September 2010 Grocery Challenge

sistercas

morning

was hoping for a NSD today but DDs need face wipes so i will pop into home bargains for them , i usually end up buying all sorts though while i'm there so i'm going to try really hard not to

chicken marinating ready to make a curry for tea
need to make some soup with some left over chicken

jintyb

sistercas wrote: »

ooh the sausage casserole sounds yummy , think i will do that for tea tonight ( was going to do a pasta bake)

it will be a NSD today

going to make some boodles biscuits courtesy of weezls cheap family meals they are gorgeous, made some the other day and they had all gone before they were even cool

heres the link :
http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipe-boodlebiscuits.html?opt=rsnack

Have just made these - they are bloomin fantastic - I added 70g of porage oats pe the non veggie version. thanks for posting the link - makes VERRRRRRRRRY interesting reading!!!:T:T:T

adelight

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

Greent - I made sausage casserole using your recipe except I didn't have any peppers or red wine but put in a bit of beef stock and mushrooms instead & it was nice. The only thing is the kids just eat he sausages and wouldn't eat the sauce which was annoying & Oh moaned that there wasn't enough sausage for his liking. I used 6 jumbo sausages from the Co Op which I thought would be fine for 2 adults, 1 teen & 1 11 yr old but obviously not. Still I will make it again so thanks.

What did you have with the sausage casserole? Mash and yorkshire puds soak up the sauce really well like a gravy.

Winged_one

Menu plan for this week is:

Sat: Fish (I am determined to get to fish mongers this week!)
Sun: Perhaps a chicken casserole, or bacon and cabbage
Mon: Smoked fish pie
Tues: Chorizo potato bake
Wed: Pasta vongole
Thurs: Burgers and oven chips
Fri: No idea yet, but takeaway previous 2 Fri’s so ought to cook at home – Perhaps nasi goring using rice I have frozen

To do this menu, I need fish (fresh and smoked), chicken (possibly thighs, or de-boned breasts) or bacon, burger buns, bread, milk, bananas, dunkers, mushrooms, toothbrush for DD, and I think that’s it! I might actually spend less than €40 this week!!

Oh, I do want to go to Lidl for small apple juice cartons, chorizo, bacon pieces (actually, need the chorizo to do the bake - but I have other stoprecupboard options if I don't get there) and perhaps some of the veg. That would be about another €6-9 spend.

sistercas

Winged_one wrote: »

Menu plan for this week is:

Sat: Fish (I am determined to get to fish mongers this week!)
Sun: Perhaps a chicken casserole, or bacon and cabbage
Mon: Smoked fish pie
Tues: Chorizo potato bake
Wed: Pasta vongole
Thurs: Burgers and oven chips
Fri: No idea yet, but takeaway previous 2 Fri’s so ought to cook at home – Perhaps nasi goring using rice I have frozen

To do this menu, I need fish (fresh and smoked), chicken (possibly thighs, or de-boned breasts) or bacon, burger buns, bread, milk, bananas, dunkers, mushrooms, toothbrush for DD, and I think that’s it! I might actually spend less than €40 this week!!

Oh, I do want to go to Lidl for small apple juice cartons, chorizo, bacon pieces (actually, need the chorizo to do the bake - but I have other stoprecupboard options if I don't get there) and perhaps some of the veg. That would be about another €6-9 spend.

aldi had chorizo sausage and a dry mix for spanish chorizo tortilla ( which could be used for a pasta bake)
the mix was 59p i think but cant remember how much the sausage was sorry

Long_tall_sally

adelight wrote: »

What did you have with the sausage casserole? Mash and yorkshire puds soak up the sauce really well like a gravy.

Yes I had mash potato and carrots with it. I really liked it & OH quite liked it but just wanted more sausage.

I really must get off this PC & get something done! My morning is running away with me!

mrs-moneypenny

went through a stack of last years essentials mags ripping out recipies before recycling them so ive tried a couple of new meals this week. one was raw sliced potato layered up with grated cheesse and sliced leek (should have been onin but i had leeks) then you heat stock and white wine cool and add cream and pour that over it all. (its in a heat proof dish thats been buttered) and bung in the oven fro 45 mins. me and DH really liked it kids all pulled faces and moved it round their plates.
Leeky mash has the same effect on them so i should take the hint they dont like leeks;)

CupOfChai

^^ Does sound like a bit of a pants butcher. A proper, nice one, if you don't want what he's got laid out, should go out the back and get out a whole carcass, and chop off the bits you want!

loulou0327

Another £17.48 spent for me today though have stocked up a bit on offers.

£5.48 at B&M on Smoked HP chilli sauce x2 at 29p wasabi sauce at 29p huge Soods soy sauce at 89p BBQ sauce at 39p 1kg of rice x2 at 49p 3 big bags of haribo and some prawn crackers.

Also nipped to sainsbugs and got 3 ariel wash gel so will be nipping back there later in the week to do that again

wssla00

Afternoon all Have an impromptu fortnight off because I am using all the TOIL I have built up in the last few weeks so hopefully no spending! £10 spend yesterday in Asda on cat food and the like. Will update it later.

Going to have chilli tonight (moving my meal plan around a bit) as I had to take something out of the freezer to fit in the ice cream I got myself LOL. Will make it with some lentils too to fill it out.

Have a good day all