September 2013 Grocery Challenge

she_who_can_not_cook

chickadee wrote: »

Lesson for the month: powdered milk is ok in drinks and for cereals and porridge.

I have used it for years so now semi skimmed milk tastes like cream to me lol

Ladyluck1

iammumtoone wrote: »

Hello :T welcome

I only joined the thread this month and have found it really helpful. I am impressed by your budget and look forward to following your meal plans as I would like to get mine to the same figure as yours. I am currently working on £35 per wk and will stick to that for October as well, but my budget does included toiletries etc as well. Well done on your YS finds, I find them a bit hit and miss and always seem to go at the wrong times

Thanks!
I'm really looking forward to to it even though October is going to be a tough one
Hoping to do cleaning/toiletries once a month in pound land, lidl or similar.
DH is fussy and likes lynx but luckily we are stocked up for a bit (everyone buys him lynx stuff for christmas!) and I buy Persil when its on offer

iammumtoone

chickadee wrote: »

Lesson for the month: powdered milk is ok in drinks and for cereals and porridge.

I've never used powdered milk, might give it a try to save me having to pop the shop mid week if we run out of milk (to help avoid temptation) Do you mix it up first and then store in the fridge like you do fresh?

cattysmum

Evening.... just popping on to delcare total for September as im away next week so my month will end on Friday, Iv got £25 left in my purse, ok fridge a bit depleted and freezers running low ready for xmas, but im ok with that so declaridng £190 bang on target for this month.

lovefullshelves

Farmfoods 19.68 and it wasn't all for my looroll hoard!! 19.50 in the land of ice...and it wasn't quite all chocolate!! And aldilly had 2.56 for bread rolls and milk! (that was on sat, been a busy lass this weekend!!)

Florenceem

I don't do dates - just go by sight and smell. If it smells okay - I cook it.
NSD here.
I saw the Ald. leaflet - good baking bits at the moment.
Busy day with house renovations so easy meal.
We had stir fry veggies + beef/onion pastie for dinner.

Pandora_2

Oh dear!! After being so happy about being under budget this morning, I've gone and spent £5.49 today!! :eek:
Biggest spends were on 12 eggs (£2.20!!!!) and oil (£1.50) but the eggs will last a few weeks and the oil will last for months!! Also got 4 bananas (84p), natural yoghurt (45p) and some emergency bread (50p) as I'm out of bread flour and yeast until my delivery comes tomorrow afternoon. Really didn't fancy eating anything I already had in and wasn't particularly hungry anyway, so today's meals have been yoghurt with sliced banana and honey, and eggy bread with the last of the ketchup! Yum yum yum!!

So looking forward to my big food delivery tomorrow!! I only do it 2 or 3 times a year, and it's like Christmas for me!!! I do love food!! :rotfl:

Peggybabcot

Shopping done for the week and signature updated. Quite a few bits were store cupboard supplies like bread flour, sr flour, eggs, sugar, icing sugar, passata etc and I also bought some mincemeat ready for my mince pies. Lots more spent on tea, coffee, milk etc for my Macmillan coffee morning on Friday which wasn't budgeted for when I set my budget. All this aside we "need" very little between now and the 4th but "want" may be a totally different matter! I'm hoping we come close to budget at least and next month I'm hoping to reduce the budget significantly as we have no party or coffee morning planned unlike this month, which between them cost us about £120 more than normal. We had a quick dinner of breaded chicken and salad wraps as after doing the shopping I was bushed and the hairdresser was coming tonight. Was very yummy though. Not sure what I fancy for dinner tomorrow yet. Maybe a chicken curry as we have some mushrooms that need using up? X

meanmarie

Chloris....I think that you can freeze beetroot quite well....my late MIL used to grow huge beets and would boil them and freeze whole and then boil for a while when she wanted to use them....they were delish with white sauce.

HTH

Marie

chickadee

iammumtoone wrote: »

I've never used powdered milk, might give it a try to save me having to pop the shop mid week if we run out of milk (to help avoid temptation) Do you mix it up first and then store in the fridge like you do fresh?

Yes that's what I did. I use an empty fizzy water bottle to keep it in and make it up a pint at a time.