June 2013 Grocery Challenge

summerlou

11.52 in mr ts last night but a no spend today

joanne109

Evening all

I'm not planning on doing a big shop this month.

I have around 5 X £2 or £4 off a £20 shop at Mr T and Mr S so planning on lots of little shops rather than 1 big one (and even then I still do lots of little shops)

I'm shocked at how much I have spent so far this month, heaven knows how much I was spending before I was monitoring it and also buying wine :eek:

I am on the cutting down booze challenge and it is certainly helping me keep the alcohol spends down

Next week is payday (15th):j:j so if I can stay within £250 by next Saturday morning I will be on target to be within my budget this month

I hope everyones week starts well

Joanne

Florenceem

NSD here.
I am still unpacking boxes to get my new kitchen up and running so quick meals still.
No hot water in the utility.
No bath/shower/toilet or washbasin in the bathroom + no floor. :eek:

meg72

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Looked in my Taste of Asia book for you but couldn't find anything. I think you can buy a packet of char sui flavouring ( though i have forgotten who makes it). I am sure i have seen it in Tesc*s and the likes though

Many many thanks for this, I have managed to get the seasoning on ebay and have found a recipe for this. My problem was we didnt know what the proper name was so googling Char Sui found what she wanted.

Its no wonder mine was a disaster as I had assumed the red colouring was tomato and its just red food colouring.

K9sandFelines

meg72 wrote: »

Many many thanks for this, I have managed to get the seasoning on ebay and have found a recipe for this. My problem was we didnt know what the proper name was so googling Char Sui found what she wanted.

Its no wonder mine was a disaster as I had assumed the red colouring was tomato and its just red food colouring.

No problem Meg, hope it works out lovely. It's one i am yet to try, but i do love chinese food/ Thai etc food.

£1.00 spend just now in C*-*p. DD asked could i please get some Pitch or pain au chocolate., I would try and make the brioche myself, but having tried before and it didn't taste anything like, i will leave it to the experts.

Hoping rest of this week (til roughly weekend) are NSDs

goldopals

I am back for this month after failing dismally the last time I tried. I am going to try to spend $60 on groceries this fortnight for me and a fussy cat. I have withdrawn money for the fortnight and placed it into various envelopes for the different categories on my budget.

So far (since Thursday) I have spent $70 at various grocery shops BUT $20 at one shop was paid for with silver coins from a money box, so I am not counting it. I have $10 left and should make it because I will only need to buy fruit and milk unless I need to drive to my home town to see mum and dad (200 kilometres away).

I spent the day batch cooking a variety of meals which included curried chickpeas, which was the cheapest meal to make as it only used store cupboard ingredients.

(I did start out the month on a bad note as I bought a surface tablet, but will not worry too much about it).

WantToBeSE

If anyone wants Red Kidney beans, or Butter beans, then i got these for a bargain at Tesco this morning:



The red kidney beans (500g) were 50p (normally cost about £1.10), and the butter beans (375g) were 49p (normally cost about £1).

They weren't in the reduced section or anything, just in the 'wholefoods' section (with the lentils etc) as normal.

tessie_bear

hi hope everyone had a great weekend...ours went by quickly but nicely today we are having roast turkey i got a turkey joint in a red net from costco reduced and cut it in to 3 ....we are having a third of it today i am also doing sausages and stuffing balls so will be a bit like christmas

i feel i have got the freezer on the run as i am sure i glimpsed the bottom of it yesterday...need to keep going as the long term plan is to use it up and do a big costco shop in early sept as we then start building up stocks a bit incase we get bad weather...i dont know if the food will last to early sept but when it starts running out i can pick up bits from aldi

sorry to mention winter as we havent got going with summer yet in fact i am back wearing a jumper today....so much for flaming june

i have done some meal planning for the next week but am going shopping tomorrow as we need
ham
milk
fruit
veg
and fishfingers

take care tessa

Bluegreen143

WantToBeSE wrote: »

If anyone wants Red Kidney beans, or Butter beans, then i got these for a bargain at Tesco this morning:



The red kidney beans (500g) were 50p (normally cost about £1.10), and the butter beans (375g) were 49p (normally cost about £1).

They weren't in the reduced section or anything, just in the 'wholefoods' section (with the lentils etc) as normal.

Thanks very much for this :T. I wouldn't normally buy dried red kidney beans as at the normal price they cost the same amount as value tinned ones - but at that price they're very good value so I'll try and pick some up

Got a big Asda shop delivered so my monthly total is £146.05 :eek: got just under £40 to last and two more weekends to go. We'll see how I get on...

Made tomato and goats cheese tart for dinner, was great, though I don't think my OH found it particularly filling (I was stuffed and really enjoyed it). Haven't costed it yet but mad emy own rough puff pastry and bought the cheapest goats cheese I could find so can't have costed that much.

WantToBeSE

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Thanks very much for this :T. I wouldn't normally buy dried red kidney beans as at the normal price they cost the same amount as value tinned ones - but at that price they're very good value so I'll try and pick some up

Got a big Asda shop delivered so my monthly total is £146.05 :eek: got just under £40 to last and two more weekends to go. We'll see how I get on...

Made tomato and goats cheese tart for dinner, was great, though I don't think my OH found it particularly filling (I was stuffed and really enjoyed it). Haven't costed it yet but mad emy own rough puff pastry and bought the cheapest goats cheese I could find so can't have costed that much.

Same here, i always consider the electricity costs when buying dried beans, but this is so cheap i couldn't say no

Would you please share your recipe for puff pastry?