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May 2012 Grocery Challenge

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  • Florenceem
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    Suffolk_lass wrote: »
    I'm still working through a pile of old vests dting back at least 9 years - marvellous for cleaning glass :T



    I agree, caster creams better but if you're using a mixer it really is only meringues. I just routinely do it and use caster (hm) for almost everything. I also use cane sugar (T&L) rather than beat based sugar as our bodies use it more quickly


    There's more to life than hemming rags, I'm with you on that one - whatever Florenceem says!:rotfl:I use old pillow cases too...:)

    SL
    But I love sewing! :D I also love ironing! :o
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  • jumblejack
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    abitofhelp wrote: »
    Hi PennyGrabber, i always use granulated, i have never bothered to grind it up before using . It has always worked fine for me. I suppose i could use the magi mix to grind it up but i expect it would be too much of a faff. Anyway nice big batch of brownies, orange & choc muffins, syrup cake & biscuits made today & a batch of jjs herby bread. All made using granulated sugar apart from the bread.

    Wow!

    I bet your house smells heavenly!!!!
    Well done on fitting all that baking into one session. I'm well impressed:T
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  • Florenceem
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    NSD here.
    Dinner on my own tonight.
    I had prawn curry and basmati rice.

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  • Aldahbra
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    Florenceem wrote: »
    But I love sewing! :D I also love ironing! :o

    :huh: Really?
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  • sonastin
    sonastin Posts: 3,210 Forumite
    Plans went a bit awry today. Firstly stopped off at Mr T tonight on the way home from work. Spent about £55 which on top of my £165 total so far takes me to £220. More than my £200 target but less than the £225 in my budget so its not a complete disaster. OH seems to go through soya milk and breakfast cereal so fast that I've stocked up on more than I need to get to the end of the month, just because I can't face going back there again so its not so bad. I know its against the GC principles to pay the SM to store their stocks but I can only really get to a SM on my way home from work and I'm usually too tired to bother! NSDs are easy for me.

    The plans went wrong when I got home too. OH's birthday tomorrow. HM burger and potato wedges for dinner so plan was to put a birthday cake in the oven while the wedges were cooking. Got a text from my mum saying she was coming over to bring OH's present. Didn't have time to mix the cake and as she brought my gran with her, we had to sit in the living room so I couldn't mix it while she was there. OH was ravenous by the time they left so got on with making dinner and then put the oven on again after dinner to bake the cake. So not MS but at least it gave me chance to pick my gran's brains on baking - she makes the best sponge cakes in the world!
  • NickJW
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    edited 25 May 2012 at 11:06PM
    Suffolk_lass wrote: »
    NickJW - Potato salad is fine with any potatoes, and hot or cold. I chop up the potaoes into chunks or leave them whole if they're hot or small and add chives or finely chopped raw onion or spring onions (39p from Aldo this week) and then add mayonnaise and a dash of lemon juice or salad dressing (tangy enough without the lemon) and black pepper. Yum! As you can see, many variations and all good and all by eye not measured. I like a finely chopped raw chilli to give it kerpow too :eek:

    SL

    Just want to say thank you so much for that. It went down a storm! I had 3 wilting spring onions so I used these plus one very small cooking onion. I didn't have any fresh chilli so I had couple of chillis from a jar that was gifted to me at xmas, mayo, black pepper and some french dressing (didn't have lemon unfortunately). Served the potato salad with the sausages and a small can of sweetcorn. Everything was in stock, so no further shop was needed! :T

    I do now have broccoli in the fridge because I didn't have S+M but it will be okay because it has a BB of the 30th June.

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  • MrsCD
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    Florenceem wrote: »
    But I love sewing! :D I also love ironing! :o
    I love sewing too. And knitting. And crochet. But I'll pass on the ironing ;)
    Just finished a knitted bag with crochet flowers along the top, and last week I knitted my first teddy for a friend's little girl. :)
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  • Fiasco55
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    jumblejack wrote: »
    If anyone is going to Tesco, pick up the price drop leaflet. There are lots of coupons.

    One is for £1 off £3 of mushrooms.
    Buy 2 of the buy one get one free mushroom packs at £1.60ish. The machine registers the total before the discount so you get the mushrooms at a total of around 60p. Not bad, 30odd pence a pack with a good date on!

    It works as I've just tried it;)

    Thanks JJ

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  • abitofhelp
    abitofhelp Posts: 483 Forumite
    jumblejack wrote: »
    Wow!

    I bet your house smells heavenly!!!!
    Well done on fitting all that baking into one session. I'm well impressed:T

    Indeed it did, I have a big wide ranger cooker, (its fab on christmas day) Not very ms unless its full as i can stick 6 baking sheets in at a time so it goes on 2-3 times a week. Anything else i use the mini oven.
    I also cooked a chicken, spicy chicken strips & sizzling steak fajitas, after the baking was done.
    Chicken is now stripped and carcass is in the slow cooker. I wasn't meant to buy a chicken but they had large free range ones reduced to £3 in the farm shop today and i couldnt resist. If i had room in the freezer i would of bought a couple more. I had to cook and strip it for freezing as it was. Eldest child helped me out by eating the legs:(
    I have 6 boxes of chicken stock in the freezer and i cant fit any more into either freezer now but i still couldnt chuck the carcass away.
    I will make minestrone soup on Sunday. Bbq for lunch on Sunday at my mums so it will be nice and light for tea.
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  • PennyGrabber
    PennyGrabber Posts: 1,288 Forumite
    Florenceem wrote: »
    I have at last come to the end of my stock of J cloths. I want to be frugal - does anyone here use old towels/flannels cut up and hemmed for cleaning?

    I use the ones that you can bung in the washing machine - they feel really nice to hold, clean well, and last for ages.
    Florenceem wrote: »
    But I love sewing! :D I also love ironing! :o

    I love sewing, but the kind of sewing that is fun, not practical. Like cross stitch, or patchwork. And what is this 'ironing' thing you're mentioning?!
    MrsCD wrote: »
    I love sewing too. And knitting. And crochet. But I'll pass on the ironing ;)
    Just finished a knitted bag with crochet flowers along the top, and last week I knitted my first teddy for a friend's little girl. :)

    Ah, they sound lovely! I'm jealous, as I always start loads of projects, and never finish them - I'm VERY right-brained!
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