July 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Morning, peeps :wave:

A gorgeous day here. The sun has come out to play:j

Taking the sprogs to a local museum today for a special event. There is the second tray of cottage pie which was unused yesterday so that is lunch sorted.

Eggy bread for breakfast which was a nice treat.... Actually, I am contemplating using up the last scrapings if batter to make myself another one.... only to clean up the jug, of course

The late afternoon will be spent gardening :j :j :j. I am sooooooo happy. It's been frustrating not to be able to do the garden jobs due to the inclement weather

Nasturtium soup for supper most probably.

If there are any Lidl sausages left on the way back from the museum, I will stock up. If not, I will set out early tomorrow to get em
I'm gonna pull out some beef slices for tomorrow's dinner so that will be easy. I'll make up a batch of yorky puds too to make up for the smaller portions of meat
Flo has been an inspiration for her portion control advice:T. Nice to have you back on the thread! It's not the same without you:)

Have a fabtastic day, peeps :wave:

fozziebeartoo

Hope everyone has a happy weekend ahead! And welcome to all the newbies! :j

I have been MIA but have been reading and following everyones progress.

Still no news about DD's test results but SURELY we would have heard by now if bad results????? That is what we are hoping and not that it is a NHS muddle

I have been seeing a lot of my Nice-New-Man and have actually lost all track of my July GC so I have abandoned it for this month, dont think I have actually gone over YET but receipts are everywhere and my neat notebooks have been abandoned :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I am currently baking a crumble, my 1st EVER crumble (at the age of 53) to use up some LO apples and a big plum.....will be taking it to NNM's for him to take to work and microwave for lunches at work.

I am spreading the OS lifestyle

savesummore

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

been reading and following everyones progress.

Still no news about DD's test results but SURELY we would have heard by now if bad results????? That is what we are hoping and not that it is a NHS muddle

I have been seeing a lot of my Nice-New-Man and have actually lost all track of my July GC so I have abandoned it for this month, dont think I have actually gone over YET but receipts are everywhere and my neat notebooks have been abandoned :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Hope you get some good news soon ref DD

I love that Nice-new-man has made you abandon your receipts in a crumpled heap

Well I have updated my signature and am over again by a fair bit £350 from £300 :eek: but my new month starts Tuesday and other than prob £10 spent on tea out tonight that will be it sooooooooo Ive done better than last month and feel really positive for next month

I get paid Tuesday but have enough food to last me until my usual shopping next weekend so think ill get a 'head start' on August GC

Todays spends:

£20.41 A*di
£10.25 Market- chicken, veg, strawberries and a massive water melon I love watermelon- im going to eat it in the sunshine and pretend im on holiday :rotfl:
£9.50 2nd purse

Ive also been to L8dl this morning and brought some charmin loo roll 24 rolls £6.99 but 2nd purse paid for this so wont be counted until i pay 2nd purse back

Have a sunny day everyone

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Hello all :wave:

Not posted for a few days, but have been lurking. Hugs to all that are having a rough time. And hope those going away have a good time.
Fozzie hopefully no news is good news with your daughter I have been thinking of you.

Have just updated sigs for the spends I mentioned the other day. so have £15 to last until Monday. I gave extra to stockpile stuff and am going to C0stco this pm. They've a great offer on squash, cheese and Washing up liquid. Also got a couple of items on the list with MrT prices for comparison. Have done an online shop for Tuesday, doesn't seem like much but has come out expensive. I will have to look again with fresh eyes and see if I can reduce anything. It's very easy to add an extra tin here and there. Got a few evenings out next week and little room in the freezer, in fact NO room in my freezer so may have delete some meat and use freezer stock. I need to write down my meal plan as now antenatal class so will be a snacky tea and Wednesday we've been invited to friends as well as normal Monday and Thursday at the in laws. So now I think about it that's not many dinners!

Well I am just rambling on really. Hope everyone has a good afternoon in the sunshine

LMM

Kitchenbunny

Afternoon! Today is going to be an NSD! (happydance) I've just written my shopping list and roughly costing it ... I'm reckoning on £15 for next week. I'm still using up stuff in the freezers - we have a chest freezer and an upright but we're trying to use up everything in the chest freezer to put it in the other. We're hoping to switch the chest freezer off to save some power and it really needs defrosting.

I showed a friend how to make some of the cakey things from this thread this morning. She was very impressed and says thanks!

K xx

jumblejack

If you are going Asda then look out for campaigners.

They are giving away 1ltr bottles of milk from local farmers to raise awareness to fair pay from Asda for milk as they are not supporting the dairy farmers.

mummyyof5

Small spends today...got to L**l in time to grab 6 packs of the sausages..also got 12 of the meatballs as reduced by 30p and I have 1 in freezer already but need 2 packs for a meal for all of us x
£4.20 in there
Market for salad stuff....£4.00
MrTs..needed ham cheese milk cat biscuits...a tin of ham for tea..£12 altogether

Sue14

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

Still no news about DD's test results but SURELY we would have heard by now if bad results????? That is what we are hoping and not that it is a NHS muddle

I hope you hear something soon, and that no news is good news, fingers crossed.

Had spends of £3.62 in Mr S, £3.79 in Mr T and £4.75 in i*eland.

jumblejack

Just wanted to share that I've just collected nearly 3lb of fruit from the fruit bushes:j
Black currants, strawberries: alpine and cultivated and raspberries:T

Yay!!!!! I've actually taken a pic as I'm thrilled. First time I've harvested blackcurrants from the garden. They are really ace:j:T

PennyGrabber

MrsCD wrote: »

Oh dear PG- sending millions of hugs - you sound like you need a few! :grouphug: Hope you're feeling better now.



I didn't know that teachers could claim overtime - well done :T



Hi SusanP - go to the top of the page, and click 'thread tools' then 'subscribe to this thread', then when you log in, click on your user CP and all your subscribed threads will come up on the page. Also if you 'thank' everyone as you go, it's easier to see where you're up to. HTH

Today I popped into MrA for Yorkshire teabags on special, but they were sold out :mad: Bought some icing sugar and some knitting/crochet magazines to take away but they're not out of GC money.

Thanks - I had a terrible anaesthetic headache for three days after!! DD had to put me to bed I felt so bad...!!

Full time teachers can't claim overtime - they do the job until it's done, and get paid a pittance per hour if you work it out. I have been working as a TA this year, but the class teacher was off ill for the last 14 days of term, so I stepped in. I was docked my TA pay (tuppence a century, or something equally meaningless!!), and I claimed for those days as a teacher.

And thanks for telling me how to subscribe!

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

*PG* well done on getting through the dentist ordeal. I am glad I am not the only one who reacts to a needle like that. Last time I had to have work done I had to go to the teaching hospital and they knocked me out to do it.

So glad it's not just me then! Feel quite pathetic about it, but can't change it...

XSpender wrote: »

I buy the larger tins of pineapple in Mr A as they are cheaper than the smaller ones but after using some for pizza topping I have a lot left. Does anyone know if it freezes OK?

I do this all the time. I use whatever pineapple I want, then freeze the rest for another day. You can shove it on the pizza from frozen too, so it becomes a convenience food!! HTH