July 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

Billie-jo - rice salad looks fab.

Meal plan for the week as follows:

• Sun 7 - sushi and miso soup, with spicy prawns for Dave*
• Mon 8 - toad in the hole with veg
• Tues 9 - tapas (spiced chickpeas, patatas bravas and artichoke salad, with olives)
• Wed 10 - mushroom and pea pasta with garlic bread
• Thurs 11 - chilli con carne with rice
• Fri 12 - battered fish with chips and peas
• Sat 13 - burger for Dave; risotto for me

*recycled from last week's menu as we didn't have it then.

Total for the month standing at £101.28 / £175 so far with loads of food in, as did a decent shop at the weekend at local Mr M.

Made toad in the hole tonight (for the first time ) and it was lovely! Did individual ones in Yorkshire pudding tin with chipolatas and served with potatoes, veg and onion gravy. Also baked 12 choc chip muffins, totally delicious, for OH's lunches. Turned out so well and were worth sweltering over the oven for in this hot weather :rotfl:

Billie-jo

Sweetie83 wrote: »

Never thought about putting grapes and orange with rice. Thanks Billie-Jo xx

It had onion, grapes, cucumber, pineapple in but orange would be good as well. Also had lemon zest in and chopped watercress instead of coriander which I aren't keen on.
The recipe is from The Hairy Dieters cook book.

Will anyone be watching the 'Great British Budget Menu' a new series on at 20:00 on Thursday BBC1 - 'three chefs will be living with a struggling family and devising a tasty nutritious two course meal on the same budget as their hosts'.

Smoosh

We were in desperate need of toilet paper so I had to go out this morning, also bought some cat milk (because he was very well behaved when we had to give him a bath last night!). I think I spent £1.66, but will check receipts and update properly tomorrow.

We were planning on doing a weekly shop tomorrow, but I'm going to pick up some chairs off freecycle, so putting it back to Wednesday! Money is running very low, officially 6 days until OH's payday...will be on a definite budget this week.

I've officially been finished with uni for the year for nearly 2 weeks now and it's over 3 months until I go back, so time to look for a job I think!

mumofthetwins

well so much for not spending for 2 weeks ... i ran out of cordial at work so had to buy a bottle from the hospital shop ... at least it will last longer and is cheaper than fizzy pop
sig editied to show £1.10 spend

my dad did bring me a sack of onions and a sack of potatos in from his car boot though so im thinking lots of jackets spuds next week
not sure what to do with a massive sack of onions though as im not keen on onion soup ... might try some onion rings if i can find a non deep frying method

hollieinbloom

mumofthetwins wrote: »

my dad did bring me a sack of onions and a sack of potatos in from his car boot though so im thinking lots of jackets spuds next week
not sure what to do with a massive sack of onions though as im not keen on onion soup ... might try some onion rings if i can find a non deep frying method

I accidentally bought a huge sack of onions on a tesco online shop last month and I ended up making a few jars of onion relish for sandwiches or for when we have sausages its nice with those and then I was making things like mashed potatoes and cooking up some caramelised onions and plonking it ontop. Really yummy. I love onions but like you, I don't really like onion soup. I made a batch of caramelised onions and used it on things like "burgers, pizza toppings, baked potato toppings, hot dogs" I just looked up some stuff too and there is some ideas for pakoras or onion bhaji's? you could freeze those I might have to do that as I still have some of the onions in the pantry! lol. x x

Suffolk_lass

Billie-jo wrote: »

Will anyone be watching the 'Great British Budget Menu' a new series on at 20:00 on Thursday BBC1 - 'three chefs will be living with a struggling family and devising a tasty nutritious two course meal on the same budget as their hosts'.

Billie-jo - I will now... thanks for the pointer:T

hollieinbloom

becsxxx wrote: »

Also, for anyone who uses Quidco, on it's Clicksnap feature at the moment, you can get a FREE Elmlea single and a FREE raspberry jelly (by submitting receipt and reclaiming this). I thought that would make a lovely summer dessert with fruit in it. (Available at the other main supermarkets as well as Mr S).

Thanks! i forgot to look at the apps this morning and im popping to mr M's later so will get some ! x x

sefilby

£40.85 spend in Mr T's - I love the sunshine but it does make me lose my head ... kept adding silly little extras to my shopping list. Oh well, I will just have to be more sensible in the cold & wet months!

K9sandFelines

£27.85 spend at Ocad*, mostly on yoghurts and a few miscellaneous food items, and Baked stars crisps.

Going to use up speckley bananas shortly in some muffins, and whack some more bread rolls on to make use of the oven being on..

dylan2011

Thanks to all who showed concern. OH and I did make up, and had a good talk and sorted a lot out, it turned out to be a positive row.
Out on the YS sticker hunt this evening.