June 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

joanne109 wrote: »

Lo cost dinner tonight,low nutritional value, however absolutely delicious.
I bought 12 YS free range organic eggs from M and S for 80p yesterday, sell by 12th use by 17th.

I also had some frozen oven ready chips - 2 fried eggs and chips simple and absolutely delicious;)

Joanne

Why low nutritional value, two eggs gives you all your protein for the day, absolutely one of my favourite meals.

meanmarie

Total so far now stands at €88.50

Marie

joanne109

meg72 wrote: »

Why low nutritional value, two eggs gives you all your protein for the day, absolutely one of my favourite meals.

True - and they were fried in lovely healthy olive oil:D

Joanne

Shortie

OMG.... Mr Shortie went shopping today with my list and menu plan. I knew we *should*come in budget and except adding cheese to my list (whoops I forgot!) Hhe got us in under budget using vouchers etc! We still have £3-4 for emergencies and about £1.50 ish in price promise vouchers incase we have forgotten anything

Woooooo hooooo! Well done Mr Shortie for sticking to the list

Next grocery month (starting next Thursday) will be harder going though as we've run our stock so low to come in budget this month!)

NickJW

Lovely meal plan lbnblbnb. :T

My meals have been/will be extremely safe/uninventive this week:

Monday I cooked - Chicken with peppers, mushrooms, spring onions, egg noodles, soy and sriracha chilli sauce
Tuesday I cooked - Jerk chicken (using the last of my paste) with coriander and chilli crushed sweet potatoes and sweetcorn
Wednesday Housemate cooked - RTC TTD Tuna fishcakes with RTC Jersey Royals and asparagus. Realized we had no sweet chilli sauce in, so used a small jar of Ginger and Chilli chutney on the side...it was just as good (if not better).
Thursday I cooked - Linda McCartney sausages with sweet potato mash, tenderstem broccoli, sweet potato mash and red onion gravy.
Friday Housemate will cook - Asparagus, mushroom, pea (with veg stock/white wine base) Orzo (SO much easier than risotto!).
Saturday I'll cook - not sure yet.
Sunday Housemate will cook - not sure yet

Glad to be finishing a few things out of the fridge and the condiments shelf is getting empty. A lot of things I'm having now won't probably be had again though, because I then need to tick the next things to use up off!

I really liked the Linda McCartney sausages - my housemate not so much. But...I'm only choosing these because of the cholesterol issues, and I do need the occasional sausage and mash fix

Spent £2.62 in Mr W and £2.54 in Mr S - will update signature.

Hope everyone is well

lbnblbnb

NickJW wrote: »

Lovely meal plan lbnblbnb. :T

My meals have been/will be extremely safe/uninventive this week:

Monday I cooked - Chicken with peppers, mushrooms, spring onions, egg noodles, soy and sriracha chilli sauce
Tuesday I cooked - Jerk chicken (using the last of my paste) with coriander and chilli crushed sweet potatoes and sweetcorn
Wednesday Housemate cooked - RTC TTD Tuna fishcakes with RTC Jersey Royals and asparagus. Realized we had no sweet chilli sauce in, so used a small jar of Ginger and Chilli chutney on the side...it was just as good (if not better).
Thursday I cooked - Linda McCartney sausages with sweet potato mash, tenderstem broccoli, sweet potato mash and red onion gravy.
Friday Housemate will cook - Asparagus, mushroom, pea (with veg stock/white wine base) Orzo (SO much easier than risotto!).
Saturday I'll cook - not sure yet.
Sunday Housemate will cook - not sure yet

Glad to be finishing a few things out of the fridge and the condiments shelf is getting empty. A lot of things I'm having now won't probably be had again though, because I then need to tick the next things to use up off!

I really liked the Linda McCartney sausages - my housemate not so much. But...I'm only choosing these because of the cholesterol issues, and I do need the occasional sausage and mash fix

Spent £2.62 in Mr W and £2.54 in Mr S - will update signature.

Hope everyone is well

Love the sound of your plan too - restaurant style! Lovely.

XSpender

£10.50 spent yesterday in M&S on sausages and rosti and on beer in the local shop. £27 in Mr T on beer and wine and pizza and milk and something else I cant remember.

I really want to reduce my spending on groceries as it is about half of my money after bills and is a ridiculous amount of money for 2 adults, a child and a small dog. I set myself a target of £50 for this week as we have lots in and am already a tenner over it and I still need to do the weekly shop.

Next month we are on holiday for 2 weeks but I am going to keep a record of exactly what we spend our money on when food shopping at home and account for alcohol seperatley as this really bumps up my figure. I have an expensive diet due to health reasons and really need some help with this. I will see how I go in June and then may start a new thread for some advice.

Sorry for rambling:o

sefilby

£32.62 in Mr T's & 1.29 on milk @ express yesterday - speedily replaced into my bills budget now correct wages received *sigh of relief*
Tweaked my budget slightly taking out the £50 from last week as I didn't in the bank, so effectively wasn't in my budget to spend.

That takes my total up £96.15 with 13 days to go.

Happy Friday everyone!

K9sandFelines

NickJW wrote: »

Friday Housemate will cook - Asparagus, mushroom, pea (with veg stock/white wine base) Orzo (SO much easier than risotto!).

Is there any chance your HM would share this recipe please? It sounds great and i have all these ingredients in Tia.

Small spend just in C*-*p of £3.50 , slightly unnecessary but i had gone in as i was passing that way and discovered i had a £1 off £10 voucher in purse. So, i slowly ambled round but was putting things in my basket that we don't really need yet; and as most is promotional (ending 2 July) it can wait. I decided to pass on the voucher to an elderly couple with a trolley full of bits, and just kept some fish and baguettes, as craving a posh fish finger style sandwich. So i did save myself from extra spending, even though technically i could have had a NSD today.

I also spent £7.28 in Boots on some promotion toiletries (SLS free shampoo and a can of Impulse as a treat); but as i won't use these til July, i have added them to that budget along with half of the cleaning delivery from this month's Cloud 9 order. If by a miracle i come under i will add it back to this month's budget.

Bluegreen143

I spent £1.99 on coffee and £1 on salad, bringing my total to £154.97 - £30.03 left of the budget (new month starts Tues 25th).

As per previous post, I have planned to the end of the month and am mostly using up stocks. Still need to get:

Onions (value)
Mushrooms (value)
Parsnip (1-2)
Salad leaves
Bananas (x8)
Milk (probably 2 four pinters)
Natural yoghurt (value)
Bacon (16 rashers)
Mince (350-500g, depending on pack sizes)
Bread (for OH's sandwiches, I make all the other breads we eat)
Chopped tomatoes (value)
Cola (at least 2 bottles, maybe 3)
Crisps (6 pack)
Tampons
Hair gel
Parmesan/similar (if there's money left)

The cola, crisps and hair gel are all luxuries, I know, but they're for OH and if I didn't budget them in he'd just go out and buy them anyway and break the budget *rolleyes*.

I think I've cracked making much lighter & well-risen bread (I never used to knead it for long enough) that I think OH would actually eat as sandwich bread, but I need a slicer to slice it thin enough. Might ask for one for my birthday in a few months from my parents, is that sad lol?

Oh and K9 I think was asking about the hot and sour soup, it was lovely mixed with noodles so I'd give it a shot!