September 2019 Grocery Challenge

Cherry_Burton

Hi

So today I spent £5.70. I needed some milk but the real kicker is that I made lunch but forgot it an left it in the fridge at home. I ended up buying lunch at work- oh dear. Well onwards and upwards, must try better tomorrow.

£175/£5.70 3.26% spent.

CB

Chloris

joedenise wrote: »

Yes you can. Wrap in greaseproof paper first and then seal in a freezer bag. They keep quite well in a tin (if they get left alone!) for a couple of weeks.

Denise

Thank you! I'll see how many make it into packed lunches. If they get snacked on heavily, I'll freeze in future. X

fairy3

First spend of the month - £3.41 - bread, eggs and YS mushroom stirfry (28p) and YS curly Kale (20p) so will use stirfry tonight with prawns and some chinese spices and noodles. Household has been reduced by 2 as DS1 on holiday til Friday and DS2 housesitting all week so DD and I will mainly use from freezer/cupboard supplies as we both like veggie meals which the boys don't!
Reminder for myself - must root out jars and pick blackberries and ask kind friend for some apples to make jam (she will get a couple of jars as a thank you). Have a great day

F x

pamsdish

£5.68 in Tesco, 2 y.s. lamb neck fillets and a y.s pork rashers, plus a paper and t.v. mag

joedenise

First shop of the month done, spent £35.15 but now have a full fridge/freezer and about 3/4 full outside freezer so should only need fresh stuff, milk & loo rolls over the next couple of weeks. As many meals as possible will be coming from freezers and cupboards.

£161.85 left for month.

Denise

tessie_bear

hurrah after a drought of about 3 weeks our lidl had the £1.50 boxes back today...i got 2 such good value

also popped to aldi for fruit (prior to lidl) like a look at the super 6 but it doesnt seem s super as once it was

hope evryone is going strong xx

joedenise

I've found the same with the Aldi Super 6. Packs are usually very small although today I bought a couple of the snack packs of grapes to have at lunchtime tomorrow as I'll be at the hospital most of the day so they'll be handy as part of my lunch.

GSDMum

Yesterday £92.48 was spent in Aldi, buying meat (mostly popped in freezer when I got home - large chicken promptly roasted in oven), 2 x 4 pints cartons of milk (when I run out of milk will be my prompt to go back to the shops).

Was disappointed when I got back home with two punnets of plums and a punnet of vine tomatoes. Several plums (ripen at home variety) were rotten and had to be thrown away, I didn't bother complaining because sometimes these things happen, but when I opened the punnet of vine tomatoes, one had been squashed, and had caused the inside punnet to be covered in horrid black mould. I've taken a pic, and I'll be sending a complaint to Aldi.

I've got a sneaky dinner cooking a the moment. Over the weekend we had a rib eye steak each. I trimmed off a bit from each steak before cooking, and hubby never noticed the reduction :cool:. Tonight we're having beef curry for dinner using the trimmings, all it cost was a small onion half a can of chopped tomatoes, and spice already in cupboard. I've got some bread on the go, of which I'll be frying a couple of naans made from the dough in my heavy frypan.

joedenise

Great idea trimming the steaks a bit and then making a curry. Think I'll pinch that idea as got a couple of sirloin steaks YS today which I can easily trim. Will add loads of vegetables as well and make it into DH's favourite - a beef biryani.

Denise

Doom_and_Gloom

£95.53 has already been spent.

£95.53/£200
£104.47 Left.

Got a digital pressure cooker yesterday and right now it's on a cleaning cycle. It cost £76.49 (different budget) which I think is brilliant for a 6L. Lots of batch cooking and cooking beans to follow. I'll be using it to cook my own soya beans to then blend and strain to make soya milk. Soya milk can also be used to make tofu, may use soya beans to make own natto and/or tempeh. Pressure cooker was much better overall than getting a new soya milk maker and it was cheaper too.