April 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Just discovered that pizza dough that has chilled, rolls out much better with no shrink back!:T

Also found that if you use semolina flour when rolling it out instead of regular flour, the crust is a much nicer finish.

I'm off out now to spend (after 2 NSDs), some mozzarella, Tabasco sauce, salad, cola, milk and a few other bits.
Hopefully my JTD will cover the majority of the total cost as I am pretty much up to my weekly total:eek:

DundeeDoll

Today's shopping £57.66 including scrumpy for me OH gone down to butchers and chemists so there will be more, but nicely on target for fattening up xmas fund. Also had sudden panic I'd forgotten to pay the CC having forgotten I'd decided on new habit of putting in delayed payment soon as I get the bill. Phew! Must sort out DD to pay off total lot.

Winchelsea

Spent £2.61 this morning, on fruit (apples, bananas and oranges), also cough sweets (the lurgi has struck - feel OK though apart from the nuisance of sore throat, cough and streaming nose!)

Have put some dried fruit to soak in tea, to make a fruit loaf this evening. Seeds (mung, pea and chick pea) are sprouting nicely. The first two have transferred to a window sill for a bit of photosynthesis, and will plant some of the peas out in the garden soon, and add the rest to a stir fry.

May well make a pizza later as well - inspired by JJ and others - thanks for that.

Must keep this up - may now be going away volunteering with friends in October - need to save plenty of pennies for that!

meg72

First spend of the month, £27,between Aldi, Morrisons and Wilkins.

I was particularly pleased with Aldis Chicken,at £3.39,cheaper,bigger and much nicer than Asda, I have got an extra two meals from this.
2x roast dinners, 2xchicken and chips,2x pies,2x curry, 2 x drumstick and salad snacks and 4x chicken and sweet corn soup. So chicken well and truely rubberised.

In Morrisons their large tin loaf was 60p,a great deal on large Pork pies,normally £1.65 were 2 for £2 and own bake sausage rolls, really delish 4 for 50p.

Hope everyone has a great Easter with lots of treats.

savingforoz

I'm a bit late on this, I know, but I'm going for £50 this month. Whether I can achieve that, I don't know - I'm in the process of selling my house and may have to move into temporary accommodation this month, with unknown cooking facilities. Will do my best! So far, so good!

jumblejack

Enrituals laundry liquid is currently £1 in Tesco and does 25 washes!! 5p a wash is pretty good!! Thought I'd tell you as it will certainly help to bring down the cost of household shopping:T

By the way, just spent £10.26:eek: but.... I did buy 9 bottles of enrituals laundry liquid so pretty much sorted for laundry stuff now for 2012 as I have a few bottles in already:beer:

kittywight

Thanks jumblejack.

Hope everyone is well today.

Glad to say i stayed under my £35 goal for the first week of april go me really didnt think i would be able to do it, then again, being completely broke helped

todays a beginning of a new week for me (im doing every 7th day is a new week, and im trying to have 3 NSD so the left over days at the end of the month will be accounted for)

today:
li*ls £6.17 (chicken,potatoes,choc spread,choc eggs)
co-0p £2.99 (bread,sausage rolls, macaroni cheese)
greengrocers £1.10 (carrot,parsnips,tangerines)
health food shop £1.40 (eggs and milkshake)

hopefully wont have to buy any food for a while now, im going to try make tommorow and monday NSD just made some rainbow choc chip easter cupcakes with ds, will share some with our neighbours. hope everyone enjoys the weekend

week 2 (7-14th) £11.56/ £35.00

xx

PennyGrabber

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending wrote: »

Well after the chance to visit both H0me Barga!ns and A!di today, albeit very rushed, I've gone over budget this week- already at £95 (budget = £80) :eek:. However, with this and my L!dl shop earlier in the week I have loads in stock and have extra money spare as no parking/bus fares this week due to Uni holidays so should still come within my total (not just groceries) weekly budget - phew! Next couple of weeks groceries should be under budget due to large stocks though so I should still be OK for the monthly total .

On another note, I have bought a muffin tin so am planning to add these to my newly acquired baking repertoire of biscuits and flapjacks . I am becoming such a domestic goddess :rotfl:. Does anyone know where you can get cheap but reasonable quality large casserole dishes (there's four of us)?

Pyrex is reasonably priced and good quality. I have some pampered chef stoneware that I absolutely swear by, to cook everything, but pyrex was always my first choice before I discovered p chef. Te$co will sell it, and it'll be around £8 for a decent sized dish.

jumblejack wrote: »

Enrituals laundry liquid is currently £1 in Tesco and does 25 washes!! 5p a wash is pretty good!! Thought I'd tell you as it will certainly help to bring down the cost of household shopping:T

By the way, just spent £10.26:eek: but.... I did buy 9 bottles of enrituals laundry liquid so pretty much sorted for laundry stuff now for 2012 as I have a few bottles in already:beer:

Wow, thanks! Have just come to the end of my bottle, and looking out for a good deal - you've just found it for me!!

BTW, £1 divided by 25 washes is actually only 4p a wash, making it even better value!! (I'm sure I could get more than 25 though - I generally only put in half of what they tell you.)

We were going to go to asd@ today, but think we'll be doing te$co instead!! Getting: present for dd's friend (party tomorrow), card for my friend who had a baby boy last night, a flash power mop, a dvd and now lots of enrituals laundry liquid!! Bet I come back with more than that...

fozziebeartoo

Today is my 2nd NSD of April :j
Had granola and yog for brekkie (almost finished both and have challenged myself to use up the other opened cereals before I buy any more)!

Made HM bacon and cheese quiche for lunch.....spurred on by all the talk and photos of quiche here) :rotfl: I had forgotten how good it tastes, used double cream I had in fridge to make it extra yummy!

No room in freezer to freeze LO's but have a friend round later who will eat some.

I got out of the freezer LO Indian takeaway from a couple of weeks back, 1/2 onion bahjee, bit of rice, bit of chicken korma, bit of nan and bit of chapati......and I am adding the whole small nan bread LO from Wetherspoons night out on Thursday, so I will feel full even though there is only a wee bit of protein.

Mmmmm.......should have room to fit one or two bits of quiche in freezer now.....:D

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Pyrex is reasonably priced and good quality. I have some pampered chef stoneware that I absolutely swear by, to cook everything, but pyrex was always my first choice before I discovered p chef. Te$co will sell it, and it'll be around £8 for a decent sized dish.

Thanks PennyGrabber that's really helpful :T. The muffin tin I bought was from Pampered Chef and it looks/feels really good quality but I can't afford a casserole dish from them atm so I'll look for a Pyrex one. I think I will save for P Chef stoneware in the future though.