June 2013 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

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.

When I cooked chicken quarters last night - my dog had her nose in the air - great smell.
I skinned the chicken and roasted the skin - my dog loved it.
No waste in this house. :money:

WantToBeSE

Havent spent any money at all today, and produced this delicious roast dinner:



A bit disappointed in the size of the froen gammon from Aldi (it cost £2.99). Was hoping to get a 2nd meal out of it tomorrow in the form of gammon, egg and chips. But there is no chance, we ate the whole lot!

lbnblbnb

Getting on well with my minimum spend week. Bought milk, so gone over slightly, and scrounged some cheddar from my SIL in return for some olive oil I gave her. I get paid on Weds so will restart my budget, but I need to keep it low then too.
Hubby is missing green salad, I am hoping the lettuces in the garden will be ready soon.

Sequeena

Stocked up in ASDA. Came to £47.65. Will hopefully only need to buy fresh, cat food and our eldest dog's 'special' food for a while.

Billie-jo

Spent £19 in Morrys at the weekend on fruit & veg. Also brought some scallops which were ok but not worth the money imo.

Today we had roast lamb, mash, cabbage (my favourite) and carrots with fresh mint out of the garden. None left for tomorrow but was just enough to get mum another dinner out of tomorrow. First lettuce out of garden as well for in the week.

Florenceem

NSD here.
End of my June GC - £81.88/£100
Lots of stock in and now organised in my new kitchen so plan a very small spend in the next four weeks.

Bluegreen143

NickJW - your asparagus & mushroom orzo recipe has been added to the index

Bluegreen143

Well refined my 'storecupboard week' mealplan a little more and spent around £16 in-store (OH also spent £3.50 on cleaning supplies yesterday and I spent £4 odd on bits and bobs) so my new total is £180.02. This means I have £4.98 to do me until I get paid 25/06 - but I don't need anything except will top up on milk and bananas when I run out :-)

Made a lovely three course meal today for OH's mum, who's staying for a couple of days. Forgot to take pics of starter and main course but everyone was really impressed with the individual baked syrup sponge puds I made for dessert. I was most impressed that I had all the ingredients in already :rotfl: I turned them upside down when I took the out of the ramekins, so the syrup was on top like a traditional steamed pudding (but much less hassle cooking in the oven!).





Mealplan as follows:

• Sun 16 – (OH's mum visiting) – wild mushroom soup, spaghetti bolognaise with homemade foccacia and syrup sponge puddings with ice-cream
• Mon 17 – (OH’s mum visiting) – hummous, pittas and salads
• Tues 18 – chicken, broccoli and cheese lasagne with salad
• Wed 19 – vegetable chilli with rice
• Thurs 20 – homemade pizzas with salad
• Fri 21 – veggie shepherd’s pie & peas (made with pulses, not fake meat)
• Sat 22 – away celebrating a friend’s birthday!

K9sandFelines

NickJW wrote: »

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

You're welcome. I will definitely be making the orzo again so easy, quick and satisfying

Small spend for me today of £1.64 - baguette, small milk (as DD was whinging for a drink in the shop :mad:, and even juice was dearer!) and some YS pitta pockets for packed lunch.

MrsCautious

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Getting on well with my minimum spend week. .

Thank you, I'm going to take some inspiration from this, I have MOT tomorrow, very small chance I may seek solace in cake.

This time last year repairs needed brought bill to £344 and I've had to fork out another £200ish since, will be very fed up if get a big bill tomorrow.