September 2013 Grocery Challenge

Flat_Eric

islandhoppa wrote: »

Well with yesterdays takeaway (£20) and todays shopping coming in at £69.54 I am feeling very doubtful about making my target. Still finding it very worthwhile to do the challenge, and thinking about making some changes to the way I shop, such as going when there are reductions as never much YS stuff when I go.

Slow cooker out of hiding today, fancied beef stew and dumplings as felt a bit nippy last night and this morning, and was surprised at all the comments on facebook from people who'd put heating on :eek: (we're sticking with extra layers until at least October!)

its extra layers and a hot water bottle for me. it seems to have got a lot colder very quickly?

iammumtoone wrote: »

Off course, its super easy got the recipe out of a student cookbook.

Sauce
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
50g brown sugar (I use white)
250ml boiling water

Pudding
75g marg or butter, softened
75g brown sugar (again I just use white)
65g self raising flour
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
3 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (I use a bit extra)

-Heat oven gas 4 / 180c
-To make sauce, put cocoa and sugar into bowl and mix in boiling water until smooth
-To make pudding, put all ingredients into a bowl and beat together until smooth
- Spoon pudding mix into a greased dish, then pour sauce over top. Bake in oven for 15 mins until sauce has sunk to the bottom and pudding has risen.

Enjoy, Its lovely served with ice cream.

yum!!

K9sandFelines wrote: »

One of my cats will only eat Sheba also. Fusspots aren't they!?

I've been buying sheba for my cat as a treat. Over the last year, he has got very fussy and won't eat his other cat food. He seems to like variety though and I managed to pick up 4 boxes of branded food for £10 so hopefully he will eat this and I won't need to spend too much on sheba (he likes the tins that are 79p each :eek:)

CountingPennies

Well i managed to make caramel shortbread, chocolate fudge cake and cheese scones. Whenever i make caramel shortbread, i normally have left over caramel and melted chocolate, so this time i had a packet of cheap aldi digestives and i've spread the caramel on the top and once cooled spread the remaining chocolate on top meaning we now how loads more chocolate biscuits in the fridge for treats at the weekend Usually i just throw it away (if i put it all on the shortbread it would spill over the baking tray) so its good to see i'm trying my best to waste nothing!

Tomorrow i'm making pie and quiche



CP xx

rach_pach

Had to go to L*dl this eve. Spent £59.22. That should be it for this week, but we are out for a meal on Wednesday so I will include that spending into this challenge and see if I can stay in budget! I do like a challenge! Off to update signature.

Suziebabe

Oh dear ... I was working this weekend so left OH to do the grocery shopping - BIG mistake. £76.96 spent in total on groceries - granted £17 of that was by me on Friday night, but that was supposed to be all the weekend treats and the things we can't get at A@di - however, OH managed to rack up over £46 there on what was supposed to be a cheap week! "I spotted some things you didn't put on the list but I thought we might need" did NOT go down well after I'd spent Thursday night going through everything we needed to make sure the meals used up what we already had in :mad::mad::mad:

£117 left to last us through til the 27th.

Next weekend, I go by myself.

Suziebabe

Oh yes, and another £13 spent buying alternatives at a different supermarket for things he was too sniffy to buy from A@di !!

Grrrr ....

malamay

NSD today! Only my second this month I think. I still haven't done a proper shop, just picking up things as we need them. Our freezer is absolutely full, and Hubbs has a week of HM soups in there to clear out before we do a bigger shop.

We had a korma for dinner tonight. I don't really care for curries, but we had a few jars in the cupboard. I used up the one that was past the sell by date, and added ground almonds, almond slices and plumped sultanas to make a royal korma. Served with free rice and free naan breads from a recent Shopitize promotion made it extra tasty

I think we're seeing a film tomorrow, and will stop in to A$DA on our way home. I have a few Italian bits to get from the Shopitize app, so it should be a cheap or even free shop. This shop is a bit too far to do our weekly shop in, so it's a bit of a treat as we're usually in Mr T's

MrsCautious

So I had good news and bad news when it came to my meal plan. Bad news was my children brought a friend home to have tea and she's not a fan of what I was going to make! We had Birds Eye chicken pieces which had been on offer instead, with hm garlic mushrooms, baked potato and salad then meringue nests with Basics kiwi and strawberries with squirty cream, that went down very well.

Good news is the bolognese I made yesterday will do tomorrow as well.

Been invited out to dinner on Sunday, and my girls will be out for tea another day, am going to try to get to my mum's tomorrow -- one way of cutting down I suppose

Been a NSD today, 3rd of the month, trying to get to 10 before the month's out.

K9sandFelines

iammumtoone wrote: »

Sorry I'm not sure I've never done a dessert in mine.

No worries, thanks anyway.

First NSD for me. Hoping to clock up at least another this week.

meg72

CountingPennies wrote: »

Well i managed to make caramel shortbread, chocolate fudge cake and cheese scones. Whenever i make caramel shortbread, i normally have left over caramel and melted chocolate, so this time i had a packet of cheap aldi digestives and i've spread the caramel on the top and once cooled spread the remaining chocolate on top meaning we now how loads more chocolate biscuits in the fridge for treats at the weekend Usually i just throw it away (if i put it all on the shortbread it would spill over the baking tray) so its good to see i'm trying my best to waste nothing!

Tomorrow i'm making pie and quiche



CP xx

Great idea for the biscuits,I like to make cheats cheesecake with digestives, I really love the dark chocolate ones but plain are good too, I just spoon Philly cheese on top with a sprinkling of icing sugar and add a strawberry or raspberrys on top.

kayester

malamay wrote: »

I think we're seeing a film tomorrow, and will stop in to A$DA on our way home. I have a few Italian bits to get from the Shopitize app, so it should be a cheap or even free shop. This shop is a bit too far to do our weekly shop in, so it's a bit of a treat as we're usually in Mr T's

can i ask what shopitize app is please? sorry im new to this thread

EDIT. Just read the first page, and i understand i need to highlight my target in red.... £350 for September