Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

snowball2103

I haven't posted since last week and think that I need to log on and read everyday to help me stay focused. My 3rd week started last Thursday, I went to Asda and spent £16.91 on fruit, veg, meat, washing up liquid and toiletries.Forgot about butter and caster sugar, so another £4 at corner shop including milk. Also forgot to buy cold meat to make sandwiches for work

Spent another £9.30 in Farmfoods on Saturday, but came home without toilet roll and binbags. Another £5 at Asda yesterday for them and a few other things that slipped into the basket!

Total of £35.21 which isn't bad out of my £50 weekly budget and we've eaten well. Thanks for letting me grumble on I just feel so disorganised at the moment!

Snowball

mk_wotsit

Only spent £12.41 over the weekend - A bagful of nearly out of date crap for £2 and 20 washing up sponges for a quid .... I love the carboot!!!
The rest was when I nipped to Mr. T

Poor old Mr Wotsit will be cheap to feed for the next couple of weeks. He's just returned from the hospital after having a wisdom tooth out. He's took himself up to bed and is feeling very sorry for himself. He has to go back in a week for the other side!!!

Had family round for dinner today. Had to cook for 8 (Mr Wotsit couldn't have any!!!). I used up loads of our own hens eggs by giving them a HM Quiche and made a cake! :money: All washed down with half price wine from Mr. T

waddy80

Not bad so far, spent £10.33 at co-op today though. Nipped in for some bi-carb and bought a load of reduced stuff. Got 6 rump steaks, 2 packs of stewing steak and 2 packets of puff pastry.

Got a tesco delivery later though. Probably will take me over the 1/2 way mark.

JoJoB

Managed to be good the last few days, only a fiver on milk etc, but needed to do a shop today.

Spent £8 in aldis

Then a fantastic tescos shop. Managed to get a £26 grocery shop for £8ish. Here's how:

Bought Pregnancy and Birth magazine which had loads of money off coupons for huggies and huggies wipes. Tesco had huggies wipes on BOGOF so i bought 4 packs (£10 worth) - got them all free with the wipes coupons. Chanced my arm by giving all of the nappies coupons to the checkout girl, even though I hadn't bought any, and they all went through the till no problem. Not bad for a £2.70 outlay on the magazine. Very chuffed!

Gemmzie

Bit of a big one this week, £53 then another £14, and another £28 - should be set for over a week though and we are still well within budget

Aril

Hello there!
Firstly apologies as this is the first time I have posted on this thread this month or updated my sig. I've popped in briefly but it just grows at such a rate that I don't have time sadly to read it all.
Anyway I am on course so far for this month so am chuffed on that count. My recent small discovery is that the tom puree [we get through quite a lot] is cheaper in the glass jar than in the tube from Mr T so made a small saving there:j
Good luck chaps and chappesses!
Aril

Bobbykins

Hi Aril

(I'm not stalking you from the simplifying life thread - honest!)

Just seen you post about the tom puree and thought I might suggest.......you could be VERY OS indeed if you saved the glass jars and used them for HM jam/chutney !

cheers
bobby

TheBees

OMG! :eek: I went back to Weight Watchers tonight for the first time since the beginning of December. I'm a gold member which means that I've got to my goal weight and can go for free as long as I stay within 5lbs of my target weight. Well, surprise, surprise as I suspected I've put 6lbs on! My excuse is that I was ill over Christmas and New Year with a nasty virus and haven't been running with my friend since the end of November. I know I can lose the 6lbs in a few weeks but I now feel like I've got a double challenge to plan meals for the family that will keep within our grocery budget but also are low fat and low on points so I can lose a couple pounds a week! :mad: I refuse to buy branded WW products and we all eat the same meal so OH will probably lose a few pounds too! (not that he's got any to lose anyway!)

Any tips from other WW members or dieters would be helpful. I wonder how many points there are in my home made fairy cakes for instance as I don't want to start buying branded WW products.

Thanks

jackiegibbo

I had a nsd today:p

We had a nice big pot of mince tonight and tomorrow the leftovers will go into a huge asdas yorkshire pudding(3 for a £1),im starting to get the hang of the OS way of life i think:D

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK:T :T :T

curly_cabbage

Evening all
Popped in to Lidl's after work this afternoon, just to get some ham, lemon juice, peppers and vine tomatoes. I left with £11.00 spent and is i'm honest i really didn't need to spend this much but, my best buy was the sliced ham which was reduced by 30% it was already 30p cheaper than ASDA now it nearly 80p cheaper and it hasn't got any added water so it would frezze quiet well i would think. trying to have a few NSD this week as the old bank account is running low now.

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