July 2012 Grocery Challenge

rising_from_the_ashes

KatyReed+5 wrote: »

I thought the toilet rolls were good, i wasn't too sure on the persil, the best offer i've seen in recent months was £10 for 54 washes and i got quite a few of them then, used up quite quick as washing for 7, ah well you live and learn, wont get it again,

It's not bad compared to FP - the one above was 1/2 price at the Co*op earlier in the year (stocked up for the whole year - but obviously use a fraction of what you will :eek::))

Have also seen it for 2 for £7 and BOGOF @ £6.40 (all the 28 washes) and odd offers on the 54 wash bottles too - so they are around now & then.

ETA if you shop at Mr T, watch the prices on things like this as they tend to be a lot more expensive eg 54 wash FP is £10 but it's only £8 at Mr A - same with the 28 wash bottles, £6.40 @ Mr T but only £5 at Mr A. Applies to other things like coffee etc too!

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PennyGrabber wrote: »

Maybe instead of saying children should learn this at school (thereby laying blame on schools and teachers), we should lobby local councils to ask for free courses for this for 18 year olds. (Unless such a thing exists, in which case we should be making them compulsory things.)

Sorry if that sounds like I'm ranting, but it's so easy to say they should be taught x, y and z at school, but so hard to fit everything in! Plus, I think that this is something a parent should teach, as it's only ever going to be an abstract idea taught in school. I take my children shopping, and I teach them about saving and everything else I think they will need to know about money.

I do think that children, preferably from primary, (and willing adults) would benefit hughly from learning budgeting, but in no way do i think that its something to blame on teachers and schools, who are already doing their best and under loads of pressure. I agree that ideally it should be learnt at home from parents and my children have learnt well by default of watching me compare prices, weights etc, but i was never taught. My parents never pulled in their belts in hard times, they took out a loan, some other parents do not have a clue really, through no fault of their own, on something that, unlike history and such, is a life skill and sometimes, dare i say it, a life saver. You don't sound like your ranting, its a subject with lots of angles.

KatyReed+5

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

It's not bad compared to FP - the one above was 1/2 price at the Co*op earlier in the year (stocked up for the whole year - but obviously use a fraction of what you will :eek::))

Have also seen it for 2 for £7 and BOGOF @ £6.40 (all the 28 washes) and odd offers on the 54 wash bottles too - so they are around now & then.

ETA if you shop at Mr T, watch the prices on things like this as they tend to be a lot more expensive eg 54 wash FP is £10 but it's only £8 at Mr A - same with the 28 wash bottles, £6.40 @ Mr T but only £5 at Mr A. Applies to other things like coffee etc too!

Thanks for the advice, i'm limited to where i can shop, within 7 miles are co-op, Mr T mr S and Mr W, Ald!, L!dl, Mr A etc are 20 + miles away, X

Florenceem

NSD here.
Change of plan - didn't go to barbecue - just didn't have the energy to walk there and back.
Had a quick meal - HM wedges, peri peri baked beans and poached eggs.

ikkle87

Introduced OH to the doughnut peaches I got, they are really yummy and sweet, no chance of them going off cos they will all be eaten.

Found a pack of sage and onion stuffing in our cupboard and have a couple of sausages left over from making sausage rolls on Thursday, can I freeze sausagemeat stuffing? As there will be too much for us to eat in one sitting. x

Florenceem

ikkle87 wrote: »

Introduced OH to the doughnut peaches I got, they are really yummy and sweet, no chance of them going off cos they will all be eaten.

Found a pack of sage and onion stuffing in our cupboard and have a couple of sausages left over from making sausage rolls on Thursday, can I freeze sausagemeat stuffing? As there will be too much for us to eat in one sitting. x

Yes you can.

ikkle87

Florenceem wrote: »

Yes you can.

Thanks, I'm assuming I cook it first? So make some stuffing balls cook them then when cooled freeze them? Or would I just freeze the mixture. MIL was always the one who made stuffing for us

Florenceem

ikkle87 wrote: »

Thanks, I'm assuming I cook it first? So make some stuffing balls cook them then when cooled freeze them? Or would I just freeze the mixture. MIL was always the one who made stuffing for us

You can do either.

mrs-moneypenny

morrys have got 4 packs of velvet toilet roll for £1, thought that was pretty good

adelight

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

morrys have got 4 packs of velvet toilet roll for £1, thought that was pretty good

:mad: paid £3 for 9 charmin (i think?) there few days ago and I have some velvet 50p coupons but Mr M is 10 miles away- too far to go back.