September 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

ok not a nsd after all

went to collect an order from next so i decided to nip into tesco and se eif they had any reduced fruit but they didn't so i grabbed a bunch of bananas and a can of free soup so 84p spend then i firgured ok i'd spent on banana i'll stop at the market so another £1 on a bag of apples, i stopped at the 90p milk shop but the dates weren't great so i'll still need milk, so a £1.84 spend

recovering_spendaholic

Was hoping for a NSD today but had a huge row with DD2 this morning as she would not get up for school - in the end I had to run her so she would be less late and felt so wound up on the way home that I went to Farm Foods and bought a bag of Revels and some Haribo Jelly Babies. Ate half the revels and a few jelly babies after lunch so now feel fed up AND sick - and £2 poorer!! I have £8 left until next week when I get paid and I really don't need anything except milk so should be okay.

Home made chicken soup for lunch and don't know what I am going to have for tea - DD2 is going out for tea and DD1 is having veggie fingers and chips from the freezer. I feel so sick after my Revels and Haribo that I can't even think about what I want!!

I have made out a list of easily made meals for next month using my Good Food family meals cookbooik and my Hairy Bikers Mums Know Best cookbooks. Will do a meal plan over the weekend and then sort out the shopping list. I do know that I am very sick of home made soup so will not be having that again for a while! (the freezer is full of the stuff though!)

Have any of you used the stand and store bags from home and bargain? They are only 79p and you can fill them with liquid and then seal them for freezing. I find that they are really good, plus you can wash them out after using and re-fill.

forever_saving

Got some bits and pieces Wednesday and only now been able to update. I spent £18.43. I still have a reasonable amount in the freezer. Will have a proper look before i go shopping at the weekend.
FS x

MummyEm

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions about how to use up my cupboard bits. I found a stroganoff recipe in one of my cookbooks which uses quite a bit of french mustard so I'm going to mealplan this in for next week to see if the family like it.

NSD for me today on the groceries front (did spend a bit on swimming -£3.65 for DS and I so not too bad). Made DS and I lunchboxes and snacks while I did DD's school lunch and snack this morning. Took a bit longer than usual but meant no money spent even while out all day :j

Making fishpie now. Trying out Jamie Olivers one which looks pretty quick to sort out as you don't have to pre-cook the fish. Doing it minus the chilli as kiddies wouldn't eat it with. Will let you know how we get on with it.

angelatgraceland

TrixieB wrote: »

Want to do a pesto one, not entirely sure how much to put in or if I would need to add less liquid again to compensate, any idea?

Re washing powders - saw this linked to on another thread thought might be useful for some..http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10KGS-TOP-BRAND-CRUSHED-WASHING-POWDER-TABLETS-/140602362274?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20bc8dc9a2

Re pesto well Id take a bit of a guess at using half a jar which is about 4 fl oz-I am guessing though as the jar is 190g if you are using shop bought pesto. This is mainly oil buy it wont hurt your recipe! So I would probably reduce it to 12 oz of fluids but it is guesswork(the best results are from original experiments) You could simply use fresh or dried basil for a similar flavour? However-pesto does sound yummy:T!
Re the soap powder-all I can say is WOW! you did good on finding that! I am tempted to get one although we generally use liquid.:T

WelshWoofer

Am very pleased with myself as I haven't spent a penny since last Saturday on groceries:j
I have written a meal plan and shopping list for next week and hope to spend way less than £30 but we'll see when I trawl around Mr T's tomorrow.....

Spinmerightround

Shopping has been delivered from T and all put away although one of my kitchen cupboards needs a major sort through. So today I have spent £50.35 on the weekly shop.
Plus side hubby came home with a £5 morrisons voucher from his petrol...so thats a yummy bottle of wine for me this week.

poppy-glos

Another small spend today, bought the baking potatoes, carrots and parsnips at 50 each in tesc and also spring onions needed for rice salad (have all the rest of the ingredients in and did not make it in the summer when i should have) and bought the bogoff cheese as not comfortable not having chedder in stock!

We aiming for a Waste not friday but stuff in fridge cos i can't not spend!!:mad: had cheese and biscuits for supper which was delish:)

so tonight going to mealplan as much as possible for next week to try for every last scrap being used up by next friday

quintwins

oh dear £9 spend in poundland on crisps chocolate and juice

TrixieB

WelshWoofer wrote: »

Am very pleased with myself as I haven't spent a penny since last Saturday

had to have a wee chuckle....