May 2013 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Dinner last night was hm cottage pie using turkey mince. If I'm honest I don't think I will be making this again in a hurry It was just a bit 'odd' - don't know why - quite a strong taste plus looks odd - DH thought it was quorn mince :rotfl:Used up our homegrown baby leeks though so not a total disaster.

Tonight we are having grilled pork chops, mini roasties and green beans. I will skip the potatoes and have a large salad with mine in a bid to be 'good' :A

Getting the urge to bake a cake. Haven't made anything for a couple of weeks, although I know I will have to have some and that won't help my weight loss quest.

Will be shopping on foot tomorrow (car in for a service), which is good as it limits me to what I can carry. Just milk, veg, fruit I think.

Coxy

I know what you mean about turkey mince. The 1st few times I had it (because my housemate needed to lower cholesterol) it was okay in chilli, but awful in bolognaise. It needs a 'lot' of herbs/spices compared to beef mince (and the texture is a bit slushy )

What's happened is that we've just nearly cut mince completely from our diet rather than making turkey mince a replacement....:(

My housemates cholesterol disappeared from being excessively high, to completely gone, as a result of the diet change. It really shows how many meals based around sausages, bacon, prawns, cream, cheese etc I used to have! I remember when I first started I wondered how I would cope. But I've tried to make meals as different as possible.

Anyway - NSD's recently. Will report tomorrow though because there will be spends.

LarLar

That's another £19.14 off the £120 budget.

So £72.90 - £19.14 = £53.74 Left of the budget We've had about 10 non spend days so far this month.

meg72

NickJW wrote: »

I know what you mean about turkey mince. The 1st few times I had it (because my housemate needed to lower cholesterol) it was okay in chilli, but awful in bolognaise. It needs a 'lot' of herbs/spices compared to beef mince (and the texture is a bit slushy )

What's happened is that we've just nearly cut mince completely from our diet rather than making turkey mince a replacement....:(

My housemates cholesterol disappeared from being excessively high, to completely gone, as a result of the diet change. It really shows how many meals based around sausages, bacon, prawns, cream, cheese etc I used to have! I remember when I first started I wondered how I would cope. But I've tried to make meals as different as possible.

Anyway - NSD's recently. Will report tomorrow though because there will be spends.

Great newson the cholestrol welldone toyou both.l

Welsh_Poppy

I have finished May on £95.55p which is under budget .
See everyon on the June thread:-)

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

had to buy bananas and a loaf of RTC bread yesterday so got to add that to the last
because of busy late nights me and DH havent have evening meal the last 2 nights weve ended up grabbing a couple of slices of toast before rushing out and he doesnt like eating late.
so tht helping this week, better feed him tonight but saying that were are both out again

tessie_bear

thanks to everyone for tips on surviving in the front room when your kitchen has gone down the swanee....much appreciated

coxy i find turkey mince quite insipid but perhaps u got a bad batch of it

i have a kitchen...hurrah but all the stuff that should be in a kitchen is in the front room so need to get a wiggle on and fling it back in the kitchen...todays job

i am signing off from may as we are away for a few days and dont plan anymore spends until we get back in june

see u all on junes thread
tess

MrsCautious

I've gone over my £180 budget for the 3 of us and the dog, I'm at £191 and am going to do a little bit of shopping before the weekend.

I'm hopeful that I can come in at around £180 in the summer months and am not going to beat myself up for how I've managed this month.

Reasons for going over include:

Ordering £20 worth of stuff from Approved Foods that wasn't needed, some will go into a charity table top sale I'm doing tomorrow so that will make me feel better

Buying the most loo paper I've bought in months this month, due to me having whooping cough -- I think this may be too much information. . .

Buying bottled still water after not getting round to having broken kitchen tap reI

MrsCautious

Sorry I cut myself off there and lost rest of post but our kitchen tap wouldn't stop running and needs replacing, as I've been ill, the plumber is still waiting for a call from me to come and do it. I should have boiled more water and let it cool.

I suppose life has got in the way of hitting a £180 target this month but I will try again next month and I'm not going near Approved Food, I could have bought stuff on offer in supermarkets and not had to wait a week for it.

becsxxx

Does anyone know if it's the Aldi £5 off voucher today?

lottie3000

becsxxx wrote: »

Does anyone know if it's the Aldi £5 off voucher today?

I think it's next week, have you got them on F.Book, normally says on there.