January 2012 Grocery Challenge

p-pincher

Hi Everyone

A few spends over the weekend to try to keep us going to next week. Dh gets paid Next Thursday (26th) so 8 more days left. Got plenty in the freezer for dinners, loads in for pack ups, fruit stocked up, will need bread and milk but not til the weekend hopefully.

Spent £4.70 in Sainsburys
£18.50 in Aldi, after an £15.00 overcharge
£5.00 in Poundshop
£2.00 in Iceland

Very tight now but determined to do it, 5 NSD's so far.

kj*daisy

Spent £9.57 in m&s services on the way home from a weekend away. And £9.22 in asd* yesterday. Am spending tomorrow batch cooking a load of veg I have in the fridge.

rosieben

tigerfeet, your Chicken, mushroom and rice one pot is in the index

majjak wrote: »

... Love the recipes everyone, keep them coming !

what she said!

take care of yourself majjak

PennyGrabber

Had a friend round for pizza tonight. Normally, I'd get an a$da one, but not today! We'd agrees that she would bring garlic bread and salad, and I would do the pizza and drinks. I made the pizza, using some a4da generic dolmio as a topping. Would normally use my own hm frozen stuff, but this needed using! Used frozen mushrooms, frozen peppers, chopped up ham that needed using and a bit of cheese. Total cost - less than £1. The drinks were some juice that we were supposed to have at xmas but i forgot(!) and cups of tea. My friend did the salad from bits she had in, and the garlic bread she made from a partbaked baguette with some garlic and butter. We did have a bit of icecream for pudding too, but that was good, as it left enough space for the whoopsies I got yest that I thought i wouldn't have space for!

What a fab evening, made even better by the fact it cost so little! She's only just gone home too, which means it's too late to go out shopping, so an nsd for me. Hoping to get through to Sunday or Monday without shopping now. Have bread and milk for now, plus all main meal stuff, lunchbox stuff, fruit and veg for everything this week. We're away overnight on saturday, staying at my mum's so she'll feed us sat eve and sun breakfast. This is why I think I may not be able to shop on sunday as we my not be back in time. Hopefully the milk will last that long, or I'll have to get some from a shop at mum's.

I'm having freezer surprise tomorrow, then we're having tuna pasta bake Thurs and Fri. I'll think about Sunday on Sunday, depending on what mum feeds us on saturday.

PG x

cw18

used another couple of bits from stock today.... namely a tin of M@ M@de and a couple of bags of sugar, but the tin had been purchased on a B2G1F offer and the sugar had only cost me 10p per 1kg bag due to the fact it was sold through the staff shop (before I left my job last Nov) after getting damp - so the 1.8kg I used had a couple of huuuuuuge sugar lumps in it :rotfl:

So that's approx 6lb of marmalade for £1.19, and IMO it's the closest I'll ever get to the stuff my paternal grand-mother made which I absolutely adored - so worth every penny even when I don't get the ingredients on special offers

signature updated to include those costs

Florenceem

Another shopping day here - spent £8.63. I got a 5 kg sack of onions in Li.. Then in Tesco I got some ys fruit/vegetables.. Shouldn't need anything else this week. Off to update my signature.

kerri_dfw

Evening everybody, £1.50 spend for me this evening on some ambrosia custard to go with my vegan, wheat free crumble (ambrosia for non-vegans). I made it with porridge oats, museli, syrup, olive oil and demerara sugar and oh my was it yummy. Never thought to use oats as crumble before, or museli, but it all worked together perfectly.

Herbyme

Hurrah! For no good reason (actually, displacement activity when meant to be working) I thought I'd check if I had any unspent Te$c0 vouhers - I hardly go there cos I don't like the 'we want to dominate the world thing' so didn't expect anything - £6.50 - woop woop!:j

Linz - defo do the stock thing, it's really worth it. :money:Makes great gravy if your DD likes that, and if not you can use the 'gravy' as sauce for a pie filling, or just use the stock for cooking potatoes in (recipes at start of this thread),as well as soup, risotto etc.

Save dosh - eek re the fate of the bunny! Good job mine can't read!:eek:

lemmings1986

morning guys hope every1 is well and hugs to those that need them,have just caught up with thread every1's doing brilliantly.:T:T
i havnt had chance to post have been sooo tired with new job and working through the night i havnt totally adjusted yet,day off today so am currently making loads of meals i got up about 9pm had tea, made the filo pastry pizza thing off the tele it was srummy but i made ours with pepperoni,chorizo,tomato and mozzarella and tomato purree will definatly be making this again and oh really liked it(he can be quite pickey):D.
all from stuff i already had in so thought i would batch cook some meals for me n oh during the week
ive made spaghetti bolognaise x3,chicken korma x3,daube of beef-well thats what i call it i had a small joint of beef i got from work so chopped it up,added mushrooms and onions and onion gravy, chuck it in the oven for 20 mins then add half a bottle of red wine let it cook for another hour then add the rest of the wine and some more gravy granules and let it cook for another hour,the meat is always tender and tastes lovely the original recipe i found says add carrot and peas but oh doesnt like carrot and i dont like peas so do without but always tastes lovely so made x3 of them.just made chorizo and pepperoni pasta bake x5.
also made a ginger cake for oh to take to work with his packup.just some cheese and onion pastys and mini pizza's to make if i can find a recipe for pizza dough hopefully will have the stuff in to make them.
yay me i have had a productive night hopefully will be able to fit it all in the freezer when its all cooled down.:rotfl::rotfl:
right am off to put a wash on,clean the bathroom then i may watch abit of tele.
hope every1 has a good day.:)

mumsiemum

Popping in to report £2.94 spend by OH yesterday. Still on target for end of the month :T

MM