August 2012 Grocery Challenge

skilly

meg72 wrote: »

Sorry cant post a linkfor somereason, if you google Fastcooking.ca
there is a very useful pressure cooking time chart.

Thanks you for your post i will have a look at that site in a min,
I have been looking on line and some of these beans have different names which is not helping lol.

quintwins

£3.09 spends today on milk and spuds and parking, we had chinese last night but it was a reward to hubby for saving us £200 on buying a wood store so i'm not going to take it out of my budget.

NickJW

Spend of £9.19 today on some salad and cooked roast chicken to keep me going for lunches the next 3 days, along with 2 jars of Carte Noire coffee on offer.

Chicken Katsu curry with rice for dinner. First time I'm going to try it, but have everything in, including some Japanese curry roux cubes which have been in the cupboard for a loooong time (bought by my flatmate) and they are needing using up. Also have 2 eggs, carrotts, potatoes and panko breadcrumbs needing to be used as well.

GreenFairy

Nearly half way through the month and about half way through the budget, so things are looking pretty ok. Another mini stock up at the weekend - a kilo of dried chickpeas and a huge tub of stock powder (both organic) which should last a few weeks. Need to order a box of loo roll this week though, as am down to my last 8 rolls!

sneakyspender

Went to Mr A today, should have been lidl but had both dcs with me and they insisted so they could spend some pocket money.£58 spent would have been less had we gone.elsewhere .So £42 left now for 9 days have meal planned and reckon I need about £20 from butcher. Meal plan to end of month now done.so fingers crossed I can do it

Pearla*Merle

Alas! I've not been able to keep up thanks to having no internet - and it won't be installed in my new flat for another month, grr! Anyway, reporting spends of about £140 so far, this includes a big shop to fill the freezer so I'm quite chuffed I've not totally blown the budget yet, to be honest. The freezer shop in Azda included some 10p ys white choc pancakes, some spiced bread affair and poppy rolls, which are all now tucked away amongst the icicles for some rainy day snacks.

I don't think there's much I need for the next couple of weeks, maybe some store cupboard bits (flour, herbs) and odds and ends to use up the random tins and things I've got kicking around. Now I've finally got some kitchen worktop space (have pretty much been without for over a year!) I really want to start baking again and get that feezer packed to the brim! x

Honey_Bear

A small spend of £3.83 on apricots and chickpeas today, which I am rather chuffed about. I got them from a shop I normally stock up at, and made myself just buy what is on my 'Allowable' list as the month is now so tight, denying myself the opportunity to buy my favourite fruit tea bags and other goodies.

MoonJelly

Hello All,
I have to withdraw from this month's challenge. As a newbie I didn't realise it was going to take quite a bit to set up a new home (I didn't even have a broom!). I will re-enter this challenge next month, though, with a clearer idea of my monthly expenses.

nicknack

Ok, here goes - Spent £26.29 & £7.99 in Mr T this week, plus also done shopping in H0me Brgns, L!dl, B&M and Ald! too. Phew. I visit a lot of supermarkets but now pretty much know what to buy in each for best value so I'm getting in routine which I like. Got family coming over at the weekend so there will be more spends there, so off to to update my signature so far and cross my fingers that it's not too bad

savesummore

NickJW wrote: »

Spend of £9.19 today on some salad and cooked roast chicken to keep me going for lunches the next 3 days, along with 2 jars of Carte Noire coffee on offer.
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Hi could I ask where the coffee is on offer pls? I really like Carte Noire! I think you usually shop Mr W am I right? In a none stalker kind of way :rotfl:

I brought a whole melon the wkend at Al*i for 69p but forgot to chop sum up and take it to work so at lunch time i brought one of those stupid pre packaged melon chunk packs from Mr T £1.40 :eek: I must have taken leave of my senses :mad:

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