July 2011 Grocery Challenge

zpr1c3

Hi,

Another few unnecessary spends to declare which take my budget up to £380!! But I am going to stop spending!! I have a full fridge and freezer, so there is nothing I need at least until the middle of next week when I may need more milk and bread

rosieben

choogirl wrote: »

A big fat fail again for me in July - £369.16 when I had put £280 down :mad:

that's a shame, can you have a look at your spends and work out when/where/how you overspent? its useful to break down the receipts so you can see where your money is going

my big overspend in the past couple of months has been magazines and also last month several intended little shops that turned into big shops when I took my eye off the budget

rosieben

Main Meals & Side Dishes
Bacon and Cheese Fritatta with Tomato Salsa
Bacon and potato salad -Warm
Baked potato pizza
Bacon and Onion Dumpling
Bacon and Veg Risotto
Bacon Roast Chicken with Potatoes (ext link)
Baked Beans (home made) ... Baked Beans (home made)
Baked Bean Tart
BBQ Cannelini Beans with sausages
BBQ Sauce
Bean Curry (Slow Cooker)
Beef - Brisket
Beef Casserole
Beef Curry Dopiaza (Delia recipe)
Beef Stifado (Jamie Olive recipe)
Beef - Stir Fried Beef and Onions with Brocolli
Beef Stroganoff
Beef and Root Veg Curry
Belly Pork
Bolognaise (Remoska) .Bolognaise (2) Bolognaise (3) Bolognaise (4) Bolognaise (5)
Brie Burgers
Brisket (Slow Cooker)
Broad Bean and Bacon Tart
Broad Bean Burgers
Burgers
Calamari
Calzones
Carbonara ... Carbonara with cheese triangles
Cashew Curry
Cauliflower Egg and Potato Curry
Cheese and Onion Flan
Cheese and Onion Fryits
Cheese and Onion Pasties
Cheese and Potato Pie
Cheese Pie - School days recipes thread
Cheese Scones
Cheese and Lentil Loaf
Cheesy dough
Cheesy garlic bread (ext)
Chicken Adobo
Chicken Cannelloni
Chicken - Cheat's Chicken Cassoulet
Chicken - Chinese Chicken
Chicken and Bacon Pasta
Chicken and broccoli bake
Chicken and Bacon Lasagne
Chicken - Cheat's Chicken Lasagne in the SC
Chicken, Cheese, Ham and Brocolli Pie
Chicken and Chickpea Curry
Chicken and Chorizo Pasta
Chicken and Chorizo Pasta Bake (ext. link)
Chicken Curry
Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken, leek and bacon pie / pasties
Chicken - Monker's Honey and Orange Chicken
Chicken - Parmesan Chicken
Chicken Prawn and Chorizo Paella
Chicken - Rubber Chicken (thread)
Chicken - Sticky Chicken
Chicken - Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice
Chicken with Cannellini Beans
Chicken with Garlic, Cider & Cream
Chicken and Potato Curry
Chicken and Vegetable Slice
Chicken or Quorn with Ginger and Coconut Milk
Chicken in White Wine Sauce
Chickpea Curry
Chilli....Chilli (2)...Chilli (Remoska)
Chilli Bean Tortillas
Chilli Chicken Ramen
Chilli Cheese Crostini
Chilli chicken with jasmine rice (BBC food)
Chilli-Lime Meatballs
Chilli Meat Loaf
Chilli Pizza
Chinese Stir Fried Noodle or Fried Rice thingy
Chinese Pork Balls & Sweet & Sour Sauce
Chinese style cabbage
Chorizo, Haddock and New Potato one pot
Cobbler (topping) see below for Minced Beef with Cobbler Topping
Coconut Rice
Cod - Crunchy Topped Cod
Coleslaw
Coq au Vin (SW)
Corned Beef Hash - MrsMCawber's recipe ... Corned Beef Hash
Corned Beef Pasties
Corned Beef Stew
Courgette Fritters (1) Courgette Fritters (2)
Courgette Pie
Courgette and Tomato Layer Bake
Couscous with chorizo & chickpeas (ext. link)
Cowboy Hash
Cranberry & Soy glazed cocktail sausages
Creamy Chicken and Potato casserole
Creamy Lentil and Rice Dish (Khircheri) (BBC website)
Cumberland Pie
Curry - Bhoona Curry in a hurry LOW FAT
Curry - Fruity Chicken Curry
Curry Sauce
Dahl
Dairylea Cheese Triangles ideas
Diet Coke Chicken
Duchesse potatoes
Dumplings - Mushroom Dumplings
Easy cheese biscuits
Faggoty Pea Stew
Falafel Burgers
Fajita Seasoning
Falafel burgers
Feta and Potato Patties
Fishcakes
Fish Pie and Fish Pie
Fritatta
Fusilli with Broccoli
Gammon and Leek Crumble
Haddock - Grilled haddock on lemon leek and pea rice
Haddock and Pea Risotto
Ham- Glazed Cranberry Ham
Ham Hock (slow cooker)
Ham Salad (sandwich filling) external link
Harry Potter Stew
Hummus and Garlic Pitta Breads
Indian curried pork patties recipe
Individual chicken pies
Individual Potato Pies
Jambalaya - Cheap and Cheerful Jambalaya
Keema and spinach pilau
Lamb curry and paratha
Lamb Hotpot
Lamb Stew
Lamb Tikka
Lasagne .... Lasagne (2) ......Lasagne Mock Lasagne ... Lasagne with sausagemeat .....
...............Vegetarian Lasagne ... Chicken and Bacon Lasagne
Leek and Cauliflower Puree
Lemon Chicken
Lemon chicken with basil and tagliatelle
Lemon potatoes
Lentil Shepherds Pie
Liver and bacon pate
Liver and bacon saute with potatoes & parsley
Liver and onions stir fry
Lobby (stew)
Macaroni Cheese
Marrow - Veggie stuffed marrow .... Stuffed Marrow
Meatballs .... Meatballs Spanish Style
Meatloaf (1) Meatloaf (2) Meatloaf (3)
Mediterranean Mince and Potato 'Pie'
Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta
Mince - 1 recipe/2 dinners
Mince & onion pie
Mince and Totties and Dumplings
Minced Beef Curry
Mince - Indian Style Mince with Potatoes and Peas
Mince - Mexican Style Mince
Minced Beef with Cobbler Topping
Mini Goat's Cheese, Pear & Walnut Quiche
Monday Pie
Moroccan Inspired Braised Chicken (ext. link)
Moussaka



Main Meals and Side Dishes continue into next post

rosieben

Main Meals and Side Dishes contd.
Nettle Pasta
Nonya Laksa
Onion Bhajis.... Onion Bjahis
Open top 'pizza' pie
Oxtail Stew
Pasta - Cold Pesto Pasta Salad
Pasta with Tomato Sauce ....... Pasta and Sauce
Pasta Cheese and Onion Bake
Pasta with Chicken and Asparagus
Pearl Barley Broth the old way
Pease pudding
Pizza / Pizza Base Recipe / Pizza Base / Pizza - Home Made Pizza
Pizza Toastie
Pork - Barbecue Pork; . Barbecue Pork
Pork Burgers with Salad
Pork Cheeks - Braised in Red Wine - In Cider
Pork - Creamy Honey, Mustard & Cider Pork for SC or Hob
Pork and Beef Meatballs
Pork Pasties
Pork Ribs - cooking and sauces
Pork Steaks in Mustard and Cider Sauce (SC)
Pork Yuk Sung
Potatoes - ideas
Potatoes - Slow Cooker Jacket Potatoes
Potato, Bacon and Onion Hotpot
Potato bake
Potato,Chorizo and Cheese Quesadilla
Potato Kebabs
Potato layer bake - with cheese, leeks and stock
Potato layer bake - with cheese, onion and white sauce
Potato layer bake - with chorizo and bacon
Potato layer bake (Teisen datws)
Potatoes - Lemon Potatoes
Potatoes - Roast Potato Rosti
Potato Scones
Potatoes - Twice Baked Potatoes
Potato Wedges, Home Made
Prawn and Chickpea Curry
Prawns and Peppers with Saffron and Rice
Quiche
Quiche Lorraine
Refried Beans
Rice: Summer Rice Salad.....Rice Salad
Risotto:. Easy Risotto with Bacon and Peas .. Risotto - oven baked
Roasted Vegetable Tart
Rumbledythumps Rumbeldethumps
Russian Salad and Russian Salad
Salmon Broccoli and Potato Pie
Salmon and Dill Fishcakes
Salmon - Thai steamed salmon
Sausage and Bean Cassoulet
Sausage and Bean Chilli
Sausage Bean Stew
Sausage, Black Pudding, Bacon & Bean Stew
Sausage Casserole - Sausage Casserole - Sausage Casserole - Sausage Casserole
Sausage Cassoulet
Sausage Leek and Apple pie
Sausage Meat Patties
sausages - Spicy Sausage Casserole
Sausages - Sweet Chilli Bangers
Sausage Stew
Sausage and Pasta
Sausage and Potato Roast
Sausage and Rice bake
Sausage and Stuffing Plait
Sausage and Tomato Spaghetti
Savoury Crumble
Savoury tarts - pastry-less
Shepherds Pie
Smoked salmon soda breads
Smoked Salmon - Tagliatelle with Smoked Salmon
Spaghetti Bolognaise ...Easy Spaghetti Bolognaise
Spaghetti with courgettes, tomato and brie
Spicy Bacon and Tomato Pasta
Spicy Bean and Lentil Loaf
Spicy Bean & Sweet Potato Stew
Spicy Mushroom and Bean Chilli
Spicy Sausage Pasta
Spinach pancakes
Steak and Kidney stew/pie filling
Steak Sauce - Quick Steak Sauce
Steamed Oriental Buns
Stifado see also SW recipes below
Stuffed Peppers
Stuffing - MrsMcawber's recipe ... Stuffing
Suet crust pie with quorn
Super Tasty Bacon, Bean and Sausage
Sweet & Sour Chicken/Pork
Sweet Potato and Pea Curry
Sweet and Sour Sauce - Easy Peasy Sweet and Sour Sauce
TexMex Skillett
Thai green curry
Toad in the Hole
Tofu burgers
Tomato paste (external link)
Tomato sauce for Pasta Batch cook recipe or Tomato Sauce
Tortellini - Easy Cheesy Tortellini
Tuna Fish Mousse
Tuna Fishcakes
Tuna Lasagne
Tuna Pasta Bake
Turkey and Bubble and Squeak Pie
Turkey Pasta
Turkey Pasta Cacciatore
Vegetable Casserole
Vegetarian Bean Curry
Veggie Chilli and some variations
Veggie Haggis
Vegetable Samosas
Vegetarian Lasagne
Walnut Sables
White Fish with Spicy Beans and Chorizo
White Sauce
Yorkshire puddings


Slimmers World Adapted Recipes
12 speed/trumpy soup SW
Balsamic Braised Beef SW
Black Pepper and Lemon Chicken Goujons SW
Braised Lamb Shank SW
Cheesy Bacon Lasagne SW
Cheese Topped Minced Beef and Potato Layer SW
Chilli Beans (SW)
Frittata/Tortilla SW
Leonslaw SW
Luxury Cauliflower Cheese SW
Marinade - Sticky Ginger Pork Marinade SW
Mechado Beef Stew SW
Mushy Pea Curry SW
One Pot Beef and Red Wine Pasta SW
Ox Burger SW
Pork - Slow Cooker Chinese Pork SW
Slow cooker Goan pork curry SW
Spanish Rice with Chicken and Chorizo SW
Stifado (2) - SW

Slimming Eats SW recipes (ext link)

rosieben

Cakes, Biscuits, Sweets, Snacks & Desserts
All in One Apple Cake
Apple Braid
Apple Charlotte
Apple Cinnamon Cake
Apple Delight
Apple - Microwave Autumn Apple Cake
Apricot Flapjack bars
Baileys Chocolate Truffles
Bakewell Tart
Banana butterscotch pudding (ext)
Banana and Honey bread pudding
Banana Cake (bread)
Banana Ice Cream
Banana and lemon drizzle cake
Banana Muffins (wholemeal) (1)
Banana Muffins (2)
Banana Muffins (3)
Banana and Walnut cake
Banana and Walnut loaf (Gluten Free)
Banana Ginger Parkin
Biscuit recipes (Owens3116 thread)
Blackberries - Grated Blackberry Bake
Branflake cake
Brownies
Bottom of the Cupboard Bars
Bounty Balls
Bran Fruit Loaf
Bread & Butter Pudding ... Bread Pudding
Bulk pancake mix
Buttercream topping
Butterscotch squares
Caramel Shortbread (Millionaire's Shortbread)
Carrot Cake
Cheesecake - Misers white chocolate cheesecake
Cheese n marmite twists
Chocolate Beetroot Cake
Chocolate Biscuit Thins
Cheesy Biscuits
Chocolate and Pear Upside Down Pudding
Chocolate Brownies
Chocolate Concrete
Chocolate Coookies - Cheap and Easy
Chocolate Courgette Cake
Chocolate Crispies
Chocolate Custard (easy)
Chocolate fudge
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Chocolate Krackolates
Chocolate Log - gluten free
Chocolate orange muffins see also Muffins
Chocolate Pots
Chocolate pudding (1) (microwave) Chocolate Pudding (2) (microwave)
Chocolate pudding - self-saucing ......Chocolate Self-saucing pudding (ext link)
Chocolate Stuff (see also Tiffin)
Chocolate Trifle
Chocolate yoghurt cake
Christmas cake - baked bean tin size
Coconut Balls
Coconut Cake
Coconut Flapjacks
Coconut ice
Coffee Cake
Coffee Fudge Frosting
Cookie Dough
Cornflake Tart
Courgette Tea Bread/Muffins
Cranberry And Chocolate Brownies
Currant Loaf
Custard Cookies
D&DD’s Apple Braid
Date, Nut and Oat biscuits
Easy Syrup Sponge Pudding
Eggless Chocolate Cake
Fifteens
Flaky Bars
Flapjacks and Flapjacks and Microwave Flapjacks
Fruit Cake .... Fruit Cake
Fruit and Mascarpone dessert
Fudge Tart
Ginger Biscuits (ext link)
Ginger nut biscuits (ext link)
Gingerbread Men (1)....Gingerbread Men (2)
Ginger Raisin Crunches
Ginger Refrigerator Biscuits
Golden Syrup Tart
Gluten-free Chocolate Log
Healthy Snack Bars
Honey Frosted Buns
Honey Crunch Bars
Ice Cream - slimmers world - Mint Ice Cream
Iced Buns
Impossible Coconut Pie
Jam Buns
Jammy Buns (1) ...Jammy Buns (2)
Jam Roly Poly
Key lime pie
Krispie marshmallow bars
Lemon and Cranberry Muffins
Lemon cakes
Lemon Curd Cake
Lemon Curd Ice-Cream jenid's / MoneySavingDiva's
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Lemon Flan
Lemon Madiera Cake (easy and cheap)
Magic Lemon Pudding
Malt Bread
Malt Loaf
Mango Cake
Marshmallow Crunch Bars
Marshmallow Squares
Mascarpone and Lime Torte
Mascarpone Ice-cream
Meringues
Microwave sponge puddings(Spotted !!!!!!) Microwave sponge puddings
Millies Cookies
Mince Squares
Miini Krispie Christmas Puddings

Muffins: Basic Recipe / Chocolate Orange Muffins (1) / Chocolate Orange Muffins (2) / Fool proof Muffins / Gingerbread Muffins / Kiwi Muffins / Sticky Date Muffins / Strawberry Muffins (1) / Strawberry Muffins (2) Toffee Apple Muffins /

No fat sponge
Nut, Apricot & Choc Chip Biscuits
Oatmeal Biscuits (Be-ro Website)
Oaty Pancakes
Oaty Shortbread Biscuits
Orange and Poppy Seed Cake
Palmiers
Parkin
Peach Cobbler (Slow Cooker recipe)
Peanut Butter Cookies .... Peanut Butter Cookies (without flour)
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peppermint Creams
Petits Pots au Citron (Little pots of lemon)
Pineapple (or Peach) Pud
Pineapple, Fried
Pineapple Sponge Cake (using tinned pineapple)
Raspberry Frozen Yoghurt Ice Cream
Rhubarb and Orange Jelly
Rice Pudding ....Rice Pudding in the Slow Cooker
Rock Buns
Scones ... Scones
Scotch pancakes
Spiced Apple Bars
Spiced Marmalade Cake
St Peter's Mud Pie (no cooking required)
Sticky gingerbread
Sticky toffee apple crumble
Strawberry Muffins
Teacakes
Tiffin (1) Tiffin (2) (see also Chocolate Stuff)
Treacle Toffee
Twink’s Hobnobs
Weetabix Brownies
Weetabix Cake
Weetabix Fruit Loaf
Welsh Cakes
Wonderbites
Xmas Pudding Loaf
Xmas Pudding Scones
Yoghurt: Homemade yoghurt, Slow Cooker Yoghurt
Yoghurt Cake (the easy way)

rosieben

Soups
12 speed/trumpy soup (SW)
Bacon and Carrot Soup
Broccoli and Cheese Soup
Brocolli and Stilton Soup
Carrot, leek and butterbean soup
Carrot, parsnip and lentil soup
Celery Soup
Cheats Minestrone
Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup ... Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup
Courgette & Tomato Soup
Cream of Tomato Soup
Curried Parsnip Soup
Gammon and lentil soup
Ham and Lentil Soup
Iced cucumber soup
Leek and Lentil Soup ... Leek and Lentil Soup
Leek and Potato Soup
Lentil - Golden Lentil Soup
Moniker’s Leek and Potato Soup
Leek and sweet potato soup
Moroccan Chickpea and Broad Bean Soup
Onion Soup
Oxtail Stew + Oxtail Soup
Parsnip & Apple Soup
Pea Soup
Pea & Ham Soup
Pumpkin Soup
Red Lentil Soup
Real Tomato Soup
Red pepper, carrot & lentil soup
Red Pepper and Sweet Potato Soup
Slow Cooker French Onion Soup
Spicy Carrot and Tomato Soup
Spicy Lentil Soup
Spinach Soup
Spinach and Avocado Soup
Split Pea and Courgette Soup
Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash
Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup
Vegetable Soup .... Vegetable Soup


Bread
Bagels
Baguettes
Banana Bread
Bara Brith (Welsh Tea Bread) Bara brith teabread
Basic white bread recipe (makes a 2lb loaf)
Bread - Mrs McC's recipe for Remoska
Breadsticks MrsM's / angelnikki's (No Salt Recipe)
Chapatis
Cheese, Onion and Herb Bread
Cheese and Parsnip Loaf
Cheese & Potato Bread
Cheesy Bread Rolls
Chewy Soft Flour Tortilla
Chocolate Bread
Chollah
Ciabatta
Courgette Flatbread
Focaccia
Garlic Dough Balls
Herb Quick bread
HM Bread
Irish Soda Bread
Lahmachun
Malt Bread
Malt Loaf
Naan Bread .. see also .. Curry Queen's ...... Mrs McCawber's ...... OrkneyStar's
Oatmeal bread
soft bread rolls
Soft white baps (ext link)
Super Seedy Bread
White Bread with plain flour
Bread Recipes for Bread Machines (ext link)


Pastry
The best mince pie pastry ever
Pastry economics
Making pastry
Basic pastry
Flaky Pastry (BBC Food)


Dips, Jams & Chutneys and Drinks
Alioli / Traditional allioli
Apple - No cook Apple Chutney
Bean Pickle
Beetroot and Apple Chutney
Broad Bean Dip
Brown Sauce
Chilli Jam
Compost Heap Jelly (using fruit peelings)
Elderberry cordial
Feisty Rhubarb Relish
Jams & Preserves
Lemon Squash
Miser's Marmalade
Onion - Caramelised Onion chutney
Onion Marmalade
Piccalilli - Diva's pick a lilly
Pineapple Salsa
Riata - Mint, yoghurt and Cucumber Dip
Tomato/Chili Salsa
Red Tomato Chutney
Spiced Apple Chutney
Tomato Chutney
Mango Chutney
Wine .. Wine
Xmas Chutney
and last but by no means least: How NOT to make marmalade

Useful OS Threads
The Complete Vegetarian Collection
The Complete Cooking Collection
and loads more in the Old Style Indexed Collection
Black Saturn's Evening Meal Planner
Batch cooking ideas
Cheapest recipes? links to various OS threads, thanks Pink!
Complete Menu Plans Collection
Cooking for the Freezer
Frozen food safety - misconceptions
Grocery Challenge Top Tips
Laundry Washing Gel/ Gloop, Fab conditioner, vinegar.....
Meal building blocks for the freezer
Microwave Recipes
Mr Badexamples Cooking Index
Store Cupboard Lists/Ideas threads

Mothership's 2nd Purse system - check out these posts
My other purse
Purse/Bank
tip 1
2nd Purse
Bogofs etc
more info

External links
10 Great Tips for starting out with meal planning
Baking Mad (includes loads of bread maker recipes
Batch Bake Minced Beef Recipe
Canned Food UK
Cheap Family Recipes (our own Weezl's excellent site) and the Christmas Menu here
Easy and Cheap Biscuits (DowntoEarth forum)
How to feed your whole family a healthy, balanced diet... (Webook)
Jamie Oliver Recipes
List of conversions
Love Food Hate Waste website
Show Jamie How To Cook On A Budget Champagne Contest
Sprouting Seeds and Beans - Free Guide (PDF)

Home Made Dog Biscuits
Home Made Dog Biscuits (2)

Homemade Play Dough

millionaire_in_training

Well I have failed miserably this month. I originally set target at £250 then upped it to £300 and so far I have spent £345.04. I have tried, honest

medsdemon

Well the first day of my August GC is a NSD. Made a lovely omelette with tomatoes, yellow pepper and ruby chard from the garden and oven chips and tomorrow will make a potato gratin with sticky chilli sausages, but will have to buy some toilet rolls as am completely out:eek:. Biggish shop on friday in preparation for my lil sis visiting, but am doing it mainly at Aldi for the first time ever and anything I can't get from there will get at Asda and that should last us for the rest of next week till I go away.

cheerfulness4

Posted my target for August really early so, to make sure it doesn't get lost, here it is again.

£265 for August please.

perrywinkle

perrywinkle