February 2014 Grocery Challenge

meg72

FrugalLina wrote: »

One way I am making my budget stretch further, while also managing to keep healthy is to include my home-sprouted foods. Here is a simple winter salad with some alfalfa sprouts, I added a boiled egg and some cheese and it was yum!

Looks lovely, have you also tried sprouting peas and corn. I like to do these for stirfrys and salads.

Billie-jo

FrugalLina - Your winter salad looks lovely and refreshing.


A!di yesterday and Morri$ons today takes my spending up to £43.52
Have just put in the slow cooker carrots, onions, celery, leek, broccoli stalks, potatoes, few herbs & spices and a large turkey leg for tomorrow (with left overs hopefully) It can stay on till late and then tomorrow will heat it up and also do some dumplings. May add some mushrooms later on but only a few as mum not that keen on them. Will probably just serve it with cauli & broccoli tomorrow. It should be a nice filling and warming meal which we need due to the weather. Although (fingers crossed) it hasn't rained YET today, it is bitterly cold and rather windy at times.

joedenise

I had an NSD yesterday taking me to 10 so far so 2/3rds of the way to my target for the month (24th).

Had a small spend in Mr Ms today just of their special offers/deals, spent just over £14. Bought another 2 x 4 tins of tuna; a piece of cod; a pork leg joint and a cabbage. Had planned on buy 3 different veg on their 3 for £1.50 but they didn't have any carrots which was one of the veg I was going to get so just got the cabbage to go with dinner tomorrow. Will only use half so the other half will keep for during the week.

Denise

spendinglikemad

Big spend today but still on budget for this month.

Went to our local farm shop to get some fillet steak, fresh chicken and sausages, their prices are higher than supermarkets but I would rather have local produced high quality, tonight the steak will be a treat for us all which I will do with hm wedges, peas , mushrooms and tomatoes. As it's a big chicken we will get a few more meals (sandwiches, pasta bake and risotto out of it)
Butchers sausages will be used for toad in the hole this week so all meals sorted.
A small spend in waitrose for Azera coffee which is Reduced and cereal (free Saturday newspaper and cappuccino!) then last stop aldi to stock up on the basics.
Very pleased overall to be on budget but still with some good quality meat.
Thursdays flapjack is all gone so making some more now!!!
Have a good weekend ever one
Slm

FrugalLina

meg72 wrote: »

Looks lovely, have you also tried sprouting peas and corn. I like to do these for stirfrys and salads.

Thanks, it was very tasty - not tried peas or corn, tend to stick to mung beans and green lentils as well as alfalfa, but I will give those a try, they sound good!

Thanks also Billie-Jo, this filled a salad-shaped hole nicely.

(I have to confess, just baked some beetroot and chocolate fairy cakes, I am not always so angelic)

Faete

Poppy seed and lemon muffins - very yummy and not too sweet! I also made the Crank's left over mincemeat cake.

Fae xx

FrugalLina

Faete wrote: »

Poppy seed and lemon muffins - very yummy and not too sweet! I also made the Crank's left over mincemeat cake.

Fae xx

Oooh, they sound and look delicious!

charlies_tribe

Had to send dd to shop last night for bread and she fetched some muffins too - £4
Been and done a freezer shop today -£45
Kids are having fakeaway tonight so not eating into the budget for a takeaway. Going to gets some eggs and sugar tomorrow as I have a pack of black bananas and dd wants to make some more flapjack (she made it at school Wednesday and it we down fantastic (although she did measure her own ingredients and got the butter and sugar measurements the wrong way round... They were EXTREMELY sweet.

Ches

Very pleased to be able to announce a NSD today.

islandhoppa

£54.20 spend today in Mr S, have meal planned up to the 26th and have all that in, will just need some top ups of bread, milk etc which I will stick to Ald! for, so on course to be under budget this month:T