January 2017 Grocery Challenge. NEW BEGINNINGS!

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meg72 wrote: »

Think my plan not to spend anything for the whole month is about to be scuppered.

No toilet rolls

Now that's a problem as have guests coming for tea tomorrow, Considered asking them to bring their own but don't think I dare LOL.

OMG - laughing at that, but I know where you are coming from. What a fantastic achievement to go that long.

lynnejk

Evening all

elsiepac wrote: »

.......... Tomorrow is my birthday - I'm going out for lunch with my sister which doesn't come from grocery,

Hiya 'twin' - it's my birthday t/m as well. Hope you have a great day. Won't 'post' you a birthday cake as it will probably be full of things you don't eat - but maybe a glass of something :beer:

Had another NSD here today :j

Hope you all have a super Tuesday
Lx

Franalamadingdong

Zed, does your DD eat different meals to you and your DH? (There's only me and my DS in my house so we eat together otherwise we'd both eat alone, but I try to not assume other people's arrangements are the same as ours!) Could you cook one meal and reheat your DH's? I often cook extra and reheat it as lunch the next day and it usually tastes as good or better. Do you have a slow cooker? Our ceramic dish comes out and if I wanted to cook something in it that wasn't a late start day I would prep the ingredients when cooking tea the night before, chuck them in the ceramic dish bit, excluding any meat or poultry, cover that and put it in the fridge. Next morning plonk it in the slow cooker, add the meat, turn it to low and off you go. No morning prep, no evening cooking, no takeaway. I wouldn't want to cook twice either, so I plan around those things. Wednesday and Thursday are after school club days, but they are also usually my shorter day and late start day respectively. So I tend to do a slow cooker day on my late start day and a quick tea day on the other after school club day. You could work round it and seeing as though it's a split day cook something once, that reheats well. Curry and tomato based pastas would be my go to. Or what about preparing burgers, cooking one off for your daughter with whatever sides (usually chips and beans here), and then you just have to cook yours off later as they're already prepared and doing some oven chips and heating up some more beans isn't really any effort.

Congrats Elsie. We call it penny point in our house (DS renaming it when younger and it stuck). I insist it'd be a great board game if you could work through the setting up process.

WantToBeSE

Happy Birthdays Elsie and Lynne!

I'm planning to buy nothing from now till Friday..lets see how that goes!

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Happy birthday elsiepac and Lynne, hope you both have a good day each.

Making fritters for tea toninght so shouldn't need to go shopping today. Have got a cottage pie out of the freezer for Dh to have tomorrow lunch time.

Did go to mrT on Sunday as we wanted some led lightbulbs -I won't count them as from my housekeeping money as we spent £15 on them! But did spend about £20 on food while in there so have updated my sig for that.

Cappella

Happy birthday Elsiepac and Lynne :-)

Well done everybody on your brilliant no spends so far.

Purplybat

am i the only one with no leftovers from crimble????

Not the only one, reading through the thread. I've got turkey soup in the freezer but have had no leftovers since January. I bought very few extras this year and didn't bake at all apart from a few mince pies for MrC. It sounds mean, it felt mean too, but we both need to lose weight and since a severe heart attack 16 months ago I try to limit fats and sugars - mainly by not buying delicious things If they're not in the cupboard I can't eat them.

Very tempted to shop today, have been offered a lift to our nearby town and back, and I really don't want to spend another day in the house staring at four walls. Realising slowly this month that I mainly shop just to escape the house which makes me sound a really sad person:( So I've decided that I will go, but visit the library instead. Still on target, but had to buy dog food yesterday so £6.00 spent. Have updated my signature.

Have updated my signature.

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday, yippee!!xx

meg72

Happy Birthday Elsie and Lynne..

Suffolk_lass

purpleybat - I might be joining you soon on no Christmas leftovers.

I used the last avocado and soured cream to make a quick guacamole and broke into the last bag of doritos last night. Just the cheese left now...

SL

medsdemon

Happy Birthday Elsiepac and Lynne. Hope you have wonderful days .

Spendwise I'll update today that we've bought milk, bits at PL for work lunches, and Sherry for my cupboard when the MIL visits.

Oh and currently sat in Costa drinking double espresso before work as I'm early in town and it's my weekly treat on the day I'm early.

So £14.00 to add to total. Will update now.