Grocery Challenge - February 2012

tigerfeet2006

elsiepac wrote: »

I've had a lonely egg loitering in the fridge for a while with use by date of yesterday (!), and 3/4 jar peanut butter from a recipe a while ago in the cupboard.

So have just made your cookies tigerfeet, and they are YUMMY! Thank you so much for the recipe! :j For anyone on WW, I used crunchy peanut butter, and they work out 5 ProPoints each, or 9 for two.

LC

Glad you enjoyed them LC They never last round here when I bake them, though in theory they will stay fresh in an air tight container for a week. They also sell well at school fetes and are snaffled when I send them in for various things in school. The ginger biscuits are lush to and also go quickly when I bake them.

rosieben

tigerfeet, I've added your GF&DF Biscuits to the index :beer:
elsiepac, I've added your Sweet Pepper and Tomato Soup too :beer:

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Year budget - £1,320.00
Year Spent - £0,191.86
Year left - £1,128.14

Mr S - £28.50 (several shops)
Co-op - £17.08.
Health food store - £21.74
M&S - £0.50
Total - £67.82

Year budget - £1,320.00
Year Spent - £0,259.68
Year left - £1,060.32

ixia

Morning everyone

I went my grocery shop to Mr M's yesterday and spent £91.43 went to dpend the £60 to get the 15p off fuel and went a little over.

With other spends this week that's a total of £99.86 so I have gone over budget by £13.42 so far as I forgot to get a few things. Don't know whether to carry some of it over into next months budget as my dates run to the 29th and some of the stuff will do me to after that.

Hope everyone else managed to stay in budget

skilly

Morning all, just found a 2kg bag of yellow lentils that out out of date 2010:shhh:look a good colour and seems to be no UFO in bag should I use or not ?

jedi82

good morning everyone. I don't seem to get a chance to get on the laptop at the mo but have been keeping up to date with my GC. Am under budget and am confident that I will finish the month under :j as have enough food to get through. Although I seem to be coping with my grocery budget, I have noticed on my money spreadsheet that our beer/treat spending is too high and so am going to allocate money to that and take it out as cash and that is what we have for the month. Said to DH about it and he agreed - he has come so far with this money saving! any money left in the pot will go towards bigger treats for the family

Weather here is looking good so might manage to drag the family up to the lottie.....have a nice day xx

bodmin789

Well, there will be some batch cooking done today, but not by me . DH likes to spend a Sunday afternoon in the kitchen listening to the football, so I'm not going to complain!

He will be making my 2 favourites with mung beans, which are great substitutes for mince in recipes, although they are a bit fiddly, but well worth the effort.

So think I will spend some of the afternoon searching out new recipes, and pricing up food processors, we have decided this will be a good investment as we cook the majority of our food from scratch, and having one would save a lot of time - what are other peoples view on this????

tessie_bear

hi...we are having chicken and ham bake to use up some
roast chicken we had left from yesterday...yogurt for pudding i think but i might make a crumble at some point
next weeks food is being planned by looking what is taking up the most room in the freezer as it is rammed....we seem to have aquired a few differentmarinades so might be chicken legs a few times
im off to aldi tomorrow to have a look aat the super 6....rumoured to be fruit so thats different....note to aldi a mix of fruit and veg would be useful imo

have a nice sunday
tess

caroline504

My attempt at keeping our shopping down has completely fell apart fir February.
DH came shopping with me yesterday and my £50 spend turned in to £76...
So gonna try again for march

123budget

Morning All
After two disastrous meals over the last couple of days
1. burnt in oven whilst working on gc spreadsheet!
2. made veggies to big in biryani and rice ended up mushy and veg still rock hard!

so today will stick to old faithful sc beef casserole as in and out all day with sport and parties.

Am trying to get ds2 to eat a healthier breakfast - he is sugar addicted!! but due to his rugby training needs something that will keep him going longer - he quite likes the rude food organic granola with honey but it is so expensive at £2.89 for a 500g box - he still needs educating not to have the bowl overflowing with it!!
Does anyone know where I can get granola reasonably priced? Also where is the cheapest place to buy seeds - sunflower, pumpkin etc.

PS Came across this recipe in my folder we used to have it regularly so if you like thai this is a nice mild one:_

Oven baked Thai chicken Rice
(i make it in a wok on stove and then transfer to a casserole dish in oven)

vegetable oil
1 onion chopped
4-500g chicken chopped into cubes
5 tbsp thai green curry paste
312g basmati rice or basmati and wild rice mix
2 red peppers
finely grated zest & juice of 1-2 limes
400g reduced fat coconut milk
250ml boiling water

Heat oven to 200 c
heat oil in oven proof casserole or another pot and then transfer later
soften onion for 5 mins
add chicken and curry paste cook for further 3 mins
Add in rice, chopped peppers, lime zest and juice and coconut milk and 250ml boiling water
Bring to boil
pop lid on and put in over for about 20 mins until rice fluffy