September 2013 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

hi spent a cheeky £35 in aldi today and a couple of quid in the coop...seem to have a fridge full but will see how that goes...quite fancy doing some baking as have done non over the summer due to the heat....might make some flapjacks to start with

take care tess

cattysmum

Hi, just a little spend in tescx today, milk, veg to go with chicken, and a packet of smart price batter mix which is always handy to have in the food cupboard, spent £4.44, however dd2 was with me and she fancied a maccie ds so £6 later ........ but she is giving me it back when I go round to babysit for grandkids tonight, we shall see....lol

CH27

Pandora wrote: »

Ooh!! I'd always wondered about freezing chopped onions and peppers! It's one of those things that I always mean to look up and try and never get around to it!
I know you can buy bags of them ready chopped, which I do sometimes as I don't always want a whole onion, but if I could do it myself that would be so much better as I prefer red onions and hate green peppers which you always seem to get loads of in the pre-prepared bags.

Will give it a go after I next go shopping. Thanks for that! :T

I chop & open freeze the onions & peppers then bag them up.

K9sandFelines

Grrr DD1 has had to change one of her GCSE subjects and is now doing Food Technology. Although I am happy with this, she came in today and announced she needs cooking ingredients for WEDNESDAY !! So i've taken advantage of free delivery from Mr A due to pass, and got some other bits I wasn't going to get just yet. However, now means that my spends are creeping up earlier than planned. Hoping next time she has a recipe, I will have ALL ingredients in; otherwise never going to achieve hitting target at this rate.

iammumtoone

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Grrr DD2 has had to change one of her GCSE subjects and is now doing Food Technology. Although I am happy with this, she came in today and announced she needs cooking ingredients for WEDNESDAY !! So i've taken advantage of free delivery from Mr A due to pass, and got some other bits I wasn't going to get just yet. However, now means that my spends are creeping up earlier than planned. Hoping next time she has a recipe, I will have ALL ingredients in; otherwise never going to achieve hitting target at this rate.

I would separate any spend you need to do for your daughter, this is not classed as food budget it comes under education

K9sandFelines

iammumtoone wrote: »

I would separate any spend you need to do for your daughter, this is not classed as food budget it comes under education

Thats true but I will eventually probably use some of the ingredients myself and some I already had in, just wasn't planning on it yet!. Technically we will be eating it, so I guess still food. I'm lucky in that I love baking and that i would have normally had everything in, but was missing brown sugar and cheapy chocolate. Will see how I get on. I managed when she used to do FT, so will just need to get prepared. As it was her first lesson, she didn't have much notice this time round!

Mrs-s_4

Been really good this week and its NSDs all weekend til today..
Co-op £11.23 on bread, milk, Pepsi, grated cheese, cheese strings, frubes and mr Kipling cake slices. And £3.49 at the corner shop on nappies.
Will add to signature.

xx_Jo_xx

:eek: I've been haemorrhaging money this week!

DS has sprouted this week! I swear that boy sleeps in a flaming gro-bag!! So I've bought him a few cheap pairs of joggers from as da. My printer cartridges also needed replacing this week, which are a must for my Uni work....

A few other things I wasn't budgeting for have been required but it was a good months wage for me so I'm still pleased if I'm spending on things I really actually need instead of frittering it all on needless luxuries

I need to work out my totals from posts and then get my signature up to date... Is it working now?

Oh, can I also just say the I agree about the soup! I made the carrot and sweet potato soup at the beginning of this thread, and it was lovely... Even my fussy DS ate it and even asked for it tonight!! HM chocolate cake for pudding.

craigywv

small spend todayof 5.55, mushrooms, bacon, bananas,milk and juice. finding it hard to stay on track this month dont no why

Florenceem

Spend of £3.82 but more to add when I sort out receipts.
Not posted photos for a few days - hectic here with the house renovations.
I am still losing weight - had ultrasound - normal.
This was a dinner that I did photograph - roast potatoes/parsnip + HM chicken pie + roasted beetroot, red onion, red pepper, tomato.