July 2013 Grocery Challenge

Shoey1610

Had a lovely day at the local fete today, DD managed to win a bottle of pear cider and a bottle of lemon and lime fizzy water on the bottle tombola with her pocket money. It was lovely to sit in the garden drinking those when we got home, I had the cider obviously!

Otherwise I haven't spent anything today. We had a sweet and sour stir fry for tea with egg, prawns and a few random veg thrown in.

I have a roast chicken for tomorrow, but I might cook it in the morning and serve it cold with salad as I don't fancy the whole roast thing is its going to be as hot as forecast.

Florenceem

For dinner we had sausage - Mr F had 2 - with potato croquettes + poached egg.
Going to Ald. tomorrow - need celery and some fruit.
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Smoosh

Aghhh, I bought more stuff!

OH has a bottle of jagermeister, so wanted to get some energy drinks. Bad move going to the supermarket around reduction time!

We got:

A chicken pie - 34p reduced from £1.35
A punnet of blackberries - 60p reduced from £2
A loaf of wholemeal bread - 9p reduced from 47p
A bunch of flowers - 30p reduced from £3
A bunch of flowers - 35p reduced from £3.50

OH also picked up a couple of packets of value yogurts.

Not amazing reductions, but I made sure we only got a few bits that would mostly be used today. OH doesn't normally eat pies (or pastry in general), but wanted to try the chicken pie, so he's having that with the YS corn on the cob from yesterday for dinner. I'm having the leftover caramelised onion and goats cheese pasta with tomato and basil sauce that my mum bought me yesterday. I have leftover cream so will have that for pudding with the YS blackberries.

Overall spent £3.93, so total is now £42.73.

We're planning on going to the seaside tomorrow :j so I'll definitely be packing a picnic - probably the YS sausage rolls and sandwiches with YS oranges and YS cake :rotfl:

Suffolk_lass

d003kk wrote: »

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody has any experience of buying staples in bulk e.g rice, pasta, oats etc.

Where can you buy these things in bulk and is it cheaper than Aldi

I buy some of mine on-line through Amazing but I always check Mysupermarket first. I must admit I buy good flour (I bake our own bead) but the price is comparable to cheap supermarket prices by buying in bulk.

SL

pixiedust09

Made quiche for the first time tonight, and was so pleased with how it turned out. We both thought it was scrummy. Did cheat a bit and use ALD pastry though.:D, worked out much cheaper than buying a quiche which is what I would of done in the past. Gonna be another scorcher tomorrow, and i'm doing a car boot sale, must be mad :doh:the things we do to earn an extra few quid.

Suffolk_lass

DH can always be relied on to follow a shopping list and to phone rather than substitute something if an item is unavailable. Not yesterday though... he bought burgers (already in the freezer) and pork chops and steaks at the butcher. He was only supposed to ask about fillet tails (excellent value and really good in stir-fries) but these had sold out. Other than that it was supposed to be a dozen eggs and some bacon - £17.25 is a bit more than I planned.

Compared to me though it's still good. I ran round Waitflower and bought beautiful soft fruit and some ice lollies and ice cream (and cornets...) not sure what happened but if we keep treating ourselves like this our holiday clothes will have shrunk...:o

The weather looks lovely here and the gooseberries are ripening. I'm going to get dressed and pick before the heat of the day kicks in. I'll probably freeze most for later as they are our favourite crumble with roast dinner in the winter.

Have a good day everyone
SL

pinkypig

Woke up really early this morning so I made the most of it and got a load of baking done before anyone else surfaced:)
Managed to make 9 BBQ sausage pasties, a quiche, large chicken pie, jam tarts, 2 ginger cakes, flapjack.and chocolate brownies.
Going for a picnic down at the river today so a lot of it will disappear there but should also get a few meals and a weeks worth of snacks out of it. Feel less guilty about my unplanned spends yesterday now!
Going to try for NS until next Saturday. Famous last words...

PP xx

Bluegreen143

No grocery spends since picking up milk and bread on Thursday. Have to say, did get a takeaway last night. We'd been decorating all day so a) were knackered and b) the entire flat was a total mess including the kitchen. Plus we were both going out (separately) so were in a bit of a rush. I paid with my personal spending money and have to say it was delicious (went for curry, naans, pakora, and I do know how to make all the things but it was still lovely for a change).

Don't feel too guilty as it's only the 4th takeaway I've had this year and 2 of the others were at OH's sister's house where we were all ordering one rather than her cooking for us all, and the other was because I had a cooking mishap and made an inedible curry :rotfl: so we had good reasons for them all! Going to finish the decorating and tidy up today, might be a challenge as we didn't get home til 4.30 :eek: and I suspect will both lack motivation really :rotfl: Then I'll hit the SM so will update later with mealplan and spends.

minicooper272

You have all made me want to buy some ready-made cake mix... And that's dangerous, as I'm just about to head to the supermarket.

Personally, I don't buy a mix if it needs eggs. I always have flour and sugar in the house, so as soon as I buy eggs I have a cake mix in the house anyway!

hattifattener

Free lunch yesterday at a 'community taster day' for a new supermarket opening nearby. Spent £2 on strawbs to go with this morning's breakfast. American pancakes, strawberries, creme fraiche and icing sugar. Mmmm, it was DELISH!

121.35/£200