May 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

The second leftover rice breakfast was just eaten by my youngest who wandered down stairs. It was leftover rice in a cereal bowl covered with milk and sweetened with sugar and a bit of golden syrup. I warmed it up in the microwave.
The verdict was "Nice, but I prefer rice crispies.":rotfl:

Bonglecat

So far not too bad this week, daily call to DH to ensure he is eating from the freezer and not ordering takeaways. My lunches have been under the £3.75 incidental allowance so work are covering them, but of course I will only get that back when I claim my expenses at the end of the month. And dinners within expenses budget, the only thing I've really spent was a glass of wine yesterday oops. But when your away from home and it was sunny and warm in the evening so I sat outside the hotel and indulged. Won't have another one this week though.

Just have to make sure I don't wonder past Debenhams and find there's a sale on like I did last year. :-)

tessie_bear

hi...lovely and warm today and we have salad for tea....makes a change normally when it turns hot i have planned a stew.....but not today we have lamb steaks and the bambinos are having chicken breasts

i made some chocolate covered strawberries yesterday and they were really nice so i am going to try and buy some more today and make some more

have a nice day tess

abitofhelp

Looks a bit overcast outside here, but it may be brighter later on. Have been up bright and early, i tried to make pitta bread from scratch. It was a disaster. I normally pour the ingredients into the bread maker but i followe a different recipe this morning. It failed badly, it got to the point of no return so i binned the mix. Started again by using normal bread maker recipe. They are now rolled out ready to bake for later. Lamb kebabs for tea tonight with salad & pitta bread.

EyesWideOpen

Hi all, 3 NSD's in a row for me! Yay! already half of what I achieved last month. I got my freezer so this saturday OH and I are going to fill it up with meats so will be a large spend then, therefore trying to hold off as much as I can until then. May not achieve a NSD today though as we're low on milk and cheese but I will not go to shops less asked to.

The casserole I made last sunday turned out amazing! It fed 4 on sunday with enough left for another meal for 3 to go in the freezer AND with spare for two pies too. We had the first pie on Monday and it was lovely though I made the pastry far to thick and didn't cook it for long enough. However, it was my first ever attempt so I am still chuffed. I cooked the second pie for longer after tasting the first one so should be even nicer. A lo piece of the first pie will be a meal for me sometime. Second pie will feed 3 (when OH works away we're only 3 in the house). So in total I got 9 portions out of the casserole and 2 different types of meals. Extremely pleased with that.

Considering baking two breads this evening but may wait until tomorrow.

Hope everyone are blessed with lovely sunshine and a great day

But I can see the wishing for a second freezer may not be as farfetched as I first thought...

EyesWideOpen

Oh and the pie was made due to the inspiration Florenceem's pies have been - so thanks Flo!

quintwins

Morning all (just about) i've been abit mia and spenting has got abit out of hand mainly due to moving hosue and stocking up on meat ect, so i'm gonna chalk may up to experience and jump foward to june i think

Can i have £100 for june please .


now in orde rto get to june without spending any more money my meal plan has changed slightly and looks like this

wed- sausages, roasties,caulifower, carrost and parsnips and gravy
thur-shepereds pie
fri- pizza and garlic bread
sat- dinner at inlaws or sausage rolls and chips
sun- lunch at inlaws, dinner will be soup and bread
monday- chicken pie (made with lo chicken casarole from the freezer) and mash
tue- chicken stirfry
wed- homemade burgers with mash and beans
thur- stew
fri- beef casarole, with mash, mashed carrots and sweetcorn


all i need for all of this is a bag of spuds at £6, i've acually done a meal plan for the next 3 weeks and all i need is spuds, milk,bread, and eggs, but i won't bore you with my whole list.

meg72

Need to work out what I have spent so can update signature.

Got bread, muffins and crumpets from Wilkinsons at 20p each. So no bread needed for June.

Shared a Rosspa order as I wanted the tinned cheese at 5 for a pound, carrots and onions, also got sausages in lard 4 for a pound and tinned mackrel a pound so 7 pound there.

Stocked up on 99p butter, 5 pound, 13 pound so far.

Florenceem

jumblejack wrote: »

JJ's leftover rice burgers:

The experimental breakfast worked like a dream:



I'm trying to get to the weekend without buying more cereal!

Simply break an egg into a cup, add leftover rice to form a sticky mound. Season to taste and shallow fry!

Would go great with fried mushrooms or a poached egg on top. Or simply as a addition to a meal!

Pleased with the experiment!:j

I might fry up a batch of these and freeze them. They would make a great addition to my freezer stocks for meal standbys!

Edit:
You only need one for breakfast! They are REALLY filling. Insanely cheap meal if you just have one topped with an egg, etc!;)

Great idea - would be a good cheap lunch or dinner with few bits added - for those times - too many days - not enough cash!

OS_QS

Oh dear, this month I've blown the budget. We've had two separate weekends of friends / family staying last minute which I hadn't allowed for, so have had to buy in more food to feed 6 people of a weekend instead of us two. That's what happens when you have a generous OH!!

So unfortunately I have spent £150. 37 over the past 3 weeks and I still have 9 days to go and a pretty empty fridge! :eek: