January 2013 Grocery Challenge

cattysmum

JJ pie looks scrummy. Spend today £6.06 at local rip off grocery store but saved on petrol going to nearest morrisons. Got someyeast for breadmaker milk eggs and ginger spice and pack of mince which has now been trnsformed into two cottage pies, one for lunch tomorrow and one for mr freeze.

tessie_bear

that pie looks nice...how do u do that nice edging ?...i have been to waitrose with our mywaitrose cards...dh and i had a free cup of tea and a coffee...we then went into shop and got
a free paper (the mail which always entertains)
3 hot x buns reduced to 69p each also 3 for 2 so took a quid off bill
x2 reduced wholemeal loaves 50p also taken of 2 for £2.50
a frozen chicken
2 bags frozen chips 2 for £2
pack of nice ham

we had a £5 voucher so paid £4 for the above so pleased with that...i think waitrose does a few good buys and the quality is excellent...i dont work for them by the way
take care tess

lottie3000

Have been meaning to post on here for a few days, managed to tot up quite a lot of spends over the last few days but hoping that will be in until next week. Not quite sure where I got to so i'll start with Sainblogs £33.71, complete nuisance with their online shopping and had to complain to get a refund, will not be buying online with them again!! Ald's £8.96 and F.Foods £4.25. Doing much better with my budget doing shopping at Aldi and although partners doing GF and Dairy free diet not doing too badly on the spends as freezers pretty full of meat, I knew January was going to be a long month!!

elizabunny

jumblejack wrote: »

Aargh. I have to report a spend of 2p!!

I bought milk, potatoes and washing up liquid but used some apgs that I wombled leaving only 2p to pay!

Itvwas so very nearly another NSD too!!

I defrosted some whoopsied sausage meat and rustled up a scotch egg pie (for want of a better description for my old style concoction):



Have a great day peeps x

Wow! that pie looks fantastic:T

Billie-jo

Peanut2013 wrote: »

Hi billie, what's sung choi bao? Sounds interesting

Basically mince pork and beef cooked off with onions, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, grated carrots, water chestnuts, with soy and oyster sauce added then put into lettuce cups and garnished with either bean sprouts or fried thin noodles. I serve it usually with sweet chilli dipping sauce and some potato wedges.
Two of the grand children like it but they dont have the chilli sauce with it. I used to add chopped chilli to the meat etc but now serve the sauce seperately if they are eating with us.

Is very much like PORK YUK SUNG which is in the index on the first page.

Islandmaid

Spent £5 today at Mr L as it was my turn for the tea and biccy run, onlymonce a month, so I don,t mind

princess84

Hey y'all, checking in with a spend of £10.76 today :eek: Needed to swing past Mr T's for something un-grocery related but it happened to be near lunch time so my tummy was rumbling.....grr i should know better. Picked up some bacon, rolls, fresh orange...oh dear Also some milk, ketchup and fromage frais for kids. Will add to my signature, gone over my budget for this week but so long as i keep within it for the month i will be happy. Gonna try do a strict meal plan for next week tonight when the boys are in bed, see how i get on. Shouldn't be too hard as i have loosely stuck to one this week, just need to rein myself in more :rofl:

elizabunny

Hi everyone, hope you are all keeping warm, it's getter colder here, with a forecast of snow maybe for the weekend. With that in mind we will finish the last of the HM veggie soup for tea, followed by the HM Chicken Curry & Naan. I have to update my siggy later due to a purchase of the Eas*y* yoghurt sachets which should last around 7 weeks hopefully. Also DH is picking up some bagged herbs for one hungry indoor bunny & the Naan for tea. There is a large tin of Choccie Biscuits left over from Xmas on the worktop teasing me to open it later with a cuppa:rotfl::rotfl:

jumblejack

Half a pie left over for tomorrow too

FBG85

The pie looks yummy!!:)
Small spend today, went the market to get some bargainous toiletries, so spent £3 and got 30 ( mix of shampoo/ conditioner/ shower gel) but 10 are for my aunty ( does she abbreviate to da ? )
So I'll be naughty and only count £2
Need to buy bread tomorrow, and tonight I'm grating cheese (what a rock and roll life I lead ) otherwise dh will cut huge slices off the wedge for snacks, he costs me a fortune in cheese!