January 2020 Grocery Challenge

fairy3

Small spend to declare after a NSD yesterday £5.84 on toilet rolls, onions,teabags and pitta bread. meal plans look great - mine at the moment is
Monday - sausage pasta bake
Tuesday - Chicken curry and rice with raita and ys nan
Wednesday - Pork hock with garlic mash and veggies (will double cook)
Thursday - Fish pie with mushy peas and veg
Friday - freezer surprise

Made vat of leek and potato soup and another frittata - hopefully will last a day or so....

dumpling

Oh I am so cross with myself. I had enough food to last for the whole of next week apart from needing some bread but I was up in the early hours yesterday (like today) and decided in my infinite wisdom to do another online shop. So I have another £74 to add to my total :mad::mad:

Right, I am off to cancel Thursday's delivery and will really try to reign in my food spending. I will spend an hour or so today planning out our meals to as not to waste anything I have bought.

Hayze1980

Tiny shop yesterday as we’d run out of milk and the toddler suddenly decided he HAD to have beans for lunch so £1.38 spend in Lidl main weekly shop comes today but I need to push back the delivery days to Tues pm or Wednesday afternoons because it’s cheaper then. I never got around to updating my order either so I know I need to go out for a few more bits for DS3s birthday party on Saturday.

pamsdish

tessie_bear wrote: »

where do people buy nice steak from ? its hard to find nice steak or perhaps its the way i cook it...thankyou x

I buy from my local proper butcher, rib eyes at least an inch thick, hot cast iron pan, cook one side 30 sec, turn over, another 30 sec, season remove from heat let rest, while I cook my chips or whatever I am having, perfect.

MadamMim2013

Just over £30 spent last week.. (well 1st-5th)
Picked up a few bits today, some for work colleagues (as a cheer up munch) and a few bits for home
Need to total up..

Suffolk_lass

tessie_bear wrote: »

still wading through cheap sprouts here now on my last bag We spent 20 quid last week mainly on christmas bargains/milk/veg/fruit.Im not sure if proper shopping will start this week will see how i go.

where do people buy nice steak from ? its hard to find nice steak or perhaps its the way i cook it...thankyou x

From the butchery counter that is manned in the SM (Morries) or the butcher. I buy the best I can afford, occasionally a fillet tail or a reduced sirloin, or rib eye.

I heat a pan to really hot and then oil and season both sides of the steak (which is room temperature) on a chopping board. It goes in to the hot dry pan until it can be turned without sticking to the pan (as that means it has cooked enough on that side) then after flipping (to a part of the pan that it was not on (ie hot and dry)) I remove it from the heat source and cover with foil as a kind of tucked in blanket - to rest until the veg are cooked. I like it rare but if you like it more well done, you can melt a little butter in the pan and baste the steak when you flip it, but you still need to rest it long enough for your veg to steam.

Barbeduk

tessie_bear wrote: »

where do people buy nice steak from ? its hard to find nice steak or perhaps its the way i cook it...thankyou x

If you haven't got a good local butchers try the matured steak from Lidl - I think it's really good.

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 wrote: »

€12.19 spent today

Hubby needed more breakfast cakes as we ran out. I got veg to make a butternut squash soup as my girl seems to enjoy soup in the evenings, plus the bread for that. I also got half price Christmas chocolate, it’s my favourite and only available those short few months before Christmas so I got 4 bars to keep me going :-) also minced beef was on offer so I got 2 packets as we use beef quite a bit. I decided this month to only buy meat/fish either on special offer or reduced. If it works I’ll carry it on into February.

Kings day here on Monday so everywhere is closed. Hubby is getting the water tomorrow as it’s too much for me to carry on my own.

€280.52 left

€17.95 spent yesterday

Hubby got water, snacks for the kings day parade, yogurt drinks and bread. Everywhere closed today so NSD

€262.57 left

Toonie

Need to reduce spends at the moment so I'm going to try the Grocery Challenge. Not quite sure what we're spending, so this month I'll take a guess at £150 for the two of us. This will include anything normally bought at the supermarket (but not any alcohol as that's a separate budget).


So far spent £22.22 at Lidl on Saturday and £1 on milk yesterday.

Islandmaid

Ordered some dry cats food, £24, but that’s for 4 of them and should last a couple of months

Was back to work today, made parsnip soup for lunches out of the last of the Christmas veg, dinner tonight is leek and bacon risotto, which uses up the last of the smoked bacon.

Yesterday I hauled out some LO roast lamb for dinner, realised how much was there, so split it in half and prepped a lamb and sweet potato tagine to have tomorrow, didn’t want to eat lamb 2 days on the trot.

I have some charcuterie and cheese that needs using, so might use that up with some gnocchi later this week, that’ll take us to Thursday from leftovers:D

Sorry, just burbling now, thinking out loud x