April 2011 Grocery Challenge

fedupandskint

GC is going ok so far even though I have under £30 left until last day of 27th April.

Made the lovely sausage casserole from the front page where you chop the sausages into pieces - its gorgeous and tasty! Then used up a few more potatoes and made a big dish of potato boulangere. Enough for 3 large meals to last me Sun/Mon and then either Tues or Wed. Used up the nearly off brocoli too for 2 meals

Determined to eat up what I have in fruit and veg wise and also take soup to work to eat this up out of the freezer too and create some space in there and not spend anything at lunchtime

Not taking any money with me Mon-Wed to get some NSDs and aim to stick to the budget

Whats left then? £25.43 to last 9 days

fingersxed

Hi All

Strugglin again but tryin hard to stay in budget this month seeing as i have increased it!!! Currently on £222.14. still gd chunk of the month to go yet

angelatgraceland

Went to Iceland to stock up on milk and got tempted by the winegums! 400g for £2 I could not walk past!
Cornettos half price at £1.25 per pack of 4 Milk still £1 for 4 pints(rather than the lesser 2 litres)and some half price boxes of chargrilled chicken by b/e-think it was jerk chicken or similar. 50p per b ox so look in your local Iceland in case they are stopping seeling these! Had lots of other offers in the reduced cabinet but I only took in £10 with me. No room in the freezer anyway and spent the full £10.
Uptodate with spending now-I had about 4 or 5 n/s days last week so on track now. Totals up to date in sig. Happy that I didnt go over my quarterly total when I added up the last 3 months.
DD cooked a turkey stirfry and homemade wedges today-all from scratch. I made 2 rissotos night before last-one was haddock-as in recipe thread but instead of peas I used peppers and sweetcorn. Other risotto was bacon and mushroom-same basic recipe as haddock but 200g of the bacon and 100g of mushroom instead of haddock and peas. I will make some additions/variations to the recipe asap on the thread.
Each batch makes 4 or 5 servings. I froze most of them for when I am in a hurry.

farmers-marketeer

As of today £80.04 invited people to lunch Sunday my SIL
has trouble with arthritus so the chance to sit and eat without needing to cook wash up so it was £8 or so well spent even if the £1.99 Hampshire free range knuckle would have tasted great as well and added nothing to food shop but she loved the mussels, bacon, tomato and creme fraiche, and i enjoyed the rest of the cider too and again today with a bit of coley from freezer added to make chowder of sorts I won't complain tasted great more leftovers tomorrow very happy about that and 4 days beer in the fridge lol and a months butter ie. 2 packs.

Spend £80.04 of £160 12 days to go

CupOfChai

FAIL! Budget well and truly bust, argh! And I still need even more "few bits" next week. It's not good really, especially as money was a bit tight this month (and vastly so last month) because of the moving and starting a new job. I'm trying to save back what I had to use from my savings but it isn't working! Still, the freezer is jam-packed and I'm hoping I won't need to spend as much next month. All I can do is try again next month.

Zend

Another £50 spend today. That takes me up to £200:eek: and I only planned to spend £150. Still, it did mean that I got the latest Harry Potter dvd for £6.

Billie-jo

Just a small spend to report from Saturday £3.55 taking our spends this month up to £118.15 so far however I will need some fruit, veg, salad and possibly cheese tomorrow.

We are having some home made pork and chilli meatballs tomorrow for tea that were left over from a week or two ago and will have them with salad, pasta, sauce and cheese or garlic bread.

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather we are having, it goes a long way to helping you feel better.

Good luck for the restof the month everyone.

Thinking of all those who are having a difficult time at the moment and sending some - :grouphug:

aussiemum

TheThriftyScrumpers wrote: »

penny grabber
hope you have a great birthday. How about doing a cake or trifle and decorating the top with cream blueberries and strawberries in the pattern of the union jack? And maybe coronation chicken :0) xx

I was going to say coronation chicken too
What about treacle tart? I love treacle tart Mmmmm

Welcome espresso21



Oh and NSD for me yesterday

rosieben

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Any ideas on patriotic party food?! I want us to do something the children will remember in 50 years' time! ...

I think you're right about the history of the event; there are a few recipes here http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/royal-wedding and some decorated cupcakes here http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/cupcakes/union-jack-cakes

might be worth googling for street party food? I read that one small street party will be eating bangers and mash!

and Happy Birthday!!

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welcome to the GC espresso :hello:

Candy_Belle

Morning! Am loving this lovely sunny weather!

Just a small spend in A**a yesterday of £7.26 - mainly cat food and honey n lemon as DH got a bad throat at the mo!

Have a good day everyone!:)