May 2013 Grocery Challenge

Crowdpleaser

mummyyof5 wrote: »

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!

bargainbetty

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I have discovered that couscous that went out of date in July 2011 is pretty much inedible.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.

Sligo

€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!!!

Florenceem

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?

I haven't frozen cabbage - find it lasts so long in the fridge that I get around to using it.

WantToBeSE

Thanks Florenceem, how do you store your cabbage so that it lasts?

K9sandFelines

£1.48 spend in the C*-*p. Will add to total later.
Tonight's tea - Butterbean and leek with orzo

Crowdpleaser

35.99 in Mr a, should be it til next Monday! X

K9sandFelines

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.

Coxy11

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!
Coxy

Bluegreen143

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.