July 2012 Grocery Challenge

rising_from_the_ashes

savesummore wrote: »

Oh thanks rising- I work on a good deal being 10p per wash which are very few and far between these days so this is near enough

You're welcome TBH didn't pay too much attention to it (big white bottle if that helps:o) as still got loads left & didn't want to be tempted to buy it :rotfl:

savesummore wrote: »

I know you can freeze wine in an ice cube tray but i have a frost free freezer that 'eats' normal ice cubes over time- will me freezer still eat my wine cubes?

That happens to mine!:eek: Always tried to figure out why I put in full cubes & they come out teeny little lumps .....

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Freeze them in trays and then pop them out and put them in bags

:T Thanks Tiger

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Hope you liked your prawn curry Jumblejack - that's what I was going to suggest you made with the prawns - nom, nom!

Redouble

Spent £37.11 at Tesco yesterday and 6.16 at the local greengrocers
That's a full weeks shop which I am THRILLED at (usually a weeks shop is at least£120 plus some topping up in the week!), but I can see now that my lower target is probably not achievable. I am not going to let it get me down, there's always next month! :money:

PennyGrabber

Spent the best part of £40 today at T, which is everything for the week, plus a Christmas present which I need to take off the total, and some stocking of things to be used in the next month or so - 5kg of granulated sugar £3.99 instead of £4.51 in A, 1kg icing sugar, and also some pains au chocolats and croissants, to try before next month.

Takes the total for this month up to almost £60, and have food to last until at least the 21st. I don't think that's too bad.

Need to sort out the meal plan for this week. Well, for Thurs, as all the other days sorted!
Sunday - boiled ham
Monday - hm pizza, two of dd's friends over
Tues and Weds - just me, so anything
Thurs - ?! Possibly sausage casserole if the weather is still rubbish, as lots of saus in freezer.
Friday - fish and chips, as it's the last day of the school year and we need a treat! (Less than £5 does the three of us)
Sat and Sun - no idea yet.

Night all

PG x

keza

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

You're welcome TBH didn't pay too much attention to it (big white bottle if that helps:o) as still got loads left & didn't want to be tempted to buy it :rotfl:

Even thou i read the original post re the washing liquid, for some reason i still read the bit in bold as if you were talking about WINE! and its 7.25 on a sunday! :eek::eek: vino lush over here haha!! :rotfl:i was thinking 'wow they do a big bottle of white!'

keza

i need some advice, i made some muffins yesterday and they are delish and everything but for some reason they have stuck to their cases and have burnt underneath......any ideas? did i have the oven too high?

Kitchenbunny

Morning everyone. Keza - not sure what happened there, sorry. Just reporting in a tiny spend from yesterday - £2.30 on milk and eggs. We both seriously fancied some of the millie's cookies from the front page of this thread and I had no eggs in - we were going to run out of milk anyway so I popped to the corner shop and got some. At least I don't THINK I'll need to get anything today.

Yesterday was a bit weird food-wise so today it'll be back on the mealplan with the minced beef & onion pie I meant to do. I think we'll have it with mash and some extra gravy as I feel the need for comfort food.

Today - there's more cleaning planned, plus all my ironing and whatnot. I have a feeling it's going to be a very busy day today. I've got to write my shopping list too! Hopefully it'll be a small one!

K xx

jedi82

yay, a lovely sunday morning with sunshine! It's amazing how much better it makes me feel! Today I need to work out dinner, as it is a local raft race this afternoon and it will be tight before I have to go out to work tonight. Have a lovely day all xxx

jumblejack

Enjoy the raft race, Jedi. Sounds fun!

Well good morning peeps!

A busy day here for me. Going to do a big tumbledown pot of mince bulked out with grated carrots, lentils, tomatoes, stock, etc. will use as the backbone of a few meals this week for the tum and the freezer.

I have a lot of curried dal to use up (why do I always make too much!) so will have this for my own dinner at 12.

I only got round to filtering he elderflower champagne last night. It needs bottling today. Pronto.
I was worrying about nothing. It is definitely alcoholic already just judging by the smell alone. It is divine. It is definitely bubbling too as when I was pouring it into the filter, it was fizzy at the sides.

I sterilised glass bottles but am worried about it continuing to ferment as it is still very sweet. I am therefore using pop bottles instead. Very very happy with the attempt this time:j

Jam tarts are on the must do list for today as I simply must get this gone wrong jam used up!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sick of seeing it now, taunting me for my failure!

I still need to make a savoury contribution for a do this evening!

Anyhow, must dash.

Have a fab day, peeps!

JJ

sb88_2

Spent...£71 at morrisons yesterday!

I did however, but enough food to most likely last us 3 weeks, the freezer is full and the stock cupboard is back up and running. I let it run bare last week due going over budget and not physically having the money to go shopping.

On a side note, my dog has a poorly tummy thought it would be better today then she went and ate OHs smartie cookies when we weren't looking!!