April 2017 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Save_Dosh wrote: »

You could also buy some wraps and have some mexican chilli wraps. Aldi veg is 19p & 29p, so you could get 4 packs for 96p and make bean stew/curry. mmmm - think I should do some of that myself. Easier said than done, I know.

Does anyone know where I can get money off a first time Ocado shop.

Love the sound of this.

lynnejk

Hiya folks

Sorry I've been AWOL but been poorly - slowly improving now

DH has done some shopping and I need to round up the receipts. At least he is well-trained to save them all so just need to do a reconciliation

Hope you all have a lovely Easter Monday - we don't celebrate the holiday here as DH has to work as normal
Lx

Florence_J

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can get money off a first time Ocado shop.

Hi ya, I think this is how I did it, I signed up to them and then didn't do an order instantly and then the offers came flooding in!

JIL

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can get money off a first time Ocado shop.

If you know someone that already does ocado, you can buy the get £20 off. Or if you Google the offers come up. There's often an offer on Groupon for 6 months free delivery and a money off offer.

armchairexpert

Reporting in late after the big Saturday shop. It felt like an expensive one; it included Easter chocolate, and I tried to lay in more snacks and lunches than usual because it's the holidays (the girls have packed lunches and Mr Expert takes dinner leftovers usually, so it shouldn't make a difference, but when they're all home they want cooked breakfasts and snacks and things) AND I needed coffee beans AND then Mr E decided to go out to the shops and buy something ready made for the girls' dinner on Saturday. It came in at $195.69, which is the most expensive for a few weeks, but it's still well below what an Olden Days big blowout week would have looked like.

Month to date: $588.63/$1000 with 3/5 weekly shops done.

t14cy_t

haven't spent anything for last few days, hoping to do a YS shop later today. xx

pamsdish

Bought 2 sacks of dog food online yesterday, so £33 to add, such a numpty, that should come from B/B fund.

Wysiwyg49

So, not for the first time I over-estimated the healthiness of our bank hol weekend lunches and have a huuuge bag of spinach leaves.

It says it's 3 servings! At that rate I'd have to eat about a mixing bowl full of the stuff every time.

I'll add some to the sweet potato and chickpea curry I'm making - otherwise I just put it in wraps, pittas etc. with lunch fillings. But can I freeze it? Any other ideas for using up a glut of spinach?

candygirl

Wysiwyg49 wrote: »

So, not for the first time I over-estimated the healthiness of our bank hol weekend lunches and have a huuuge bag of spinach leaves.

It says it's 3 servings! At that rate I'd have to eat about a mixing bowl full of the stuff every time.

I'll add some to the sweet potato and chickpea curry I'm making - otherwise I just put it in wraps, pittas etc. with lunch fillings. But can I freeze it? Any other ideas for using up a glut of spinach?

I just bung mine in the freezer, n it's fine then in soups, curries etc

Florence_J

candygirl wrote: »

I just bung mine in the freezer, n it's fine then in soups, curries etc

Ooooh, is it ok to just throw it in the freezer without doing anything to prep it? I love fresh spinach but can never get through a full bag before it goes off, even the smallest bags, so don't buy it. Freezing it would solve all those problems but I just assumed it would blacken.