June 2013 Grocery Challenge

sefilby

Going to attempt to make fudge to put in OH & Father's presents for sunday. So need to buy ingredients for this, I've made batches before (a long time ago with my Dear old Grandma) anybody got any tips? Or ideas for flavours that will make it a bit different from shop bought?

K9sandFelines

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Oooh I'm not sure, you could try it? Just using a wee bit of the soup and thickening with more cornflour I'd imagine... I had a small bit of soup and a small bit of stirfry leftover, so mixed them together and popped in the fridge. Having them for lunch today so I'll let you know if it's nice lol!

Cheers, look forward to your update.

Meant to have a NSD today but DD wanted me to get Pitch from the C*-*p as it went on offer today; and i also spied some chicken thighs. I think they were £2.50. Will adjust sig later if mistaken.

Welsh_Poppy

Afternoon a few spends at weekend 10.38 farmfoods,15.71p lidls and 2.91p at Morries yesterday will update signature.
Dinner will be chicken, mash,leeks,mushy peas and gravy with fruit and jelly for dessert.

lizalloareds

spends today
£1.29 ald*
69p Mr T

meg72

becsxxx wrote: »

Hi Meg72,

This is the recipe I've always used:

Chinese (Char Sui) marinade:

125 g brown sugar(soft is best )
3 tablespoons boiling water
1 tblsp dark soy sauce
1 tblsp oyster sauce
2 tblsp rice wine or dry sherry
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Half teaspoon salt
Half teaspoon red food colouring


In a small bowl stir sugar and boiling water to dissolve then stir in remaining ingredients. Cool slightly then pour over meat. Leave for 8 hours or as long as you can. Overnight is fine.
When ready to cook drain of excess marinade and keep to baste. Barbecue or grill

Particularly good on chicken and pork.

HTH

Thanks for this, I was feeling very adventurous today and thought
I would give it a go so went to asda for ingredients was very pleased to find Whitworths Fine Demerara sugar at half price
50p so bought a few packs thinking of shortbread for christmas.
presents,then off to the world food aisle to look for Oyster sauce
and Wow it seems Asda are having a clear out of lots of sauces,
pesto etc, I got red and green pesto 38p a jar and the Asdagood for you pasta sauces in sachets were 10p, there were loads of other different jars of sauces and pastes, some I had never heard off. If you are into this kind of thing its really worth a look


I am going to try and make up some of those Pasta hampers that you see at Christmas, horribly expensive, for presents and and raffle prizes for the kids schools.

Also treated myself to strawberrys and grapes, got reduced carrots
at 30p a killo so arrived home well pleased with myself and 20.00 lighteronly to find that instead of Rice wine I had bought rice wine vinegar, so no Char Sui for me today but maybe tommorow :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Tenyearstogo

Oh dear. Finally bust it!

I've updated my signature for the month so far.

In my defence I'm building my stockpile through second purse challenge and filling my new freezer. Ive used my grocery budget to fund it.

Mimmsie

Spends today Mr A £9.37, Mr S £7.49.

Decided to try the market but I was not impressed with their produce so I ended up only getting some bananas for 50p. Maybe the weekend is better, will try next time.

Bluegreen143

becsxxx, your delicious-sounding Char Sui marinade has been added to the index (meant to do this the other night when you posted it sorry ).

Bluegreen143

meg72 wrote: »

Thanks for this, I was feeling very adventurous today and thought
I would give it a go so went to asda for ingredients was very pleased to find Whitworths Fine Demerara sugar at half price
50p so bought a few packs thinking of shortbread for christmas.
presents,then off to the world food aisle to look for Oyster sauce
and Wow it seems Asda are having a clear out of lots of sauces,
pesto etc, I got red and green pesto 38p a jar and the Asdagood for you pasta sauces in sachets were 10p, there were loads of other different jars of sauces and pastes, some I had never heard off. If you are into this kind of thing its really worth a look


I am going to try and make up some of those Pasta hampers that you see at Christmas, horribly expensive, for presents and and raffle prizes for the kids schools.

Also treated myself to strawberrys and grapes, got reduced carrots
at 30p a killo so arrived home well pleased with myself and 20.00 lighteronly to find that instead of Rice wine I had bought rice wine vinegar, so no Char Sui for me today but maybe tommorow :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Meg - you could possibly use the vinegar if you upped the sugar a wee bit to compensate for the acidity? Just a thought, save you buying another ingredient.

meg72

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Meg - you could possibly use the vinegar if you upped the sugar a wee bit to compensate for the acidity? Just a thought, save you buying another ingredient.

Thanks for thr suggestion, I will try it as I dont rel\ally want to buy anything else.