April 2012 Grocery Challenge

kittywight

jumblejack wrote: »

Right. Verdict on Jamie Oliver dough is...
a thumbs up!
I divided it into 8 portions. I made the first test pizza and it was too big for an individual pizza. I halved another of the section to give the kids to prep their own and it was a perfect size.

Therefore the batch makes 16, yes, 16 individual pizzas!!!!

Good value!

do you have the recipe hun?

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Year budget - £1,320.00
Year spent - £0,341.19
Year left - £0,978.81

Mr S - £126.87 (few shops including big shop)
Saved - £48.44 with discount, reductions and coupons :eek:.

Year budget - £1,320.00.
Year spent - £0,468.06 (35.46% of budget - 26.56% of the year) *
Year left - £0,851.94

* looks bad but there are a lot of things bulk bought such as crisps for OH work, flour, oil, tinned goods, tortillia wraps etc so it should even out later in the year.

jumblejack

kittywight wrote: »

do you have the recipe hun?

http://m.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pizza-recipes/pizza-dough

Well worth making a batch and then freezing the surplus dough in individual portions.

MunniMuncha

jumblejack wrote: »

http://m.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pizza-recipes/pizza-dough

Well worth making a batch and then freezing the surplus dough in individual portions.

Can I just ask JJ is that 2kg of flour in total or is it 1kg, made up of 800g of strong flour and 200g semolina flour?

Many thanks

jumblejack

MunniMuncha wrote: »

Can I just ask JJ is that 2kg of flour in total or is it 1kg, made up of 800g of strong flour and 200g semolina flour?

Many thanks

I didn't weigh it as I used the cupeasurement on my measuring jug. It was therefore measured by volume not weight.

It was a new 1.5kg bag of strong flour and it used well over a kilo by the looks of how empty the bag is now! I also used the semolina flour but again, it was measured by the jug.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific

MunniMuncha

jumblejack wrote: »

I didn't weigh it as I used the cupeasurement on my measuring jug. It was therefore measured by volume not weight.

It was a new 1.5kg bag of strong flour and it used well over a kilo by the looks of how empty the bag is now! I also used the semolina flour but again, it was measured by the jug.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific

Can you let me know the cup measurement as I can't see it on the JO site - many thanks. Sorry for being a nag :obut really fancy giving this a go and want to get it right and I don't think that the JO recipe is very clear:(

jumblejack

MunniMuncha wrote: »

Can you let me know the cup measurement as I can't see it on the JO site - many thanks. Sorry for being a nag :obut really fancy giving this a go and want to get it right and I don't think that the JO recipe is very clear:(

Weird. The link seems to have changed?! It was 7 cups of strong flour and 2 cups of semolina flour.

jumblejack

I can't seem to find the same page now. It seems I was looking at a US version.

This page seems to be UK recipe:
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pizza-recipes/pizza-dough

LavenderBees

iQueen wrote: »

In these days of Accountability...

A £10 voucher is money, no? :rotfl:

Oh, honestly...:rotfl:Yes, but no, but yes, but no...it's FREE money :rotfl:

You can really go off some people, can't you? :rotfl:

LB xx

P.S. of course you're right.....BUT........I have my fingers in my ears.....and anyway, the pizza discussion is MUCH more interesting! xx

PennyGrabber

So, 1 kilo altogether. I was a touch confused as well, and really wanted to give it a go, so thanks guys for clearing that up for me! We have hm pizza on the menu for this week, so if I go into a shop, I may see if they have semolina flour. If not, I'll do it the other way!

I've had a mixed bag this week... I've now spent £52 odd out of my £100 budget. I haven't been this bad since last year. So, in a way that's good, in that I've gone three months being good! In another way, it's really really bad, as we're only 6 days into the month!! Still, have in everything including fruit and veg for the rest of the week (bar the flour maybe), and only need fresh for beyond that, plus loo rolls and cat food.

The children came back today, yay!!! So, I made them a treaty snacky tea as they'd had a dinner for lunch. We had hot dogs with lovely fresh rolls that I'd bought today, knowing they'd choose hot dogs out of the list I gave them! Then, while we were eating pudding of melon, we planned the rest of the week. It looks a bit like this:

Breakfast will always be cereal/toast/treatfast
Sat
Tomato soup
Risotto
Sun
Hm chicken nuggets, scotch eggs, saus rolls, picnicky type thing at home
Toad in the hole
Mon
Lo picnic stuff on an actual picnic
Corned beef hash
Tues
Corned beef hash/fritters
Jackets
Weds
toasties
Cottage pie
Thurs
Noodles/pasta
Hm pizza

Lots of potatoey things to account for the fact that I have 5kg of spuds here at the moment.

The children are back with their dad next fri to sun, so I'll have oxo roast chicken and curry with the lo meat (chicken legs and curry sauce already in freezer!)

For anyone interested, a$da have a good price on branston beans, £1.28 for four, and then heinz soups are £2.89 for four, or two packs for £3! Alos, heinz spaghetti are £2 for four, or £3 for two packs. htt someone. Ooh, and I also noticed corned beef rolled back to £1.59 a big tin, which is the best price I've seen for a while.

Off to bed with a cuppa and a dvd now, as I still need more rest than normal while I shake this dratted cough and cold!!

Take care all,

PG x