May 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Florenceem wrote: »

Are you making kidney bean curry or soup - bit confused? We must be related! :rotfl: I too get a kick out of pricing recipes!

I made a kidney bean curry (otherwise known as Rajma). I need to use up my parsnips so will be making a curried parsnip soup as a seperate dish.

The kids were on an excursion today so I made the curry but they had eaten out (grandparent's treat!). I have now saved it for tomorrow's tea instead. We will be on a geological field trip tomorrow so will not have time to cook. Will be great for coming in to!

I will post a picture when I dish out tomorrow.

Kidney beans x 3 tins = 54p
Onions = 7p
Fresh Ginger = 1p (whoopsied bag was 4p for 5 roots!!:j)
Garlic = 9p
Assorted spices: cumin, coriander, cloves, cardamom, chilli, garam masala....... = 20p tops as I bulk buy in huge bags cheaply.

I would estimate there is around 6-8 servings in the pot so based on 7 portions, each serving would be around 13p each!!!!! I will be serving with boiled rice and (Mega cheap) natural yoghurt though so this would raise the per head cost to less than 25p.

I'm glad it gives you a buzz too! It is such a gratifying thing to feed your loved ones so well on so little!:j

PennyGrabber

jumblejack wrote: »

I'm glad it gives you a buzz too! It is such a gratifying thing to feed your loved ones so well on so little!:j

I love working out how cheaply I can feed my family too! Often, it's less than £1 for the three of us for a main meal, so how come my monthly grocery spending is so high?!?!?!!!!!!

jumblejack

By the way, Flo, I was thinking of your book last night.
A quick google threw up a great site:
http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/100-wartime-recipes/
Spent ages checking out the recipes!!!!
I love blogs like this. :T

Edit:
Another NSD even though we are now out of cereal and milk. Kids can have toast tomorrow!
I have started to save those cornflakes at the bottom of the bag that are too crushed to use in the freezer. Will keep topping it up then use em as a topping to a savoury bake!!

cattysmum

Soworried wrote: »

How about some home made coleslaw? Carrot and orange salad? Carrot and lentil soup, carrot cake.

Are you looking for sweet or savoury recipes? I'm sorry can't help with the other questions.

Thanks for suggestions a batch of coleslaw done, the rest in the freezer all chopped up hmm now what about the peppers?

angelatgraceland

Added up my totals today(will update sig later)and things look better than I fears cos I keep on shopping!!!
I had a free tea on Saturday evening at a neighbours who held a pizza demonstration/Italian night and a free lunch and tea today! Not one to take advantage, I took the host of the evening a jar of honey and my friend a home made loaf of bread today. Ive also introduced 2 friends to the concept of homemade laundry gloop-anyone else tried it yet? If so, what do you think of it???
Found a £3 voucher on the tesco website so used that tonight on flour yeast and breadmixes. I think theres a bit of Amish in me somewhere!

MrsCD

cattysmum wrote: »

Hi there, I havn't been on for a while but now I need a good recipe for using up some carrots, arghhh made the mistake of buying double as they seemed a good offer at the time, help what can I do with them thought of carrot and coriander soup but Iv only got dried coriander in house and dont want to spend anymore till next week and have also got some peppers that I need to use, can I just chop and freeze them. Thanks. PS Love the look of the Herby bread and the iced fingers are they on the recipe post??

Carrot & Ginger soup? It's lovely Carrots, onion and veg stock with a little ground ginger- cheap and easy

2nd NSD for me and I've updated sig.
Night night:)

Florenceem

NSD again here.
I had some gammon I wanted to use so I cooked it off a bit, cut into chunks and put it into a Yorkshire pudding batter. We had some tonight for dinner and there are two day's meals in the freezer.
For dinner we had gammon in Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, gravy, peas, roast mushrooms and onion. Full oven again - I also baked off some bread slices.

abitofhelp

Morning all, hope you are all well, pay day for me so i will write a small shopping list today ready for tomorrow evening.
Lots of ideas coming through on the thread, it really is a lovely read and it makes you know your not alone in trying to reduce spends.

Jumblejack - i save the broken biscuits and crumbs from the bottom of the tin, i whizz them up and freeze them ready for cheesecakes etc.
MrsCD - Carrot & ginger soup sounds lovely, i shall give that a try.

Have a good day all.

mummyyof5

Some well thought out spending yesterday....£16 in meat market...this was for4 trays of chicken breast...will do us 3 meals...Green thia curry..only need coconut milk...chicken balti and rice..have everything for this and????
Also bought 2 whole chickens which will do 2 sunday dinners.
Iceland cost £18 but got 5 full meals in here and potatoes,eggs and 15 bags of quavers so thats lunch box for LO for 3 weeeks...Teens will be in trouble if they touch them!!!!!

At hospital with DS2 all day today so will be a NSD
May nip to L***l tomorrow for some of the offer mince .

tjak

Well, I was paid today so am ready to declare my month at £197/£200.
I am so proud of myself because the previous two months were way over (and that was against a higher budget).
We have meal planned really carefully and stuck to it, and have shopped at Lidl instead of Tesco. I did an online shop from Asda which arrived today so that goes into June's budget, and I am determined to stick with the programme for June too.

I have proved to myself it can be done, however impossible it feels. I don't have any access to YS or markets as we live so rurally, and I am always jealous when I see the amazing prices you can pick things up on YS.

Keep going, and thank you for keeping me motivated!