April 2014 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_T_M

cinnamonpie wrote: »

I have some mashed potato and haggis left over from last night and am hoping to turn this into "pizza". I have googled in a bit and am hoping it will work if I had a bit of flour to the mash. Will report back if it turns out to be a disaster!

I'm wondering what this leftover mashed potato is? Any time I make any here, it disappears! :rotfl:

Sometimes I cook extra and then make gnocchi with it. I use potato flour with the mash, but I really like the taste of the potato to come through. Plain flour works just as well.

Doris65_2

Hi All

Well left over chicken from mothers day lunch is now chicken curry and there might be enough left for a risotto for lunch tomorrow. also means that I have saved a meal this week,

Haven't spent any more of the budget so far. which i'm rather pleased about.

Dx

minicooper272

Firstly thanks to Meg72 for sharing the link to the new challenge - could not find it for the life of me!

It's pay day today, so time to start another month. Aiming for another £80.

I'm starting to think about skrimping it back a little bit further, but think I'll maintain £80 this month. We have a new couple for housemates, and they seem to think it's ok to steal food :mad: I don't begrudge a little bit, but am going to keep a close eye out for anything else getting depleted. Have already had to hide my cheese and olive oil!

Florenceem

NSD.
For dinner we had salmon + HM wedges + roasted courgette/red onions/white onions/tomatoes.

Ali-OK

Time for me to move into the April challenge. Please can I be put down for £120.

It's a 5 week grocery shopping month for me, plus a week with DS at home and the Bank Holidays. We're going to need some household items too, so extra needed for those.

Good luck everyone.

Zippy001

Spend today £10.00.

I have updated my signature

aiming for rest of week to be NSD.

Billie-jo

Tea tonight was chicken breast done in carbonara sauce topped with chopped leek, breadcrumbs and cheese. Had this with potato croquette and some roasted baby onions and tomatoes. Also had a hand full of watercress. Very tasty it was as well.

PennyGrabber

minicooper272 wrote: »

Firstly thanks to Meg72 for sharing the link to the new challenge - could not find it for the life of me!

It's pay day today, so time to start another month. Aiming for another £80.

I'm starting to think about skrimping it back a little bit further, but think I'll maintain £80 this month. We have a new couple for housemates, and they seem to think it's ok to steal food :mad: I don't begrudge a little bit, but am going to keep a close eye out for anything else getting depleted. Have already had to hide my cheese and olive oil!

I don't think that's ok. I would dream of taking someone else's food!! Unless they were there and I'd asked them, but even then I would only ask for a scraping of marg or a splash if milk for my tea if I'd run out!! The cheek of it!

Had tom soup tonight instead of the chicken risotto, so will have that tomorrow as hadn't decided, so that's good! However, I am now feeding bf too, so let's hope 1 chicken breast will be enough!... Might ask him to bring some mushrooms over. The ch don't like mushrooms, but they can pick them out and give them to us!

I've decided I'm also watching my wastage, and costing any that does happen. Hoping for less than £2 (ideally 0).

Night all,
PG x

MrsCautious

NSD for me today, hoping for lots more this week. By the time I got home from work one of my daughters had cooked herself some tea -- basics pasta with chicken in sauce, I cooked my other daughter some pasta parcels as planned. I had Be Good to Yourself bacon with a big mushroom from Aldi with reduced fat Philadelphia which had been on offer at Sains, with salad and some walnuts. This is me following a healthier way of eating and cutting out carbs in my evening meal.


I've lost half a stone so far and would like to aim to lose the same again in the next couple of weeks, but will be happy to lose anything and keep going in the right direction!

I must let all the lovely people who wished me well the other week when I announced I'd been told I had kidney disease, that this turned out to be wrong, I do have a form of anaemia though, caused by a deficiency of vitamin B12, I'm having to have a course of injections. So it's a huge sigh of relief from me but I do need more tests again -- should stop me feeling so exhausted.
We're off for a week soon, will have a good effect on the GC.

Mussels and French fries and French bread sounds so nice, long long time since we've eaten that.

charlies_tribe

Just a quick update. Fetched the 2 trolleys of shopping and need a bigger house! Cupboards have been rearranged and I still have shopping on the worktop. Wrote what/how many of everything and a list of what I've forgot and still need to get. Hopefully next month I will have a better idea. Total so far 194/600.