January 2020 Grocery Challenge

ancientmum

Reporting spends totalling £25.14 between Adli and Mr.S. This included a bag of cat litter and some snacks for my holiday. I'm away for 2 weeks from next Saturday and using my remaining grocery money for meals while away. Most of the meals are already paid for so I should not need much extra from my holiday fund.

Suffolk_lass

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

I've got green lentils and pearl barley which needs using, any suggestions for good combinations of ingredients to go with them.

Hi Mrs Cheshire,

I recently posted my Grandmother's Lamb recipe here on my diary thread. I think you could add green lentils to this, maybe instead of the parsnip/potato and any lamb that is a bit fatty would work

Islandmaid

Another NSD here

Using some freezer stash mince to make Cottage pie, served with peas or cabbage, not sure yet but deffo gravy

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 wrote: »

€20.77 and €21.94 spent

Lidl had the offers I wanted today. So we got 6 jars of lentils,6 jars of chickpeas, 3 boxes of fish fingers, 24 meatballs and a couple of other bits for €20.77. €21.94 spent on fruit, fish, herbs, pop and milk in Mercadona.

€124.60 left but sooo much food in now

Hello all

Busy week last week but back to normal

€35.77 spent in a couple of little shops (Aldi, Mercadona and Lidl)

I made a cake for my daughter and we needed a few bits of lunches/dinners

€88.83 left

lantanna

First spend of the new month on fruit nd veg. £7.50. Going to Home Bargains later, so there will be more to report.

lantanna

Home Bargains spend was £43.00.

Stocked up Toilet roll, tin foil, condiments etc. All those boring things we need and hate to buy. Went through my pinch of nom recipe book last night [the first one) and made a list of ingredients I need to cook some new recipes.

Doing no shopping now til Friday.

supersaver1000

There was enough leftover curry for Monday night too, so saved a bit. Top up shop today was £11.57 and I have meals below sorted. All I need to sort out is lunches for me:

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Mon: LO veggie curry and rice
Tues: Leek and Mushroom Risotto and Aldi sour dough bread
Weds: Aldi Plant-based Pizza with Chips and coleslaw
Thursday: Pasta and tomato sauce and garlic bread

thriftwizard

£4.50 spent today on bread & veg after a very full-on weekend! I was just too shattered to make bread today.

But have managed to remember to extract bits from the freezer towards meals for the rest of the week. As usual, we're in no danger of starvation...!

Elisheba

Hello all,
Just checking in. Currently on 43.77/50, so all in hand. I have a 6 pint carton of milk defrosting that I'll water down and double, so that might last me till the end of the month. I'm not sure as I'm not sure quite how much milk I drink, other than a lot!

I'm thinking of buying sone drying balls at @ldi, as I need to take an eiderdown to the dry cleaners and noone seems to have any tennis balls they can lend me. I'm reluctant though - they are plastic, they mean I'm buying 'stuff', I won't have much need for them other than the eiderdown. I do really want to get the eiderdown in use though. Decisions!

Meal plan for the week - I'm going to try to keep this simple as I'm not very well.

Tonight - HM soup and bread roll, bun
Tuesday - halloumi and veg wraps
Wednesday - spag bog (if I have quorn mince which I think I do. Pasta bake otherwise)
Thursday - quorn bangers, peas and mash
Friday - nachos with cheese and dips
Saturday - hm pizza (I'm going to try part baking the spare dough as a base and freezing it that way)
Sunday - quorn roast

Lunches should be soup, and either cheese and tomato or HM red pepper hummus rolls if I get the rolls made, buns if I make them, and the rest of the fresh fruit. I might try making little snacks by roasting chick peas as well.

If I want any puddings I have tinned fruit and Greek yogurt.

I think all I might want to buy are mushrooms for the bolognaise and as a pizza topping. Pretty certain I have everything else :A

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

£54.18/£100 spent for Month so far Annual (27 Dec - 26 Dec) /£1,325 to be updated when declare for the month so as not to confuse myself cat food £58.53

£11.87 spent today - this got me 4 tins of toms 2 chopped, 2 plum, 4 kidney beans - got them whilst they were a price i was prepared to pay, cheese, veg stock - not too well at the mo and this was cheap enough and time saving enough than me making my own, 2 x herbs i've needed for a couple of weeks now, reduced bread for tea tomorrow and 3 packs reduced pastry - so cheap it would cost me more to make it. 3 jars of cooking sauces / oils on offer

I had gone shopping without my list :mad: But i am going to a couple of different shops tomorrow and think i got all i needed from this shop, i hope so and i hope to keep on target.

Elisheba.hope you feel better soon

islandmaid thank you for the recipes

Mrs Cheshire i made suffolks recipe and it was very nice too thanks again suffolk lass

Thank you to who posted the dahl recipe - sorry i didn't note who it was I wasn't going to make it due to being under the weather x

Edited to say: only missed dips off and i'll be going to 4 other shops this week - L's, S's, C's, and A's. Really trying to keep on target this month and going forwards.