I'm Quite Proud Of Myself!

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi There

What a lovely sunny day its been today. Was thinking about a BBQ but was too windy and didnt want to be blown away :eek:

So I did a compromise with hubby & daughter and decided to have a buffet style tea tonight. Thought for a laugh I would tally it up and was very surprised at how cheap it came in at. This is what I came too:

3 Large Jacket Spuds (£0.18)
Quiche Lorraine (£0.45)
Long Grain Rice & peas (£0.20)
New Pots (£0.18)
HM Potatoe salad with some of above pots (£0.15 just mayo & bacon bits)
Chopped up lettuce, cucumber, spring onion & tomatoe (£0.50)
Garlic Bread (£0.30)
3 Free Range Large Eggs (£0.18)
Salad dressing/blue cheese (£0.15)
Grated Cheddar (£0.15)
Ham (£0.25)
Butter (£0.10)

This lot totals too £2.79 which was enough for 3 hungry people and enough left for lunch tomorrow-tons left

Im quite proud of this-6 months ago I would have got hubby to go to either M&S or Waitrose and buy everything prepacked costing about £15+ :eek:

So, what have you lot had for tea tonght?

I am quite amazed at this and it was nice and easy to do and not too bad on the old hips either-perfect! :rolleyes:

Have a great weekend and lets hope the weather stay fine :cool:

Penny-Pincher!!
XXX

Bogof_Babe

I'd love to see a further breakdown of where your sourced the components of this delicious sounding meal, as I can't imagine how you got some of the things so cheap.

For a start, jacket spuds are £1.99 for a pack of around a dozen, i.e. 50p for 3, in Sainsbury's. Large free range eggs are over £1 for 6 - or do you have your own chickens?

So come on, share your secrets pretty please .

Queenie

:T Well DONE PP!!! :j

BB ... I can get 56lb sacks of spuds for £4.50 = approx 13p lb

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi There

No secrets really..lol!

Right I'll try:

3 Large Jacket Spuds (£0.18) These were just big white spuds from large sack for £3.00 work out at 6p each.

Quiche Lorraine (£0.45) Waitrose Quiche which was reduced to 45p from £1.99 :eek:

Long Grain Rice & peas (£0.20) Cheap White Rice about third of the bag-whole bag 35p and a few frozen peas.

New Pots (£0.18) 1/2 price in Lidls 36p for whole bag

HM Potatoe salad with some of above pots (£0.15 just mayo & bacon bits)mayo smart price and a few bacon bits shwartz ones 56p just a sprinkling though.

Chopped up lettuce (£0.50p used third (£0.16.6p)), cucumber(£0.55p used quarter large (£0.13.75p), spring onion (£0.53p for 10 used 2 only(£0.10p) & tomatoe (£0.45p for 6 used 1-im allergic!(£0.075) Totals roughly £0.48p

Garlic Bread (£0.30) Smart Price Cheapie!

3 Free Range Large Eggs (£0.18) Bought from local farm shop 10 odd sized for £0.60p

Salad dressing/blue cheese (£0.15) Estimate only small amounts used.

Grated Cheddar (£0.15) A small chunk grated goes along way.

Ham (£0.25) Lidls wafer thin ham £0.99 about quarter pack used.

Butter (£0.10) Just abit on each spud-guessed!

Total £2.77

I think thats right..lol. I was quite surprised too Bogof_Babe, infact I was totally speechless :rotfl: Like i said though-6 months ago this would of all been sourced from either waitrose or M&S costing probably what I spend on food for the whole weeks sometimes!

Penny-Pincher!!
XXX

jaybee

Good on you!!! I've been doing a bit of checking up on myself lately and have bben amazed at what I'm NOT spending now compared to what I was spending (via M&S etc). I'm quite shocked really - just think of all the money I've wasted over the years with nothing to show for it :eek: . Just think how wealthy we'd be if we'd had this site to help us through ages ago - or maybe just enough brain to have worked it out for myself!!!!!!

Bogof_Babe

Aww, thanks for going to the trouble of itemising it all - I feel guilty now for putting you to the trouble lol.


I write as one who picked up two 1kg bags of Jersey Royal new potatoes (two because they were on a bogof) yesterday in Sainsbury's, and on checking the till receipt later, found they had been £3.49 each! :eek: Come to think of it, there was a distinct lack of price info on the display :rolleyes: .

I can't seem to make a decent salad for much less than £2 (69p for two little gem lettuces - the only one "he" will eat, 29p for half a cucumber, 31p Tesco economy cherry toms [on half price promotion], 21p for a punnet of cress, 35p couple of free range eggs, grated carrot 5p, slivers of onion 5p.).

It does us two days, but add the rolls, chips and salad cream and we're looking at about £1.50 per serving. Still I console myself with what it would cost to eat it in a restaurant!

(Can't buy in bulk as there are only the two of us, so things go off or sprout).

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi There

Bogof_Babe, have you ever thought of buying a Tupperware Salad keeper? I bought one on ebay for £5.00 including postage. It was second hand but in good condition. Here is a link for one on ebay at the moment:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11657&item=6181290563&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

It has a rack at the bottom and works with no condensation hitting any of the salad/veg etc, making it last alot longer and wothout going brown. Salad normally lasts a good 5 days. They are quite large and wash well. I think there fantastic and will be buying more Tupperware in the next few weeks. Im after a cake container, cracker container, cheese and ham container etc.

Hope this helps you and will make your salads more economical

Let me know if I can help further.

Regards

Penny-Pincher!!
Xxx

Magentasue

I think it's the old thing of quality ingredients costing more. If you must have Jersey Royals (me too tonight, gorgeous), you will pay more. But they're a summer treat - I wouldn't pay the extra alll the time. 99p a small bag in Asda, btw.

jaybee

Bogof_Babe wrote:

I write as one who picked up two 1kg bags of Jersey Royal new potatoes (two because they were on a bogof) yesterday in Sainsbury's, and on checking the till receipt later, found they had been £3.49 each! :eek: Come to think of it, there was a distinct lack of price info on the display :rolleyes: ).

I nearly did that too this morning - practically dropped them in horror when I checked the price. Worryingly, in the past, I would have just put them in the trolley and not given it a thought. No wonder I was spending sooooo much!

The same thing happened with the raspberries (my favourites) - so expensive.

I'm scaring myself with my self-control now!!!!

Bogof_Babe

Penny - thanks for the link, but one of my safeguards against getting carried away is positively not getting into Ebay!

When I do my salad I put it in an old-fashioned Tupperware container (beige coloured oval thing with lid and inserts for defrosting etc - bought as a newly-wed 30 ahem years ago, and the best thing I ever bought - at least from Tupperware! )

Well done you, for having the whole package sussed out. I still have my economising "L" plates on .

moggins

Well donePenny.

BTW I got my Jersey Royals from Tesco, online special at 49p