June 2012 Grocery Challenge

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hi
Meal plan for the week :

Sun - Prawn and Chirozo Paella
Mon - Pork fillet (ys) with port and mushroom sauce, broccoli carrots and potatoes
Tues - lamb (ys) slow cooked with potatoes, onion, rosemary, lemon and feta
Wed - Pasa bake and salad
Thurs - Chiili and Rice
Fri - Pizza and Salad

Have a good day xx

EverTheOptimist

Really sorry to hear your sad, sad news Meg. Thinking of you at this difficult time.
xxx

Bikingbint

Hi

I am looking to save money on my food bill, (aren't we all) and I would like some advice.

There are 3 of us me DH and elderly mother, me and DH are pretty much sorted but elderly mother drives me nuts regarding food.:mad:

She has a very limited range of things that she likes and she prefers the cheap manufactured c**p from the supermarket to homemade which she will just move around the plate for half and hour then leave. but she always has room for pudding if there is one. She rarely eats veg (including salad) except potatoes and will not eat anything considered foreign (pasta, rice, noodles etc) or spicy (chilli, curry, etc).

I am hoping to create a meal plan for her with approx 2-3 weeks meals on and just pick from it on a daily basis.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated before I hurt my head banging it on the wall.:D

Here are some of the things i already do

Small tin of spag bol with a jacket potato (dont consider this pasta)
roast dinner
fish and chips
egg and chips
egg and bacon with tomatoes and black pudding
soup (will only eat tomato soup)
individual cheese and onion quiche with tiny bit of salad and jacket.
Could I make a large quiche and portion it up? no one else in the house eats it.

meat pie and potatoes
cottage/shepherds pie
fish pie (usually picks out the fish):whistle:
boiled/poached eggs on toast

Regards

Bikingbint

sb88_2

Just a quick msg to say I spent £50 on grocerys yesterday for the weekly shop.

Ended up shopping at a different supermarket and found it very stressful finding things! Going to have to make a meal plan and see how long I can make these groceries stretch. Already spent my monthly budget and have a week left after this!

sneakyspender

Just a little suggestion about.fussy MIL would she eat yorkshire puddings (could make in batches and freeze).Also mash freezes well, could you portion it up ?

cleggie

hi guys.
A NSD here today

A have a load of chicken drumsticks that were OOD yesterday, but i have opened them and they smell and look fine...i am assuming they are ok to eat?
I have put some 5 spice and salt/pepper on them and we will be having for dinner.

recurrent-ostrich

Hi folks, newbie here. Am interested in this thread, currently we spend £400 a month on our family (2 adults, 3 kids -12,11 and 8- and one dog and two cats). I'd like to get this down but wondered if it's doable as my hubby works shifts and I work fulltime so don't have time to trawl supermarkets for bargains. I guess that batch cooking might be my friend? My kids are also a bit fussy, frankly!

Any helpful tips would be much appreciated. Oh, and i'm a huge lardy!!!!! (:o) and need to lose weight. Thinking of WW.

thanks!

Kitchenbunny

Good afternoon all! Hi to the newbies Thought I'd pop on and update my GC for today - a moderate spend of £26.52 - mainly meat so we won't need any of that for a while and I'd think for the rest of the month it'll just be topping up the fresh stuff Hope so!

I've got turkey strips to marinate for tea in some (I know I know) shop-bought sweet & spicy marinade I've never had much luck in getting it as sweet and sticky as shop-bought so have fallen back on the old faithful. Must research harder! We'll have that either with some noodles or some salad depending on Mr KB.

Have a lovely evening, all - hugs to those in need.

K xx

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Afternoon all,

Welcome to the newbies:)
Cleggie if they look and smell ok I'd eat them!

Ok my question....do you guys use value/cheap mince or buy the leaner mince? My mum always said that buying cheap mince is false economy, but looking at some price differences I wonder if there's really much difference once the mince is cooked?

Just trying to do my monthly shop ready for Friday at MR S. got a voucher £10 off £50 as a new online customer. It's taking forever on there though! But I'm doing well at sticking to my list so far

MrsCD

Bikingbint wrote: »

There are 3 of us me DH and elderly mother, me and DH are pretty much sorted but elderly mother drives me nuts regarding food.:mad:

I am hoping to create a meal plan for her with approx 2-3 weeks meals on and just pick from it on a daily basis.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated before I hurt my head banging it on the wall.:D

Could I make a large quiche and portion it up? no one else in the house eats it.

Bikingbint

Hello Bikingbint - We had a similar thing with my MIL, who I still miss very much. She had dementia, which I wouldn't wish on anyone. She would leave some of her dinner saying she was full, then eat a huge pudding! :rotfl:We learned to laugh, otherwise...

Anyhow, when we had to go to see her every day, as part of her care package, we made meals in small freezer boxes which we took out each night for the next day's meals.
She liked corned beef hotpot, beef stew and dumplings, thick broth, pan haggerty, you get the idea. Old fashioned meals from war time. We batch cooked and put into single portion boxes in the freezer, so we could ring the changes for her. She loved ice cream, and we snuck fruit into her in yogurts, and under custard! You could even keep some of the SM packets to hide the boxes in if it helps to get her to eat proper food
You can freeze quiche, just the pastry goes soggy if you don't eat it fairly quickly when you thaw it out. It's better crisped/heated in the oven.

Hope this helps.