November 2010 Grocery Challenge

JayJay14

NickJW wrote: »

Welcome back Hippiechiq! :j

That Sticky Toffee Pudding linky doesn't work :-(

Searched through for the receipt to get the tuna refund, but it's pretty bad, and you can't see whats written on it fully
I doubt I will be able to get my money back? Unless they can check via my clubcard? If I go in, and they don't accept I'll just leave the tuna there because I don't have any cats who will want it! :rotfl: Has anyone else tried to return to Mr T without a receipt before?

If the tuna is MrT's own brand there shouldn't be a problem taking it back - you won't have bought it somewhere else. Also I can't remember if their receipts have a barcode on but if they have tey can scan that to bring up the purchases, I know A$da can.

Quick update on the GC - now at £110.23, with 15 days to go. Doesn't look good:mad:

Rebekah24

£4.20 spent at Mr M ..amazing whoopsies..never seen so many fresh fruit/veg whoopsies! Apricots, avocado, apples, blackberries, mango's, butternut squash!! oooo

Picked up
2 Green yoghurts for the fiance
4 low fat toffee yogs ( 4 for £1)
Stew pack veg for 50p - on offer - 3 Carrots, parsnip, suede & 2 onions
Whoopsie cakes - friends poppin round later
Whoopsie bread
Value choccie spread

Should see us through the weekend, fiance be popping in and out ..hungry monkey!

Will make a big batch of fresh soup with the stew pack later on .. whizz that up, should fo 3-4 portions for next weeks meals

Leftover bits (apart from the above)
In the fridge

smidge of sunflower spread
1 egg
20 Ensure juice meal replacements (from doctors)

In the larder

Rice pudding
Tinned lentil soup
Tinned tomato soup
Tinned veg soup

Have an ace friday all

mum2b

:wall:Having a bad week here, have had to pop to the shops twice extra this week for additional pain relief for DF spent all day yesterday carting him between 2 hospitals, doctors and chemist and we ran out of paracetamol AGAIN last night :mad: he has a blood clot and a terrible flu/fever with it - not sure whether they are connected.
Meal plan has gone up the wall for the weekend also, and we can't go away for the weekend as planned so need to find some extra meals!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH

Hippeechiq

NickJW wrote: »

Welcome back Hippiechiq! :j
That Sticky Toffee Pudding linky doesn't work :-(

Thanks Nick - have amended it now. Sorry about that

If you returned the tuna today - how did you get on?

guccigoo

Hippeechiq i clicked on the link and that pudding looks delicious, will def have a go making that but doubt if i will add dates as i cant stand them and the kids will moan if there in there as well.

i will report back how i got on with the crumble, am going to make it tomorrow

Pink.

charleybabes wrote: »

hi all

thank you for the suggestions.. my husband went and did the shop late last night...( didnt find any decent woopsies though fuming!!)
we got it in at £38 and that was including wipes, cleaning cloths and a huge box of crisps. ( i think he felt the need for a potato snack!)

heres our meal plan for the coming week now

tonight - roast beef and yorky puds ( beef in slow cooker as i type!)
friday night - spag boll and garlic bread
satuday - bacon butties for lunch and chicken wraps for dinner
sunday - soup and sandwich for lunch and toad in hole for dinner
monday- chicken thigh curry
tuesday - shepherds pie

As you now have your mealplan for this week, I've added your thread to the current Grocery challenge thread where you'll get lots of advice and support for the coming weeks.

Pink

jintyb

Just back from MrA - lots of shopping but I came in just a couple of £'s over budget BUT within that I got a box of 36 whoopsied Walkers crisps for £2 and 9 cans of Irn Bru also whoopsied to £1. I never buy this stuff if they're full price, but I thought that was too good to pass up. They're handy for packed lunches;).
So, I have £42 left in the budget with one week to go - my month ends on the 20th so that should be doable! FLW!!
I also got a couple of deli pizzas to replace the Sat takeaway this week -I'm fed up with Chinese, so that was £4 instead of the £12 OH usually shells out! :T

Then I went to Mr T and stocked up on my makeup - foundation, eyeliner, four eyeshadows and a lippy - cost me £3 once I used my clubcard points - yay!

Boodle

Hi If it is ok to do this half way through the month, I would like to start budgeting £25 per week. Seems rude put that in bold red letters half way through the thread - sorry

We shouldn't really be spending more than that, and wouldn't if we kept a mindful eye on it when we actually went shopping (and hubby hadn't got into the habit of throwing crisps in, and if I am truly honest, I hadn't got into the habit of throwing in the odd tub of hummus and other easy lunches ) We are also eating out way too often when rushing from one place to another with the usaul visiting obligations (tho not at mo as little ones poorly.)

I have MySupermarketed ( :P ) a shop for next week and it came to £15.75, so hopefully the actual total won't be too much more.

We really want to get as much paid off the mortgage as possible so we can 1) afford private secondary schooling (nearest school isn't too bad but that's only in context IYSWIM? If it continues in the next few years ok then great, but just in case it slides we want to have the option) and 2) possibly afford another little one in the future. - there is pipedream three of also being able to afford a bigger house but when i say "pipedream"I mean pipedream

Hippeechiq

guccigoo wrote: »

Hippeechiq i clicked on the link and that pudding looks delicious, will def have a go making that but doubt if i will add dates as i cant stand them and the kids will moan if there in there as well.

i will report back how i got on with the crumble, am going to make it tomorrow

You wouldn't know there were dates in it to be honest....well, you would, because you baked it :rotfl: but you know what I mean

You mix the dates with hot black tea and warm through in a saucepan and they kind of disintegrate into a pulp, so there are no visible signs that it has dates in it. It doesn't taste of dates either. I love dates, but OH hates them, and he had no idea there were any in it. Not sure how it would turn out without the dates :think: as I think possibly it's a combination of the dates soaking up the tea that makes it so moist.

Te$co have bags of Bramley cooking apples on offer for 80p this week, so I bought a bag with a view to making this APPLE MINCEMEAT CRUMBLE at the weekend, as it'll make a reasonably priced dessert, with the apples being on offer.
Love the sound of the nutty crumble, but I don't have demerera or brown flour, so it will have to be normal crumble. I have nuts and I have soft brown sugar but I'm not sure if that would work.

Cant wait to hear how your crumble turns out

On the GC front, I really could to with going out and getting the chicken thighs on offer at £idls today, but it's a 1½mile round trip on foot and it's fast heavy drizzle here, and I'm not sure I've got the engery or the inclination - especially given that I look like the Wild Man Of Borneo when my hair gets wet - sooo not a good look!

Wont be a NSD as I need milk but that wont be a problem, as last week Te$co opened a Te$co Express diagonally opposite to where I live, which was jolly decent of them I thought

Chloris

Shop at Mr M at the C**p £56.18. Feel happy about this:j. Must get some baking done as bit behind in the kitchen as I am learning to clean:eek:.