Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

spiritwish

My personal challenge will be to stay away from supermarkets entirely. I am going to buy all my produce from the local market ( Bury, Lancs - its a good one). Washing powder and other essentials will be bought from the £ shop. I have 8 children so usually spend about £700 per month on food and essentials. On top of that , school dinner money and bus fares cost me £65 a week. Its half term this week so a bit less to spend. My target is £500 for monthly essential shop. Glad I found this section of the site - just what I needed for a bit of support and inspiration.

carolt2

Called at morrisons last night to see if there were any offers, reduced items. I got a b/less pork joint for £2.15, will easily do 2 meals for me a OH.:j
Took is out of packaging and popped in the freezer.

Bought a few other things total spend £12.35

Made chicken canneloni for tea last night, managed to use a few things up. HM quorn shepherds pie tonight.

Signature updated.


Condolences to Bigmummaf. Hope to see you back with us soon.

lingojingo

BigMummaF wrote: »

My BIL passed this morning, & just now saving a penny or two isn't high on my list of priorities.

So sorry to hear that BigMummaF

betterlatethannever

Also sorry for your lose BMF, some things are much mroe important than saving a few pennies. Hope to see you back again soon. x

Re: artichokes..i've never had them but aren't they notorious for giving you a ermmm:o wind problems?

lilmisskitkat

(((hugs))) to you and your family BigMummaF

Take care

Kate xxx

mikeD

BigMummaF wrote: »

Just a quick Hi...may not complete this month's challenge.

My BIL passed this morning, & just now saving a penny or two isn't high on my list of priorities.

I wish you all well tho, & will hopefully change my mind several times over the next few weeks. Just wanted to let you know if I don't get round to updating my sigs.

Cheers then.BMFx

So sorry for your loss BMF, DW's Brother and his Wife died in July last year, so I know how you're feeling. Really there's not much else I can say except, life goes on, even in bad times. Keep your spirits up, the pain will pass eventually, and the good times will return. Hope this helps.

Sunnyday

Hi again everyone,:wave:
just popped back to update my sig (finally) so this is the start of my week 3 and i can now see that i`m actually on track this month

I was wondering cos i hadn`t seen the reciepts from last week but now i can breathe a sigh of relief.
I`m off to look for some recipes.
Good luck with this weekends spends everyone.
SD

Busterollie

Had a NSD yesterday as we all had coughs and colds so stayed in all day and didn't even spend any money on the net! However, today is not so good. Went into Somerfield's to get a chicken and some milk and ended up spending £8.99. Went to the Health shop for a refill on my washing up liquid and bought eggs as well £1.79. A Subway for DD (with a coupon) £2.99 and a Laura Ashley 50's style mug for me 79p. £14.56 in totalBUT DH has gone to a bike show today so goodness knows what he will spend (at least it isn't out of my grocery budget!

miecherox

BigMummaF wrote: »

Just a quick Hi...may not complete this month's challenge.

My BIL passed this morning, & just now saving a penny or two isn't high on my list of priorities.

I wish you all well tho, & will hopefully change my mind several times over the next few weeks. Just wanted to let you know if I don't get round to updating my sigs.

Cheers then.BMFx

Thinking of you BMF x

miecherox

spiritwish wrote: »

My personal challenge will be to stay away from supermarkets entirely. I am going to buy all my produce from the local market ( Bury, Lancs - its a good one). .

oooooh bury black pudding - OH originally from little lever so always visit bury market when we're visiting YUM YUM!!

Good Luck with your GC!

Thankyou mama67 & desperate housewife for your artichoke ideas and betterlatethannever I think you might be right about the "wind" problems!!!
M x