November 2013 Grocery Challenge

BlueMoo

Soworried - Assume you are having it roast for the first meal?

Second meals - how about chinese style either in a stirfry (you can buy value stirfry mix)/ or you could have it with hot peppers (mix with sweet chilli sauce and peppers with a sprinkling of chilli) or with HM egg fried rice or lightly fry it with soy sauce, leave to stew a bit in beef stock and add baay mangetout and baby corn?

How about in a hot pot style. Slice beef into strips and slice parsnips/carrots/swede/squash (any root type veg). Stew with a tin of chopped toms and beef stock (add some mixed herbs) then cover with sliced par boiled pototoes to form a 'topping'. Pop in the oven till potatoes golden. This way you can really bulk out the meat with vegeatables but you still get a lvoely meaty taste from that beef stock.

Usual stew/pie ideas (if you can stomach it, kidneys are very cheap)

How about beef tacos/fajitas? You can buy the taco shells or alternevitly buy tortilla wraps (I'm sure people here would give you a recipe to home make them though). Fry with paprika/cayenne/ (chilli if you want), lots of peppers and onion and a sieved tin of chopped tomatoes (or you can use fresh). Cook until there is not too much liquid, and then serve with sour cream/or value cream cheese, and a sprinkling of hard cheese on the top. You can also add salad/spring onions as well to your wrap/taco shell.

BlueMoo

Or beef stroganoff (I LOATHE Mushrooms so don't cook them)

Or as suggested with gammon - maybe a meat-feast style pizza (if you have any bacon/pepperoni/sausage/ham/chicken) around the house. A small bit of meat can go a long way on a pizza. You can even use 2 days old baguettes - slice in half, spread each side with tomato puree/leftover tomato pasta sauce/top with sliced fresh tomatoes, sprinkle with mozzarella/cheddar cheese/red leicester and top with meaty chunks. This can be further bulked out with olives/any veg you have lying around the house.

Soworried

That is fantastic, thankyou very much BlueMoo :T

We are having it tonight as a casserole as I have a lot of vegetables to use up.
I love the wrap/taco idea and I have everything in to make it so no extra spends
I always struggle with ideas to use up red meats for some reason. I can make a full chicken stretch to the moon :rotfl:

BlueMoo

Yep - tacos/fajitas always go down a treat in our household. It's a good way as well to eat salad as the beef filling is a strong taste so you can shove lots of salad in there without feeling like you are eating it!

It's a great way as well for kids to help themselves as you can serve all the different components in seperate bowls/dishes and they can go buffet style.

tessie_bear

hi hope everyone is doing well
i am about to make a meal plan for next week and had a browse of a ffoods flier that came through the front door...going to make beef burgers for tea and might have ribs tomorrow

not sure what we are doing foodwise over the weekend so will need to be careful of lifting it out of the freezer band then not being in to eat it....oh yes need to write a shopping list for aldi for next week
take care tessa

sachatith

Florenceem wrote: »

Black Pudding in The Hole.

Florenceem - that sounds AMAZING I have to make it! Assume same way as normal just replace the toads with BP? Yum yum yum!

BlueMoo- thanks for the suggestions they're great! I'm going to keep these ones as casseroles in the freezer as I volunteer on a Friday night (and have meetings in the week) so they are ideal for if I'm in a rush as I can just pull them out and nuke them save me being tempted by naughtiness

Managed to get three portions in the freezer and tonight am having HM fajitas. Hopefully empty a few more bits in the freezer as home along Saturday so will do a few more meals for next week so I am stocked up.

meg72

physicsgirl wrote: »

It was T*sco, and thank you!



It's maybe a little cheeky, but it's one of the ways I justify shopping at T*sco after the horsemeat scandal and considering how much food they throw out at the end of each day instead of giving it to food banks and how much money they fleece out of people who don't have the time to read forums like this, I don't feel bad at all. I'd rather it was sitting in their warehouses than in my cupboards, and the money was sitting in my pocket (which they've been earning interest on in the time since I bought it). I don't have the space to keep stuff I'm not going to (or shouldn't) eat, and by next Halloween we'll probably have moved so I'm not going to pack up a bag of sweets just to it can be given out next year!



You're suggesting shops shouldn't allow you to take things back???

I am not suggesting this at all but it very much depends on what it is and the type of packaging, I would be very unhappy to think I was buying a pack of sweets that had been purchased and then returned to the shop. Food tampering is not unheard of.

CountingPennies

£4.35p at Mr T's this morning. Had to go in with a new prescription, turns out i now have an ear infection on top of everything else!

Anyway, bought carrots, cheerios and a large tub of value spread to make pastry with (the marg, not the carrots and cheerios )

Forgot potatoes, so will TRY to do without. Took pork joint out of freezer. Just a small one. Will do for tea tomorrow. Also took pastry out of freezer to make a pie. Most likely cornbeef as I have cornbeef in, and possibly enough potatoes to do the mash. Potatoes are SOOOO expensive at the moment. Does anyone else think so???

CP xx

CountingPennies

meg72 wrote: »

I am not suggesting this at all but it very much depends on what it is and the type of packaging, I would be very unhappy to think I was buying a pack of sweets that had been purchased and then returned to the shop. Food tampering is not unheard of.

The same as clothing. I know people who have bought clothing, worn it on a night out, and took it back to the store the following day :eek: And i've seen sales assistants accept a return, and hang it back on the shelves (Its not something i would do before anyone thinks otherwise).

zafiro1984

Great ideas over the last few pages, makes good reading to see how everyone stretches their meat to go just that little bit further. Also interesting that some types of meat are more versitile than others. I usually wait until one of the SM have a half price offer on gammon and then stock up. No one at the moment seems to have any half price offers, just when I've run out.