March 2019 Grocery Challenge

elsiepac

freyasmum wrote: »

Hello,

I'm no longer part of this challenge, but wonder if this recipe may be added to the list at the front, so as not to forget it?

We shall hopefully be moving soon, so I adapted this from a Mary Berry recipe (which is HERE- http://www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/mincemeat-loaf-cakes)

Mincemeat Loaf Cake
150g softened butter
160g light brown soft sugar
2 eggs
225g self raising flour
1 jar (441g) mincemeat
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp ginger spice

Mix everything together and split between 2 x 2lb loaf tins.

Cook in an oven which has been preheated to 160* for an hour.

Leave to cool, if you can. It will be very, very crumbly if you don't though.

Lovely served with extra thick cream (I used the tinned, sterilized stuff).

Thanks

Added to post 8 on the GC Thread for you

dollypeeps

What a wonderful morning!!!!

I was feeling very accomplished ....

I did the supermarket shop this morning and came in at £59.14 ...under budget by 84p :j...

Not so sure where some funds have gone tho as the £10 I have in my purse for local/ too up/ milk shops etc seems to have dwindled....can't think where tho...I've been logging my spends so the only thing I can think of is that it was £1 or 2 shirt when I put it in my purse ....oh well one to keep and eye on...

Bought a few things that were not on my list but could've bought a few more which I sort of needed but could wait but didn't want to break the budget .....another thing learned there ....look at 'stock' levels more closely

PipneyJane

PipneyJane wrote: »

Afternoon All

I went to Lidl this afternoon and sort-of blew the budget. Spent £44.35, but the meat fund contributed £40 of that: £14.99 on an air-dried Spanish ham, £15.98 on 2xBeef Wellington (£7.99 each), and £3.99 on Salmon en Croute, £3.99 on Cheddar (yes, I know that’s not meat). The balance was spent on their double concentrated squash, which hasn’t been in stock for about 6 weeks. The blackcurrent and applie is much nicer - and stronger - than MrT’s value equivalent.

If the meat fund hadn’t coughed up, I’d be considerably over this month’s budget BUT I wouldn’t have headed to Lidl in the first place. (The decision to go was driven by meat and the prospect of beef Wellingtons. No meat fund money = no shop.) As it is, we’re at £156.11/£162, leaving £5.89 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip


ETA: We had the Wellingtons for dinner tonight. Not worth it. The “beef steak” was, maybe, 4cm square and tough. The parcels are not large. The jus/gravy accompanying them was very nice though.

Yes. Even with the bung from the Meat Fund buying the majority of Friday's Lidl shop, we've still managed to well-and-truly blow the March 2019 Grocery Challenge budget. Buying lunch - a very nice, YS fish pie - from the Condemned Aisle at MrT's didn't help, but we were dealing with a dilemma from the moment we entered the shop yesterday. The remaining change in the GC purse would not be enough to cover the few items we needed (mushrooms, low calorie hot chocolate), while we needed to spend about a tenner before we could pay with any of the Clubcard vouchers we had saved up, since they don't give change for them.

In the end, we spent £13.92 at MrT's, including £11.50 of Clubcard vouchers, with the balance paid for with change. Payday is Friday so I am, therefore, declaring for March having spent £170.03/£162. While there is some random coinage remaining in the GC purse, it's less than £2 so I won't officially roll it over into April.

See you "on the other side".

- Pip

dollypeeps

A quick question if I may....?

How do you all incorporate vouchers?

I've got a voucher from Lidl ... £5 off a spend of £30..... thus will be easily achieved as this is where I do most of my shopping so I won't be spending needlessly to get to £30...

I suppose technically I should end up with £5 more cash in my purse out of the weeks £60 ...... Not sure that will work!!!!

pamsdish

dollypeeps wrote: »

A quick question if I may....?

How do you all incorporate vouchers?

I've got a voucher from Lidl ... £5 off a spend of £30..... thus will be easily achieved as this is where I do most of my shopping so I won't be spending needlessly to get to £30...

I suppose technically I should end up with £5 more cash in my purse out of the weeks £60 ...... Not sure that will work!!!!

Where did you get the voucher please, always on the look out for these.
Find the predictive texts posts quite amusing sometimes, better brain exercise than a sudoko.

Merlin's_Beard

dollypeeps wrote: »

A quick question if I may....?

How do you all incorporate vouchers?

I've got a voucher from Lidl ... £5 off a spend of £30..... thus will be easily achieved as this is where I do most of my shopping so I won't be spending needlessly to get to £30...

I suppose technically I should end up with £5 more cash in my purse out of the weeks £60 ...... Not sure that will work!!!!

If I were regularly getting money off stuff I would count it as "real" money, but a voucher every month or two doesn't seem worth keeping track of. So, the Amazon vouchers I get for surveys count as "real" money in my budget because they're not an insignificant amount of money over the year. The £2 off Clubcard voucher I get every 3 months, or the very occasional "spend £50 get £5 off" vouchers that appear I just count as a freebie.

dollypeeps

pamsdish wrote: »

Where did you get the voucher please, always on the look out for these.
Find the predictive texts posts quite amusing sometimes, better brain exercise than a sudoko.

It came thru the door with the post today, my flower .....its in a square brochure ...one of their posher ones if you like, not the regular paper A4 leaflet.

Sometimes they have them at the front of the store as you walk in but I didn't see them there today... That's not to say they won't have them shortly as the vouchers run from April 1st to April 14th.

What did I spell wrong in my post? Was it thus??? I did see that but was too lazy to go back and correct it...:rotfl::rotfl:

dollypeeps

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

If I were regularly getting money off stuff I would count it as "real" money, but a voucher every month or two doesn't seem worth keeping track of. So, the Amazon vouchers I get for surveys count as "real" money in my budget because they're not an insignificant amount of money over the year. The £2 off Clubcard voucher I get every 3 months, or the very occasional "spend £50 get £5 off" vouchers that appear I just count as a freebie.

Thanks for that Merlins Beard....ill take that on board with my budget and see how I go..

tighteningthebelt

dollypeeps wrote: »

What did I spell wrong in my post? Was it thus??? I did see that but was too lazy to go back and correct it...:rotfl::rotfl:

I took it as just generally... We all do them, and we all find them finny!

pamsdish

tighteningthebelt wrote: »

I took it as just generally... We all do them, and we all find them finny!

It was, think it was even another thread, sometimes I even laugh out loud on how it can change the context.