March 2014 Grocery Challenge

claireyfairy82

I'm wanting to try again this month. Got a bit lost middle of February, life got in the way. I kept all my receipts and was just a bit shy of £600 for the month, so at least I have an idea where I am now. I did restock my freezer and cupboards so I'll aim for an optimistic
£400
I will crack this shopping budget thingy!!:D

recovering_spendaholic

LittleBill wrote: »

What a fab recipe! Only thing is: have no Weetabix .. Do you or anyone else think anything else could be subbed for the Wetta's?

Could you use oats?

LittleExperimentalOrJustMentalBill

I doubt that oats would be okay - at a push you could probably use shredded wheat or bran flakes but you would have to crush them really well .

They were really nice though!!

Am still up at 1.44am doing a meal planner!! Nuts!

cw18

Spends yesterday came to £3.96, of which £1 was on asparagus spears at Mr A and the rest was at A1di (new potatoes, carrots, mangetout, and baby sweetcorn).

I've also challenged myself to use up old grocery items (many of them such that I wouldn't give them to anyone else) in an attempt to get to the point all my groceries will fit into my kitchen cupboards !!!.

So for yesterday I had ood cereal for breakfast, a mid-morning drink of ood long-life cranberry juice (diluted 50/50 with chilled tap water as I don't like it as it comes), and tea time (which was Basa with the above veg plus some green beans and a garlic butter sauce) saw me making a rhubarb crumble for dessert using ood baking spread and (very) ood tinned rhubarb in syrup.

Also made a loaf in my bread maker, and a quarter of the flour was from an ood bag (tried a loaf using just that flour a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work, but doing it this way it's fine).

cllola

£2.50 spend on bread and milk yesterday. Shouldn't need anything but bread and maybe some fresh fruit for the rest of the week :-)

Going to make an apple crumble with some apples which are going a little bit soft, i can't stand it when apples are not crunchy!

kayester

2nd day of the month and will be another NSD I really hope to come under this month after a bad month last month!!

Russell howard was good last night and OH bought me a burger meal from harry ramsden, a 'super pint' (£8!!!!) and a small tub of pringles

tonight its just me and the kids as OH going out with his mates for his bday and im sure he will be too drunk to eat later...whole chicken, chips and gravy for us may make some sneaky yorkshire puddings too before we are going to a little girls 5th birthday party, should be fun lol and thats kids lunches sorted.
have a good Sunday all!

LittleBill

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I doubt that oats would be okay - at a push you could probably use shredded wheat or bran flakes but you would have to crush them really well .

They were really nice though!!

Am still up at 1.44am doing a meal planner!! Nuts!

Ha ha ... Me too! Up 'til 1am working out the penny-perfect Tesco shop to use my £5 off £40 .. :rotfl:

Was just trying to work out what the recipe 'needed' to work so to speak .. Love brownies and have all other ingred-I-ments .. but trying to cut down on my wheat / flour intake .. May have an experiment with some ground up oats .. If all else fails .. They could become some random-choc-sponge-served-with-custard ..

Custard .. I have found .. covers a multitude of sins :A

LittleInBedWithGiantTeaOnASundayBill

twigpig

Frizzle wrote: »

Have you tried snapping them in half! I read on a thread about it and started doing it about three weeks ago. I have noticed no difference in the cleaning and they last twice as long!

I've been doing is for about 10 years now after reading on here to do it, and honestly there's no difference. I buy the finish all in one powerball ones with the pink middle circle and cut through it with a very sharp knife

Fru-gal_2

can I join again in March please, 260 had a good month in February came in 32 under. March is a longer month and the freezer needs a restock. Spent 45 in ald1 yesterday and I've ordered meat for next week from an online butcher. I think I will split that accosts march and April as it will last 2 months and £72 is big chunk of the budget. Have a good month everyone.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

Zippy001

Zippy001 wrote: »

This is my menu planned so far from what I have in. 2 adults, 2 children aged 9 years and 11years.

Tonight - fajitas, chicken and beef (YS bargain), and nachos with cheese.
Sunday - HM Chilli , with rice, jacket potato & grated cheese, garlic bread
Monday - Popcorn chicken, super noodles, ravioli, Me stir fry (Freezer)
Tuesday- Pancakes Yipee !!!:j:j:j:j
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Sorry My children reminded me its Pancake day on tuesday , luckily i have plain flour, eggs and milk even maple syrup and a jif lrmon in . so that will be a cheap filling meal .

Therefore the lamb steaks will do another meal
so if you are meal planning don't forget its pancake dayon tuesday like i did.

SarahB1989_2

LittleBill wrote: »

What a fab recipe! Only thing is: have no Weetabix .. Do you or anyone else think anything else could be subbed for the Wetta's?

Could you use oats?

LittleExperimentalOrJustMentalBill

Could try this recipe for 4 ingredient brownies? It does include flour but not very much - if you didn't have nutella then peanut butter would work just as well.