January 2014 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

zippychick wrote: »

Sorry all I've been at risk of redundancy, and unwell all Christmas so the grocery challenge escaped me. Sorry about that.


Sorry to read about you being unwell and worried about your job. I hope both are now sorted and a big thanks for all the work on this thread :T

good luck for the first budget of the year - happy new year to all

Zip

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

BIG THANKS TO ZIPPY FOR SETTING THE THREAD UP :A:D

I've updated the budgets list to include those who have posted here and also since Christmas Eve on the December GC thread. If I have missed you then I apologise


And a big thanks to you also Coxy for all the work you do on here :T

Good luck for January everybody!
Coxy

A warm welcome to all the newbies and returners :hello:


Please can you put me down usual £240 again this month.


I am still in December so will update all my siggies on the 1st


Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday
Lx

Faete

Payday today so January starts here for me. I'm going for £350 this month. If I manage that, I'll look at whittling it down some more in February

Fae xx

mooomin

Morning all

My budget for January is £225 and I've got £115.06 left with 18 days until payday :eek: I'll be doing a freezer inventory today, so hopefully that's going to help with the impulse shopping, although I do want to get some whoopsied meat in the freezer if I can, so I'll be doing a round of the shops before they close today

Tiffany_Aching

Oh, I am in!

I have had a LBM debt wise and have signed up to another challenge elsewhere on the boards to pay off as much of my debt as possible this coming year - so I need to join the Grocery Challenge each month to keep myself focused!

My budget for January is £300 - this includes food, cleaning and toiletries for seven of us - 3 adults, 3 teens and a 10 year old.

Thanks

Mystikia

Hello everyone :hello: Long time lurker, first time poster & would love to join in.
Been following since October which was an eye-opening month for me where I discovered I was spending £400 a month on groceries - over £200 a month more than I thought I was! Have managed to get it down to under £250 in Dec, which was a 5 week month for me, so I'm pleased with that. Since January is a 4 week month for me (2nd - 29th), I've settled on a budget of £200, this is for 2 adults & 2 very fussy cats & includes all food, drink, pet supplies, toiletries & household supplies.
Thank you to everyone associated with this thread - you've helped me loads :T Good luck in January everyone!

threepenny_bit

HI everyone. For this month I wold like to spend $100 on home groceries and $100 on the party food for sons wedding evening do at our home.
So $200 for January which seems a lot but only because of the party.

kayester

Hi all....i was offline in December as my spends went out the window. Can you please put me down for 450 to get me back into the swing of things! I will try for less next month and so on. My month runs from the 1st to 31st.

I am doing a buffet tonight for my blokes family so leftovers will be great for lunch over next few days.
Also I am cooking Roast beef for dinner tomorrow for my family and my mum and dad. There will be some leftovers so I am going to meal plan for the rest of the week hopefully on things I have in the house. I have also invested in the 'safe with Jamie' book. I would love my freezer, fridge and cupboards to eventually be similar to that in this book, I will decide out of here what meals I will cook with leftover beef when I know what is left.

Can I have some advice please.
I have a 2kg (4lb) silverside of beef. I want to slow cook it in a fan oven (never done this before) what temp n roughly how long for if any beef cookers here?

Hope you all have a happy new year :beer:

hex2

kayester wrote: »

Can I have some advice please.
I have a 2kg (4lb) silverside of beef. I want to slow cook it in a fan oven (never done this before) what temp n roughly how long for if any beef cookers here?

I would pot roast it with onions and liquid if you have a big enough dish? Otherwise cover your tray with foil to keep the steam in. I brown the meat to seal it first.

170 for at least 3 hours - depends how well done you want in. Good link here: http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/roasting-liquid

Recently I have done mine in the pressure cooker which works really well.

meg72

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Hi all

I've just posted in the December thread apologising for my absense - real life (wedding planning, work, a side-gig, Christmas etc etc) totally got away with me in December!

I'm all refreshed and de-stressed now though and ready to get back into the GC

Coxy - can you put me down for £165 in January please? Lowest we'll have gone but we do seem to have a good bit in...

I've had a decent start to frugalising the last couple of days - got half-price cream at Mr Ms (no 10% YS for us, it's rubbish for reductions ) and made butter for the first time then turned most of it into homemade ghee to keep better. Used the buttermilk to make scones.





Today I used some YS plums, one punnet to make some gorgeous spicy, sweet and sour plum sauce (for stir-fries/having with crispy duck) for the freezer and two punnets to make hopefully enough plum crumble filling for 6, as we might be having friends round at the weekend.



Also used some very dodgy-looking puff pastry (defrosted a few days ago and never used) and leftover saag aloo from last night to make puff pastry curry parcel type things - very very nice, I must say.

Nice to see you back have missed your lovely pics.

craigywv

blue green I think! may I have your recipe for saag alloo please I love this many thanks xxx