February 2018 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

What do you usually use to plump them up?

If you put sultanas in anything that you're cooking from apples to rice pud or savoury dishes they will 'plump' up in the liquid anyway.

If you want to use them without cooking then any liquid, depending on your taste and use. For desserts you could use brandy or another liquor or you can use fruit juice.

If you put them in yoghurt they will plump in about an hour
HTH
Lx

mrs-moneypenny

declaring £390 for January and going for £400 in February

pamsdish

Mrs Cheshire, What do you usually use to plump them up?
Some fruit recipes I have seen use a mug/cup of lukewarm black tea.

ancientmum

Happy Monday all.

Spend over the weekend spread over Sinsb and Tosca, £11.03. This includes baking foil and scourers. Cat food was £18.75. I got some shopping for Mother at Tosca to bring spend to over £60 to get money off voucher for petrol. I do a 300 mile round trip to visit her every week, so every penny saved is important.

I have got two sausages out of the freezer this morning and will make a sausage pasta bake with tinned and fresh tomatoes, onions, peppers and cheese for dinner tonight. One portion today and three in the freezer.

mummyjane

Mrs Cheshire, try phoning the helpline/store and explain that you are unable to come back to the store, they might send you vouchers that you can use next time you're able to pop in x

Grannymolly

£64.50 on a Waitr0se delivery got £20 off and there were a fair few deals on that were good for us! Now stocked up for close to two weeks

VfM4meplse

2 NSDs so far, and just £2.29/£40 on food.

79p of which was supposed to be on some 30% off bread at Lidl making it 55p, which I don!!!8217;t particularly need right now, but the discount wasn!!!8217;t applied at the till. The one time I don!!!8217;t check my receipt is the one time it slips through!!

AprilR

Me and my partner don!!!8217;t normally get days off together, so Saturday night we did a big shop together once I finished work. We went to Aldi and Tesco. We then went to Sainsburys yesterday whilst we were shopping for a curtain pole and ended up getting a few more bits.

So all in all we!!!8217;ve spent £80.64/£150 so far this month. This is including things we!!!8217;ve stocked up on, such as stock cubes, gravy, squash, sauces for chicken wraps etc. We also bought some Chinese food from Tesco as a treat (and a lot cheaper than an actual take away) I!!!8217;d never had fortune cookies before so my partner picked a box up.

Bought a few meat items but still need to do a big meat shop for our freezer (this will happen towards the end of the month). We have chicken and sausages to last until then. We also bought a piece of steak to try to cook in the slow cooker this week.

Mrs_Cheshire

I've been to Mr T's today to use some vouchers I had, after promotions it should have cost £20.02 but I had a £2 off £20 spend and a couple of other money off vouchers as well as staff discount. It ended up costing £14.02, plus I got a couple of money off coupons in with the till receipt.
I used the handheld scanners for the 1st time, really useful when you're on a budget or only wanting to spend a certain amount as you can see if adding up and it also takes the promotions off for you so you can see when you're close to the minimum spend.
Will definitely use them again.

Merlin's_Beard

Popped out to get bread, some YS lunch meat if available, and porridge sachets...

Spent £12.41. :eek:

One day I'll learn not to go shopping hungry :rotfl:

£30.85/£100, so in the grand scheme of things, if I make it to the tenth (and excepting milk, I should have enough to last until the 15th...) I've spent a third of the budget on a third of the month.