September 2011 Grocery Challenge

CompBunny

Apologies for not being on for a few days, we've been away celebrating my brother's 30th birthday!

Before I forget, congrats Puzzledbubble on the birth of your little one! :A

Angelatgraceland I will definately be trying that Herby Bread, sounds gorgeous! Tempted to add a bit of cheese to it, but will try it in its pure form first

TrixieB wrote: »

Well done Mr Compbunny! What's he going to be doing?

Thankyou! Very kind of you to say. He will be in procurement and is really looking forwards to starting

I know there are loads of threads on this, but I'll need to start making lunches up soon for him to take to work...what are your number one favourites for taste, ease and cost? He is not a vegetarian (just me, but he is happy to eat veggie stuff) but isn't overly keen on normal sandwiches. So exciting!

Any advice on what tupperware bits and bobs you have found to be essentials?

Also reporting a £0.99 spend on a loaf of seeded bread and £20 on some gillette blades... lots of money but we found some clearance ones so got 28 for £20 which is incredible and will keep my partner going for ages! So £20.99 added to sig.

poppy-glos

nsd today :beer:

still have to concentrate as have blown it at end of the month before, so going to limit myself to £7 a day to stay on budget if i do buy anything . aiming for a few more nsd and lots of meals in the freezer

angelatgraceland

TrixieB wrote: »

Well one thing have found I need to buy is a freezer marker as I have 6x portions of "something that may or may not be stew/curry/soup/savoury mince" it all looks the same when it's frozen?!

I know what you mean! I call these UFO's. Unidentified frozen objects.:mad:

CompBunny wrote: »

Angelatgraceland I will definately be trying that Herby Bread, sounds gorgeous! Tempted to add a bit of cheese to it, but will try it in its pure form first

Well the original recipe I adapted mine from does contain cheese but I wanted one with lower fat content and even cheaper! Here is the original cheese version:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=10730349#post10730349
This one was a great inspiration to me but I always find working with "cups" confusing and I also found it a little sweet so I redid it to suit my own tastes. This is what I based my fruit version on also of course!

CompBunny

angelatgraceland wrote: »

I know what you mean! I call these UFO's. Unidentified frozen objects.:mad:



Well the original recipe I adapted mine from does contain cheese but I wanted one with lower fat content and even cheaper! Here is the original cheese version:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=10730349#post10730349
This one was a great inspiration to me but I always find working with "cups" confusing and I also found it a little sweet so I redid it to suit my own tastes. This is what I based my fruit version on also of course!

Hehe I think you are right...cheese is unnecessary and fattening. Probably best I never introduce it

minicazzybee

Evenng all!
I've had a day off today and went for lunch with my brother. Had previously bought it on a groupon deal, so it doesn't effect my grocery budget.

I think total spend for today was £3.65 and got a total bargain in Wilkinsons, massive childrens bucket and spade set which will be perfect for my little man next year at the seaside. Was originally £4.99 but with 75% off I got it for £1.25! Can't understand why they would reduce non-perishables like that though, but good for me!

Got my boss to save some leftovers of Chicken and Bacon pasta bake at work, so I've just made a marinara sauce and had some of that which was delish! Hoping to have a NSD day tomorrow so sending good weather vibes so we can go have a good play in the park rather than spending a fortune in a soft-play place!

Is there a seperate NSD thread that I can join? It's the little £3-4 spends that all add up for me!!

76rosie

mr T = 4 shreddies, 2 bogof foxes biccies, 1 sprite, 3x perle lait, 4 bogof chickens, 2x whoopsie plums, 2x bogof popcorn = 10.56
sainsbob, 3 campbells soup, 1 pack toilet paper, 4x cranberry juice= 61p
Mr M , 4x cheeses- whoopsie, 19p, 4 x salmon pieces, 39p a pack, 3 x savory rice, 1 x fish, 59p, 1 x olives 19p, 1x 19p spring rolls, =3.46p

up to 44.17/60.00. OH won't allow me to buy more food, we are full. will just get free stuff and use the last of my cranberry juice tomorrow.

sproggi

minicazzybee wrote: »

Is there a seperate NSD thread that I can join? It's the little £3-4 spends that all add up for me!!

There is a NSD thread on the debtfree board, this is the link for this month:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3451265

Sproggi

MissOrganised1972

Thanks for some of the recipe ideas. May incorporate some into next months meal planner.

Quite a few spends for me since Thursday.

Tesco-£4.25 (Strawberries, flav. water, milk, kitchen towels, rolls, mousses & yogurts)
Farmfoods-£1.38 (2 packs wraps)
Morrisons-£1.69 (VERY pleased with this, all reduced except bananas - got 2 packs of mushrooms, bag of apples, pack of tomatoes, 1/2 a pineapple & 5 bananas) :j
Tesco-£4.39 (milk, bread etc)
B&M - 78p (coke)

This all takes me to £119.11 for the month. I will probably go slightly over budget but am happy to do so as added £10 to my grocery purse because sold a few items on eBay.

Menu plan for us, for the week is:

Mon-Vegetarian Chilli (kids cooked dinner at school)
Tues-Sausage hotpot & veg (kids cooked dinner at school)
Wed-Family chicken bake
Thurs-Stir fry & noodles (may have to amend this as DDs have friends for tea & not sure others will eat this)
Fri-Cottage Pie & veg
Sat-Ribs, corn & HM potato wedges
Sun-Off to harvest lunch but have got to provide tomato & mozzarella salad

Hope everyone has a good week

pennywisepoundstupid

Morning, managed a NSD yesterday thanks to the milkman not turning up to be paid:), made a chicken a veg pie, cauliflower cheese and rst tatties for tea last night, all items used out of stores and there is 2 portions of pie left that DS and DH can have tonight with chips and peas, DD is at a friends so i will just have soup, probably a free tin of campbells:D.

So today should be another NSD:j.

becky170

I've got a week to go and I've got £10.60 to last me which should be plenty in theory as I only have to buy milk and lunch one day. I think I'm going to try and reduce my budget next month as I really need to save more money so that I have more money to do fun stuff! So next month I'm going to try out more recipes from the front page and try and eat some of my batch cooking out the freezer