October 2011 Grocery Challenge

cattysmum

:DFinished my week of nights this morning and I now have 3 lovely weeks off work. NSD today as I have just been pottering about, painted a freshly plastered ceiling with an emulsion wash not sure if I have to do another coat with the wash before I can paint it properley, will have a look on the DIY thread. Bit of a disaster though for lunch, had some chicken thighs that needed using today so popped them in wok with some oil to seal them and then asked OH to put them in the slow cooker with some stock for possibly curry, he's only gone and put beef stock cube in with them. Any suggestions for beefy chicken?? I am certainly not going to throw them away should be interesting lunch tomorrow!!!!!

sproggi

A quick update.

Spent £47.44 today, that included party food for DS2.
Totals updated.

Sproggi

hex2

Hope you like the tomatoes recovering spendaholic
thanks for the reminder about amazon quintwins, I just spent £13 on 20 blocks of coconut cream - out of stock everywhere here and £1.20 a pack when they do have some. Quarter pack diluted with hot water makes a can of coconut milk which we use a lot.

nannygladys

Just a small spend in Mr S after finishing work, 1.96 so will update signature in a mo. Had a nice cheap tea tonight, a recipe from Slimming W (dont go anymore,saving the money). Grill/fry onions and sausages, put in casserole dish, add tin baked beans and a bit of chilli powder, top with layer of cheese and finally top with mashed potato and put in oven to heat through and brown top real comfort food, using leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

PennyGrabber

hex2 wrote: »

Hope you like the tomatoes recovering spendaholic
thanks for the reminder about amazon quintwins, I just spent £13 on 20 blocks of coconut cream - out of stock everywhere here and £1.20 a pack when they do have some. Quarter pack diluted with hot water makes a can of coconut milk which we use a lot.

What do you use coconut milk for? I have some, because I wanted to experiment, but now not sure what to do with it, and as I'm still in my wanting-to-use-stuff-up phase, I thought I'd ask!!

quintwins

hex2 wrote: »

Hope you like the tomatoes recovering spendaholic
thanks for the reminder about amazon quintwins, I just spent £13 on 20 blocks of coconut cream - out of stock everywhere here and £1.20 a pack when they do have some. Quarter pack diluted with hot water makes a can of coconut milk which we use a lot.

that was a good price i'm trying to run thinsg down beleive it our not but i never considered looking on amazon for these i usually buy the wee blocks aswell

PennyGrabber wrote: »

What do you use coconut milk for? I have some, because I wanted to experiment, but now not sure what to do with it, and as I'm still in my wanting-to-use-stuff-up phase, I thought I'd ask!!

i use mine in curry and casaroles

hex2

quintwins wrote: »

i use mine in curry and casaroles

Same here, but there was a nice looking leek and greens with coconut milk on river cottage veg tonight that reminded me.

Works well with lentils as well.

Fiasco55

Not been here for a bit so I have a few shops to add up.

Te$co £1.31 - Greaseproof paper
M & S £1 - meal for one - fish & chips (tonight's dinner at work yum) & 12 croquets now in the freezer.
BM £1.99 - Thank you chocs
M & S - £2.75 Thank You bottle of wine (different thank you!)
M & S - £6.31 - rush dinner (bad planning)
HB - £5.48
Waitro$e - £22.29 Water, chicken, etc emergency shop after mum got out of hospital to stay with me.

Think that is it Total £41.13

I have been trying really hard to bring in lunch and dinner to work which on the whole this month has worked really well. Now need to get better organised and more disiplined about dinners.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

NSD for me

Used up leftover from yesterdays stew with some mince for shepards pie and have enough left over for lunch tomorrow.

Off to bed now for the second time - started coughing and runny nose

Night night x

quintwins

morning all kids are still sick so another nsd i now have very little milk and no bread (really must remeber 2 put the bread maker on today) can i freeze raw stirfry? and if i do can i then cook from frozen? i bought far to much (to be fair it was 10p) and niw my older kids who used to love stir fry wouldn't even try it if they had they would have eaten it but as there ill i didn't wanna force it, but it means i have over half a bag left and only me an dthe youngest acually like it (hubby will eat it but isn't keen) i don't wanna be eating it for lunch for the next week besides it will prob turn by then.

chicken and bacon casarole for tea with mash and brocolli for tea, think lunch will be soup or pasta depends now i get on with the kids, they had shredded wheat minis with dried fruit for breakfast that i bought reduced way back in dtd days they acually really liked them and kept asking me whats that for all the fruit in them, my hubby jokes that we never get indate food sometimes i think he might be right everything in our house is either out of date or on offer or value lol


just remeber hubbys mum gave me some m&s nuggets on sunday night they were dated sunday so i shud prob use them up so nuggets and waffles for the kids for lunch and i'll just have soup