February 2014 Grocery Challenge

bmma

Hello-February starts today for me £9.19/£200

cw18

she_who_can_not_cook wrote: »

can not get the red up does anyone have a kindle the colours come up but will not stay iyfwim

I don't have a kindle, but if you type (color=red) before the number and (/color) after it - changing the rounded brackets to squared ones - then the text before will change colour

LittleBill

Hullo

Soooooo .. 3 days in ... and 3/4's of budget spent!

Don't panic!

Have decided to shop 'up-front' for all the regular goodies .. Butter, cereal, pasta and so-on and so-forth .. Ordered from Tescolditz & Sainsbugs onine, both using the £15 off £60 spends .. Conducted an almost military precision shop .. took ages of adding and taking away to make sure i was getting the best value out of both shops

Also spent £31.79 at Waitrose on meat and a Duck for Chinese New Year celeb dinner party on Friday .. Need to shop this week for pancakes at Chinese supermarche, but hopefully should be cheap .. Have everything else, including a ready made pud .. Homemade Mango Ice Cream and home-grown Rasps .. in the freezer

Anyways .. the total may look horrifying for Feb 3rd .. but hopefully, the plan is infallible (or inflammable)

LittleUnderControlBill

K9sandFelines

:j NSD but got Asd* shop booked for tomorrow at 9am. Will also need tonip in Morrisons for a small pot of salsa for a recipe DD1 is doing in school on Wednesday. Salsa was too dear in Asd*. Would attempt to make it, but would probably not be as nice in the long runand do not think DDs would eat it in the long run. They might not detect a shop bought version.

LittleBill

K9sandFelines wrote: »

:j NSD but got Asd* shop booked for tomorrow at 9am. Will also need tonip in Morrisons for a small pot of salsa for a recipe DD1 is doing in school on Wednesday. Salsa was too dear in Asd*. Would attempt to make it, but would probably not be as nice in the long runand do not think DDs would eat it in the long run. They might not detect a shop bought version.

Salsa vv easy to make ..

1 can Tinned Toms
1 Chilli
1 clove Garlic
Squeeze of Lemon juice
S & P
Some Coriander if you have some (i always throw in a bit of frozen)

If you have a blender or a FP ... Whizz it up ... Otherwise, chop and crush accordingly

Maybe not in time for this time .. but it only costs 50p for around 300g .. and it freezes too

LB

Leah-Ray

Hey everyone, doing well here. Tonight I made bolognese but bulked out the recipe as follows...

700g mince beef (tesco value is surprisingly good!) £3
Two tins of tomatoes (T value again) 68p
Beef stock cube and 500mls water 7p
A dash of milk (apparently this helps dissolve the fat in the meat, keeping it tender. I've certainly noticed a difference!)
One cup of lentils (bought these in bulk a long time ago) maybe 20p?
Three small onions from a tesco value pack - 10p ish
Two cloves of garlic 5p
Two carrots 10p
Leftover mushrooms 40p
500g tesco value penne pasta 29p

£4.79 for four servings tonight and the rest of the mixture into an over dish and into the freezer to make a pasta bake in the last week of the month.

That's two meals at 2.40 each... 60p per serving

Ordered shopping today again under the £50 mark including delivery.

I'm hoping that if I sneak in a few items that we need regularly -bread, butter, milk - throughout the first three weeks and find ways of bulking out meals to put some in the freezer we could go a full seven days with no shopping and cut that last £50 off the food budget without resorting to bland meals at the end of the month.

Will update signature soon!

mags50_2

£1.55 spent on a bread loaf!!! it was from the local shop and was a local bakery one....but it seemed a lot of money.

Been baking today. 4 plain cakes, 2 chocolate cakes, 2 apple pies, a dozen jam tarts and 2 dozen coconut pies and have put leftover pastry in fridge to make some sort of pie tomorrow.

We had pork and beef sandwiches for dinner from joints yesterday and then leftovers from Sunday tea for tea...an easy meal day!

Looked after youngest DGS this morning while DD and DSinL went to hospital for scan....we are going to be grandparents again in August!!! This will be our 10th...we have 8 grandsons and 1 granddaughter....it's all exciting news

Hope everyone is well and happy x

Florenceem

NSD here again.
We had HM Egg/Bacon Pie + roast potatoes/parsnips + cabbage/carrots/onion for dinner.

XSpender

Not much left in my budget, need to add up my receipts, but I have everything I need until next weeks lunches. It is DH birthday on wed so I may have to treat him to a steak or something but still have a choc roulade in the freezer from Christmas which will do for pud:)

I bought a gammon joint for under a fiver at alder on sat and so far it has fed 3 of us on Sunday, 4 rounds of sandwiches and 2 of us tonight. I will use the rest to make carbonara tomorrow with a HM garlic pizza bread. I am defrosting pizza dough I made 2 weeks ago. I haven't frozen this before so I hope it's ok.

Absolutely shattered after starting my new role today so I am off to bed.:)

marris

NSD today. don't really need anything so will stay away from shops for now.