January 2014 Grocery Challenge

marris

Spent £16,18 today. got some food and non-food stuff. a bit more than I planned to spend. also got my Haggis in lidl at half price. writing down my mealplan for a week at the moment

Pixie_Fairydust

Make-It-3

Thank you for the recipe

Pix
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MissOrganised1972

Caught up with the thread & my February challenge started Friday so off over to February! See you all on the other side! Good luck to you all & hang on in there those of you who still have this week to get through ☀️

[Deleted User]

another NSD today, but will have to go shopping tomorrow.
friend dropped some scallops in, they borrowed OH's dredge and it appeared to be very successful, some will get some bits and pieces to go with them. May even try to work out how to post photos.

kayester

tips please if possible?

i am doing my first ever gammon today.
treacle glazed (gordon ramseys) boiling then roasting.
just ideas on what to serve with?
im doing coli cheese and mash potatoes, carrots, what else? any gravy?

minicooper272

I have done my last food shop of the month, and come in over budget by around £8. Two reasons for this:

1: cookery course - it has cost me a fortune for fresh meat (in larger quantities than I would normally buy) spices and extra ingredients. On the plus side, I will have a decent amount of food to stick in the freezer.

2: my annual 25th of January hunt for a shop that hasn't sold out of haggis (I'm living in England just now) meant I wound up in Sainsbobs for this weeks shopping. They are a lot more expensive than my usual A1di. For example, my usual bread costs 99p in A1di, and £1.50 in Sainsbobs.

Only 2 weeks left of the cookery course, and I now have all the spices I could possibly need (for years to come!) so that will help me come in on budget in Feb.

Upsy_Staffordshire

Did the weekly shop on Friday in Ald! and spent £23.67, which was more than I was hoping for but did stock up on quite a few staples, and also got their large panettone for just 99p, which will be great to snack on all week. OH wanted some cheese topped rolls and some posh cheese, which didn't help the budget, but he's working long hours at the moment so I let him off I'm SO glad I'm doing this challenge because I was tempted to get the paper on Thursday with the £5 off £40 spend voucher, but thanks to thinking of my budget with this challenge I decided not to bother. We really didn't need £40 worth of shopping and we would of really struggled to find anywhere to put it all, as cupboards and freezer are pretty full. We had an NSD yesterday and it should be another one today as well.

For dinner on Friday we had the last half of a chicken and mushroom lattice out of the freezer with mash and veg. We had gammon, egg, hm chips, and beans last night to use up the gammon we got on offer from Ald! last week, and I made another loaf to use for sandwiches. Dinner for tonight is sausage casserole cooking away in the SC, using reduced sausages from Makro.

Less than one week to go! Hope everyone is doing ok and having a fab weekend

Coxy11

kayester wrote: »

tips please if possible?

i am doing my first ever gammon today.
treacle glazed (gordon ramseys) boiling then roasting.
just ideas on what to serve with?
im doing coli cheese and mash potatoes, carrots, what else? any gravy?

I don't serve any gravy with gammon as we usually have cauli cheese and the sauce from that is enough. We usually put wholegrain mustard, apple sauce and redcurrant jelly on the table too nommmmmmm.

Sitting here listening to torrential rain and feeling awful for DH and DS1 who are at rugby Dreading the washing later :eek:

Thanks Meg72 for the tip off re: lamb in C**p, will have a look tomorrow after the school run.

DH went to Ts last night for dog food and mayonnaise. He also bought beer to take to friend's but that is coming from our entertainment budget. £9.40 to add to total. Overpayment on our mortgage looking more like pence now!!!

Have a good day all
Coxy

Florenceem

Last day of my January GC so declaring at £44.18 for the four weeks. Still have loads of stock in. We have cooked pork and turkey in the freezer- in total 17 days of home cooked dinners in there. Plus there are ingredients in the freezers and cupboards to make many more meals. Part of my good month is due to shopping on Christmas Eve - Aldo - half price turkey crown + BGOF SS.
Really pleased that I have £55+ left out of my allocated £100 as I shopped for fabric - house renovations yesterday.

kayester

Coxy11 wrote: »

I don't serve any gravy with gammon as we usually have cauli cheese and the sauce from that is enough. We usually put wholegrain mustard, apple sauce and redcurrant jelly on the table too nommmmmmm.

Coxy

thanks i have decided to do gammon, (in the pot now) mash a few roasties cauli cheese cabbage and carrots (will remember to take a photo)

Maybe do a little gravy for the veg but put gammon on opposite side

i have mustard for the glaze along with treacle, to say its my first attempt its going well so far.
got to let it cool once its finished in the pot then will roast for half hour.