April 2012 Grocery Challenge

Suffolk_lass

iQueen wrote: »

Yesterday I spent £1.55 on fc milk and also bought an 'unnecessary' special offer of 2 choc puds, for £1, from local PO/Spur. Advice wanted! Over the past year or so, I have accumulated about 8 of the individual plastic pud basins - no tops. I've saved them to make my own sponge/suet puds to freeze. Anyone know - is it best to freeze these raw or cooked? I plan to micro one when required.

Definitely best to cook them first and then put fresh covers on before freezing. I would use double thickness pleated greaseproof paper tied with string and then some foil (but it you are going to reheat in the microwave the foil is removed first).

Also, these containers are ideal for hm Christmas Puddings which store for years and in cupboards, not taking up valuable freezer space, and they make good Xmas gifts for people in small households or living alone.
HTH
SL

fozziebeartoo

Total in sig updated after spending £3.98 in Co-op (6 handwashes for stores) and £14.74 in Lidl.

I have a huge chicken casserole in the slow cooker for tonight, smells lovely......will be adding double dumplings in the hope that DD and DGS will leave enough for me to have it tomorrow again, when I am on my own.

miffy257

Hi there , have updated my spends. Need to go to Mr T's this afternoon to get fresh stuff for the week ahead. Have a £5 off £40 spend coupon so will buy extra stuff to freeze if needed.

sistercas

very big shop today £33.53 in @sda and £96.28 in an approved food type shop - got loads of chicken, quality sausages, pork , chops, enough to last a month hopefully anyway.
will need fresh stuff and pet food

will add it to my sig

MunniMuncha

Afternoon all - reading about keeping old appliances - I have my own oven cleaning business and the oldest oven I have cleaned was 68 years old! :eek: It was a beautiful old range in cream and the inside of the ovens were a baby blue. Came up lovely and was a real privilege to clean too:)

meg72

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

Total in sig updated after spending £3.98 in Co-op (6 handwashes for stores) and £14.74 in Lidl.

I have a huge chicken casserole in the slow cooker for tonight, smells lovely......will be adding double dumplings in the hope that DD and DGS will leave enough for me to have it tomorrow again, when I am on my own.

This made me laugh.if I were you I wouldnt leave it to chance though,I`d sneak a portion out and hide it before serving it up.

fozziebeartoo

meg72 wrote: »

This made me laugh.if I were you I wouldnt leave it to chance though,I`d sneak a portion out and hide it before serving it up.

Good idea!! :rotfl:

DD wont be here for more than an hour but those golden fluffy dumplings are already calling my name

mrs-moneypenny

just back from a little Tesc0 shop so updated my sig linda mc sausages are £1 for 6 so bought a tenners worth also out of washing up liquid and picked up a couple of bread

Fiasco55

I managed aNSD today when I was out and about. Just finished a lovely meal with my mum. This is her lady night staying with me so that will help reduce the food costs as its just back to me for next week for the most part.

rising_from_the_ashes

Just a quickie ....

The Co*op have some great BOG2F offers on this week on toiletries: (ours is just a small shop so there may be more in the bigger stores)

Toothpaste
Handwash
Shower Gel *
Bubble Bath *

* Japanese Spa ... my absolute all time favourite around £2/bottle so only a very rare treat ...... now have 3 bottles of each in the cupboard and seriously thinking of going & stocking up on more tomorrow!:T (would be wonderful to have "nice" BB & SG for a while rather than the cheap stuff):)