October 2010 Grocery Challenge

Hippeechiq

Cat72 wrote: »

Oh Dear my cooker went on fire on friday as I was making dinner. The whole dinner was ruined- so waste of food. The cooker has not been working since then . Last night the electrician got the oven back on but need to buy ( and pay for instillation ) of new hob ! .

Sorry to hear that Cat72 - I know just what you mean. Just when you think your'e getting back on track, and might actually have a bit of spare cash, whammo! some cr*p like this happens. Not much of a silver lining, but at least it's not the whole cooker hun :grouphug:

NSD for me today - I need several more of those after the start I've had!

katholicos

Haven't spent on groceries today, nor anything else or that matter. Ate some home made jam and homemade plum jam for lunch and or tea we had a veggie curry with rice. Hoping that sometime this week i can make a food inventory of the freezer, pantry etc.

adelight

hedgesparrow wrote: »

I had a slice earlier. Very nice. Not fully wholemeal if you know what I mean but light brown and tasty.

That sounds great, and that was without vinegar?
10kg of chapatti flour is £3/£4 at Tesco until Nov 7th so I will order some in my next big shop instead of getting approvedfoods bread mix :j

guccigoo

NSD for me today :j:j

mrsbowie

Well I can't do a for weekly shop as we just have no storeage space, I usually take £50 a week out of the tax crdits for shopping, so far this week I've spent £25, yesterday made some sausage rolls and raspberry buns, hubby had stew made from sundays leftovers, tonight we had jackets with cheese beans and bacon, the bacon was on offer last week 50p a pack from £2.39. so bought 2. I have bought dark brown sugar, cocoa powder, cooking chocolate, treacle and a bread mix today, quite fancy doing some baking, first thing will be a parkin, and some treacle toffee.
really getting into this now, thanks

katholicos

The curry i made today was actually a thick leftover lentil and veg soup i made last week...last night i spotted it in the freezer and thought 'oooh, what can i do with that?' ...defrosted it, mixed in some curry paste and served it with rice!

hannah:-)_2

£5.60 today, 30.92 so far.

L!dl turned out to be a big disappointment - my local branch must not have heard about the special offers they're supposed to be running Oh well, milk's still reasonable in there, and I got a couple of other bits cheaper than if I'd waited for the big Mr T shop, so not all bad.

Sunnyday

Hi peeps,

just need to update my siggy with todays spends of £1.68 for two enormous ham hocks, i didn`t need them but they seem to get snapped up really quickly lately - everyone must be soup making :-) thought i`d better strike whilst the irons hot so to speak.

Hannah - My nearest Lidl is pants too, won`t be going there again!

Cats72 - Sorry to hear about your hob ((((HUGS)))) hope that you have better luck in the future x

SD

mummygems

hedgesparrow wrote: »

I had a slice earlier. Very nice. Not fully wholemeal if you know what I mean but light brown and tasty.

I am going to give this a try. Can I please ask, if you cooked it in your breadmaker, which programme you put it on? I have so many different ones!

I am also hoping that being like hovis and not fully wholemeal means that my little ones will acutally eat it and I dont have to buy anymore shop bread!

I have made loads of meals from scratch these past 2 weeks and am very pleased with myself indeed (and no-one has turned their nose up - yet). :beer:
NSD for me today.

Hippeechiq

mummygems wrote: »

I have made loads of meals from scratch these past 2 weeks and am very pleased with myself indeed (and no-one has turned their nose up - yet). :beer:
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Well done :T

Spigs - where are you? You and hubby ok I hope?