February 2020 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_Cheshire

fairy3 said:

Hi all - just to report spends of £26.32 mainly in Morri's and Cwarp - good bargains and basics bought, nothing exotic. 
Mrs_Cheshire - I tend to use a 750g pack for around 8 meals and couple of lunches (big sports appetites) and bulk out with grated carrots and extra veg as stated but also have used a couple of Tbsp stuffing mix - no one has ever commented and it stretches the meat.
Just getting used to the new format - finding it a bit different and hate the blue.......

Thanks unfortunately my husband hates stuffing so would notice it if I added it to something else. 

I'm not liking the new format, multiple quotes doesn't work as it try to put the 2 separate quotes together in one box. Hopefully the team can make some changes to make it more user friendly! 

Islandmaid

Love the help and support you get here

a NSD here again
Hubby has been working his socks off getting our house renovations onto the next stage, am making him garlic and rosemary focaccia to go with prawns in garlic, parsley and chilli oil (dipping) baked Camembert, iberico ham and picky bits for dinner - wine will be taken

SummerDays

£10.56 I’d forgotten from 1st Feb and £16.09 yesterday largely on none essentials and treats for Friday night 
Total £118.93 / £450. Need to reign it in a bit!!

Suffolk_lass

Mrs_Cheshire said:

PipneyJane said:

 I use 250g of mince for a meal for 4-5 adult sized portions.  I add grated carrots sometimes but the main bulking agent is aubergine pulp, which is pretty indistinguishable in the sauce. (Cut the end off of the aubergine, stab it 2-3 times and microwave for 10 minutes, then cut in half, scrape out the innards and chop.  Careful, it's hot!).  I'll also add a beef stock cube to bulk up the flavour.

HTH

- Pip

Thanks for the tip re. aubergine pulp, will give it a try. 

Red lentils are my go-to ingredient in anything with mince in - easy veggie swap and pads out mince for pennies in meat-based dishes

Suffolk_lass

Mrs_Cheshire said:

fairy3 said:

Hi all - just to report spends of £26.32 mainly in Morri's and Cwarp - good bargains and basics bought, nothing exotic. 
Mrs_Cheshire - I tend to use a 750g pack for around 8 meals and couple of lunches (big sports appetites) and bulk out with grated carrots and extra veg as stated but also have used a couple of Tbsp stuffing mix - no one has ever commented and it stretches the meat.
Just getting used to the new format - finding it a bit different and hate the blue.......

Thanks unfortunately my husband hates stuffing so would notice it if I added it to something else. 

I'm not liking the new format, multiple quotes doesn't work as it try to put the 2 separate quotes together in one box. Hopefully the team can make some changes to make it more user friendly! 

Yes it does, just press quote on the second or third one and they will all be at the bottom of the screen (and so does embedding the one before last if you set it in your profile preferences - I chose 2 layers but could have chosen more)

thriftwizard

Well, I'm not going to regret spending so much on that meal, now; seems I need to go & invest in some bubbly now as A Question has been Popped in romantic Vienna and a positive reply received!  Celebrations are most definitely in order; she's a lovely lass & we're thrilled to welcome her into The Firm!

jam2019

Today's shop set me back £4.01 - got some milk (80p), apples (50p), pears (59p) and sweet potatoes and parsnips (£2.12) to make another soup. As last week, the scales still don't work so I was stood in the veg aisle for a while trying to work out exactly how much everything weighed relative to a bag of apples.
I did, however, spend about 5 minutes painstakingly feeding pennies into the self-checkout machine at asda which got me a few funny looks. I thought it was probably about time to spend all the small change I've accumulated over the last year though!

Rowan9

Many congrats thriftwizard. That’s lovely news

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

sarahj1986 wrote: »

€6.42 spent

Needed a few bits for lunch today

€293.58 left

€43.01 spent

This is over the last few days as I buy different things in different places. My challenge to only buy reduced or on offer meat/fish was a success. My husband bought us a tray of chicken and minced beef but apart from that everything else was either on offer or reduced so I’m going to carry this on for February. Today I got a packet of sausages and a whole chicken (a rare find) at 30% off.

€250.57 left

€23.61 spent

yesterday and today. Lidl has baby bel on offer that was too good to refuse and so I spent €6 on those alone 

I am still struggling with this layout and colours

€226.96 left 

supersaver1000

Thanks for the tip re. stuffing - my DH loves stuffing so it might work for us.  I always put a cup of oats into my chilli - you really can't tell its in there once its cooked.  I tried lentils one but we could also feel the texture and it didn't quite work for us in the chilli.  Probably good in shepherds pies etc. but I like the stuffing idea, and we love lentil dahl as a main curry meal so would probably go for that instead - its so easy (lentils, water, spices).