July 2014 Grocery Challenge

Nicki_Sue

Hi - Can you pop me in for this month (starts Thursday for me) for £60 a week for four of us so £240.
Thanks

wishus

Well, as I wrote on the competitions thread, I won last-minute family ticket to the theatre to see Horrible Histories. (4 tickets, normally £17.50 each!!! :money:)
The bus not turning up, meant I had to dip into my 'other' spend to get the train home to be at the theatre in time. Boo!

Grocery spend so far is made up of a YS M&S sandwich and £1 bottle of pop. Needed something for my tea and to drink at the theatre and as I didn't know I could go I didn't prep something at home.

homemademama

I have spent £19.49 today at Mr T, adding those bits to the stuff I have in my cupboard gets me dinners for 3 days for 5 people plus I bought some breakfast cereal, cooking oil and popping corn.

FYI because of Mr T's Ramadan event they are doing massive tubs of garlic or ginger paste £2.99 bogof, the use by is next year and it says refrigerate after opening but doesn't give a number of days/weeks so I assume they'll be good til next year. It's so much cheaper than the small tubes you get for over £1-£2! I use garlic regularly but forget I have it and it ends up sprouting in the fridge.

Current total for July: £42.35/£400

Mamma85

After tinkering with my online Tesco shop last night, and purchasing some of the items at Home Bargains instead , I've spent less than I thought. :j
The freezer is now stuffed full, and so are the cupboards, (40 Oreos snack packs anyone?)
And just remembered the DDs and DH are at his moms for Sunday dinner this week, so I now have to find room for a whole chicken in the (very full and small) freezer! Eek.

Jacksmummy

£3.62 spend today on cooking apples and milk from the farm shop.... hoping for a NSD tomorrow.

Yesterday I did a list of what I had in the freezers, I'm half way through doing my meal plans with it, looks like I have just over 3 weeks worth of meals in there so hopefully I should come well under budget this month....well that is the plan anyway!

dumpling

A £9.30 spend on a small bag of fruit..:eek:..I'm not joking, it was 6 apricots, 2 small punnets of strawberries, a punnet of blueberries and some cherries. I think the cherries must have been gold plated but I hadn't noticed:rotfl: . It's hubby's fault, he asked me to make his packed lunches a bit healthier so I've ditched the crisps (nice and cheap!) and added fruit. Still, he is worth it. :smileyhea Siggie updated.

physicsgirl

homemademama wrote: »

FYI because of Mr T's Ramadan event they are doing massive tubs of garlic or ginger paste £2.99 bogof, the use by is next year and it says refrigerate after opening but doesn't give a number of days/weeks so I assume they'll be good til next year. It's so much cheaper than the small tubes you get for over £1-£2! I use garlic regularly but forget I have it and it ends up sprouting in the fridge.

Thanks for the heads up, will definitely grab two of those.

Jacksmummy wrote: »

Yesterday I did a list of what I had in the freezers, I'm half way through doing my meal plans with it, looks like I have just over 3 weeks worth of meals in there so hopefully I should come well under budget this month....well that is the plan anyway!

I did a fridge and freezer inventory yesterday too! It's oddly exciting to find things I'd forgotten about... Lots of stuff needs using up to give more space in the freezer, puff pastry will be featuring heavily in my meal plans from now on!

Went out for dinner last night with a friend which should've cost ~£10, but hers took ages to arrive so they knocked it off the bill and gave us a free pudding, and she insisted on still splitting the bill so was only £5

Plus adding £1.26 for a sandwich for lunch today.

mrs-moneypenny

im in again for july please

june failed at £463.72 so £63.72 over budget

going for £400 in july

Solstice_3

Afternoon all, not spent much so far will update later Just popping on quickly before finishing dinner to see if anyone can point me in the direction of a slow cooker pulled lamb recipe (I don't fancy having the oven on for 4 hours in this heat!), I have a small slow cooker and a 760g boneless lamb shoulder. I've not really used the slow cooker as the few times I tried everything dried out Thank you!

just_the_two_of_us

Solstice_3 wrote: »

Afternoon all, not spent much so far will update later Just popping on quickly before finishing dinner to see if anyone can point me in the direction of a slow cooker pulled lamb recipe (I don't fancy having the oven on for 4 hours in this heat!), I have a small slow cooker and a 760g boneless lamb shoulder. I've not really used the slow cooker as the few times I tried everything dried out Thank you!

Think I have done this one and it was delicious - we had the butcher chop a whole shoulder in half rather than using lamb shanks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/slow_cooker_braised_lamb_01950

Not sure how it translates time wise for boneless lamb shoulder though - perhaps someone else may have an idea?