October 2010 Grocery Challenge

tashmartin

Hi all, just here to update my spends. Had lunch in a cafe with hubby on friday-he's a bad influence!-£13.80, boots face wash was £1.50 and I spent £9 in A*da on 16 ltrs of milk, 18 cans ofpepsi max (half price), 6 x 500g jars of dolm*o sauce ( half price), 3xpunnets of strawberries each at 50p, 3 x bags of pasta, and a free range chicken RTC £1.89. Not bad (although I did have a fight on my hands for the chicken!). So far so good! Hope everyone had a good weekend.

cookie9

Making sausage casserole but ran out of butter beans so had to go to C@@p for some so another £0.66 to add.

Fiance feeling better after his cold and tummy bug so ate quite a lot of the roast chicken so may need change menu plan slightly. Thinking pasta salad with chicken apple and celery. Next together on Thursday and have my chick pea and spinach curry in the freezer ready to defrost that night. He is happy to eat veggie sometimes but doesn't like Value products... well if he knows that's what he's eating! Have to hid the packaging!!;)

katholicos

Today was an NSD, ate from the freezer and the garden :-)

Doom_and_Gloom

Can you please put us down for £45 for the month for 2 adults and 2 chinchillas. October goes from the 1st to the 31st. We have a lot of food in the freezer, cupboards etc so that's why we are staying on a low budget (rather than our usual £115). Sorry I'm a bit late in on this one, I had to talk to my fiance about what he thought was good for a budget, lol.

We have so far spent £23.10 and with that we bought - salad, 1,690g of bananas, creamed coconut, 500g pudding rice, 1kg rice, 12.5kg of baking potatoes, 3x125g doves quick yeast, 4 tins of tomatoes, crisps for fiances work, bread for fiances work, 2L of milk, 2x250g cheese.

Spent: £23.10
Left: £21.90

In the freezer I have 7 HM portions of vegan shepherd pies, 4 HM portions of vegan chilli and 1 small portion of HM vegan curry - so that's 12 days worth of dinners! I'm not overly worried about spending over half our budget already.

cw18

Help !!!!

I got two lots of mince (Whoopsies) yesterday, so have been in the kitchen to turn one lot into spag bol and the other into chilli.

All was going well until I got to the point I add the kidney beans to the chilli - at which point I discovered that (probably for the first time ever in 20 years or so) I don't have any in my cupboards :eek: Any ideas for best substitution given I want to get it finished, portioned out and into the freezer ASAP (obviously chilling before putting into freezer ) - I've got a tin each of butter beans (doubt it), chickpeas (never used them before so no idea what they're like) or Br@nston Soya Beans in a Sweet Chilli Sauce. Can't see anything else in my cupboards that even vaguely resembles pulses

hedgesparrow

I always make chickpea curry so logically chickpeas work in spicy things?! That would be my vote.

katenut

I would definately go with the chickpeas Cheryl, they are much nicer than butterbeans, nicer texture and soak up the flavour well

cw18

Thanks Chickpeas it will be - at least DS2 isn't here to complain about it 'being different' any more

Souk08

Hey, Can you put me down for £70 this month. It's more than usual but I'm doing an online storecupboard shop and still need to get my meat and veg fresh so it's probably about right.

jammy_dodger

i spent £6.21 in lidl today i bought lots of tortilla wraps my DS and DH like em for sandwhiches and they are down to 39p a packet with a long shelf life:D

as i use my breadmaker they can cut off doorsteps to make their sandwiches if left to it :rotfl:

so wraps it is , and i can make them up a few days in advance and leave them in the fridge

also had very large cauli down to 39p so will make a fine cauli cheese in the week and i have blanched and frozen the other one for another time

not quite used to DD being away so cooking same amounts so DS having meal twice in a row or am freezing it for another day so may end up with lots of odd meals in the freezer to use up on a pot luck night though i did this once and son had apple crumble when i thought it was fish pie not good with peas ha ha