November 2013 Grocery Challenge

mooomin

I had a spent yesterday in Sainsbury's of £10.40, including a coupon for £4.50 off when I spent £30 as I bought a dress which will come from another budget if it fits I also got 150 points for spending £10 on pet products, as I went with a friend and she let me put her cat litter through with my stuff to get the extra points, AND double points too :rotfl:

There is £40.27 left in the food budget today and I get paid tomorrow so I'm under budget

I am going to probably head to Morrisons today to do a massive monthly shop though as I have £54 on my Christmas savings card and will use that to get properly stocked up on things like meat and tins to try and keep this month's budget to a minimum so that the extra can go for tasty Christmas food. I'll make use of their 3 for £10 on meat and check out what deals are showing online so I get good value for money.

I'll report back on my final spends tonight.

NickJW

Hope everyone is well...spends from my last post:

12 Nov - £3.52 in Mr S
13 Nov - £3.55 in Mr T
15 Nov - £3 in Mr S
15 Nov - £0.89 in Mr T
16 Nov - £1.10 in Mr S

£12.06 total.

Meals this week have been:

Monday (housemate cooked): Breaded fish with crushed chilli, lime and coriander sweet potatoes. Served with green beans
Tuesday (housemate cooked): Ras el Hanout spiced turkey mince meatballs with coriander and parsley bulghur wheat and broccoli
Wednesday (I cooked): Tuna, roasted pepper and tomato pasta
Thursday (I cooked): Chicken and mangetout stir fry with Thai 7 spice and rice
Friday - went out! Passed my exam :-)
Saturday (I cooked) - Chicken Biryani with toasted almonds and coriander.
Sunday (housemate will cook): back to studying so roast chicken with all the trimmings

Have a good weekend

craigywv

well done NICKJW on passing your exam. nsd deffo for me today as want to do a bit of baking today. getting really cold here today xxx

Flat_Eric

sorry for this daft question but I've removed the label from my roast beef and the instructions have stuck to the packaging so I can't read them!

My beef joint is 1.662kg - can anyone give me any pointers as to cooking time please? I've taken it out the fridge so it can cook from room temperature and I'd like the meat well done. Also, how long should it be rested for ??

Shortie

FlatEric, I think it's sonething like 20 mins per lb, then an extra 20 mins added to the total. Worth double checking on google though

Flat_Eric

Shortie wrote: »

FlatEric, I think it's sonething like 20 mins per lb, then an extra 20 mins added to the total. Worth double checking on google though

Thank you. :beer: I've had a look on google but have got myself confused ! so thought I would ask on here :T

Shortie

Pheeeeww... little forgotten yellow butter tub with previous month's leftover cash has just proven it's worth. Under £5 in it but enough to get the pajama pants/nappies plus I can grab a natural yoghurt to try Jack's bircher breakfast

Flat_Eric

Shortie wrote: »

Pheeeeww... little forgotten yellow butter tub with previous month's leftover cash has just proven it's worth. Under £5 in it but enough to get the pajama pants/nappies plus I can grab a natural yoghurt to try Jack's bircher breakfast

I forgot I was on mse then and was looking for the "like" button!

fairy3

Hi everyone just reporting in, been offline a couple of days so need to catch up.
Spends over last week
As*a - spent £8.67 on things to supplement menu plan
Co&p - £5.40 on cheese and salad
Sainsbugs - £65.42 but this included £10 for branded vodka for christmas and a Joint of beef £15.00 reduced from £25.00. Also used a £5 off £50 spend voucher and used £5 worth of points, gained 51p on pricematch and additional points for buying some corned beef so although it was my biggest shop for a while should still stay within budget, am going to declare £39.91 as DS1 will pay for the meat.
Payday will be one week on Wednesday so have menu planned until then and fingers crossed....

joedenise

Had another NSD yesterday and will be today as well as not going anywhere near the shops.

Denise