May 2012 Grocery Challenge

elizabunny

:DHi everyone!
Just thought I'd post a pic of tonight's HM Pizza (Not cooked yet)
Cheddar, Ricotta, Tomato & Chive on a sourdough crust. Hope it tastes nice:) Sorry the pic is so big (Need to work on this)
Small shop to do tonight as I need eggs and a few other bits. I will try not to spend much:D

Florenceem

elizabunny wrote: »

:DHi everyone!
Just thought I'd post a pic of tonight's HM Pizza (Not cooked yet)
Cheddar, Ricotta, Tomato & Chive on a sourdough crust. Hope it tastes nice:) Sorry the pic is so big (Need to work on this)
Small shop to do tonight as I need eggs and a few other bits. I will try not to spend much:D

Lovely photo/colours/pizza.

Florenceem

Great day today!
First I received a letter - £25 Premium Bond win! :j
Then I am having a declutter - unearthed some vintage cookery books that I found in Mil's flat when we were sorting out over there. :j
There are 6 books but the most exciting one is -

1942 - Feeding The Family In War-Time.

I will be trying out some of the recipes in the future - watch this space!
Doesn't take much to excite me!

Apparently the nation was at it's healthiest during the war!

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Craig well done - great haul - i could imagine the restrained gallop to get there lol
Flo Lovely onion soup - can we have the recipe - thinking of getting more of the lidl onions - too good an offer to miss
Cleggie - you haven't really gone that far over, its all a learning experience and if you really stock take, you might surprise yourself how many meals you have in stores.
Eliza lovely looking pizza - can we have an after pic when cooked,

mummyyof5

Eekk...huge spend in MrMs today...I know why I avoid it now but we had no decent t-bags and OH was revolting...I dont drink any hot drinks so wasnt bothering me lol x so £60.00 to add....unfortunately I bought more than T-bags.

Soworried

I spent £21.45 today and I'm happy with that. I got lot's of spices, toilet rolls, cereal, juice, lentils plus lot's more. I didn't pick up anything that I didn't need or would need in the next few days.

If anyone needs turmeric then the big bags at MrT (haidi) are reduced to 97p

jumblejack

Florenceem wrote: »

Great day today!
First I received a letter - £25 Premium Bond win! :j
Then I am having a declutter - unearthed some vintage cookery books that I found in Mil's flat when we were sorting out over there. :j
There are 6 books but the most exciting one is -

1942 - Feeding The Family In War-Time.

I will be trying out some of the recipes in the future - watch this space!
Doesn't take much to excite me!

Apparently the nation was at it's healthiest during the war!

Wow! I CANNOT wait to hear the verdict on some of those recipes:j

The pizza picture looks awesome. So healthy and vibrant. Mmmmm:T

jumblejack

R

We are having an early tea so here it is:

Pork chops with lemon and mint couscous (first time I've picked mint this year:j) and fresh ginger yoghurt.
Very healthy and clean tasting.

Cost:
93p whoopsied chops,
Mint free
Lemon 5p
Couscous around 40p worth
Fresh ginger was 4p for about 5 roots which were whoopsied. I used half a root so less than a penny's worth,
Yoghurt was 5 big pots for a quid. I used a third of a pot so about 7p worth.
Cumin was about 2p worth (I bulk buy from Asian shops)

Around £1.50 for 4 servings = 38p per serving:j:T

Bonglecat

craigywv wrote: »

chicken escalopes 3.80 something down to 88p, fancy sausages were 3.99 (dear lord i would need a nerve tablet to pay that for 6 sausages) down to 50p pork and leek saus down to 40p ,pork,beef, all types 38p a pack must have bought 6 packs of each lol also 10 organic eggs were 3.15 !!!!! for 70 p (got 4) also tubs of all different ready made cookie dough all flavours 3 quid down to 35p,lovely fancy burgers topped with thai cream cheese for 80 p and loads of fruit and veg cant rem all we got but its loads. then to top it off when was paying for it checked recept on way out door it all came to 17 quid!!

Wow I really need to haunt my local Mr Ts near closing time. Well done!

I'm a newbie here and whilst I've set my challenge I haven't really posted but that's because I tried to work out this month in retrospect and couldn't so I'm starting on payday which is Friday.

Florenceem

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Craig well done - great haul - i could imagine the restrained gallop to get there lol
Flo Lovely onion soup - can we have the recipe - thinking of getting more of the lidl onions - too good an offer to miss
Cleggie - you haven't really gone that far over, its all a learning experience and if you really stock take, you might surprise yourself how many meals you have in stores.
Eliza lovely looking pizza - can we have an after pic when cooked,

I didn't make the onion soup - I think it was JJ.