February 2011 Grocery Challenge

Missus_Aka

£135 For Feb Pls!!! Have just declared for Jan @ £1.14 under budget, hope it continues!!! My Feb budget starts tomorrow till end of the month & covers me, DH, DS3, my sister who i have 2 nights a week and DH's brothers who come a few times a months (includes food, drinks, cleaning stuff), i had 11 NSD's last month will try to aim for the same again

Mothership My thoughts are with you and your family

never_too_old

Mothership wrote: »

Came down to have a wee look through the recipe's to see if I could find a nice one for bread. Not made bread for years (used to do it all the time) till I stuffed my (proving place full of groceries). Then I read on here that someone puts a plastic shower cap over the bowl to prove the bread, I got loads of those (I do B&B they don't get used much, about 4 in 9 yrs).
Over the radiator in the kitchen would be a great place for proving, if I put the covered bowl in a bag and hang it there, it should work.

If anyone wants a disposable shower cap to try it PM me and I will send you some. I helped with a mail shot recently and got loads of stamps left over as a reward.

i have a very simple bread recipe if you would like it.

CherryPie

runnerbean17 wrote: »

HI everyone .. well popped to the C*_*p today for bread, milk and grapes and came out with .....bread,milk and grapes VERY proud of myself.

And I'm very proud of you too!! I almost never do that!

NSD's for the past 2 days. Even though I meal planned, I didn't have what was on todays plan :rotfl:

So I'm on Thursday really! Still, it used up some leftovers so it's all very GC. Went on to MySupermarket for the first time last night. Almost as tempting as going in to a real life shop. My basket ended up at £30. With a £50 budget, and not even in Feb yet, this is not good. So I didn't go near a shop. Although one of the offers was Lenor Sleep Sensations @ £2 in Mr T (I think it's normally £3??) It's one of my treats if you like. That & proper coffee. Everything else, I'll buy whatevers on offer / cheapest. But a girls gotta have some treats. I might stock up on them anyway.

boysma

Hi

Just checking the front page and my total for Feb should be 275.00 please (I changed it yesterday) sorry if you havent got round to reading that yet:o

bertiebots

Just bobbed back in to say have had a nsd today and my shop is coming in the morning...delivery to the door means i can get something done in the house rather than the 40 min round trip to sainsbugs before work! :j
In the mean time does anyone make meatballs with pork sausage meat ?( quite like the idea but dont want to bawls it up lol!)..thanks to a super sainsbugs sale I have four or five packets of the stuff rolling around in my freezer , and apart from sausage rolls I am drawing a blank on what to use it for- (but couldnt resist the 30-odd pence price tag at the time:o)
I would be very grateful for any cheap and cheerful suggestions;) Thanks.

nickynoo08

Another £19.30 to add to my annual total. Went to sainsbugs to get a few bits, really pleased with what i got for what we spent.

Running total - £96.30/£2000

Boodle

Hi - please can we be put down for £50 again?

Last month's went into uncharted territory :O

So far, spent £20.54 for Feb.

Mothership

l.m.hart wrote: »

i have a very simple bread recipe if you would like it.

Yes! please... My efforts are dangling on a knob in a bag above the cooker lol, its been there for just over an hour, I've kept the oven on a wee peep so the heat wafts up, fingers crossed I remembered how to do it. My kitchen smells like my granny's :T:T:T I'm da granny noo!

Boiled a gammon joint and made a lovely pot of lentil soup with carrot ,turnip, leek, totties and a parsnip I found in the fridge don't know how long it has been in the fridge, it was in perfect condition so in it went, then finished it off with parsley. Nom nom nom. My little GD will be having some for lunch tomorrow.
Had fish and chips for dinner and a lovely HM scone. Need to post the recipe it was one of my experiments that worked (Still laughing at the marmalade ).

Love the sound of Mrs Macawbers Chicken & sweet corn soup, need to try that.

Thank you for all your kind thoughts, they are greatly appreciated.

PennyGrabber

bertiebots wrote: »

Just bobbed back in to say have had a nsd today and my shop is coming in the morning...delivery to the door means i can get something done in the house rather than the 40 min round trip to sainsbugs before work! :j
In the mean time does anyone make meatballs with pork sausage meat ?( quite like the idea but dont want to bawls it up lol!)..thanks to a super sainsbugs sale I have four or five packets of the stuff rolling around in my freezer , and apart from sausage rolls I am drawing a blank on what to use it for- (but couldnt resist the 30-odd pence price tag at the time:o)
I would be very grateful for any cheap and cheerful suggestions;) Thanks.

I learnt how to make sausage plait at school. Actually quite nice! You get some ready made puff pastry (or make your own but that's hassle!), roll it into a rectangle. Mentally divide it into 3 strips and put the sausagemeat (mixed with herbs/garlic/onion/stuff) down the centre third. Then you slice the other thirds diagonally downwards from the sausagemeat to the edge, then "plait" it! Cook it til it's done. It tastes really nice, and goes with baked beans and chips for a pig out, or salad, or whatever!!

HTH

guccigoo

big thanks to zippy, pink, rosieben and mrs mccawber for the thread :A

Well ive already spent a chunk of my budget already in mr t £88.85 :eek:
also in i**land i spent £11.62, really need to curb the spending now, cupboards and freezers are full! Going to aim for more nsd's and more cooking from scratch.

Big hugs to those that need them, and good luck everyone