May 2014 Grocery Challenge

elsiepac

OurLass wrote: »

Thank you elsiepac.Mystery solved!Pity,one of my favourite sites:( xx

Me too

LC x

lushlifesaver

Declaring for May at a little under budget :-) have already started on June's budget but more about that on the next thread :-)

elsiepac

PennyGrabber wrote: »

To those people who have been querying my spiders for dinner... It's true, we eat spiders...!

I used to call my dinners all sorts of things when my children were diddy, and a few of them have stuck. Spiders is a very complicated meal to make ��
First, put spaghetti worms on plate, in the shape of a web. Then put mash (or cheesy mash as my ch love that) in the centre of the plate. Then put eight sticks around the mash for legs. My sticks vary -corned beef, sausages (cut up), pepper, cucumber, etc etc etc, or a mix of them all. Voila, spiders!!

Hope you all have a thrifty day, and catch up with you all later!

PG x

Thanks amazing!!! You're very inventive :j

LC x
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Solstice_3

Morning all, not going out to shops today but received our Recipe box from Able & Cole yesterday and the money (£23.10) came out today. I got 1/3 off the first box and the box has all the ingredients for 3 meals for 2, with a wee bit of leftover cheese and spices. I'll have to think carefully if I get the box again and will probably be once in a while as I can see it's not budget friendly really. It does mean though that as I have stuff for lunch in all I need to buy for a few days is fruit, though I might get some YS meat to put in our homemade spring rolls at the weekend.

cw18

I got a similar box from a different company yesterday (under half price thanks to W0wcher), and am thinking the exact same thing about frequency. I got the hamper in the hope it would introduce new / unusual things into our meal list. Made the first yesterday and really enjoyed it Still to get verdict from DS1, but plan to try it on OH when we're away in July. Second for tonight, but I suspect it'll be too 'smoked' for me (chorizo and smoked paprika, and I don't like any smoked food) and DS1 will complain there's not enough of it. The third is a fish dish (popped the fish into the freezer to be safe) which I'm doing tomorrow for OH and myself as DS1 won't eat fish (he'll be getting sausage and something instead).

I also have a voucher for a heavy discount on one from yet another company (thanks to DS1 passing me the bits that came with his Amaz0n order this week), so will probably give that one a try in a couple of weeks. I'm sure when I looked earlier this week it was cheaper than yesterday's, but looking again now it's £3 dearer - but the selection is better (can pick 3 from 10 instead of 3 from 5, and can mix meat based with vegetarian which I'd like as I'm trying to reduce meat but haven't been inspired to try real vegetarian cooking yet).

Downsizing__for_sanity

Just an aside on the cheap-family-recipes discussion - not sure, but in case the address posted with the domain details is W's home address, maybe we should consider taking it off the post? Possibly over-cautious, but myself, I'd rather not my home address put online

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£9.37 to add today in HB including £1.50 for a sandwich and drink for dinner. Don't normally class eating out as such but I will,as would have included the drink anyway. Yesterday was a NSD.

Forgot a £2.00 spend in the co*p. £18.56 spent today in Asd*. Also need to add a L*DL spend of £6odd when I find my receipt. Will catch up on thread once I'm in from work. Not had time lately with work and moving house (which i'm in the middle of).

Solstice_3

Well went into town in the end, went to Asda spent £8.27 and got my oil and peppercorns plus some YS bacon, then onto the farmers market where I spent £7.90, £2.90 of which was on treats (Italian market stall was there today).

I'm trying to decide whether to take the offer of getting a 3rd box free with Riverford, they are trying to tempt me back. They do all sorts of boxes and I'm thinking of maybe trying a fruit, veg and meat box for 3 weeks, maybe every other week. I don't know will play with numbers later and see whether it's worth it.

Off to update siggy.

Frizzle_2

£2.80 to add for milk and yoghurts!

OurLass

Downsizing__for_sanity wrote: »

Just an aside on the cheap-family-recipes discussion - not sure, but in case the address posted with the domain details is W's home address, maybe we should consider taking it off the post? Possibly over-cautious, but myself, I'd rather not my home address put online

Point taken.Thanks for pointing out:)