November 2010 Grocery Challenge

rosieben

Want_to_be_free wrote: »

...I would like to share following recipe with you as Rosieben was asking about baked beans without sugar or any other gank .

Thanks Wtbf, recipe is added :T

missfit_2

Well I know I said I wouldn't be spending any more on groceries this weekend but realised I'd forgotten a few bits so spent an additonal £7. Spend should be low this week. Made a big batch of soup for lunch the next few days and have got enough in the freezer to keep me for the next week.

freakyogre

Adding £4.91 on from yesterday.

I went shopping with my sister and we ended up in Asda and decided to get one of their chinese 'takeaway' meal deals. It was really nice and a lot cheaper than a proper takeaway. I brought some of it home, so my total is a bit of a mix!

1/2 pack of prawn toast, a pot of chilli sauce (planned to have last night, wouldn't have got it otherwise as have a huge bottle in my fridge), some biscuits for work, some sweets and a bottle of coke. The coke was on an offer, but i've only taken 1 of 3 bottles so have split that. Really, I bought a load of rubbish!
I also got a cake for my dad's birthday tomorrow and some more plastic containers as I got some from there before and they're really good.

I also got a new salt and pepper mill elsewhere which aren't included in this total. They were just over £20 each (:eek:) BUT they have excellent reviews and i'm sick of buying sets that don't last. I did get some unexpected holiday pay from my last job, so thought i'd treat myself

Sunflower1227

Hope everyone is well and you all had a good weekend :wave:

Just updated signature, small spend on Friday - kitchen roll from SDrug, on offer for £1 then had 50p off voucher from MrA instore mag. NSD Thursday & Saturday. MrS today spent £12.99 on fresh veg.

For tea tonight we had roast beef dinner with pear & peach sorbet.
Tea tomorrow pork in red thai sauce with rice or nan bread.

Chloris

Sue14 wrote: »

Thanks for that, I don't have any ginger, is it essential?

Sue.

For me yes! I use Very Lazy. It really perks and warms it up as pumpkins, esp carving ones, can be quite bland. The jar of ginger lasts for ages in the fridge and can be added to chilli too. HTH

guccigoo

well time for me to report back on the toffee apple crumble, it was delicious :j and so easy to make and im well chuffed so will definately be making it again :T the only ones that didnt eat it was my son and youngest daughter (5), he dont like apples and shes just too fussy

I also had a spend in i**land getting a bit of Gammon for dinner today and few other bits, total £7

Have a good week all

de1amo

Tough for me to give the family secret receipe away with the home made beans because i dont speak Turkish and my mother in law doesnt speak English so its how it should be!!
We are up to 250 pounds less one pair of levi jean/cords that got put in the total somehow!!They must go back because Levi's idea of a 32 inch waist is on the small side for my reality!
My daughter has her best friend and little sister staying for a couple of days so the food bill could go haywire!--all those coco pops could seriously harm my guestimation process!!
Edit-İ do know they use haricote beans out here--also i have discovered my jean/cords were on top of the 250 pounds--they alone were 46 quid!

XSpender

We now have less than £50 to last until the 26th:eek: Bought pizza, pasta, dough balls and desert for our italian theme night on saturday but no alcohol. We just had what was left over from last weekend.

I will need to go and buy shampoo and conditioner today as I have finally used up my stash and we have run out:eek:. Apart from that I am hanging on until we go to Mr M on Thursday to spend £40 for the promo and will get everything we need to last us until the 26th then.

Winged_one

I spent €71 yesterday, which was all I had spent all week, but then I remembered that DH had gotten some things in Lidl the other night so I added €10 for that (probably too much, but guessing).

We are getting through lots of freezer and stores stuff at present, as we are contemplating a trip "up North" before Christmas. If I take a day off work (as there is NO WAY I am doing that on a Saturday this close to Christmas). But if not, I am still fine for the present.

On Friday, we drove as far as M&S for the "Dine in" deal, but DD kicked up a fuss wanting a McD's dinner, we refused and ended up going home empty handed (to show her that we are so fed up of her whinging and whining to get her own way) - we had the basics for a fry between fridge and freezer which was fine. She had a tin of spaghetti, and then a fried egg with us.

Bombay aloo potatoes, followed by chicken madras on Saturday night, using frozen chicken and a couple of packs of spices from the farmer's market a few months back (there is a really good Indian family who sell in the FM close to our folks, so we usually get a couple of packs).

And then the large ham that I got for €7 about 3 weeks ago (still had a week spare to use), which did our dinner last night and we'll get at least 2 more dinners and 2/3 lunches from it too.

I was aiming for €70 in SM, so that I got my extra points (worth €7.50 in December vouchers), and needed some bits but not loads. I got a pack of chicken breasts (were half price) that I'll chop and bag in 2-breast portions for freezer. I got lamb chops as well for tomorrow's dinner, and sausages and liver for tonight, and rashers "to have" - as I have ended up making a few "nothing in mind and no energy for cooking" dinners recently with rashers/bacon pieces, including a spag carbonara from scratch!! Oh, and a bag of fresh pasta for another such "no thought) nights. (I REALLY want the builders gone!). Otherwise, cereal, coconut milk, breakfast juice, veg (lots mushrooms, 4 peppers, bag carrots, bag chillis, tray pears), milk, bread, sugar (for the builders!), dunkers and cooked meat for lunches.

This week's menu looks like:
Tonight: Fry for DD, pasta with HG tomato sauce and leftover ham for us (maybe some mushrooms)
Tues: Lamb chops, HG potatoes
Wed: Chicken (frozen leftover roast) and mushrooms in sauce (M&S chick soup) with rice
Thurs: Spag bol (freezer)
Fri - probably real takeaway

I also made my mince meat yesterday morning - had just not quite enough currants so added 1oz of dried cranberries as well. And as I had loads of peels from oranges (breakfast juice) and lemons (filled a bottle of juice for work drinks) left over, I put them to soak to try and make candied peel (will boil tonight and cook in sugar syrup tomorrow night). Popped a couple of chillis into vodka too. And made a Victoria sponge to use up some cream - left the second half for builders to enjoy today.

I want to make a spiced vodka (Good housekeeping has an interesting looking spiced cranberry version) and some chilli oil too in the next few days. And some cookie dough, now that I am finding some freezer space.

Better do some "real" work now though....

rosieben

de1amo wrote: »

Tough for me to give the family secret receipe away with the home made beans because i dont speak Turkish and my mother in law doesnt speak English so its how it should be!!
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that's fine, we have 2 versions in the index already - thanks to Want_to_be_free and memorygirl