June 2013 Grocery Challenge

MrsCautious

£1 on milk in Iceland. Nipped in to save me 30p as was in town.

tootoo

£9 taken from my budget. My mum did come round with a bag of shopping yesterday though - so technically free food - thanks mum

K9sandFelines

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

WantToBeSE - will do the recipe for the blog in the next couple of days and coupy & paste over here once I have.

No spends today, made a two-course "fake-away" of hot & sour soup followed by beef and veg stirfry. Very impressed by the soup which I haven't made before. Good way to make the stirfry a bit more filling and only used the end of the bag of beansprouts (which would have been gone off otherwise) and everything else was storecupboard ingredients

Do you think the hot and sour could be thickened up to make a sauce also? I had this out of a packet made by Pataks the other day, and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't normally buy it, but wanted to just try it first. I hate sweet and sour so thought if it is anything like that, i didn't want to waste ingredients trying it myself.

I keep forgetting to check your blog. I had it bookmarked on my laptop and it conked, just as i got the desktop fixed. So all my bookmarks are on the wrong appliance! I will bookmark now, and try and remember to actually check in from time to time

Re this challenge ... don't need anything today, so hoping for a NSD, and three more til Saturday!

meg72

Off for my eye op at 1pm, have stocked up with everything I need for the next two weeks so will not need to shop. I am quite looking forward to just popping things in microwave.

xxlouisexx56

I spent another £30 last night on rtc pampers nappies. Should have been £60 at full price,

Going out today to get some more!

K9sandFelines

meg72 wrote: »

Off for my eye op at 1pm, have stocked up with everything I need for the next two weeks so will not need to shop. I am quite looking forward to just popping things in microwave.

Hope all goes well. Thinking of you x

malamay

My car is in the shop this afternoon for a new battery - that is, if I can get it started

I might have to cut the grocery budget for the rest of the month. We'll need milk after we come back from holiday, and a few apples or which ever fruit is cheap. We have no potatoes, only a few carrots, tins of sweetcorn and frozen beans and peas. There are also a couple of tomatoes, an onion, and fruit to last this week.

Hubbs is away tomorrow and Thursday, so will have a packed box of snacks to take with him. He can claim for meals at least. I'll eat with the in-laws' tomorrow, as I dislike cooking for one.

Our short holiday next week is coming at a bad time I have breakfast bars to take with us for breakfasts, and we have pre-paid 2 out of our 4 main meals (Hard Rock Cafe - found a discount online, and we would have went anyhow :j). We'll manage on maybe 100-150 Euros I hope!

cattysmum

meg72 wrote: »

Off for my eye op at 1pm, have stocked up with everything I need for the next two weeks so will not need to shop. I am quite looking forward to just popping things in microwave.

Hope all goes well for you.

Eyebright

Spend of £47.25 in Mr.T's yesterday on an online shop, taking my total to the month to £158.42. Think I'm just about on track for the month with 2 more weeks until payday.

Realllllllly hoping I can come in under budget this month!

cattysmum

Good afternoon, just popping on to do some updating and saw the lovely Goats tart creation with the puff pastry so might have a go at that one thanks for posting. Wel up to now have had 6 nsds and am quite pleased with that my spending comes up to £72.51 up to now this month , I base my budget on approx £50 a week so am quite pleased with my totals up to now, and we had a family bbq at the weekend I bought all the food out of my grocery budget, drinks came out of another budget. Off to morrisons now as they have old el paso meal with £35 of mocs inside and the boxed meal which includes wraps I think is on offer for £1.35 in morribobs, also need milk and butter oh and catfood (wild cat) which we feed in the garden. Right off to update siggy (waves)