September 2013 Grocery Challenge

K9sandFelines

Another NSD ... should read four now on sig, not two.

WantToBeSE

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Another NSD

Me too :j

Cambs85

77p spent today (plus a £1.55 voucher) at sains. Milk, cheese and a courgette purchased!

Signature should now read £187.50

Pandora_2

kayester wrote: »

i use a lot of the same ingredients when i make chilli too

Yeah, it's easy to adapt for chilli, and curry as well. Just alter/add different seasonings and change what you serve it with. Can be adapted for shepherd's/cottage pie by skipping the pasta sauce and using more gravy to make it less tomatoey. I would also swap the mushrooms and pepper for carrots and have some other veg on the side. All depends on personal taste

dramarama

Hi,
NSD today for me, didn't fancy going out in the rain!! Yesterday I spent £1.49 on milk and 25p on ys broccoli. Also spent 90p on Friday on apples. Yesterday I really fancied something sweet so I made flapjacks and gluten free banana bread, it's nice to have something in to go with a cuppa!

Mum also gave me a load of veg and bits from her fridge as she was away for the weekend so that's helped to stretch meals.

Tonight is HM turkey cottage pie?! and probably a value choc ice for dessert!

Have a good evening everyone.:)

£108.21/£140 Sept GC Challenge.

Billie-jo

Another NSD here for us.:j

Have made some mini pizza's for lunch as Mum gone to my daughters today for a change. Also cooked half a dozen vol au vent cases while the oven was on and a loaf of bread.
For dinner we are having rump steak, jkt potatoes and onion rings. Potatoes also went in when the pizza & bread was cooking so they will just need a short blast in the microwave.
Very cold and wintery here today, we were going for a run not having mum but the weather certainly put paid to that.

zafiro1984

iammumtoone wrote: »

Runs off to google that :)

My budget does not stretch to wine (can't remember the last time I had an alcoholic drink)

EDIT: stopped looking when it said it can taste like port - yuck

Iammumtoone:- Not all blackberry wine is like port, the type of yeast used changes the character of the wine. Both make one gallon of wine. try:-
Blackberry sweet wine 3lb blackcurrents, 4lb sugar, 7pts water, malaga yeast, nutrient, camden tablet
Blackberry dry table wine 3lb blackberries, 8pts water, 3lb sugar, sherry yeast, nutrient, camden tablet

cattysmum

Well 4 NSDs on the trot now so feeling very frugal!! but putting it down to being on nights so cant be bothered to go shopping when I get up about lunch time. OH cooking some sausages left over from yesterdays sausage casserole and gonna have mushy peas and dippy egg and mushrooms for sunday dinner. Lit a fire today, first one since back in March so had to venture out to the wood store for logs, right dinner has arrived so will catch up later and I have come across the christmas prep thread its very good with lots of ideas, so plenty of reading to do today. Hmm dinner nom nom. bye

WantToBeSE

Tonights frugal dinner. Sausage casserole.
Made with bendy carrots and mushrooms that were going to be thrown away:



This wintery weather has made me crave warm comforting food

CH27

I've spent £39.43/£40.