June 2012 Grocery Challenge

TheThriftyScrumpers

jumblejack wrote: »

Hope you have a great anniversary coxy!

Speaking of anniversaries, has anybody got a good deal in canvas photo prints?

I'd like to have one done as a golden wedding anniversary for my folks. I'm arranging a holiday at a later date but would like to give them something other than the cake and champers on the day.

So far I think Tesco are the cheapest although Lidl do a composite golden anniversary themed one too.

Can anyone suggest anywhere?



Hi, I am behind with thread so not sure what others have suggested but canvas prints regularly come up on groupon. Hth. Xx

Aldahbra

I spent 3.49 in local shop on milk and (chocolate milk - its half term and sometimes I don't say no as often as I should) and 50p on carrots from someone's front garden.

Still don't know how to use up the chocolate hoop cereals bought from Lidl that the kids won't eat. Any ideas?

MrsCD

Hello Aldahbra - could you make some chocolate crispies with the hoops? Or you could crush them to mix with melted butter to make a cheesecake base. HTH

Florenceem

NSD here.
We had roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sausage rolls, cauliflower, leek and swede for dinner.

dottydee854

Right, just done a shop at sains, for the meal plan to last us two weeks! (minus fresh fruit and veg) and updated sig accordingly. £66.06 for two weeks bases for our meals, i don't think is too bad (we are a family of four :P) Lets hope their delivery service is better than MRT and MR.A that ive expereinced in the past Night all x

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

I've spent £5.63 in Sainsbugs but managed to get some really nice beef steaks reduced to £2 which will easily do the 4 of us for a lovely meal.
Also bought strong white flour and yeast and made homemade pizza bases which I've never done before. (I'm quite proud of myself and it was fun too!). Thank you to whoever it was on this thread who posted the recipe for this - I made a copy of it then but have only just got round to using it. It only cost about 54p for 8 pizza bases and I've frozen the 6 we didn't use . Also made biscuits so a good day yesterday!!

ladymay

Morning!

Went to Mr T last night, got some fab RTC bread and sausages and half price chicken All tucked away in my freezer.

The shop is starting to take a bit longer now - I check all the RTC sections now, and if there are several ranges of the same kind of item (like the chicken breasts) I now check every single range to make sure I'm getting the best value - I'm learning!!

But the supermarkets are so sneaky :eek: I wanted some mixed nuts, so I had to look in the fruit and veg section, the baking section AND the snacks section! They were cheapest in the snack section, which surprised me tbh. It taught me a lesson, and it made me think how many extra pennies they squeeze out of people...

Anyhoo, £13.44/£80.00 so far for the month :j

sistercas

ladymay wrote: »

But the supermarkets are so sneaky :eek: I wanted some mixed nuts, so I had to look in the fruit and veg section, the baking section AND the snacks section! They were cheapest in the snack section, which surprised me tbh. It taught me a lesson, and it made me think how many extra pennies they squeeze out of people...

:j

yes you have to be on the ball , these days you have to be the shopping equivalent of 007 :rotfl:

I have done my list for this week up to around £60 so far hoping it wont too much more than that .

savesummore

Samantha22 wrote: »

Meal Plan for Week beginning June 7th:

Not quite sure, yet, which meal is for what day. Shall decide tomorrow

Chicken Curry with rice
Liver & bacon saute with potatoes & parsley
Shepherd's pie
Beef Stroganoff
Mince & pasta concoction
Irish Stew
Salmon fillets
Sausage & Mash
Roast stuffed pork
Thanks again,
Sam22 )

Kitchenbunny wrote: »

Savesummore - I worry about getting stuck in a rut. I use an MS Excel spreadsheet with one tab for dates and meals, another for budgets, another for recipes yet to try, etc. HTH


K xx

Thanks for these ideas I think I just need to 'bite the bullet' and start some kind of spreadsheet which hopefully I will do today

Got to update signature (AGAIN!!) due to £5.59 spent Mr T and £3.20 in B&M

Think I may need to glue my purse shut :rotfl:

jumblejack

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending wrote: »

I've spent £5.63 in Sainsbugs but managed to get some really nice beef steaks reduced to £2 which will easily do the 4 of us for a lovely meal.
Also bought strong white flour and yeast and made homemade pizza bases which I've never done before. (I'm quite proud of myself and it was fun too!). Thank you to whoever it was on this thread who posted the recipe for this - I made a copy of it then but have only just got round to using it. It only cost about 54p for 8 pizza bases and I've frozen the 6 we didn't use . Also made biscuits so a good day yesterday!!

Fantastic:T
Well done on the pizzas and biscuit baking. There is no more rewarding feeling than a baking session that results in cheap future home made meals n treats:T
Well done:j