April 2012 Grocery Challenge

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Spent £7.87 on Saturday on some tomatoes, cucumbers, houmus, bananas and 3 packs of pitta bread. Am going to update sig.

fozziebeartoo

I was planning on walking to Sainsbugs and Ic*land for some Second Purse bits for Sallys Stores, but it is SO wet here, I think I better stay in and make it a NSD instead

Will have usual granola and greek yog for brekkie.

No idea about lunch but I think there is just enough LO tuna mayo for a sarnie.

Tea - well I have YS/whoopsied braising steak in the slow cooker with a jar of Homepride shepherds pie sauce and carrots, peas, sweetcorn etc.

BUT and it's a BIG BUT, no suet or packets of dumpling mix in the house :eek: and in my opinion, anything in a sauce in a slow cooker benefits from light fluffy golden dumplings :rotfl:

Luckily a search found various non-suet dumpling recipes, so will be trying one of them if the weather doesnt dry up.

jumblejack

Florenceem wrote: »

Had a spend today of £3.96 - going to fall a bit short of my aimed for NSDs this month. :mad:
We had roast potatoes, broccoli, carrot, leek and HM sausage pie for dinner.



Tomorrow's meals are all sorted - shouldn't need to spend!

Mmmm. The sausage pie looks nice.
Did you use 'proper' sausages or sausage meat?

I only ask as I have a few packs of finest sausage meat to use up and I am running out of recipes
Cheers

JJ

S-I_am

Morning all,

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

Tea - well I have YS/whoopsied braising steak in the slow cooker with a jar of Homepride shepherds pie sauce and carrots, peas, sweetcorn etc.

BUT and it's a BIG BUT, no suet or packets of dumpling mix in the house :eek: and in my opinion, anything in a sauce in a slow cooker benefits from light fluffy golden dumplings :rotfl:

Luckily a search found various non-suet dumpling recipes, so will be trying one of them if the weather doesnt dry up.

Hows your recipe search going? I made dumplings for the first time recently. The recipe I used used sr flour and baking powder. They were sooo light and fluffy

Despite the horrible weather - its rainy and windy here - I've a lovely day planned. I'm going into town and after a gentle potter I'm meeting DH for a quick lunch :j
It feels so romantic meeting him in a cafe. We arrive and leave separately - so that's at least 2 kisses - It feels wonderful steeling moments out of the working day.
Then I have an afternoon of pampering as I'm having my hair cut and highlights added. For various reasons this is my first trip to the hairdressers this year, so it really is a treat

Wishing you all a warm, dry day.

Sx

meg72

jumblejack wrote: »

Mmmm. The sausage pie looks nice.
Did you use 'proper' sausages or sausage meat?

I only ask as I have a few packs of finest sausage meat to use up and I am running out of recipes
Cheers

JJ

I had a pack of sausage meat, been in the freezer since Christmas. I made Scotch Eggs and they were lovely.

tjak

I haven't been keeping track properly, although I have been meal planning better this month. Gutted to have just added everything up and hit £320 this month - £70 over budget.:mad:

I am well stocked up though, so if I am careful, I could bring it back on track next month. I blame lack of self control when given a MOC from MrT. I go with the intention of just spending the £40 I need to use the voucher, and end up way over. I have been sent three £5 off £50 online shop vouchers, maybe that is a safer option for me.

Off to hang head in shame.

fozziebeartoo

S-I_am wrote: »

Morning all,



Hows your recipe search going? I made dumplings for the first time recently. The recipe I used used sr flour and baking powder. They were sooo light and fluffy

Despite the horrible weather - its rainy and windy here - I've a lovely day planned. I'm going into town and after a gentle potter I'm meeting DH for a quick lunch :j
It feels so romantic meeting him in a cafe. We arrive and leave separately - so that's at least 2 kisses - It feels wonderful steeling moments out of the working day.
Then I have an afternoon of pampering as I'm having my hair cut and highlights added. For various reasons this is my first trip to the hairdressers this year, so it really is a treat

Wishing you all a warm, dry day.

Sx

Enjoy your romantic lunch and your pampering afternoon - it sounds lovely :T

I found lots of suet free dumping recipes thanks - including a Jamie one.....I dont really know why I havent tried before but my Mum always used suet when I was a kid, so I just followed on......like you do!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sallybunny

Sausage rolls....mmmmmm...

abitofhelp

tessie_bear wrote: »

hi...i went to aldi and got some of the super 6...59p this time which i thought was very reasonable...then disaster...i went into the coop and hit the motherload of reduced food...igot
sirlion and rump steak
a free range chicken
haddock
croissants x3
warbutons loaf
naan bread
almond fingers
teacakes
tzakik
cottage cheese
chicken breasts
8 big bag fulls and cost £20...only problem is i didnt have £20 so borrowed it from another budget as thought the bargains were too good to miss...the chicken breasts were reduced to £1 and they had a coupon on for 30p off a cookin sauce...i thought that was a bargain

im off for a sit down now after trying to fit it in the freezer...take care tess

that is a fantastic haul well done, i have chucked away the receipts for £5 off £40 at asd@, i make a list everytime to ensure i only spend £40 and i all ways go over. was planning to visit farmf00ds this week end to use the coupons they offer have decided against that also. a, no room in the freezer to fit what i was planning to buy, b, i will buy the cooking bacon from tesc0 as that will be cheaper than buying 3 packs of frozen bacon, c, the stuff i was planning to buy i have most in freezer anyway. so going to ald1 and tesc0 on friday evening and i am planning to spend no more than £35, wish me luck.

kittywight

£2.00 £land (fab con, shake nd vac)
£5.36 co-0p (spinach, 2 boxes youngs fish,hot chocolate,crackerbread)
£1.90 h^rsts (black bags)

i did buy some other stuff, which im not counting on my grocerie challenge, storage baskets and gas and electric ect

xx