August 2011 Grocery Challenge

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone,

annem38: sorry it has taken me so long to reply re fish cakes. I really don't have a recipe as such just judge by eye. I add butter and milk to potatoes during mashing to make them nice and rich. You can add extra seasoning if you want and then I just flake up the tinned salmon and mix through with a little chopped fresh parsley. I think you could add a beaten egg to mixture if you wanted to but I don't bother. I then shape into patties and leave in fridge to set a little. Then I dip each pattie in beaten egg and then into breadcrumbs. Leave in fridge again for a little while then wrap and freeze. I defrost before cooking.
I like mine shallow fried. I think you could also make them in oven but it is quicker to shallow fry them. You can make quite a few from one tin of salmon and it is a good way to use up any leftover mash you might have.

Hope this helps.:)
Highland Fling

SilverBird_2

This week... Mr S £45.75p, Mr T £21.11p, K0-0P £14.90p, Local Butcher £11.79p, making a total of £93.55p.

However, did find lots of reduced stuff in Mr T Express last Sunday and also in Mr S yesterday afternoon so quite pleased about that The freezer is very full now!

Only have £18.62p left until the end of the month but have most of what we need in stock - all being well, just need some salad for next week-end.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Am having a cooking spree today, picked up 20 chicken breast, loads of potatoes and leeks this morning and spent £25 - £50 left to last till then end of the month!!!!!!

Have made what feels like a thousand meatballs, ( prob about 60 really) some for tonight, 2 batches for freezer, have a huge vat of tomato sauce bubbling away, and leek and potato soup in the slow cooker - have loads of leeks left over, now sliced (i love my magimix ).
I,m defrosting a whole chicken and a small gammon joint for dinner tomorrow, the leftovers will be made into a chicken, ham and leek gratan and a ham and chicken pie.
Also defosting a bag of mixed summer fruits I have found loitering, will make a fruit flan with that.
Whilst ovens on will make flapjacks, twinks and quiche.
Get me LOL........

Hope your all well x

76rosie

hi, here's my update. On thursday, mr t 5 pound on snacks for hubby. Today, Mr M, 1.37, juice, sugar, sweet and sour sauce and scones. Wilko 20p on milk. and bananas from turkish shop.

Total 49.08/60.00.

WelshWoofer

Been grocery shopping and once I got going I decided to do a big stock up shop and spend a bit more than I'd planned (I'm trying to stick to £30 a week for me and the dog) - after vouchers etc it came to £42, so not overly extreme.

I now have plenty of veggie stuff (I don't eat meat) in the freezer to last at least 3 weeks and a nicely full storecupboard as well as lots of nice fresh stuff including fruit and veg. I've written a meal plan for this week using up the fresh things first so minimising waste and trying to keep it varied and healthy. I lost about a stone and a half on Slimming World recently and am happyish with my weight now and want to keep it that way.

I think that next week all I'll need to buy is some fruit and veg and milk (oh, and dog food!) so the spend should be £15 or so balancing out this weeks stock up. Famous last words!

ixia

just been my grocery shop used mr T coupon for £5 off £40 and put a couple of bits through separately for my mum before I did my shop and got a tillspit fo £9 off a £60 spend well chuffed :j

So my shopping at mr T's cost me £57.03, I also spent £3.76 at Mr L's and had a spend of £1.87 at shop yday

Shopping budget left is £89.75 I think I might be able to do this!!!!

annem38

well this is week 3 of my 4 week month and again seem to have gone mad :eek:, shopped everyday in everywhere from mr t's to waitro$e, li*l, coop, local shops, amazon (cat food), milkman and that place where every thing costs a quid! so am now declaring £64.95 for the week which gives me a running total of £170.89 so have less than 30 quid for the week, should be do-able as long as i keep myself out of the darn shops

right must haul myself into the kitchen as for some insane reason (second bottle of pinot rose:beer:) i promised oh tapas for tea, so need to do patato bravas, chicken pesto, gambas de queso (delia recipe from waitro$e) to go with the meatballs and with mealballs and chorizo in mojo sauce i bought, wouldn't normally buy them but they were on offer and i really really wanted the eathernware dishes they come in!

highland fling thanks for the recipe :T, will be giving it a go during the week, have already got the pots and salmon, just couldn't find the nice easy recipe i had to make them!

have a good weekend everyone

anne

Fiasco55

It's not been a great week for my budgeting.....so my spend for the week include:

£21.63 - Waitrose - got lots of reduced meat - pork, steaks, six packs of bacon for £2 etc all now in the freezer.

£14.23 - Home Bargains drinks etc

£37.50 - waitrose - including a gift of a bottle of Skky vodka and food for a party.

I am off to update my sig

Long_tall_sally

Another £7 spent in the Co Op on grapes, babybels, beetroot, onions, cucumber & single cream.

Islandmaid - wow, that is a lot of cooking! Well done you! All I have managed to do today is clean my oven - a very rare event!

cattysmum

Hi everyone, really thought I was going to have an extra no spend day today, took grandchildren to playcentre and sneaked in juice, biscuits crisps and sweeties from home so I didn't have to spend anything (very large bulging handbag) had a lovely day, met up with sister who also had bulging handbag and niece who had home made cupcakes as well. We had a lovely day, kids tired out but on the way home I popped into local costcutter and bought a pack of 6 vimto lollies, we were all very warm and wanted something to cool us down (the lollies at the playcentre were2 poundish each!!) and my treat for tonight (Im working night shift tonight) a bag of maltesers and a lotteryticket and local paper to read. Total spend £3.05.