March 2011 Grocery Challenge

Winged_one

I did the slow roasted lamb shanks tonight and they were DELISH! I smashed 2 cloves of garlic and chopped a handful of rosemary, smushed these into the shanks with some olive oil (a drain from the end of the tub of olives, and a glug from the bottle) and a glug of balsamic vinegar, and covered them in tin foil last night. I set the oven to turn on before we got home to cook them for 2 hours at 150 degrees. Thtey just melted off the bone. (I made some quarter sized roast spuds and roasted carrots and parsnips, that I did in the other oven at 220 for a half hour when I got in). Not bad for an after work dinner (I had the spuds and veggies prepped since last night though, so just needed to throw them on).

I really need to economise and work from stores for the next few weeks though, as my finances are a lot worse than I had thought. So almost no food for the next month and empty the freezer and cupboards instead.

cat_smith

Carrot and Swede mash very tasty. Despite carbon. DR pork steaks wrapped in smoked bacon. Apple sauce and mashed potato. Numnumnum.

Ox Burgers for dinner tomorrow night. Can't wait!

Chloris

Went to pick up milk today. Also popped into greengrocer and got some peppers, grapes and free range eggs. Then to C0-op for some wraps. So have updated signature. Will so the weekly shop tomorrow:eek:. I will try to keep it to bare minimum. But I don't think £21 will be enough. We need flour and breakfast ceral for a start. Milk, apples, bananas.....

tigerfeet2006

Macaroni cheese with lo bacon tonight, was a really big hit with the brood, three scraped clean plates

Was an absolute faff to do though as I had to do a GF one and a normal one and it took ages to make. Though I have made enough that there is enough for everyone in the freezer for another day

karmachilovething

jumblejack wrote: »

It is an inner pot that you prepare your food in on the hob. Getting it to a rolling boil, and then transfer it into a sealed outer pot that retains the temperature and continues to cook without electricity. Kinda like thermos cooking but on a larger scale (or haybox cooking)!! The cooking times are similar to slow cooker times so I prefer the green alternative! Have a quick looksee on YouTube under thermal cooker. It is mindblowingly OS ethos but with a more modern, shiny exterior!

That sound amazing, right I'm off to google shortly . . .

laineyc wrote: »

I have ordered 2 vegetarian cookbooks because I am determined to make more vegetarian meals and need inspiration.

I can seriously recommend Yotam Ottolenghi's book Plenty, it's lovely and totally made me revise how I look at vegetarian food.

OK, £3.99 spent in co-op yesterday, lettuce, feta (not really needed) and 2 battered (dropped) tins of toms for 30p each. Off to update total and then go look at thermal cookers . . .

freakyogre

£3.80 spent today. I did bring some noodles in for my lunch but it was too warm for them, so I bought a sandwich (wanted a wrap, but none left ) and some frankfurters! Also, some toothpaste. I almost always bring my own lunch in so once in a while it's nice to have something different (I actually rarely have sandwiches!)

I did also get some sweets, crisps and chocolate biscuits, but they're not included. I'm going to Thorpe Park later this week (:D!) and these are for the journey.

I'll need milk when I get back as finished it off today and possibly some fruit.

666paw

Evening everyone

Just a quick update on spends, 4 days in and £77.83 gone already. Just need to get into the habit of menu planning better then hopefully costs will come down.

666

NickJW

Another £8 spent in Mr T today. I've been very good with lunches and have had lots of leftover type meals. Tonight was a pork with mangetout, shallots, chilli and lemon. Leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Tomorrow dinner will be pork chops grilled with caramelized onions and cheese with mash and green beans.:D

Shame I wasn't more disciplined with eating out earlier this month! :mad:

Tigerfeet2006 - really sorry but what is lo-bacon? Is it veggie bacon?

tigerfeet2006

It's Left Over, as in lo veggies, lo salmon, lo cheese . It took me about a week to work it out myself and I was just going to ask and it just suddenly struck me what it meant

Will be putting a Beef Stew in the slow cooker for dinner tonight. Need to do a loaf in the BM .

Will have to get some fruit today but that is all, the brood have eaten rather a lot over the last few days.

bexs.ua

Well everyone I'm here to confess :o ............ I thought I was doing really well, but after yesterday I feel this month may fail....

Yesterday I spent:

Mr T £40.63 general food items & an easter egg for DS (didn't use any vouchers this week I do usually online) :eek:
L!dl £20.72 Greek cheese, packet potatoes, some tins etc and a gooseberry plant
poundshop £16 sweets & crisps :eek: he!nz beans on offer and a load of gardening things

and today the veggie box has come... so another £18.74 but included was a free 2 pints of milk which was good as all mine is frozen!!! :rotfl:

OMG just forgot £7.90 in Te$co express on Sunday on some bread, ham and chocolate eclaires etc

better go and add this lot to my siggy..... *slopes off feeling very embarrassed*