May 2012 Grocery Challenge

Fiasco55

Yesterday and today have been NSD for me. Dinner last night was some YS quiche with potato rosti and tonight was the last of my HM bolognaise. I have minced beef in my freezer but I will be using that to make either chili or HM burgers this weekend. I will see what I feel like closer to batch cooking day.

rising_from_the_ashes

Ohhhhh lordy .... I'm 10 pages behind :eek: - RL has got in the way the past couple of days so will need to have a good read to catch up:D

Eating out the cupboards / freezer is going reasonably well so no new spends for me:j - am getting a bit low on milk so hoping I can eeeekkkkk it out until Friday / Saturday!

hex2

I had to go for cat litter today so forced into MrA where I spent £10.06 on essentials but I had a refund for £4.15 on some food that the cats utterly refused to eat so not too bad.

I made a super stretched 'spot the mince' chilli this evening. 500g mince, lots of mushrooms (frozen RTC ones), two peppers, red lentils and 4 tins of kidney beans. Two greedy portions eaten for dinner then the rest will be frozen for DH's lunches.

cleggie - granola, cost of HM. I guess it depends what you use I tend to use seseme seeds, coconut, value sultanas and chopped mixed nuts for mine so for me cheaper and I don't have to pick out the nasty bits. Asda do a great mixed seed and cranberry pack for about 60p which would work really well. If you looked at the ingredients you could work out the rough percentages and cost it out. H&B can be great for dried fruit if you have one?

Coxy11

Managed a NSD - go me! first one this month

Today was 'use up leftovers' day. I had paprika chicken, mash and salad for lunch - MIL babysat last night while DH and I went to see Warhorse at the theatre (A-MAZ-ING), so she plated up the leftovers - very :money:
Tonight's tea was LO gammon, chopped up and added to cheese sauce and stirred through some pasta twirls. Pasta was a 'gift' from the scouts as DH was on camp this weekend and anything opened/perishable is gifted to me. I also got 12 pints of milk and half a dozen eggs. This is my payment for having to boil wash the rancid teatowels, wash down the equipment for storage, and run the dishwasher through several times with frying pans and cutlery etc. An hour and a quarter a week, my A**e! Still it means DH gets his fix of camping which I would never do. Every cloud........

Tomorrow night we will try our first DR meat - meatballs with spaghetti and napoletana sauce. Looking forward to seeing what the fuss is all about

PennyGrabber

Not the nsd I had hoped for today. Ex had his baby today, so the children and I went to asda to get him a present and card (how nice am I?!). Also got a pizza, and some 10p bakery stuff (scones, bagels, mini ring donuts).

Also means I'll probably have the children this weekend, as it's supposed to be a daddy weekend, but she had a section so they prob will only want them for a couple of hours one afternoon. Well, that's what I've suggested anyway! Will plan the meals for this weekend this evening. Have to cancel three things I was planning to do this weekend - scrapbooking day, gym induction and mtg a friend to buy home brew stuff from the range. Still, I'd MUCH rather have my children, and play with them, than not have them and do those things.

Off to update my dfd, then I'll be back. Looking forward to any new recipes and pics!

PG x

Teatime

iQueen wrote: »

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No cigs since Sat midday!

Well done!!!!!

That is so fab and will make such a difference. Keep it up.

angelatgraceland

I feel like an expectant parent! I am awaiting the birth of my first loaf from my new(first Panny)Panasonic breadmaker! I may just have to work my way through all of the recipes! Ive read the book from cover to cover and now realised I cant make pasta dough in it. Well I can think of a way-put it on a dough programme and switch it off after 10 mins! Is that what you folks would do? Saying that Ive only ever made it once in my BM but now I have a ppasta machine I want to change my habits. Got the lovely Stainless steel Panny BM to look good in my kitchen-I was torn between the three top models so chose the best-cos I feel I deserve it after all my scrimping! Searched the town for Borax today as I am going to make my own laundry liquid! Got the household soap in Morrys and found an oldfashioned DIY shop for the Borax-could get it online but the P and P doubles the price at least! Im sure when I told mt coworkers they thought I was a bit mad but they are used to my moneysaving ways by now. Glad I did tell them tho as they suggested the shop to get the borax!
I spent a good while filling out an order for AP foods last night(had 2 last month)then closed the browser and told myself NO NO NO NO NO!
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mrs-moneypenny

abitofhelp wrote: »

Who stole the sun and blue sky that was outside my house this morning. Come back and take the grey sky and rain you left in its place.
Just made a syrup pudding to cheer us up instead. Really it was to use up some cream. Honest!

they did the same here, snuck in and stole the blue sky while i was at work so i had a line full of wet washing when i got back:mad:

NSD today
nice tea linda Mc burgers (from the morry offer)
and galaxy cakes (from the tesc0 coupon offer)

must round my recipts up and adjust my sig

meanmarie

First spend for May....€32 on lovely fresh pollock and smoked mackerel....now residing in freezer, and €21.10 to-day in Aldi, so €53.10 so far for May, freezer stuffed again.

Marie

Florenceem

NSD here.
We had HM cheese/ham quiche,roast potatoes and roasted vegetables - beetroot, onions and red cabbage for dinner.



I can't think of anything I will need to buy tomorrow. Dinner is going to be gammon steaks - already in the fridge. I will make a salad with whatever is in fridge - salad wise of course.