September 2013 Grocery Challenge

sunset_gold

XSpender wrote: »

My meal plan is going to have to change as I went to get some chicken out of the freezer to make cury tonight and there was only 3 very small breasts left! This is what happens when you keep putting off listing your freezer contents:mad: I will pad out the meal with rice and chips to make it a mid week fakeaway.

Tomorrow night I will make the leek and potato soup, JJ bread and ginger and pear pudding and Friday I will do whatever I can find in the freezer. Could be a combination of sausages for me if I can find any or an omlette, burgers for DH, HM chips and beans.

I also need to rustle up a packed lunch for Saturday as we are going to a National Trust place (getting full use of our membership;)) on the way to my Mum's for the rest of the weekend. I was going to make scotch eggs but won't have enough sausages. I think it will have to be HM tomato and basil soup, more JJ herb bread and quiche and a ginger cake. We will need something warming to eat in the car.

My month ends on the 19th so I have 4 days of meals next week to cover and I really wanted to spend no more than last month so I will really need to get creative with what we have in. We maybe going mainly veggie for the week which wont impress DH!

Oooo I have just remembered I have some mince:D Meals I have come up with so far are veggie chilli with spicy wedges, Runners Pie (its shepherds pie really with baked beans but the original recipe was from Runners magazine and the name stuck:)) and carbonarra with garlic pizza bread. I could also do HM pizzas and HM chips which would get me up until pay day. Panic over! Oh and I have a pasta bake sauce too, what was I worrying about:doh:

I have realised that we have spent quite a bit on snacks like popcorn, pork scratchings (eugghhh) and crisps this month, even though I have changed to buying these form HB. Next month I am going to keep a track of these spends and see where I can cut it down.

I am going to try to create a mealplan for a fortnight today to take me from pay day on the 20th to 3rd October.

Nooooo! Don't spend out on popcorn, it's soooo easy to make your own with popping corn, it's cheap and a little goes a long way! SG

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Just a month at a fiver if you sign up before 16/9 (think it is), then it goes up to £8. Mines says it expires on 30/9 so I'm assuming unlike Mr T it doesn't automatically renew.

Actually it's the 13th ... so two days until it shoots up to £8

XSpender

sunset_gold wrote: »

Nooooo! Don't spend out on popcorn, it's soooo easy to make your own with popping corn, it's cheap and a little goes a long way! SG

Yes I know:o I nearly bought a bag of popping corn in Mr T last week but decided against it for some reason. I am really into the salted version now as I miss crisps as being coeliac there are only a few brands I can have and some of those are the gorgeous but expensive hand made ones.

I will get some next week when I get paid and see how much I can save as a bag of ready made is 84p.

WantToBeSE

I love popping corn..i'm a big kid really We (the children and I) find that the popping is all part of the fun.

We buy the 1kg Asda popcorn kernels. They cost £2.50, and it lasts AGES!!

iammumtoone

WantToBeSE wrote: »

I love popping corn..i'm a big kid really We (the children and I) find that the popping is all part of the fun.

We buy the 1kg Asda popcorn kernels. They cost £2.50, and it lasts AGES!!

I have some in the cupboard but ds wouldn't eat it any ideas what I can put on it to make it more appetising?

kayester

thanks for all advice on slow cookers and george forman. i will see my funds in next few weeks

K9sandFelines

iammumtoone wrote: »

I have some in the cupboard but ds wouldn't eat it any ideas what I can put on it to make it more appetising?

I tried golden syrup but my DD wasn't keen, so I buy the lacta one whenever it's on AF.

lovefullshelves

This weeks aldilly was £32.31, gosh we go through an awful lot of bread products! Rolls, tortillas, half baked bagettes and pitta's..I do like my dough! More expensive this week as OH decided he wanted cake and its a cheese week! (though the huge block will last us a month)

Bluegreen143

sunset gold - your Italian Liver recipe has been added to the recipe index

Bluegreen143

iammumtoone - your self-saucing chocolate puddings recipe has been added to the index