February 2014 Grocery Challenge

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Food shop done today - I still have to get some mince but I will wait until its on offer on Thursday before I buy it.

There should be enough to last at least two weeks. This weeks plans are:

Monday - pasta arabiatta for dinner. Tinned fruit for pudding.

Tuesday - Lunch - HM soup (I am trying one from the recipe index - carrot, lentil and ginger soup), HM sausage rolls as snacks. Dinner will be baked potato with cheese and HM coleslaw.

Weds - will be much the same as Tuesday.

Thursday - Lunch will be beans on toast (or soup if any left). Dinner will be HM pizza

Not sure about Friday or the weekend yet.

debtdawg

NSD Which is a good thing as my budget is rather lacking! Took out the last of the cooked turkey from Christmas and made a 'butter turkey' for tea (59p sauce pouch from home bargains with frozen peas and a tin of tomatoes, 2 bags of boil in the bag rice and 49p naans, bargain. Fresh pineapple for pudding mmmm).
The other half of the turkey will be used to make a pie for tea tomorrow night.

marris

NSD here again. was painting my little one's room so kept myself busy.now making dinner- will stuff myself and put my feet up

Frugalsod

BMG wrote: »

I have just had some bad news that I am going to have to find £1000+ from somewhere.
I need to cut my budget on everything as far as I can as quick as I can.


I am struggling to make cheap hearty meals. I have never been one for preparing a meal plan for a week ahead and I am struggling to come up with meals.


Breakfast and lunch are the same most days just with different fillings on the sandwich.

Look here

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipes.html

cw18

99p on a bag of wholemeal bread flour for me today

Soworried

A quick question, can I freeze ood yoghurt drinks in to frozen yoghurt? I'm not sure if it being a drink changes it from normal yoghurt.

K9sandFelines

BMG wrote: »

I have just had some bad news that I am going to have to find £1000+ from somewhere.
I need to cut my budget on everything as far as I can as quick as I can.


I am struggling to make cheap hearty meals. I have never been one for preparing a meal plan for a week ahead and I am struggling to come up with meals.


Breakfast and lunch are the same most days just with different fillings on the sandwich


Dinners I have problems with. I am allergic to fish and shell fish. OH is allergic to curry of any description. Neither of us eat many vegetables apart from cauliflower, broccoli, peas and sweetcorn


In the freezer I have the following:
sausages
minced beef
minced lamb/mutton
lamb steaks
chicken
pork chops


In the cupboard I have the following:
tinned tomatoes
baked beans
sweet and sour sauce
pasta
rice
tuna
various casserole mixes
and not much else


Can you help me work out a menu plan for evening meals please. I am not coping too well and my illness and depression is beginning to take over.

The evening dinner always has to be a cooked meal.

Sweet and Sour pork chops or chicken with rice
Tuna and pasta
Sausage casserole (do you have this in a packet mix??), any potatoes? ... serve with beans
Use the tinned tomatoes and minced beef to make a base for sheperds pie/bolognese/lasagne/chilli (use baked beans in the chilli if you haven't already used them elsewhere)
Chicken with packet mix and pasta or rice

meg72

Soworried wrote: »

A quick question, can I freeze ood yoghurt drinks in to frozen yoghurt? I'm not sure if it being a drink changes it from normal yoghurt.

These will be fine frozen, I made ice lollys with yogurt drinks last summer.

Soworried

meg72 wrote: »

These will be fine frozen, I made ice lollys with yogurt drinks last summer.

Thankyou Meg, I'll give it a try :T

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

20.78 added to sig. Shopping from HB and Tesc*s. Hopefully won't need to have an ASD* shop delivered til the weekend now.

Especially being as now i have been to M*rrisons aswell ... got three for £1.50 veg, wul two for a £1, two x YS cheese, YS blueberries and a few treats for the weekend.I couldn't carry Branston beans and the tuna was completely empty ... just aswell it's the same price in L*dl/Ald*.

£7.63 to add.