July 2013 Grocery Challenge

Brian8888

What a great idea!

Billie-jo

Its quiche but with the pastry taken off as trying to lose a few lbs
don't suppose the scone helped though after!!!

lizalloareds

spends today £5.53

£1.50 Mr A
£2.95 Mr T
£1.08 FF

Belselmo good luck with the course, I am going back to college to study Business

meg72

Billie-jo wrote: »

Its quiche but with the pastry taken off as trying to lose a few lbs
don't suppose the scone helped though after!!!

Well done on taking the pastry off. I cant do it as I like it so much, my DD just makes hers without the pastry to start with so I might give that a go.

She also removes all fat from bacon, meat or a chop etc and I can only do that if I do it before cooking, if I see crispy cooked fat there is no way I am going to take it off I am going to scoff the lot and as for throwing pork crackling away, OH the sin. I now have to take it off before cooking and freeze it,
I then take it all to my brother who does a wonderful roast pork Sunday lunch and there is never enough crackling to please everyone with a normal joint.

sheeppappar

hello xxx spent 20 quid in sainsbury's yesterday agh.. just went in for essentials too and that is pretty much what i bought but still didn't seem to get much for my money...

got a couple of xmas presents though as they have pot pourri /room scents etc on half price.. also albert bartlett russett potatoes which were on offer so cheaper than the loose ones even. having them for baked spuds this eve

anyway I really just popped in to ask a daft question from you baking gurus!! if I have a cake recipe can i make it into cupcakes? presumably i would just need to keep an eye on it as the cooking time would be less.. ? Doing those carrot cake cupcakes earlier in the week just made me think that's a much more efficient cake-delivery method for my household :rotfl: so might give it a try for the cherry/almond cake I still haven't made yet.. I am thinking it might help with my diet too as I can limit myself to one portion of something - so 1 cupcake - but find it impossible just to go for 1 slice of cake when the full thing is there calling to me...

Florenceem

Walked down to Ald. today - breeze here on the coast.
Got the SS Nectarines + SS Tomatoes. They had Celery - 49p but not the carrots someone on the Ald. Super Six thread mentioned. There were 3 peppers for 99p instead of £1.49 but I resisted buying them.
Walked home via Asd. - got Whoops Peppers - 3 in pack for 50p so I got 2 packs.
Total of £2.87 spent - but I got a lot - all fresh stuff and good quality - 5 Nectarines/8 Tomatoes/ Big Head of Celery + 6 Peppers.
Dinner tonight - HM Egg/Bacon Pie with HM wedges - got some potatoes that are crying out to be used up. I will do some salad as well.

Islandmaid

NSD today well for me...

OH bought mackrel and a few prawns to have tonight, welcome and not from my budget - bonus!

K9sandFelines

£2.40 spend today on YS pancakes, YS bread, milk and YS Original Source shower gel, bargain at 50p

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minicooper272

meg72 wrote: »

Glad that some of the food was frozen for the next one,that will help.

I think BBQs can work out very expensive if its an impulse thing and due to our weather it usually is but I find keeping an eye out for YS steaks, sausages and gammon and saving them in the freezer on the off chance that I might have a BBQ really helps, the food will be used eventually anyway.

I get the feeling my housemates don't approve of YL! Normally when I have a BBQ, I tend to go see how much food I can possibly buy for no more than £3-5pp, but without going for value range! Mostly I wouldn't mind if someone came to me and said 'shall we all put a tenner in' instead of coming home having already spent the money, and then saying 'that'll be £10 please'

I will either have £10 or £12 for food next week, and need food for the train on Friday too!

Florenceem

Dinner was HM Egg/Bacon Pie + HM wedges + Salad - tomato/celery/lettuce/onion/pepper tossed in Balsamic Vinegar.
I used 1 stick celery - 7p + 1 tomato - 9p + 1/2 pepper - 9p + red onion - 6p + lettuce - 7p. Balsamic Vinegar was bought when on offer at Lid. for 49p bottle. I made the Shortcrust Pastry for the pie. I used 2 medium potatoes for the wedges.
Total dinner cost for 2 - £1.36. This is a filling meal.
There is enough salad left for one portion for Mr F at lunch time tomorrow.
While cooking dinner - made a Rhubarb Crumble. Was given the Rhubarb which I MW for a couple of minutes. I had a small bag of Crumble mix in the freezer - not enough so quickly forked some soft marge into flour and there was enough for the dish.
We don't eat puddings but this is a good filling afters for a family.
We will have crumble + custard for breakfast - my way of having calcium. So cost of breakfast for 2 - 44p.
So breakfast + dinner costs - £1.80 for 2 of us. In the TV programme the other evening - I think they had £1.66 each a day to live on. A HM Muffin/slice of cake for mid morning break - 30p for 2 so we are up to £2.10. Then a Banana each for afternoon snack - 30p so now up to £2.40.
Lunch can be HM Soup + HM Bread or beans on HM Bread - cost 40p so total goes up to £2.80.
I can tell you - you are not hungry eating HM food.