July 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Barbeduk wrote: »

I'd have been tempted to sneak it all out again and put it in my fridge! Some people are nuts.

LO chicken made into curry for tonight's dinner, hermanthegerman friendship cake for pudding. Made the blackcurrant and apple version, lovely.

NSD too, phew.

Me too. It would have been torture to think of all that food going to waste :mad:

Did you start Herman off yourself or was he gifted to you?

He is also on my to do list along with the artisan bread!

craigywv

NSD for me today had pork steaks in the pan and gravy, potatoes and veg and yp was lovely. i personally think lidddddles has the best fish out of all the big stores they more round chunks but all fish lovely. going tomorrow to get the 6p mushy peas from mr t (if any left) and more tinned pots, must have 20 tins now lol,and will get their pasta on offer too. bonfire night here so away to walk the dog before it gets too noisy happy frugaling all:)editing post bit about the fish was meant for the STOCKPILE THREAD sorry.

Florenceem

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

My quote included the electricity. I asked for my Panny as a Christmas present one year and several people clubbed together for it.

Todays dinner was chicken, sprinkled with garlic powder and done in the slow cooker, potatoes tossed in butter, carrots and peas.

Hopefully enough chicken left to make another meal, possibly Chicken and Leek pie but I will have to see.

Was outside earlier putting the recycling out and my nieghbour came out to put some rubbish in the bin and made the comment she was emptying her fridge of all OOD stuff. I asked her what she was chucking and she said potatoes that had sprouted, carrots that were OOD from the 25th June, leeks 28th June, cheese 20th June, eggs 28th June and that is what I remember, there was other stuff. I said to her that they were perfectly fine and ok to eat and wouldn't poison her and that they were BBD's which meant that the products were best eaten before that date for taste and quality but were absolutly fine after that and if any were going a bit bendy then you could make vegetable soup or pop them in a casserole. Also that eggs would be fine past their BBD and explained the float test. All she had to do with the sprouty bits on the potatoes was take them off.

My goodness she gave me a mouthful about me trying to endanger her family and how dare I lecture her. I pointed out that this is how I live and we are perfectly healthy and she had been moaning to me last week about the cost of food and how much she was spending for 3 of them (£150 a week) and that this week I had spent £55 on shopping for 5 of us and that maybe she had better take my advice and go onto MSE and learn about food. She dumped her stuff in the bin and huffed in doors I was really trying to bite my tongue as she was letting loose at me.

Raid her bin when it is dark! :mad:

Florenceem

NSD here.
I am going away tomorrow - Mr F has plenty of food in so shouldn't need to spend.

Be good everyone! :rotfl:

We had HM sausage pie, roast potatoes, baby sweetcorn, cabbage & mange tout for dinner.

jumblejack

Lovin all the veg again, Florenceem! You always put a great selection on:T
My veggie curry was just onions, potatoes and carrots with the chickpeas. I really need to get more variety in!!! I used to get stacks when I was whoopsy shopping most nights. I now like to aim for about 4-5 NSDs per week so whoopsy opportunities are now few n far between

ikkle87

NSD for me today. Went to nans after hospital and had a bacon sarnie for lunch and then corned beef stew for tea yummy x

Kitchenbunny

Evening, just time for an update. Spent another £8.76 at Mr M this morning on cleaning products. Don't know why but feeling like I need a good spring clean! Anyway, I shall update my sig now. Have a lovely evening.

K xx

PennyGrabber

ikkle87 wrote: »

NSD for me today. Went to nans after hospital and had a bacon sarnie for lunch and then corned beef stew for tea yummy x

How do you do your corned beef stew?


NSD today, technically, although had a £3 spend on fruit juices for a thank you party for the mums who have helped in our classes this year. My partner teacher got some cakes, and we're going to have a drink and a chat after school tomorrow. Not counting that in gc, as it's not!!

Tom will also be a nsd as I have the children home, and a friend is coming over at dinnertime to pick up my old cot for her baby. She was saying the other day about not having one yet, and I don't have any way of making another baby, so I said she was welcome to it!! (And yes, we know she has to get a mattress ) Feels good helping a friend, though, and maybe it'll come back to me some day when I least expect it...

Bought loo rolls yest in t; not impressed with how expensive and carp they are!! I'm so used to getting mine from farmf00ds, that I have really noticed the difference. Will def make sure I get my next load there!!

Not too sure what my totals are this month yet - will have to think about that at the weekend now, as got lots of work on, and shouldn't really be on here tonight, but a girl's gotta have a break, right?! Won't be too high, though, maybe around the £20 mark, which is awesome for a third of the way through the month!

Night all,

PG x

XSpender

Tried a new recipe tonight, turkey steaks with an orange, ginger and honey sauce, served with rice and mixed veg. Very nice and low fat too, added bonus was all made with stuff we already had in.

£5.18 spent in Mr S last night on some cider for DH. So much for his alcohol free month, lasted all of 5 days, and I was hoping to save on my budget:mad: He is finding that avoiding beer is helping his skin though and he did choose the own brand cans over the branded which were half the price. Also need to end a couple of small spends on tea and a chocolate frog bar at work.

I have cooked the last 2 jacket potatoes and cooked a free quiche I got from work a couple of weeks ago for DH which will do for our work lunches for the rest of the week.

Pork steaks with apple and sage sauce and mash, carrots and green beans tomorrow. I think I am going to go back to buying more frozen veg so I always have some decent stuff in and it doesn't go bendy before I can use it. Hate frozen carrots though so will get some tinned ones as a back up.

I am a bt worried about my budget for next month. Even with working on a decent reduction in my weekly spend compared with this month I still can't see how I can curb my spending to bring it down to the level I can afford next month. Dropping from £137/week to £80/week or less just doesn't seem possible but it must be, other people manage quite well on a lot less:( I need to crunch some more numbers, meal plan every meal, look at cheaper alternatives for every thing I buy, include some cheap meals each week and avoid taking DH when I go to the shop.

What am I missing? What else do I need to do to slash my spending?

I'm off to re read the front posts again to remind myself of the basics.

GreenFairy

I hate microwaves with a passion, but after reading rave reviews I made Curry Queen's microwave steamed pudding this evening, complete with golden syrup and a little river of custard. It was absolutely gorgeous and I can see myself making all the combinations of it that I can think of!

Just what's needed on a horribly wet day - the rain was so heavy this afternoon that it set off car alarms in the area!