June 2011 Grocery Challenge

mrs-moneypenny

can i go in for £400 for june please

may was pretty dire as we now have another adult in the house to feed so budget went to pot

69chick

a small spend in Mr Ts today...I had to buy a sandwich today (got a cheap egg one though) as I remembered I was going straight out from work and would need to eat at work today, picked up a multi pack of walkers crisps for 1.37 and a pack of 9 rocky bars for 79p...which means I have enough bits of the kids pack ups tomorrow now rather than nipping to the shop later today and buying loads of other bits I don't need...

Going proper shopping to A!di tomorrow, hope I can get some good deals in there, really need to do a meal plan now for next week as I am struggling for meals at the moment..

sistercas

spent £37 in a!di some of that was flowers for MIL and some rellies we are going to see tomorrow and a pot ready planted for £4.99 :j
£35 spent in t3sco managed to use a £4 voucher on a £20 spend :T but DH came with me a nd kept putting things in :mad:

hopefully got enough for the week

freakyogre

£1.97 yesterday in Tesco on 2 x newspapers, ibuprofen and 2 x jars of pasta bake sauce.

quintwins

oh dear i'm not very good at making these nsd acually stay nsd lol, anyway mil asked me to pop in tesco on the way back from the hospital, while there i spent £20 and a few pence altho £10 was for an air bed which we do acually need for the tent so not soo bad and not from my budget, the other £10 was on 24 bottles of water because i'm not feeling great and it's very hot i thought it might help, a bottle of coke for oh 2 500g blocks of cheese reduced to 98p 2 jars of 20p pasta sauce, a bunch of bananas and 11 drumbstick lollys does seem like much for a tenner tho will update my sig now

CupOfChai

Hello everybody!

Small topup shop today of £2.55. It would have been £1.50 but for a pack of six reduced eggs and I need eggs at the weekend. They were reduced as the "display until" date is tomorrow, but the actual use by date is not until Monday and I will have used them all by then! Doubt they are the cheapest eggs I could have got, but I suppose they are at least free-range and I won't get any of those cheaper.

It's early days, but I am hoping that by what I've spent so far I can make it under budget this month. Famous last words!

scotsaver

Many thanks to everyone for getting us going again this Month - please put me down for £250 for JUNE Please.

cat_smith - sorry I've had Computer problems so not been on much since last week but noticed on the May GC that you asked about Cumberland Pie - the recipe I used was from "Second helpings from the dinner Lady" - it's like a Sausage Casserole with mash on the top - if you want I can type out the recipe and post on here.

I've spent quite a bit of June GC already, placed an order with DR, been to Tesc0 and L!dl - doesn't help that it's Half Term this week and the kids are eating me out of house and home!!

Things looking good on the Allotment, had a couple of pickings of Strawberries, some Radishes, broad beans and salad leaves so far, so quite pleased.;)

MumOf2Beasties

hi not sure if anyone else has the same problem, but when i make the weetabix loaf it's usually quite hard on the outside, which i like but the lo's refuse to eat, they eat the middle and leave the 'crust' so i decided to try adding a teaspoon of baking powder and it made a huge difference:Dlovely soft loaf that the kids love:p

also a quick banana loaf, haven't checked if it's in the thread, but same as the weetabix loaf, replace the 2 crushed weetabix with one mashed banana (also added a teaspoon of baking powder) and bake untill cooked, this is much quicker than the other banana bread recipe i had which used butter and egg......was a bit naughty and added a few good squirts of golden syrup to the mix and it was delicious:D

no more GC spends since i last posted, will need to buy some pesto tommorow, then do another shop on saturday.

hope you are all well:)

cat_smith

scotsaver wrote: »

cat_smith it's like a Sausage Casserole with mash on the top - if you want I can type out the recipe and post on here.

That would be great. It sounds delicious.

Chloris

No GC spending today! I having been cooking up a storm this evening. I have made 24 banana and wheatbran muffins, wholemeal bread, split pea dhal and lots of turkey meatballs. That little lot should keep us going tomorrow. I have found I have no time in the kitchen during the day with the children being on half term, but I am quite enjoying cooking and baking during the light evenings.