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May 2013 Grocery Challenge
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Crowd pleaser..once the nits have gone..try using A****o B*****m tea tree shampoo and conditioner as your DDs normal shampoo...its only 99p per bottle in HB and my 2 LOs havent caught head lice once since I started using it...its rife at our school...thanks to one certain parent grrr.
Thank you we will have a look. We've been using vosene head lice repellant one and they havent caught it for 18m since until now! grrr!0 -
Hello, hope people had a good weekend!
I succumbed to the lure of the good sausage shop in my local high street, and stocked up on some properly made ones, plus some other meats. I ran out of mayo too, and once my mum had dragged me into Sainsbury's, it was a fight to come out without over spending too much!
Total for the weekend was £25.35 (that includes packed lunches for the week). Still under budget for the month, with lots of 'using up' to do.
I have discovered that couscous that went out of date in July 2011 is pretty much inedible. The packet dated June 2012 was OK, but the older stuff had gone off. Dammit.
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....
LB moment - March 2006. DFD - 1 June 2012!!! DEBT FREE!
May grocery challenge £45.61/£1200 -
€423.41/€750 spent and cupboards and fridge are too well stocked for my liking. I need to do a bit of meal planning for the week and get himself organised on what he's making for dinner!!
Sausage meat and puff pastry to make sausage rolls lurking in fridge and must be done tonight!!!0 -
I haven't frozen cabbage - find it lasts so long in the fridge that I get around to using it.WantToBeSE wrote: »I bought a red cabbage and used half of it for a coleslaw. I now have half a red cabbage in the fridge, but dont need it for this weeks meal plan.
Can i freeze it? If so, how?0 -
Thanks Florenceem, how do you store your cabbage so that it lasts?0
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£1.48 spend in the C*-*p. Will add to total later.
Tonight's tea - Butterbean and leek with orzo
GC 2026 £1,429.10/1320.00
(20.49/8 = 2.52 <2/8> coffee) Oct £93.63/100 BB £30.07/30 Nov 4.87/100 BB 14.71/30 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning, from 13th to 12th of each month).
One person vegan household, with occasional visitors
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Forever learning the art of frugality0 -
35.99 in Mr a, should be it til next Monday! X0
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Florenceem wrote: »I haven't frozen cabbage - find it lasts so long in the fridge that I get around to using it.
You could make bubble and squeak with it and freeze that.GC 2026 £1,429.10/1320.00
(20.49/8 = 2.52 <2/8> coffee) Oct £93.63/100 BB £30.07/30 Nov 4.87/100 BB 14.71/30 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning, from 13th to 12th of each month).
One person vegan household, with occasional visitors
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Hi everyone,
Welcome GILL635 - you are on the list!
Another small spend in Ts today on cereal, potatoes (they didn't have any red potatoes left yesterday), veg, fizzy water etc.
£17.15 to add to my total. I've meal-planned for this week and should have everything in barring some more milk. Didn't get to A!di due to time constraints so had to get Ts equivalents which are more pricey
Keep those purses shut everyone!
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reading The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100 Year Old Man by Jonas Jonasson0 -
WantToBeSE - what I do it braise the red cabbage and freeze then, it actually tastes nicer after freezing as all the flavours and spices infuse more.DS age 10 💙 DD age 70
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