August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Suffolk_lass

Save_Dosh wrote: »

KatyReed+5 I make up a big batch of mince and then freeze in containers, this can be used for a variety of stuff, to put inside jacket potatoes, to use with wraps and salad, i add to pasta tubes with grated cheese, like someone else said , but omit the cheese if dairy free, shepherds pie, spag bol etc.

Good spot Save Dosh - ignore the cheese and sauce for the dairy free version...:doh:

Note to self... read more carefully!
SL

xxlouisexx56

BIt late this month, but can I be put down for £230 please?

I spent £55 in tesco yesterday but got that down to £33 with coupons !! And got 2 petrol vouchers back for diesel for the car, OH will fill the tank up next weekend.

We now have enough cereal to last us a few months I think! In my stock cupboard cereal wise I have...
1x tesco weetabix (48)
1x box of rice krispies
3 x coco pops
1 x fruit loops
1 x mini max.
1 x Cheerios

Currently open are...
1 x crunchy nut cornflakes
1 x chocolate Cheerios
1 x sugar puffs
And about 4 weetabix biscuits left

Freezer is full too. Hopefully this will be a good month!

greent

Further spending at T's, S's and A!di, meaning month to date total is now £78.38. We're away for a week from next Saturday, though, so should only need a loaf and maybe milk between now and then. We're camping, so I'll take some food and we'll also go to the large Tesco whilst there. (Also still need to add AF order total when that is delivered next week sometime....)

jasmin10

So today for dinner we are having toad in the hole, mash, onion gravy and veggies. Pudding - banana icecream I think, or I made two loads of Bread Pudding that is in the freezer, so I could get that out and have it with custard.

Then the next job is ironing and getting all the nappies washed and dried ready for tomorrow, and finally sitting down on here checking for the latest coupons vouchers etc (did very well with the Greens ones so wanting to 'branch out' lol. Then once kiddy winks are in bee bye land it will be a glass of wine (left from my birthday) and catching up on all the posts here and the £7 thread.

Hope everyone has a lovely evening.

JackieO wrote: »

I have my list by my kettle in the kitchen and if its not on the list then it doesn't get bought.

lol thats exactly the same place I put my, and also if it's now down it dosent get bought lol

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

I'm trying really hard to remember with my OH that there's no point saving lots of cash if our relationship goes down the tubes because of nagging/fighting as I'm trying to cut our costs to make our life better, not worse! Hope this all makes sense.

Gosh that is just so true.

Soworried wrote: »

Has anybody heard from flo? I am missing her posts.

Thought Flo was on holiday?? might be wrong

craigywv wrote: »

yesterday as was my birthday 40

Hope you had a lovely day.

XSpender wrote: »

Hugs to you Jasmin10 - My DH spent money on carp again yesterday and scoffed nearly all the ham I was hoping would last into next week. I understand your

Certainly does make you rage lol

Loobeyloop wrote: »

I have lost the plot the last couple of days, had to take my poorly cat to the vets Friday, found out she's got a massive tumour on her kidney, and has probably got cancer elsewhere too, the vet gave her an antibiotic injection and had a repeat prescription for steroids, that came to £42 BF paid gave me £20 towards it. Am so gutted and upset she means as much to me as my ds, so I decided to take a trip to mr T to buy her some nice food, ( I want her to have the tastiest food she likes whilst she's still here)

I so understand where your coming my cat (Jasmin), I had from 6 weeks old until she was 15. I had a rough childhood leaving home at 15 and she was always there, the only thing I had to cuddle and make me feel better when I moved from bedsit and flats etc. She ended up being diabetic and I had to give her insulin shots twice a day. In the end she passed with renal failure. Funny tho as I'm sure we both knew that night it was going to be our last together as I was suppose to have been working overtime but cancelled and came home and that evening she jumped on my lap in a strange way and just kept nuzzling me, we was never that clingy - two hrs later she went to rainbow bridge.

I really hope that you get better news when you next see the vet, it's amazing what wonders they can do on our furry friends.

jasmin10

Forgot to say, went out into the garden to pick some plums, blueberries and gooseberries as I was hoping to make some jam, but I think all rain we had last couple of months has taken its toll as I haven't got enough to make two lots, let alone one - had tons last yr, couldn't get rid of them quick enough lol.

Still, will add a couple of apples from the fruit bowl to bring up pectin levels and bulk it out (ooh just realised that I forgot to check the apple tree, only a young one but there may be a few on that too. - perhaps I may get my jam after all.

JackieRHE

A quick update - 3 NSDs so far, £24.45 on cat food, £1 on newspaper and £2.24 on bought sandwich (poor planning:o)

Total spend £27.69.

Will be back to catch up on the thread and try out some recipes!

Bluegreen143

Hello everyone! Happy birthday craigywv! And thanks for the quiche advice, everyone

Received Mr A order today and it was £74.99 this month is not going well so far. In fairness, instead of one medium steak for OH they have given me two large ones :mad: I know this can happen when you order by weight but come on! I will freeze the other one but it has bumped my total cost up!

Also (in my inexperience with meat) I ordered a small 500g beef roasting joint thinking "how lovely, I can make my first ever roast beef dinner and 500g of meat is enough for two meals for the two of us (well I usually budget 100-125g each per serving) so it's not THAT pricey at £5" but of course it's arrived and it might be 500g but it just looks absolutely tiny, and I know they shrink when you cook them, so I'm pretty convinced that we will eat it all today I'll have spent £5 on meat for one meal *huffs* plus I got a free range whole chicken to portion for freezer (need breasts for later on this week) and a haddock fillet (for me when OH has the steak) and OMG I have spent £22 on meat and fish this week alone when I only spend around £35 the whole of last month!! Major meal plan/shopping fail!

Sorry for the rant :rotfl::o Obviously I am freezing the vast majority of a 1.8kg chicken and a large steak for future consumption, so not quite as bad as I'm making out... :rotfl:

Just felt really difficult when ordering the shopping this week, it was supposed to be a stocking up shop but I left plenty of "like to haves" off as I was horrified by the running total :eek: Hopefully all this yummy food will last and I think my problem is I meal planned too many "treaty" meals (steak/breaded fish, roast beef, takeaway style chicken kebabs) in a bid to keep OH happy. Beans on toast and vegetable soup every day next week!! :rotfl:

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Another £48 spent today, nearly all in Lid1. Meal plan for the week:

Today - Fry up (lunch) and Jacket potatoes, cheese, salad and LO corned beef which needs using up (tea)
Mon - Thai chicken
Tues - Cottage pie
Wednesday - steak*, mushrooms and onions on rolls plus salad (* half price steak from Lid! )
Thursday - macaroni cheese
Friday - prawn curry (DH and me), YS fishcakes, chips, veg for DS x2

Saturday still to be confirmed.

Hopefully we won't have to buy much more but with the kids off, we seem to be running out of things quicker than normal so I'm bound to need more soon, even though the main meals are sorted.

maman

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Hello everyone! Happy birthday craigywv! And thanks for the quiche advice, everyone

Received Mr A order today and it was £74.99 this month is not going well so far. In fairness, instead of one medium steak for OH they have given me two large ones :mad: I know this can happen when you order by weight but come on! I will freeze the other one but it has bumped my total cost up!

Also (in my inexperience with meat) I ordered a small 500g beef roasting joint thinking "how lovely, I can make my first ever roast beef dinner and 500g of meat is enough for two meals for the two of us (well I usually budget 100-125g each per serving) so it's not THAT pricey at £5" but of course it's arrived and it might be 500g but it just looks absolutely tiny, and I know they shrink when you cook them, so I'm pretty convinced that we will eat it all today I'll have spent £5 on meat for one meal *huffs* plus I got a free range whole chicken to portion for freezer (need breasts for later on this week) and a haddock fillet (for me when OH has the steak) and OMG I have spent £22 on meat and fish this week alone when I only spend around £35 the whole of last month!! Major meal plan/shopping fail!

Sorry for the rant :rotfl::o Obviously I am freezing the vast majority of a 1.8kg chicken and a large steak for future consumption, so not quite as bad as I'm making out... :rotfl:

Just felt really difficult when ordering the shopping this week, it was supposed to be a stocking up shop but I left plenty of "like to haves" off as I was horrified by the running total :eek: Hopefully all this yummy food will last and I think my problem is I meal planned too many "treaty" meals (steak/breaded fish, roast beef, takeaway style chicken kebabs) in a bid to keep OH happy. Beans on toast and vegetable soup every day next week!! :rotfl:

I'm about to cook a tiny piece of beef (left from cutting up a large joint for freezing) so you have my sympathy. What I'd suggest is that even if you can keep back a tiny amount before you serve up use it for a stir fry (freeze if not on this week's meal plan). That way you do get two meals out of it. I slice up a bit of cooked beef (cut in thin strips) and marinate in soy, ginger, garlic some 5 spice and a sprinkle of stock cube. When I fry the steak and add veg I use the marinade as the sauce and serve with rice or noodles.

KatyReed+5

Spent a total of £14.45 in c0-0p, £9.27 on food, quite a few snacky things for the kids as it's the holidays, but also YS new potatoes for 35p, 4 YS large corgettes for 84p, and 4 carrots for 24p. £5.18 on baby wipes, which were buy 1 get 2 free, love this offer have been buying 6 every time i go and am very stocked up now, total saving of £12.64, WIN

Dinner was beans on toast followed by left over strawberries and blueberries that really needed eating up and ice cream with sauce and sprinkles, simple things keep my kids happy.

Hoping for a NSD tomorrow.

Katy, X