October 2012 Grocery Challenge

Honey_Bear

I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this GC thing. I really should stop wandering past the two Co-op Whoopsied shelves when I'm out and about - both shops are on the way home. It's so easy to fritter away £5 every time. I'm also learning to pull meals together from stuff that has been in the freezer for ever, supposedly as a treat when we want one. We had an amazing smogasbord last night, but the crab, calamari and prawns were just as bland as bland can be because they'd been frozen for so long. (We normally eat so well we don't actually need treats!)

OH has an abstemious single biscuit every day with his cup of tea mid-afternoon, and I've been baking them for him since I joined the GC. Today was - Ta Da! - the first Twinks HobNobs baking day, but when I beetled down to the kitchen I discovered - NO OATS! :mad: I'd got everything else, I even bought a tin of golden syrup espcially, but apparently 'It's too early for porridge.' I was absolultely furious!

However, good news all round, the last scrap of a packet of cereal that was going a bit soft and the large quantity of dessicated coconut a random lodger left behind last year made up the weight and I can report they are absolutely fab. OH loves them, which is just as well because the mix made 52! That'll keep him going for a bit and as I loathe coconut it's finally rid me of something that had been hanging around for far too long anyway. Good news all round, really.

Thanks Twinks, wherever you are.

ej22

would you be able to give me the hobnobs recipe please or the link?
Thanks

dumpling

Another £1.39 added to my total for a loaf of bread. Thank you :Ato everyone who posted suggestions for my naan bread mountain. I'm going to use some of them for pizza bases and see what that is like.

Lulabelle06

Oh my it has all gone wrong!! I have absolutely no idea what I have spent this last week. Went to London Tuesday but only overnight but OH proposed while we were away so my head has been in clouds! I am going to go for a weekly budget of £40. and then go back to a monthly budget next month. Especially need to save money now I have a wedding to pay for!! Hope everyone is well. Need to catch up on the board. xx

rosieben

ej22 wrote: »

would you be able to give me the hobnobs recipe please or the link?
Thanks

Twinks Hobnobs - the link is on the front page in post no. 7

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Many congrats Lulubelle!!!

Coxy11

Lulabelle06 wrote: »

Oh my it has all gone wrong!! I have absolutely no idea what I have spent this last week. Went to London Tuesday but only overnight but OH proposed while we were away so my head has been in clouds! I am going to go for a weekly budget of £40. and then go back to a monthly budget next month. Especially need to save money now I have a wedding to pay for!! Hope everyone is well. Need to catch up on the board. xx

Aaaah! Congrats Lulabelle06

Small shop for me today in A!di - got lots of fruit which should keep us going - literally :rotfl:Got a mahoosive cauli for 49p and they also sell rooster potatoes which I love. Total spent £31.22.

Off to update sig.
Coxy

PennyGrabber

Congrats Lulabelle!! May your life together be long and debt free! Xx

EverTheOptimist

Awwww Congratulations Lulabelle. What lovely news.

A couple of spend free days grocery wise. Hopefully will stay that way until later this week.

JIL

Just noticed advertised on BBC1 theres a new TV programme with Nigel Slater based around meal planning and cooking with what you have in already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nd36s