August 2012 Grocery Challenge

sneakyspender

Super busy here with both dcs and an extra .Spent £40 on ,Mr T delivery and £30 @ butchers on saturday. Signiture already updated. Precious little left of it . Camping and cycling at the weekend sure works up an appetite. Hope everyone else is enjoying the holidays.

sneakyspender

How about mashing sweet potatos before freezing. I love mashed sweet potatos

Make-it-3

Only made it one NSD as by yesterday needed top-up bits already. £3.01 spent, making by total now £41.60/£200.

Caterina

I don't know what I did wrong the other day, found out that I had the wrong spend on my signature, as now that I have recalculated everything in my spreadsheet it is more (was 289 now 299), must have made a mistake earlier because I have re-checked my little spend book, too, where I mark all my daily expenditure.

Anyway, been to the Turkish shop, they had an offer for 2 large Pide bread (flat bread, delicious, family love it), for 99p so got 4 and froze 3. Also good bargain on tomatoes, not as good as earlier but still ok (99p/Kg) and the tomatoes they have are delicious, great big red vine tomatoes, got 2 Kg. Also a 4Kg bag of onions for £1.59.

Then market, where I got £5.50 worth of green veg to fill my fridge for most of the week. Bought a dozen free range eggs from the market stall for £2 but at home I discovered they come from the Netherlands - not that I have anything against the Netherland but I try to buy local as much as possible, so next time will buy on Sunday at the farmers market, same price even if the eggs there are smaller.

This afternoon I went to meet a friend and we ended up in Waitrose, where they do the stickering around 4pm - ohboy, I wish I ate meat, she bought enough meat to stock her freezer for weeks at ridiculous prices. Organic fresh meatballs for 60p! I got a packet of mushrooms, some more nice breads (organic 100% rye for 25p! And a couple more) and a ginormous piece of undyed smoked haddock at half price, worked out at around £3, will make 3 of us a nice breakfast (DD is vegetarian so she will miss out).

All in all a good stocking up day for very little money (just under £20). Decided to treat myself to a mag, £3.99, but used a £5 JL gift voucher to part-pay for the shopping. I am loving this GC!

Good night all.

PennyGrabber

Urgent advice needed please!!

I did a gorgeous piece of roast pork on Friday, and was going to put the rest in the freezer, but have only just remembered I haven't done it! Will it be ok to freeze now?

TIA
PG x

greent

Oops - another spend to report... We needed peppers for stirfry dinner tonight (half an ancient one was not enough!) so I thought I'd also get the milk, bread, tomatoes, Frubes and shreddies which I was going to buy tomorrow. Bought all of that and Pringles (BOGOF) and 1 pack of 27p value choc mousse. Could have been worse, I guess! And definitely no more spending needed by me before we go away on Saturday morning...!

greent

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Urgent advice needed please!!

I did a gorgeous piece of roast pork on Friday, and was going to put the rest in the freezer, but have only just remembered I haven't done it! Will it be ok to freeze now?

TIA
PG x

Try a bit and see if it tastes ok.. if yes, freeze the rest

Bluegreen143

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

Welcome to all newbies - good luck with your budgets!

And hope all poorly peeps are feeling better soon!

Have to add my congrats to Katy, who is doing amazingly well......I applaud you for the way you are holding everything together for you and the 5 littlies. :T:T:T

My hubby left after 31 years, and although my DD's are grown up, it has taken me a year to really get a grip on a life so radically changed

I am working my way through the freezer, had HM LO baked chicken and peppers yesterday, HM LO chicken casserole today. Planning on D*nald R*ssell lamb burgers tomorrow.....

I havent been able to go YS hunting because of lack of space in the freezer........does anyone think buying a little chest freezer would be a ridiculous indulgence, with just me here full time? With the addition of DGS half the week, Nice-New-Man as often as possible and 2 x DD's as and when they fancy Mums
cooking :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Apple & Sultana cake - does anyone have a tried and tested recipe? Looked at the ones at the start of the thread and online, but some people mention them being dry......I had a lovely moist slice from a Farmers Market at the weekend, and would like to try making one, but unsure how to make sure it remains moist???? Maybe soak the sultanas 1st? But would they sink then?

Thank you

I made this apple cake recipe last week and it was AMAZING: http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/607041 - no sultanas but very good and moist. Only change I made was chopping the apples into small chunks rather than slices, so they distributed more evenly in the cake.

No spend day today. Cooked HM breaded fish for me, steak with HM peppercorn sauce (because I am lovely girlfriend lol) for my OH, both with HM chips, peas and sweetcorn. Totally lovely the GC because it's really encouraging me to make things from scratch which I do enjoy doing - but in the past I'd have been likely to pull frozen chips out instead of cutting up my sprouting potatoes lol.

XSpender

£13.30 in M&S tonight on sausages, ready made mash and roast potatoes. Very naughty but just got in now so mash is a time saver for tonight and roasts are for tomorrow. Also GF fruit cake for lunches, wasabi peas (DH favourite) and a big bottle of water for DH to take to work.

DMIL got me some milk today so £2.92 to add and the £1.60 I spent at work today on breakfast and chocolate. No milk and no GF bread (prescription order not due until Friday) meant no brekkie for me.

I think I was a little too focused on keeping my shopping bill down at the weekend and could have done with spending am little more to avoid top up shops. Another £10 would have done it probably and saved me more in the long run.

Made twinks on Sunday with GF flour ad oats and added desicated coconut for a change and they came out no different to using wheat flour.

helen_jelly

Evening everyone

Been very busy in real life with a chest infection lol but I've caught up with the thread now, apologies for missing birthdays etc and not welcoming new joiners as and when they joined - hello and hi :]]

Updating front page with budgets now :]]

Helen x