August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

Hi everyone :wave: I'm back from my birthday trip to London feeling nice and well rested! Had a fantastic time courtesy of OH, who really is amazing at the birthday thing Only slight hiccup was that we came back yesterday so i had to spend nearly seven hours of my actual birthday on a train!! :eek: Even he admitted it wasn't a good idea, but it was worth it for the rest of the trip. He bought me a Japanese take-away last night to quickly scoff before friends came round for drinks as well, mmmmm.

Went out with parents, sister and family friends for lunch today which was paid for by my parents and the friends and I think OH had the leftover sushi etc. Having HM pizzas tonight

Mr A delivery arrived - £56.10 in total including delivery for fruit, veg, milk, eggs,, cheeses, butter, yoghurt, ham, spaghetti, noodles, olive oil, cat food & litter, cleaning supplies, toiletries, coke, crisps, coconut milk, passata, sugar and coffee. I have updated my signature but OH has a receipt for a spend of around £12 before we went to London and I just asked him for it but he's too busy watching a 'man film' so it's not including that :rotfl:. His loss as he paid with his personal card and I can't transfer the money from our joint account until he tells me how much it was!

bossymoo

NSD here, except £1.49 on a new cover for my rotary airer. Not grocery spends though.

KolaKube

Hello all!

Well, OH and I have spent the weekend down at my parents caravan whilst they're away. Relatively cheap weekend grocery wise as we took food from our own fridge / cupboard down, and were fed yesterday evening by OHs parents in their caravan, so no spends there. Did spend £1 on two bars of chocolate last night, but that's seriously good going for us lol.

Unfortunately there were some non-grocery spends (on some garden chairs and a freeview box for OHs parents as a present for their new caravan), so not quite a NS weekend..

Anyway, on the way home today we decided to go and get a pub tea (we let ourselves get hungry, mistake!). Luckily the pub was packed so we came away. Then on the way back we decided we'd get a chinese... but the heavens absolutely opened (never seen rain like it!) so we just went home and dashed inside. Long story short, some frozen whoopsie MrM&S burgers later (50p!) with an onion from the fridge, rolls, cheese slices, salad... yum yum!!! I'm so proud of us lol :rotfl:

Thank god we did though as I've just checked our bank account and there's very little in there to last to the 29th (nothing, in fact...:(), due to quite a few unplanned spends this month (OHs car etc). Not willing to dip into savings so we'll have to make do!

MrT order cancelled for tomorrow and I'm going to meal plan from what we've already got in... this could get interesting!

Kola xx

Possession

£34 spend in Aldi this morning, got lots of milk and fruit and the huge bags of potatoes on the Super Six. In fact it was a great Super Six for us today. Plus ice lollies, packed lunch stuff and various bits and pieces which should see us through until Sept GC which is a week away for us. Probably only milk to get in the week, which I'm pleased about as I thought the children being here all the time would blow my budget.

Soworried

JJ, That is not fair.

I have no YS coconut and now I will have to buy 1 at full price to try them macaroon type things. Baked coconut balls?

Just as well I have budget left. :rotfl:

sjprmc01

Right, we were on the last tiny bit of money till the child benefit goes in tomorrow

I had a manufacturers coupon once again 1.50. For bread (1.25) and instructed OH to buy an ambrosia custard pot (the cheapest thing in shop from same mfr group). Which meant those two would cost 24p. He then had the only other money in the house £3.10 to get milk and a separate milk for his work. And he took it upon himself to buy choccy bars. And I haven't seen a penny of the change.......he cannot be trusted with shopping while I am at work! So......I'm guessing that's another £3.10 worth of spends I need to add!

PennyGrabber

Have been a bit quiet for one reason or another for the last week or so, but am breaking my silence now because I need some 'there there' words!

I returned from camping today to find my freezer door open, and loads of things soft. My best friend has been feeding the cat while we've been away, and she must've shut the fridge door too hard, as that sometimes makes the freezer door open (on account of the freezer being too full...!).

Nothing could be salvaged as I don't know how long it had been like that, but at least it wasn't the entire contents of the freezer. I reckon about £80 full price worth of stuff has been chucked, although a lot of it ys. GUTTED!!!

Bluegreen143

Aw Pennygrabber that's rubbish! Our freezer tends to sit open a crack if we're not careful to shut it properly and it worries me. Such a shame it couldn't be salvaged

By the way, meant to say earlier that JJ's coconut things look great!! Not actually keen on coconut but love how you used every bit of it. You always do really well with YS shopping :T

Made HM pizzas for dinner. My friend works in Peckham's and brought me lovely olives and balsamic onions for my birthday so had these on the pizzas along with the first two home grown chillies and salami for OH, mushrooms for me. Soooo yummy Here's OH's:



And mine:



Btw mine is smaller and is on a smaller plate, I'm not just really greedy or anything!! :rotfl:

EDIT this looks really odd as I somehow managed not to resize them the same size?!

rosieben

All March recipes are now in the recipe index (added to this August thread)

bodmin789 - Herby Chickpea Balls
Barbeduk- Fruity Tea Bread
Kylieminoag - Remoulade made with celeriac
Suffolk lass - Coconut ice-cream (DF)

tigerfeet2006
SC/casserole Pork Stew (GF&DF)
SC Lamb Pot Roast (GF&DF)
Sausage Bake (GF)
Potato, leek and egg bake (GF&DF)
Pork with leeks, apples, creme fraiche and mustard (GF)

elsiepac
Vegan Mediterranean Lentil Pie
Chickpea Stroganoff
Leftover Vegetable Curry

:T:T:T

MrsCD

Hi Coxy - welcome back! Can't wait to hear all about your holiday.

Belated birthday wishes Bluegreen. Sounds like you had a great time, and the pizzas look yummy!

JJ - you are such an inspiration! Those coconut recipes are fab!
Very OS using every bit of the coconut. Are you keeping the shells for bird feeders? Honestly though, the pics are truly great. Well done you for having such good ideas :T
PG - how awful for you. What a shame you couldn't salvage more of it. Sending lots of virtual hugs :grouphug:

NSD again for me today.