July 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

elsiepac wrote: »

Hi all



I have a glut of...bread at the moment! I know that's weird, but in the last couple of weeks I've had some great deals on the nice loaves, from Mr T (8p for a bakery ciabatta anyone? Or 9p fruit and nut bread?!) and also M&S I've got 2 cob loaves which were 80p each (cheaper than my normal loaves!) however no room in my freezer for them! Help!!! Bread recipes please?! I'm already having salad, houmous and bread for my evening meal practically every day at the mo due to the heat!



LC x

How about bread pudding or bread and butter pudding they are loely cold with icecream,

lovefullshelves

4.00 on the market on friday, and 11.96 in sainsbobs:) not been out much..feel too grotty!

Bluegreen143

WantToBeSE - your chorizo cheesy pasta recipe has been added to the index

Bluegreen143

Well I'm up to £148.01 since my Mr T delivery today - except it's a couple of £ more as I bought a couple of bits on Friday and have lost the receipt. I remember what they were, just not the prices, so I'll check when I'm in store next or just check my bank balance for the total (I like to know the price of each item for the blog though so might just have to go in!).

OH's mum had to unexpectedly come to stay for 2 days from tonight (sadly she has a funeral to go to in this area) but she brought dinner for tonight and tomorrow and a catering sized tub of sun-dried tomatoes for me (1kg), so no inconvenience to my meal plan as I'll just shunt the extra food bought to next week. She also bought OH's fancy coffee he likes so he's chuffed too. The sun dried tomatoes are great, she got me a 400g size tub of mixed dried mushrooms for Christmas as well (bearing in mind they're normally sold in 20g packs) and I totally love it, use them a reasonable amount and still have more than half the tub left

Today I made 4 1/2 jars raspberry jam (first time using frozen berries and worked fine, great set actually), 6 lovely soft bread rolls, loaf of seeded bread, cooked and sliced a gammon joint for OH's lunches and made 7 portions lentil soup (using the liquid I cooked the gammon with, very :money:).

lizalloareds

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Well I'm up to £148.01 since my Mr T delivery today - except it's a couple of £ more as I bought a couple of bits on Friday and have lost the receipt. I remember what they were, just not the prices, so I'll check when I'm in store next or just check my bank balance for the total (I like to know the price of each item for the blog though so might just have to go in!).

OH's mum had to unexpectedly come to stay for 2 days from tonight (sadly she has a funeral to go to in this area) but she brought dinner for tonight and tomorrow and a catering sized tub of sun-dried tomatoes for me (1kg), so no inconvenience to my meal plan as I'll just shunt the extra food bought to next week. She also bought OH's fancy coffee he likes so he's chuffed too. The sun dried tomatoes are great, she got me a 400g size tub of mixed dried mushrooms for Christmas as well (bearing in mind they're normally sold in 20g packs) and I totally love it, use them a reasonable amount and still have more than half the tub left

Today I made 4 1/2 jars raspberry jam (first time using frozen berries and worked fine, great set actually), 6 lovely soft bread rolls, loaf of seeded bread, cooked and sliced a gammon joint for OH's lunches and made 7 portions lentil soup (using the liquid I cooked the gammon with, very :money:).

Rolls look lovely what recipe do you use x

lizalloareds

todays spends £4.10

£2.42 Mr M
£1.68 Ald*

Bluegreen143

lizalloareds - I kind of adapted it today, but I'm going to blog about it this week so when I have I'll copy & paste the recipe in here because they were seriously good. I'm chuffed because I've never really mastered soft rolls before, they're always too crusty for good sandwiches. These ones were half white half brown (like best of both I guess) but you could change the ratios to suit you

lizalloareds

Thanks Bluegreen, I've not mastered rolls yet.

elsiepac

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Welcome back elsiepac - good to see you! - Re your bread glut, why not make breadcrumbs with some (especially as they get stale) and freeze them in a plastic bag so that you can "tetris" them into a gap - then you can sprinkle them mixed with grated cheese when you are making gratins

SL

Thanks SL, can't believe I didn't think of that! I now have a Genie so should be able to attempt breadcrumbs (which incidentally I never have when a recipe calls for them!) LC x

becsxxx wrote: »

Hi elsiepac - have you thought about making a delicious summer fruit pudding with some of your bread? There are plenty of berries around cheaply with this lovely weather. I've made this one before (using mostly strawberries and using a glass mixing bowl to shape it) and it was delicious:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/party-food/summer-fruit/summer-pudding.html

HTH x

Great idea Becs, that would be nice to take to my parents on Saturday when I go for my haircut (hairdresser comes to parents house and cuts and styles for £10!) so we could have it for a treat in the garden after! Thanks! LC x

meg72 wrote: »

How about bread pudding or bread and butter pudding they are loely cold with icecream,

Thanks Meg, do you know a simple recipe please? I've never made bread/bread and butter pudding but do like them!! Will they freeze once cooked? Thanks! LC x

meg72

3 Netmums like this
Bread puddingThis recipe for bread pudding is really cheap to make and is a good way to use up old bread. Don't confuse it with bread and butter pudding though!

8 oz/225 g stale (day old) bread, broken up into smallish pieces
1/2 pt/300ml cold water
3 oz/75g soft brown sugar
1 egg (beaten)
2 oz/50g currants
2 oz/50g raisins
1/4 pt/150ml milk
1/4 tsp mixed spice
Put the bread in a bowl and add the cold water.
Allow to soak for 1 hr.
Drain the bread and squeeze out any excess water (using your hands!)
Mix the bread with the rest of the ingredients.
Pour into a greased 8" square baking tin
Cook at 180C/gas 4 for 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours until firm to the touch and brown on top.
Allow to cool for 30 mins or so in the tin, before cutting into squares.
Serve warm or cold.

Variation: use any combination of dried fruit eg: cranberries, cherries, apricots etc

Hi Elsiepac, there are lots of recipes for bread pudding but I like this one from NetMums. Will sort out one for bread and butter pudding later for you as have to go out now.