August 2013 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

£1 spent in Mr T yesterday. Will update signature...

b_girl

Spent 80p last night on basics orange squash. Always seem to forget to put something on my list for the big shop :mad:

kezlou

Hi peeps just a quick recipe for you. I'm back on my own grocery budget. £200 for the month, but aiming to spend half of that.

Here's a recipe for those autumnal nights.

Vegetable hot pot with cheese triangles

2 tbsp veg oil
2 garlic cloves crushed
1 onion chopped
1 tsp chilli powder
450g potatoes chopped
2 large carrots chopped
1 medium turnip or swede chopped (450g)
1 large leek chopped
4tsp plain flour
600ml veg stock
1 can of tinned tomatoes
1 tbps tomato puree
400g cooked kidney beans or 1 tin of kidney beans
salt / pepper

cheese triangles
115g butter or margarine
225g salf raising flour
115g cheese grated
5tbsp milk


Heat oven to gas mark

Fry onions and garlic in oil till beginning to brown
Add all the veg and fry for about 3 minutes.
then stir in the flour and cook for about a minute.

Then stir in the stock, tomatoes, tomato puree and seasoning.
Bring to the boil and cover and cook in the oven for about 30 minutes.

While its in the oven make the cheese triangles.
Rub butter into flour, stir half the cheese, seasoning and enough milk to make the dough.
roll out dough to about 2cm thick. Cut in triangles and brush with milk.

Take casserole dish out of oven and stir beans into the casserole. Add the cheese triangles and sprinkle the cheese over them.

Place back into the oven uncovered for about twenty minutes till triangles are golden brown and puffed up.

Mrs-s_4

I spent £28 in ald* yesterday but that will be our main shop of the week
Iv meal planned so hopefully we will be good but I will need to get bits of treats and cake for ds birthday on Thursday

flyinggiraffe_2

Spent another £8.50 on snacks for movies night with the boyshape.

january_23

With three delieveries from abel and cole still to go this month I know we are going to go over budget this month. However I'm determind to keep the amount we go over as small as possible.

Vegetable soup with bread for dinner tonight.

£118.43/£200

ditsykitchen

Spent £1.54 on passata and kidney beans at the co op. Have updated signature Had masses of veggie chilli and rice for tea tonight, with a load of cabbage thrown in to use it up. Still have a few portions to freeze for next week sometime when I cbb to cook

Florenceem

NSD here.
Yesterday I made Blueberry/Blackberry/Gooseberry Crumble - fruit found lurking in freezer.
Tonight we had HM Shepherd's Pie with roasted veggies for dinner.

Florenceem

I used up the crumble mix that I made last night - Rhubarb Crumble - more fruit from the Freezer.
Then I made some biscuits - got the recipe from FQ.
Taste so good - made with butter.
Made 750g biscuits for 96p.

Nicky_Noo_Na

£27.76 in Mr A and £14.31 in Mr S. Bit more than expected but stocked up on cereal and got some good offers and YS stuff in Mr S. Think we'll need more milk in the week and should only need a small shop next week - here's hoping!