April 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Dinner went well today.

The pud was lush. I found 2 baking bananas (bananas that are too brown that cry out, "Bake me, bake me!") so I mashed them into the 2 minute cake mix recipe.

Never tried it before and it was incredible. 2 minute Choc Banana microwave cake, mmmmm!!!!

Mum looks so much better today. Much like her old self so very pleased

ModestyB

Spent £36.64 over the last few days, £10 for 3 chickens from Mr S, £18.54 in Ald1, £2.79 in B&M and 51p in Mr M on 3 bread mixes courtesy of the 80p off coupons. Plus some halls menthol for DH.
Has anyone seen any Tunes about lately? I can't find them anywhere. Have they stopped making them?
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JIL

jumblejack wrote: »

Dinner went well today.

The pud was lush. I found 2 baking bananas (bananas that are too brown that cry out, "Bake me, bake me!") so I mashed them into the 2 minute cake mix recipe.

Never tried it before and it was incredible. 2 minute Choc Banana microwave cake, mmmmm!!!!

Mum looks so much better today. Much like her old self so very pleased

I worked with someone who gave me a recipe that made cookies out of brown bananas and it was lovely. She left a couple of years ago and i lost the recipe. I really wish I could find one like it. It was so easy and was lovely.

it was chocolate, flour, butter, sugar and bananas all mixed together and spoonfulls put on a baking sheet and baked it came out like cookies.

If anyone has heard of something like this please could they post the recipe.

Thank you.


I have just made some brownies, out of some plain chocolate someone bought me last year, I was 50 g short and thought I would use some of the left over easter egg I had been saving. Once I had melted them together I realised the easter egg was a plain chocolate mint one, heres hoping it will be ok.

PennyGrabber

I really enjoyed my food today. Had more bendy soup for lunch, it's nearly all gone now, and jacket with cheese and salad, and last of the ham for dinner. Easy, cheap and nutritious. Gotta love it!

NSD today too, so even better. Tummy not feeling so good now; don't know if it's nerves or illness, so going to do my jobs and head on off to bed.

Night all,

PG x

Sue14

Just been through my receipts to update my spends for this month, and since my last update I've had 2 trips to HB, with a total spend of £24.49, 2 trips to £1 shop total of £4, and another trip to A1d1 with a spend of £27.08. I shouldn't need anything except milk and cat food before the end of the month (famous last words, lol!), so hopefully we'll come in under budget this month.

meanmarie

Spent €52.59 in Aldi yesterday, so total to date is €130.52, should manage I think.

Marie

Florenceem

Last day of the April GC for me - ended with a NSD - so achieved 21 out of aimed for 22 NSDs.
Spend for April GC - £41.97 out of £100 allowed for the 4 weeks.
We had roast potatoes, beef/onion slice with roasted vegetables - courgettes, onion and tomatoes for dinner.


Veggies ready to roast.


Onions are out of the bag I bought at Lid. ages ago I think it was 10 kg for £1.69. Courgettes/tomatoes - cheap - bit soft. We still have freezers full plus stocks in the cupboard/garage so spending should be low for a while.

HappyTorty

Moving house and had a look at the little shops nearby. There's an odds and sodds type shop not only five mins walk and I managed to get an 18 pack of soft toilet roll for £2.99! :j Will have to have a proper look around next week and see what else I can get there instead of the SM!

Florenceem

Is there a May GC set up please?

CherryPie

PennyGrabber wrote: »

All this talk of soup...

I made bendy soup on Thursday night. We had boiled ham for dinner, and I usually save the water, put it in the fridge and think 'I'll do something with that later...'. Well, Thurs I actually made some soup while dinner was cooking! I chopped up loads of veg while making the parsley sauce for dinner, and then just shoved the veg into the pan as soon as I'd taken the ham out. Then, when I took the plates back to the kitchen after dinner, it was done! (I added some lentils and stock cubes too.)

I had some for lunch on Friday at work, and my friends looked at it and said it looked nice, what type was it? I replied that it was bendy soup, and they said they'd never heard of it, what was in it?! I said you know, all the bendy veg from the bottom of the fridge! They all rotfl!!!

It's generally the only type of soup I make! This one was a carrot, an onion, a leek, a swede, two spuds and some celery. Was lush! Serving it to my mum and brother for lunch tomorrow. Hopefully she'll approve; either that or she'll rave about my brother who's so amazing and so skint but makes such wonderful food... Of course, she's bringing the brother who had depression so much worse than me. I'm kind of the failure of the family, never done anything quite as good as my brothers... And my sister in law is like the daughter she never had, the way she raves about her. I'm so looking forward to them visiting for my birthday!!

Whoops, I digress. Sorry.

Guess I'm off th bed then.

Night all,

Pg x

ps - spent £17 odd in a$da today, got loads of fruit for the week so no need to shop for a while.

We all kinda love the failure that you are though!! :rotfl::rotfl:

And your post just inspired me to make not bendy soup, but bendy roast veg which will do for tomorrow's dinner with some cous cous!

Here's to all of us failures!!

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