Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

Ladyra

rosieben wrote: »

Welcome to Old Style and the GC :hello: You'll find loads of recipes and all kinds of ideas for money saving on the Old Style forum; just have a browse through the OS indexed collections and see what you can find.

Food and recipes here in post #7 http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=235198
and here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=458838#post458838

Its worth browsing through the cleaning and laundry threads for money saving tips too

If you're looking for something specific please post here and someone will be sure to help you out.

Thanks for your help, I'll definitely have a look at those links :)

mookybargirl

Room for a wee one?

This is my 1st month with the challenge. We spent approx £230 in Jan and there's only me and OH. :eek: Some of this was house things like bowls and a doughnut maker :rotfl: Setting target for Feb at £160 for all food and household stuff. Wish me luck - gulp....

Angelmummy

Can you count me again for February please.

I kind of stuck to it in January but not as accurately as I would have liked, think I still came in under budget though.

Aiming for weekly spend of £50

JoJoB

£11.30 went in tesco today, so that brings me overbudget already this week. Luckily I managed to swerve past the creamcake aisle so avoided further damage.

I really do have to sit down and figure out how I can make my shopping bill even cheaper. £200 a month is too much for two people i'm sure. £160 seems much more reasonable but I am struggling to make it, even with all the cutting back and batch cooking i'm doing.

Maybe we just eat too much.

shop-to-drop

OK I'd like to be in this month please. I've been a daily shopper and never taken much notice of how much I've spent until lately. Been trying to keep track a bit better the last couple of months. I'm sure we used to spend around £100 or more each week quite easily. I think this month has been closer to £50 each week + £100 large shop yesterday. I will set this as my goal ie £300 (4 weeks @ £50 + £100) and see how we go.

We are family of five Mum, Dad and three growing boys.

chicken_pie_2

Hi there, could i please be included in the Feb grocery challenge? First time for me, so I'd like to aim for £160 for three of us, me, OH and 19 month old.

LittleOne83

Hi I'd like to join in too!
I have no idea how much I spend on my shopping so this could be quite interesting.
It's just me and my bursary so I'll aim for £60 for the month, no idea if this is realistic or not. Only time will tell!

theamazinggem

ok. got a budget of £160 for the month (and i'm going away for one week so should be well easy compared with this month)

decided that doing it in weekly spends wasn't helping, and going to do a bulk shop (maybe costco even) at the weekend once the bidget goes live (we're still on jan). so anyway, have split the budget into chunks, and am going to try and save on each chunk, or at least get the most i can for each...

so far have come up with:

meat - £40
veggies - £30
rice/pasta/cereals - £5
wine - £16 (i know, i know)
tins/jars - £9
squash/tea etc - £5
bread - £10 (hopefully less, tho i never seem to find the offers you all do)
sweet stuff - £5
toiletries/cleaning - £20 (again should be less, but not checked what we have in yet).

thoughts?

seeing it like this it seems like loads, tho we did really struggle this month...

natzini

Please put me down for £110 this month! As it's half term at the end of the month I can have a good sort, rummage and cook up then!

chardonnay_2

casper did you get a 2 quid gift card when you were overcharged at asda. this is their company policy and they should give you it without having to ask (but i usually have to:rolleyes: )