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February 2014 Grocery Challenge

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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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
    debtdawg Posts: 343 Forumite
    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
    marris Posts: 644 Forumite
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    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 ;)
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  • Frugalsod
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    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
    It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.
  • cw18
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    99p on a bag of wholemeal bread flour for me today
    Cheryl
  • Soworried
    Soworried Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    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.
    £36/£240
    £5522
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  • K9sandFelines
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    edited 10 February 2014 at 8:34PM
    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
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    Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1
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  • meg72
    meg72 Posts: 5,164 Forumite
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    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.
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  • Soworried
    Soworried Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    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
    £36/£240
    £5522
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    One word must start each prayer
    One hope will raise our spirits
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  • K9sandFelines
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    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.
    GC Jan £101.91/£150 Feb £70.96/150 Mar £100.43/150 Apr £108.45 app/150 May £149.70/150 Jun £155.15/150 Jul £134.25/£150 Aug £119.37/£150 Sep £170.48?/£150 Oct £66.92/£180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month. Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)
    Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1
    Forever learning the art of frugality
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