November 2013 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

BlueMoo wrote: »

OK- confession time :EasterBun



I just loved your animation - perfect :rotfl:
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marris wrote: »

got my countrylife hamper today :j:j:j (i won it last week)

Well done - that looks fantastic

Florenceem wrote: »

You cut 4/5 thin slices for 1st meal - with baked beans, mushrooms, eggs, tomatoes, toast, LO pots etc - 2 servings.
The rest of the black pudding - cut into thicker slices and then into chunks - use as sausages in the batter for BPITH. Make a 2 egg Yorkshire batter mix - I use a ceramic dish from - 99p shop - gives you 6 servings.

I love black pudding but not with gravy - I know I'm fussy - but tend to see it like haggis. Super with creamy mash and carrot/swede mash or like you with a fry. My favourite is with bubble and eeck, beans, toms and poached egg.

Another NSD today and made soup in the SC with all the carrots, parsnips and leeks floating around in the fridge and some garlic and chicken stock. Will be for late lunch tomorrow when I get back from class with hot rolls (p/baked from Al*i).

Have a good Saturday everyone
Lx

mooomin

£5.49 spent in Asda on Friday (£2 also spent on Chocolate Oranges but that comes from my Christmas budget!)

I still have £50.67 left from my budget and get paid on Monday

I have a voucher for £4.50 off when I spent £30 at Sainsburys, along with one for extra points on petfood, but rather typically it has to be used by tomorrow :rotfl: I'm going to get a list together, use the My$upermarket website and see what the best shop I can manage is!

meg72

lynnejk wrote: »

BlueMoo wrote: »

OK- confession time :EasterBun



I just loved your animation - perfect :rotfl:
*****




Well done - that looks fantastic



I love black pudding but not with gravy - I know I'm fussy - but tend to see it like haggis. Super with creamy mash and carrot/swede mash or like you with a fry. My favourite is with bubble and eeck, beans, toms and poached egg.

Another NSD today and made soup in the SC with all the carrots, parsnips and leeks floating around in the fridge and some garlic and chicken stock. Will be for late lunch tomorrow when I get back from class with hot rolls (p/baked from Al*i).

Have a good Saturday everyone
Lx

I like to add a few slices of bp to a hm pizza and also in a quiche.

[Deleted User]

marris wrote: »

got my countrylife hamper today :j:j:j (i won it last week)

Wow, what a great prize, it looks fantastic. Enjoy!!

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BlueMoo wrote: »

I'm a big fattie after last night. Had my big lunch of JP beans and cheese, and then got home meaning to have small supper - instead had 2 fish fillets with oven chips with lots of broccoli. So frustrated as have been trying so hard to eat healthy. Think it was because I was alone last night and was more bored I guess than hungry.

Don't be too hard on yourself. If it makes you feel any better my binges never involve broccoli - its more like pizza, chippy chips, chocolate and crisps:eek:.

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Weekly shop done today:

Lidl - £16.77
Mr T - £5.07 (after using a voucher)
Mr A - £5
Total for the week = £26.84

As per advice on here I thought I would analyse what I had bought:

Food for meals = £18.59
Household = £3.80 (Loo Roll, mouthwash)
Treats/non essentials = £4.45 = £3.00 (mince pies and cream) + £1.45 (2 x 12pack Tesco Value crisps)

Best bargains today were:
Anchor butter in Lidl - 30% off - Paid 87p
2.5kg potatoes in Lidl for £1.09 - got two bags
2 steak pies 30% off in Lidl - paid 69p

2childmum

Needed to pop out for a few bits and went to Lidl so decided to stock up on the stuff I usually buy there - mainly cleaning and toiletries really, but got the reduced pots and red onions, cereal DH likes and some meat (including 2 packs of turkey steaks). Spent £34.49 there, but had to go to Mr S for a few bits Lidl didn't have which annoyingly means I have to pay to park. Bought Gerbil food, stir fry veg, yogs and 5 tins of ginger beer reduced to a pound, so that's gone into the Christmas stash. Another £5.60. I'm losing the plot re meals and shopping as I'm so out of routine at the mo with the jury service, but fingers crossed (very hard) that this coming week is the last week. If I get put on a long case I shall have to think really hard about a suitable routine, but I'm just getting by day by day at the moment.

We have a 'bring and share' lunch at church tomorrow and I always have to 'bring' rather a lot cos of being lactose intolerant and most of what others bring has dairy in it. I've made a red onion and tomato quiche from pastry already in the freezer, and used the last bits to make 6 mince pies - one I've eaten (very nice!) and one fell apart (will give to DS!) I'm going to freeze the other 4 which sounds a bit odd but if every time I make pastry between now and Christmas I make a few mince pies with the oddments of pastry I should have quite a few by the time we get there!

Also cooked some ready make frozen sausage rolls which were reduced a while back, and have made a lime and pineapple jelly. I'm going to make filo cups with prawns and seafood sauce (ys in Mr S for no apparent reason) but didn't realise the pastry needed to be out of the fridge for 2 hours before I could use it!

Have a good weekend everyone!

CountingPennies

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Don't be too hard on yourself. If it makes you feel any better my binges never involve broccoli - its more like pizza, chippy chips, chocolate and crisps:eek:.

SNAP!! :rotfl:

£4 to my mother today who picked me up bread and milk. Ran out of tea bags but my lovely neighbour gave me half a box. I give her plenty in the past so she insist i don't have to return them (i love having good neighbours).

Really need a few basics but don't know if i will have time today. Depends what time i get finished from work tonight.

Tomorrows lunch is all sorted. Pork from freezer and have enough veg in fridge for tomorrow. Once this pork is gone, and this veg, i will have to do a shop as i only have a few things left in. Talk about running the fridge/freezer and cupboards right down!

Will add £4 to sig

CP xx

angelatgraceland

I made some lovely coleslaw last week and made up extra of the chopped veg mix(onion carrot white cabbage) to sneak into "other" dishes. I've just done the same today-one dish for coleslaw and a bigger dish is going to be a casserole with leftover ham offcuts from the fridge, some mushrooms and anything I can find. Just deciding what sauce I will pit in the casserole. I am thawing out some turkey steaks so I will chop one up for the casserole and have the others tomorrow for lunch. I am on a diet so being creative with low cal foods. No point in buying special foods for diets and it would mean that later on I would not be able to adapt to the new low cal cooking. I have a pile of receipts on my bed ready to do totals so far for this month. I've bought a lot more veg recently and I am keeping it in a cardboard box in the garage which is working well. Off to Lidl later for their weekend bargains and more veggies.

Update: Found 2 packets of chicken casserole mix which are out of date but will be fine. Also made up strawberry whip and sugarfree jelly.

Next years resolutions are to not bulk buy as I get carried away with it! Also to buy meat fresh and not to freeze it-only to buy it if I am using it within 3 days as I get to much stockpile in the freezer.There will of course be exceptions for special bargains but it must not be the norm!

craigywv

nsd in food but went Christmas shopping from different budget its soooooooooo expensive