July 2012 Grocery Challenge

PennyGrabber

Our current favourite comfort food type thing, is iced biscuits. We use value digestives, and then put icing on it and cover it with sprinkles/whatever is in the cake decorating box! We also do the same, but with melted chocolate. Nom nom!!

Coxy11

Hello everyone,

Sorry been a bit manic the last few days. I was bitten on my ankle on Wednesday evening (in the garden, NOT by DH) and it became infected with swelling travelling up my leg, so painful I cannot tell you. Managed to get a GP appointment on Friday afternoon and he has prescribed really powerful ABs which have now kicked in. This of course didn't stop me spending last night at an Adam Ant gig and moshing away on one leg. Anyhoo, I digress.....

In GC news.....I have gone over by £20 odd but am generally pleased with how July has gone. We are away for 2 weeks in August so my budget is going to be £250 as holiday food is from another budget.

After a mahoosive thunder and lightening storm this afternoon I ventured (hobbled) out to MrT (currently open until midnight during the olympics) and bought some food from August's budget. Really thought there would be some decent whoopsies but nada, niente, nowt.

Will see you all on the August thread. TTFN.

jumblejack

Sue14 wrote: »

Spent £3 in £1 shop and £5.40 in Mr S this week. I made some of the banana ice cream (the one that just uses frozen bananas), which was delicious and saved 5 bananas from going in the green waste bin, unfortunately I think I've broken my food processor while trying to blend the bananas, so it could turn out to be the most expensive ice cream I've ever had, lol, hopefully it will be something that can be fixed by OH!

Oh no:eek:

I use a hand blender first to get it to a stage that is easier to whisk first. Much much easier.

Hope it gets fixed

jedi82

Good morning all,

sorry i haven't been about but the start of the summer hols have been extremely hectic what with DH (a teacher) and all the kiddies being off all at once. It has taken me a bit to adapt!

GC has gone ok though. Going to declare £386.91 which is under budget and so very pleased with myself (for once!) but spending elsewhere has not been so good so going to have to reign that in.

Off to join August xxxxx

Soworried

Just to let you all know the printable coupon thread has just been updated with a voucher for a free 100g chocolate bar. I hope this helps.x

PennyGrabber

Oh no, Coxy! Hope the ABs sort it out quickly for you.

Today may not be the gc nsd I had planned for, we'll see. It kind of depends how quickly the car is fixed. The guy doing it reckoned around £190!!!

Having muffin pizzas for lunch to use up three muffins we have lo from an egg muffin lunch the other day. DS had them at school, and liked them, so I thought I'd do them as a change. No idea what dinner will be, as it's at a friend's house. I'm going to look in the freezer and see what we can take for pudding, as much to clear space as to be sociable!!

I'm the only one who is dressed at the moment - dd only woke up at half 10! (She's not a teenager - she's 7!) Still, it's the hols, so there's no rush to do anything.

Off to make lunch, and watch a film with the children before we go out for a wander and some fresh air.

Have a great frugaltastic day everyone!

PG x


Car just been brought back, £191.20! That smarts, but it sailed through last year, so I suspected something, and I have more than that in the car account, so that's good. Just have to hope I can still manage the aa and insurance now!

GreenFairy

In a moment of weakness last night, myself and Hubs polished off the end of the block of cheese with some crackers and port. Was yummy, but have been left with jam sandwiches for lunch today and may have to get some cheese or ham for tomorrow as I don't think sweet sambos two days in a row would go down terribly well. I'll happily eat egg mayo (have loads of eggs in) but himself wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Thwarted again!

MrsCD

smelkel87 wrote: »

HELLLOOO!!!
I have not been on here for well over a week and the amount of posts i had to read to catch up was crazy!!
Went into hospital on 15th to be induced but i had apparently already started so they let me carry on on my own... After 19 long hours my beautiful son was born and as you can imagine i have been kept busy by my lil man!! I have updated my sig for spends, i still have one week left in july but its looking promising. Just wondering if i can cut the budget even lower next month.. :-)

Congratulations smelkel87 :T :j Hope you are both doing well. Take care of yourself.

Well, it has taken ages to catch up. I went on holiday for a week and wow - so many posts to catch up on!

I am declaring this month at £306.10 - only just over my target, so I'm not too worried about it.
See you on the August thread.

Bluegreen143

GreenFairy wrote: »

In a moment of weakness last night, myself and Hubs polished off the end of the block of cheese with some crackers and port. Was yummy, but have been left with jam sandwiches for lunch today and may have to get some cheese or ham for tomorrow as I don't think sweet sambos two days in a row would go down terribly well. I'll happily eat egg mayo (have loads of eggs in) but himself wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Thwarted again!

Haha, that's the sort of thing we'd do. Love cheese and crackers!!

No spend day today. Made a Nigerian red kidney bean stew from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, had made it once before but forgot just how DELICIOUS it is!! Had with some mint & onion raita (made with mint from garden :cool:), side salad and HM bread. OH was well chuffed with how tasty it was

Soworried

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Haha, that's the sort of thing we'd do. Love cheese and crackers!!

No spend day today. Made a Nigerian red kidney bean stew from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian, had made it once before but forgot just how DELICIOUS it is!! Had with some mint & onion raita (made with mint from garden :cool:), side salad and HM bread. OH was well chuffed with how tasty it was

Hi
Would you post the recipe please. x