July 2012 Grocery Challenge

happy_chick_3

Just been catching up on some posts - not had the time to read properly all week but glad to hear everyone is doing well. I've got 10 days until I finish work for the summer and fly off on holiday to India - can't wait!!

Veg box deliveries are working out really well for me - anything to avoid the lure of the supermarket! getting ready for the week now and have cooked up a batch of rice to go with freezer chilli. Tomorrow's lunch is left over pasta, salad and feta cheese and I'm also cooking up some quinoa with veggies for another 2 lunches.

Dinner tonight is roasted butternut squash with chilli and garlic, filled with balsamic onions and feta cheese - yum! Have some lentils plus atomoto and rocket salad to accompany it. My mouth is watering at the very thought!

Sue14

Spent £25.53 in A1d1 yesterday, and another £12.82 in Mr A's.

savesummore

Evening all,

Happy Chick- Ive been to India 3 times and loved it!! I hope you have a fab time- I am very jealous

Some help please- we have roasted a chicken today a large one and will have sandwiches/salad from it for the next two days from the chicken kept in the fridge but I also want to freeze some in portions to have on sandwiches at a later date- this chicken has not been frozen before.
Can I just defrost and eat? Will it be ok or does it need cooking again- i know some of you cook and freeze but then you seem to have it in another cooked dish

Thanks in advance

bossymoo

Hi all nsd here still not added my spend from y'day but will do ASAP. Need to get all written down in my book too. Receipts are all stuck to fridge, so I know where they are.

Seem to have done a lot of non-grocery spending lately...

craigywv

:)Hi all , made ys chicken roast and HG pots ,peas and carotts from my garden sweetcorn (tinned) and gravy and yp yum ,made oh chicken sarns for nightshift tonight and made a really thick soup from the bones and added a bit of chicken, will have enough left over to make omlette during the week.will make jj herby bread for the soup tomorrow NSD and intend on another one tomorrow as baking a good bit for sons party at weekend ,freezer will be busy!!have a good evening all xxx:)

jasmin10

savesummore wrote: »

Evening all,

Happy Chick- Ive been to India 3 times and loved it!! I hope you have a fab time- I am very jealous

Some help please- we have roasted a chicken today a large one and will have sandwiches/salad from it for the next two days from the chicken kept in the fridge but I also want to freeze some in portions to have on sandwiches at a later date- this chicken has not been frozen before.
Can I just defrost and eat? Will it be ok or does it need cooking again- i know some of you cook and freeze but then you seem to have it in another cooked dish

Thanks in advance

I would just defrost an eat. If you think about it, it's like when you freeze bought ham - just defrost the ham and use it, so I would do the same with the chicken.

I'm doing Thai curry with the lo's of mine with the 1p sauces from af. Yum yum can't wait.

Hath

becca-2012

Hello, can I join you? Will just update in my sig. I am hoping to sort out my finances and think that £150 a month is doable for us. There is only me and my 2 little ones. Going to go for £70 for the rest of July but this will be easy as I have tonnes of food in.

SusanP_2

I tried to post the other morning, but it wouldn't let me log in?!

I am a bit worried I will come in over budget, already spent over half and less than half way through the month...

I think one issue is that I have done grocery from 1st to end of month, put my pay runs from 15th to 15th...

New plan is to just keep spending down now until 15th August, try and come in at £400 for 31st of July and then start again proper 15th, I might have to work across 2 threads.

Tonight I have made bolognese, chilli, and mash to go with some sausages to last us the next 5-8 days along with lunchboxes, but I will need more potato possibly.

I am very annoyed that my bread seems to go mouldy before best before date :mad:Which I would use!

I wish I could figure out this a bit better, I have no idea how to do signature, so can't join in totally properly?!

I am reading my understanding excel book from the library and watching lots of recommended vids on u tube, thank you... So hopefully August I can also get all my budgets in a work book...I love organisation!

I also got a golf bag free for OH today brand new, colleague had had it in their shed for 5 months and wanted to clear some space... Result! I didn't want not to do anything in return so made up old jam jars with some sweet treats and funky lid covers for his children... Rather OS I felt

Hope everyone else is doing well x

JIL

I am worried about how to control my spending. I love instore bakeries and thought I was safe going to Ald1 and L1dl, not anymore my local Lid1 has a new instore bakery and its lovely. Crusty rolls, loafs, large pretzels, cakes etc.. I could not resist. but it was a reasonable price. Five crusty rolls for 75p, a ciabbatta loaf for 74p and some seeded rolls for 35p each.

Re the bread going mouldy before its sell by date (previous post by Susan P) its probably due to the humid conditions, you could try putting it in the fridge, but let it come up to room temperature before eating if its for sandwiches.

jasmin10

SusanP wrote: »

I tried to post the other morning, but it wouldn't let me log in?!

I am a bit worried I will come in over budget, already spent over half and less than half way through the month...

I think one issue is that I have done grocery from 1st to end of month, put my pay runs from 15th to 15th...

New plan is to just keep spending down now until 15th August, try and come in at £400 for 31st of July and then start again proper 15th, I might have to work across 2 threads.

Tonight I have made bolognese, chilli, and mash to go with some sausages to last us the next 5-8 days along with lunchboxes, but I will need more potato possibly.

I am very annoyed that my bread seems to go mouldy before best before date :mad:Which I would use!

I wish I could figure out this a bit better, I have no idea how to do signature, so can't join in totally properly?!

I am reading my understanding excel book from the library and watching lots of recommended vids on u tube, thank you... So hopefully August I can also get all my budgets in a work book...I love organisation!

I also got a golf bag free for OH today brand new, colleague had had it in their shed for 5 months and wanted to clear some space... Result! I didn't want not to do anything in return so made up old jam jars with some sweet treats and funky lid covers for his children... Rather OS I felt

Hope everyone else is doing well x

How about you freeze and just take out say 8 slices (or work out roughly how many u need) and keep them out in a separate bag. Even if u did find u needed a couple extra they only take a couple of minutes to defrost standing up against each other - better than wasting a whole loaf. HTHs

There was something in tv last about food factories, how they keep shop sarnies so fresh. They said a mistake a lot of people do is keep bread in the fridge which apparently makes it go stale 6 times faster. Never knew that as I usually do this when it's warm. Not now as I just make it myself as an when.

Also, does any know if asda publish a list or if there's an online list of the products they have knocked down to 50p this week (saw if advertised on tv)