June 2013 Grocery Challenge

Sequeena

£33.72 spent in Mr M today. Not quite sure how I spent that much, doesn't seem like we got an awful lot

NickJW

K9sandFelines wrote: »

This is the finished product ... it was gorgeous!

Glad you liked! What marinade have you got on the chicken? Looks lovely to go with it

LarLar

So i spent £14 in iceland which is on top of my £50.76 in asda.

£50.76 + £14 = £64.76 Leaving me with £35.24 remaining of my £100 budget for the rest of the month.

K9sandFelines

NickJW wrote: »

Glad you liked! What marinade have you got on the chicken? Looks lovely to go with it

Well the orzo was an afterthought but think it would go with anything. It's PiriPiri. I normally skin my chicken and then put it on, as i'm watching my weight and find it sticks better to the meat. I then froze it,so hopefully by then the flavours have been well and truly absorbed.

MrsCautious

Spent another £3.50 on fresh stuff needed and still forgot potatoes! Creeping up towards my £180 target, trying my best!

This week's meal plan:

Monday -- hm cottage pie
Tuesday -- pasta and bolognese
Wednesday -- sausage and mash
Thursday -- cheese/beans/tinned chicken in white sauce on toast or with baked potato
Friday --some sort of spicy beef dish with rice
Saturday -- hotdogs with hm wedges

Everything out of main ingredients except hotdogs and cheese, even beans and chicken in sauce is YS so a good feeling. Still needed will be potatoes, salad, mushrooms, onions and rolls for hotdogs.

Would like to spend £10 or under, we'll see, puddings also planned:

10p a packet Angel Delight type pudding from AF
YS tinned peaches with YS Ambrosia rice pudding
Sainsburys toffee cheesecake from freezer £1
Rolo pudding, 6 for £2 from sainsburys
Hm cup cakes, daughter made last night
Hm flapjack, am going to ask her sister to make
Sainsbury pavlova from freezer, think it was £2
Little bit Co-op ice cream left

MrsCautious

Back from sm where spent £3.19 on potatoes, mushrooms and milk.

Handed in someone else's receipt to claim 52 nectar points on my card, after picking it up off floor, oh my, that's it my transformation into super scrimper is complete!

NickJW

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Well the orzo was an afterthought but think it would go with anything. It's PiriPiri. I normally skin my chicken and then put it on, as i'm watching my weight and find it sticks better to the meat. I then froze it,so hopefully by then the flavours have been well and truly absorbed.

Thanks I do the same actually - that way the marinade actually goes into the chicken, rather than just the skin with plain chicken underneath.

smokies

Got myself back on track today, after a overspending big last week - one little set back last Sunday when I went wild with my shopping, and I though the whole week of watching the pennies out of the window.....

Hopefully this week I can pull in the purse strings and see if I can limit the damage done.... don't need to do a shop for a few days then it should be only fresh like bread milk and eggs...

its so easy to go off track, but feel loads better for jumping back on the MSE train......

hex2

A trip to Lidl where unsalted butter was 2 for £1.80 - not seen it that cheap for ages.

Bread flour and plain flour on the other hand have jumped up 20p - SR is still 45p though.

NickJW

£16.17 spent in Mr S yesterday

HM is cooking Piri Piri chicken with salad and coleslaw today (bit naughty to have coleslaw but oh well).

Hummus and Pitta bread as a snack dinner.

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