March 2012 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

elsiepac wrote: »

JIL thank you so much for your suggestions for my cabbages! I wasn't finding anything inspirational on my searches!



I should have mentioned that I HATE fruit in savoury food, REALLY REALLY HATE IT!!! :rotfl: Hence having trouble finding decent red cabbage recipe... sorry



Can't believe I didn't find this in my (admittedly brief) search! I think this is a definite contender. I have tons of lentils in the cupboard and I love them, and I have 3 jars of pasta sauce in the cupboard (don't know why as it is so rare I would use them!) and have been trying to think what to do with them! So I will do this recipe but adapt to use a jar of pasta sauce mixed with passata or tinned toms with some chilli and mixed herbs (from the lovely herb grinder my sister brought back from Greece for me, really sweet ceramic pot with a sort of screw on top that you use like a pepper mill). Won't bother with the breadcrumbs as don't have any bread and will use the reduced fat mature cheddar I have a little left of instead of buying parmesan. PERFECT! Thanks so much!



After I've made the Cheap Family Recipes Onion and Potato Soup for lunch for the next 4 days tomorrow, I will still have 1/3 pack frozen bacon so actually this recipe could be a good one. I will have a search too, thank you once again! Found my inspiration! :T




Wow that sounds amazing and so rejuvenating! Glad you had a good time you lucky thing! :j

LC

I put chunks of red cabbage in with onion chunks/beetroot and pepper in a dish - roast in oven - in 2 Tbsp olive oil/2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar and 2 tsp of sugar.

Florenceem

NSD here. We had HM cheese and onion pastie with HM wedges/carrots/cauliflower/onion/sugar snap peas for dinner.

tigerfeet2006

God! I hate morning! I have a cold looming and a sore throat and children who feel they can take all day to get ready for school and every instruction has to be repeated ten times and even when they are doing what I have asked they squabble and keep asking me what they should be doing. When I call they don't come Aaarrrgh!!!

Sorry rant over.

Dinner last night was the Creamy Garlic Fettucine with Bacon and Mushrooms from The Takeaway Secret. Five clean plates plus a portion for DH lunch today. Pudding was Bread Pudding and custard. The Bread pudding has come out too wet so I will need to not put as much milk in it. Also there wasn't enough spice in it either. GF bread really changes the texture as well.

Barbeduk

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Decisions decisions. It was so almost a NSD but needed chocolate 'for medicinal purposes' :rotfl: but bought it from my pm. So does that count as a nsd in gc? Hmmmmmmmm

Definitely doesn't count as a spend in GC. It is fully understood that chocolate is for medicinal purposes only and should be enjoyed totally blame free.:rotfl:

Tigerfeet. Are you sure you weren't in my house? I might actually start taping requests to save my voice.:D


:wave: Hi Angeladavis. What fantastic news about the children, wishing you all the best. Good luck with the challenge. Perhaps you should confiscate your mum's cards!!

mummybearx

Damn it, forgot to get those receipts for the weekend......

Well, last night I realised I 'couldn't' make a dinner without tinned tomatoes. Took the dog a walk to the local shop, got three tins of toms (49p each), tube of tom puree for 99p and a pack of veg stock cubes for 89p, total spend £3.35. Resisted the urge to buy a scratchcard, crisps and chocolate :j

I need to come up with more recipes that don't include tinned tomatoes, surely I can do that??

NickJW

Hi All

Another spend of £4.25 in Mr S today on a few things for lunches at work for the next couple of days.

Hope everyone has a nice day!

tessie_bear

hi...been busy making key lime pie....limes are 10 for a quid in lidl
so i am making the most of them...i am also going to make 2 casseroles later on one for today and one for the freezer ...it will be a quick meal on a busy night

we have an approved food order arriving tomorrow so that will bolster the stockpile a bit...been to the local shop to get some milk to stay away from the supermarkets.....hopefully saving myself some money...we live in hope

take care tess

Piquant_2

I've spent 34.23 of my allowed 150.00 budget. I'm hopeful that this is the bulk of a two week spend with only milk and salad vegetables to buy before the 14th March.

A lot of this plan is dependent on my remembering to get things out the freezer, set the bread-maker and slow cooker off though!

elsiepac

Florenceem wrote: »

I put chunks of red cabbage in with onion chunks/beetroot and pepper in a dish - roast in oven - in 2 Tbsp olive oil/2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar and 2 tsp of sugar.

Ooo, yummy, that sounds delicious! Couple of questions (as always, sorry, I'm not really a natural cook!):

- is it raw beetroot you put in or the stuff in the vacuum packs?
- do you mean a red pepper or like ground black pepper?!

I think that's it - roughly how long does that take to roast? 40 minutes at 180 ish?

Thank you so much!

LC

tracey12_2

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

God! I hate morning! I have a cold looming and a sore throat and children who feel they can take all day to get ready for school and every instruction has to be repeated ten times and even when they are doing what I have asked they squabble and keep asking me what they should be doing. When I call they don't come Aaarrrgh!!!

I know the feeling I am also shouting instructions and counting down the minutes until we have to leave, 5 minutes, 4 minutes, put your shoes on, have you brushed your teeth, ella stop eating your packed lunch or you won't have any lunch in nursery blah blah blah.

Why is it I have to wake them up on school mornings but on the weekend when we can have a bit of a lay in they are up even earlier? :mad:

Tracey