananas and cucumber, a wee toy for DS, some pork mince (for a recipe i want to try) and some small cartons of apple juice for DS. I think I am just as annoyed about the fact that the 2 bakers I bought totaled 79p and the pack of 4 costs 70p!!!!!
Oh well onwards and upwards £12.57 to last me until the end of the month which I WILL stick to..........................:mad:

laloopi

Another £5.99 spend at the organic shop for us today, glad the finish line is in sight!

wssla00

Well.... Ive been paid today which I didn't realise so I am now going to declare. My total for this month is £151.32

Please put me down for £160 this month please

Moniker

As I suspected I have gone over this month (sig updated below). If I can keep it to less than 10% over I shall be happy with that. Last week DD1 is at home so things will change after October 1st! We are out on Sunday this weekend - MIL's birthday dinner- so not much more to buy for the rest of the week (she says!).


I am working late tonight, so I have made a lamb casserole and done the potatoes and veg ready so it will just need heating up when I come in -hopefully DH will get in before me and will be able to switch it all on - that's as far as his culinary skills go at the moment and even then I have to leave written instructions! Bless!

Well done everyone. Nearly there.

Moniker

BlimusOreilly

Today should hopefully be my last big shop of this month. Spent £36.55 in Mr M's. Was really pleased with this since it was a 'big' shop. Multi-saves were £4.19 and used a £3 PC voucher.

scotsaver

~moneysavingnovice~ wrote: »

Does anyone know what I can do with a jar of lemon curd??

It's just sat in my cupboard staring at me, and I have no idea why I bought it or what to do with it, but I don't want to throw it away either!

How about a Victoria sponge with Lemon curd in the middle or what about Lemon Curd Icecream.

Been up the Allotment and dug up enough spuds to see us through the weekend and also picked some more Toms that are close to ripening, have them in a bowl in the windowsill so by Saturday they should be ripe enough to make another batch of Tomato sauce for the Freezer.

Off out to the Garden now as it's stopped raining, going to pull up the last of the Beetroot.:)

rosieben

~moneysavingnovice~ wrote: »

Does anyone know what I can do with a jar of lemon curd??

It's just sat in my cupboard staring at me, and I have no idea why I bought it or what to do with it, but I don't want to throw it away either!

we've a couple of lemon curd recipes listed under 'Cakes....' in the front page recipe list - lemon curd ice cream (2 recipes) or lemon curd cakes,

welshkaz

Well its the end of my challenge tonight as payday tomorrow and im £1.60 under whoohoo!!! not a massive saving but probably 150 quid down on months i havent done challenge good luck totting up fr next week girls x