December 2010 Grocery Challenge

guccigoo

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Ooooh - yes please we've now got the rain that was forecast

wish it would rain here

debtmess

guccigoo wrote: »

Nsd for me today due to the snow :mad:

Hippeechiq your quite welcome to have my snow, i will quite happily shovel it and bring it to you :rotfl:

remember to come n collect some of mine to take with yours lol

nsd here as well too cold and far too much snow to go out in

Doom_and_Gloom

My fiance went out to get a few bits today and brought back some reduced goodies . Reduced stuff:

• Cucumber and cherry tomato salad - 21p down from £1.78
• Mediterranean style side salad - 12p down from £1
• Cauliflower and broccoli florets - 13p down from £1 (he got me 2 of these)
• Little gem lettuce - 16p down from 84p
• Organic broccoli - 19p down from 97p

He also got some cola, bread (the home made doesn't fit into the sandwich toaster and he wanted toasted cheese sandwich :rotfl:), milkshake (in this weather :eek:) and he got himself a sandwich and some chips.

Budget = £20 cash + £100 Mr S giftcard
Spent = £7.17 cash
Left = £12.83 cach + £100 Mr S gift card.

Long_tall_sally

Feeling quite proud of myself as I finally managed to get my car up the hill & out of my road! OH & my neighbours have been doing it all week but for some reason I would get so far & then my wheels would just spin in the snow! Anyway went to the Co Op in search of whoopsied bread & Veg for us & the guineapig. Didn't get any bread but did get lots of packets of rolls for 16 & 21p. Still ended up spending £23 although £3 was on some half price chocolates for OH's xmas plus a bottle of wine, oven chips, lemonade, double cream, Utterly Butterly & Rolo desserts.

I have felt as if I have been taking 2 steps forward & 1 back all day today. Months ago I bought OH an Ipod for xmas that I managed to get cheap. It was in my wardrobe for months but the other day when I decided to wrap it, I couldn't find it. Today I cleared out ALL of my wardrobes & eventually found it. It then took me ages to find some sellotape (eventually found in a box in DD's bedroom) to wrap it & now have just spent ages looking in vain for the sheet of stamps I bought the other week to put on the envelopes of all the xmas cards I have wrote out. I am not a very organised person by nature but try to be but then it all seems to go horribly wrong. Sorry, moaning over now!

Hippeechiq

Well done for getting up the hill LTS :T, and on your bargain whoopsie rolls

debtmess wrote: »

remember to come n collect some of mine to take with yours lol

nsd here as well too cold and far too much snow to go out in

I'll swap you both then

The rain is really coming down here now - have just checked forecast again and tomorrow we're going to have varying degrees of rain: "light showers, showers & rain" & a high of 7º .....oh joy

Give me bright, dry cold crisp and preferably snowy weather any day. I HATE mild wet miserable weather, and I've got so much I want to get done tomorrow - all on foot

Picklepud

Had my first shop yesterday did ok but thinking it might be better to do a few small shops rather than weekly large one.

wondering if you can help? I take an old chap shopping with me on Thursdays from work as he has no car.... anyway... he is looking for something called MILO tesco dont seem to have it and I thought it would be nice to try and get him some for xmas anybody any ideas where i can buy it from ?

thanks lots

Maria

ChocClare

:rotfl:It's just jealousy! You should be so proud of yourself for doing so well - wish I could say the same at the moment!

Incidentally, (realise I should really pm you this!!) could you do me a favour and just tell me how much a box of Poulain Grand Arome is? We've run out and I need to ask a friend's mum to bring me some over and want to be able to give her the money in advance.

DH and DD are holding me personally responsible for the fact that you can't buy it in England - apparently No Other Drinking Chocolate is the same. It's the one in the orange box with a pony on the front (in case you didn't know!!).

Thank you my dear! Well done again - you have inspired me (depressed me yes, but inspired me too!!).

Hippeechiq

A quick G00gle, brings up this article: eB@y Buy Mil0s though I've no idea if that has anything to do with the item your old chap is after.

Had a very quick look on eB@y, but couldn't see the product on there, but I didn't trawl through all the pages, so that's not to say it isn't listed somewhere.

I have found something called Mil0 listed on Am@zon HERE

Am@zon have two items listed, but on looking quickly, both are sold by South African Companies although - unless I missed it - it is unclear whether the product is in the UK or has to be shipped from SA

Edited to add I've found some on sale at Harvey Nichols

I've also found a link stating that Te$co have stocked it, but are out of stock at the moment Nestle Mil0

Picklepud

Thanks I think its a hot drink like horl!cks i might try sainsbury's at the weekend.

thanks xx

just looked at Harvey Nicols link!! cool but it would cost me more to get it delivered than it would cost!!

LolaLemon

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Sorry LolaLemon I can't help as I've never made soup. If you go CLICK ON THESE WORDS Rosieben has kindly listed about 30 or so in the recipe index at the beginning of this thread. That might be of some help Although having looked, all the recipes are for soups (not broth) - or is soup the same as broth :huh: I'm afraid I've no idea, but you may find something of use there.

Hia, thanks, i sort of forgot about that part! D'oh!
Yeah broth is a soup (Scotch Broth, a sort of thicker soup), it has a load of lentils n split peas n some other stuff in it, i cant remember what, i buy the packet and dump it in a glass jar and take out as and when i need to, but it needs steeping (for the barley i think??).
I think the taste is in my head, as im not too keen on the pre chopped veg bags, i dont think they do good wrapped in plastic squashed together, but ive been going to make soup for ages but when i get home i just dont seem to have any energy to stand and chop a load of veg so this should get me motivated to make more nicer soups
heres hoping :rotfl: