January 2014 Grocery Challenge

kayester

annem38 wrote: »

have just found an "emergency" frey bentos pie at the back of the cupboard but its 6 months out of date, I think it will still ok, any thoughts on this you lovely people??


anne

you have just reminded my that i have one too, just steak....ive had it years, just checked the date and its for this summer. my diet starts monday so im going to have that for lunch today instead on sandwiches along with chips and gravy mmmmm

Ladyluck1

kayester wrote: »

you have just reminded my that i have one too, just steak....ive had it years, just checked the date and its for this summer. my diet starts monday so im going to have that for lunch today instead on sandwiches along with chips and gravy mmmmm

How weird. We had one for dinner yesterday I found.
It was 'just' in date and was fine.
Don't see what can go wrong as it's tinned and meat already cooked... Open it and see!

peony40

Morning all,

Just a quick note to say that I wasted £3.99 yesterday on buying 200g pack of chocolate brazil nuts and they tasted odd :mad:

Have updated my totals, so this leaves me £122.63 for January.

I am not going out today so it will be a NSD.

I will try and catch up with you all over the weekend.

Peony x

samtoby

We had no power for over 12 hours yeserday so ended up getting fish and chips for tea - must update our total

mags50_2

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

Gulp - where do they all sit? How do you get all that food in the oven, at once. I'm stunned. This is huge and is blowing my mind a little, but I bet it's great fun. Have a great time. x

It's brilliant and I love it
Luckily, our family lives near so we all get together every other Sunday. We have 3 daughters with hubbies and 9 children between them, my sister with hubby and 2 children, my mum and us. We knocked 2 rooms into one for dining room and we have the most wonderful time
It is expensive, but our biggest expense and well worth it just to have our family around us and keep those special ties. What's that old saying? A family who eats together stays together?
We consider ourselves very, very lucky

maryarm

Mr T has just arrived so i have nice full cupboards, fridge and freezer
just gotta sort out my cleaning cupboard and that should be me done. Next job is the mamoth baking session ready for the kids going back to school.

Annie_99

Good Morning.
I really need to get my food inventory finished today... it's starting to bug me as I hate being disorganized.
I've also got to get a new spending diary, will pop out later and get one.
Have a good day x

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets list updated to here

Welcome/welcome back to:
Pennydropped, dingdongsaving, happytails, Cassandra92, Gorgeestwo, mags50, redsheep, miss empty piggy, DundeeDoll, welshlovebiscuit, dumpling, BlueCow1975, katkin, jammydodger and lil_mama

samtoby - do you want to set a budget?

Small spend this morning in Sainsbobs. £5.58 on pots, veg and a paper. BIL and his OH coming for dinner tonight. We are having roast gammon, roast pots, cauli cheese and broccoli.

Off to update sig.
Coxy

kayester

I had nappies given to me yesterday, so no spend there.
I asked my Dad to fetch my 4 bottles of pepsi max and a loaf of bread, and all that he asked for was 2 £1 coins and he gave them straight back to my children for pocket money. So another NSD. 4 out of 4 not bad!! I wont need anything tomorrow as going to eat out of freezer tonight and pie tomorrow. So I must get online today and tomorrow and meal plan for the rest of the week, now christmas is over i wont be going to mr M for the vouchers, so can keep track online at mr A until mr M start to deliver in my area (hopefully middle of year, meat is much better quality there!)

sharronej

mags50 wrote: »

It's brilliant and I love it
Luckily, our family lives near so we all get together every other Sunday. We have 3 daughters with hubbies and 9 children between them, my sister with hubby and 2 children, my mum and us. We knocked 2 rooms into one for dining room and we have the most wonderful time
It is expensive, but our biggest expense and well worth it just to have our family around us and keep those special ties. What's that old saying? A family who eats together stays together?
We consider ourselves very, very lucky

This is my dream as my children are now growing older and my eldest has started a family - there's ten of us all together at the moment but I do try and foster this type of family event, I will be delighted if in future I have 22 for dinner every other sunday