Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

Looby_Lou_7

Evening everyone,

My first shop of the month today and I spend £2.42, on bread and some fruit. :j Normally I would have been in the supermarket on Saturday morning filling my trolley, however I am determined to come in under budget.

cheerfulness4

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Come and join us on the "Oldstyle weight loss part 2" thread mrsDoyle

MrsDoyle - I can recommend that thread, too. It's helped me no end and there are other vegetarians on there that have great recipes.

I've found it really fits in with this GC thread well AND I'm still eating D&DD's famous apple plait and iced fingers. Can't give up my home baking, and find I don't need to with the approach we're using.

snowball2103

NSD yesterday and we had dinner at my dad's. Last night made some banana bread (I had manky bananas too!) and a half and half loaf for today's lunches. The bread turned out nicer than usual:j, the only difference was using Lidl's breadflour - going to be buying that again.

Tonight's dinner was roasted veg, cous cous and the £1 Pork & Leek sausages from Lidl's, very tasty. I'm going to try to get to Lidl's every second week from now on as I'm impressed with the quality.

I spent £1.49 on a bottle of diet coke from the corner shop today but resisted everything else. Think the only thing I need in the next few days is milk and bananas.

Snowball

mumsrus

ok so shopped online (seem to spend less that way as cannot browse) and spent £49.64 this weeks shop came to about £40 but bought a few extra items like bread flour ect to stock up for next week so i could get £5 off for spending over £50 also spent £9.42 in sf this morning so a grand total of £59.06 im hoping i can stick to my meal plans and am enjoying joining in this month (even if i have set my budget fairly high, hopefully il be able to cut it down next month)

aytch

woo hoo, for the first time since joining this challenge me and DH both had no spend day today - usually if I dont spend, he does and vice versa! :j

Do you know I have also noticed the cost of feeding the cars each month is higher than the cost of feeding two adults and 1 teenager :eek:

savingfortravel

Hi
We started do our own Grocery Challenge in Jan unaware of this site.
Budget: £200 We spent: £70
This month we also have £200 Spent: £42.00 so far.
Our goal for Jul/Aug to travel from Panama to Guatemala. Found the trip and we hope to raise about a third from our 2008 savings.
Wish us luck and thanks for the site

savingfortravel

We'd like to join challenge please!
Feb: £200 Spent: £42

Frugaldom

Hi all, this has been a NSD for me, but I have now found the solutions to a couple of kitchen problems I have been having recently and want to count the expense as part of my grocery shopping.

Problem 1 - trying to get potatoes on top of the mince & veggies when making cottage pies

Solution 1 - creamy mashed potatoes dispensed through an icing bag. I found one on eBid last night. (It even has different attachments for different shapes of florets!)

Problem 2 - no timer on my slow coker, so I keep burning things when I forget to switch it off.
Solution 2 - buy a plug-in timer. I already have one of these on my hallway heater so that it only comes on during cheap rate electricity, but was loath to buy another as the first one set me back £6.95 However, I found one on eBid for £1.99 from same seller as the icing bag kit!

With discount for combined shipping, I'm getting both the timer and the icing kit (both brand new) for total of £4.79 and, as they are going to be used in the kitchen, I'm paying for them from my grocery money, if that's alright with everyone else?

mk_wotsit

May I join the GC list?? My February target is £300 for four of us plus a dog and 2 cats.

mrssnowy_2

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

Hi again mrs D., just wanted to tell you about a friend of mine who started up an impromptu slimming club with her mates, she got a group of friends and they all met up once a week and paid a pound. They had a weigh-in and whoever lost the most weight that week got the money! Its a great way to meet up and get motivated and chance to actually make money!!! Very MSE!

Knew a group that did something similar,but all took a piece of fruit,most weight loss had all the fruit!!