February 2020 Grocery Challenge

H2020

Last main shop today, £29.18. Real budget one as we overspent at the beginning of the month, but got some good deals and yellow sticker vegan pasties in Morrisons (15p for 2!)
£355.94 total, plus round ups this month takes it to £367.07. So £3 left which will probably go on bread and a couple of little bits like that in the week. New month starts next Friday, got all the meals sorted up to then.

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, been really busy so only just catching up on the chat. 
currently on about £325 so not got much money left till the end of the month. Should be ok though, as we've got quite a bit in. 

Doom_and_Gloom

£19.42 spent today. 
300g coffee, 227g decaf coffee, 875g bananas, 580g sweet potato, 800g bread, 500g butter, 1L milk, 250g red Leicester and 474g beef joint.

OH had pancakes for dinner, I wish I was joking but no that is what he had.
I had sweet potato chili for dinner.

£189.86/£216.2
£26.36.

We are going to go over budget again this month as we have an A&C delivery scheduled for Monday totalling £28.50 and I think we'll need up to £10 of produce and products, on top of that, before the month ends. Again whatever we are over by will be taken out of next months budget.

PipneyJane

GreenFairy said:

€16.87 to add to my total after a trip to tesco. Yesterday I managed to burst a 2l of milk all over the kitchen floor when it fell out of the fridge on me      For a tiny kitchen it made such a mess! 
Replaced the milk, picked up wraps, celery, an avocado, hot dog buns, and a 2kg bag of cat food. I meant to stock up on cat food when it was on sale but entirely forgot and it's bloomin' €3.49 a bag more expensive now. Not my week! lol 

Argh! Spilt milk!  My nightmare!  I hope you managed to get it all mopped up and won’t suffer from that sour milk smell for weeks afterwards.

- Pip

Suffolk_lass

PipneyJane said:

GreenFairy said:

€16.87 to add to my total after a trip to tesco. Yesterday I managed to burst a 2l of milk all over the kitchen floor when it fell out of the fridge on me      For a tiny kitchen it made such a mess! 
Replaced the milk, picked up wraps, celery, an avocado, hot dog buns, and a 2kg bag of cat food. I meant to stock up on cat food when it was on sale but entirely forgot and it's bloomin' €3.49 a bag more expensive now. Not my week! lol 

Argh! Spilt milk!  My nightmare!  I hope you managed to get it all mopped up and won’t suffer from that sour milk smell for weeks afterwards.

- Pip

I completely agree. The only thing worse than spilling milk on the floor is when it spills in the car and you don't realise until the heater is on sometime later. Vomitus or what! (where is that :eek: emoji when you need it?!)

Suffolk_lass

By the way, the March thread is up - but it is missing the recipes (4-10) and list (post 3) of who is aiming for what (not sure if this is a long-term thing so I have PM'd elsiepac). I will keep my bookmark for this thread going so I can get to these

supersaver1000

H2020 said:

yellow sticker vegan pasties in Morrisons (15p for 2!)

15p for 2 - that's my kind of bargain!!!

Doom and Gloom said:

OH had pancakes for dinner, I wish I was joking but no that is what he had.

Lol - Mr SS has some weird things sometimes - but as long as its MSE I'm all for it 

Green Fairy said:

Spilt Milk

Poor you. Agree with @PipneyJane , that is a nightmare. Hope you managed to get it all up.

PipneyJane

Three lots of shopping today.  We spent £6.50 in the Farm Shop (carrots, potatoes, broccoli and onions), and £4.46 at Lidl (3 aubergines, black bread and some olive bread rolls).  With some £2 coins, 5p’s and coppers that we’ve donated to the moneybox, that brings our Grocery Challenge shopping to £117.10/£130.20, leaving £13.10 for the remainder of the month.

The final shop that we did was a trip to the local butcher shop.  I don’t track Meat Fund spending in the Grocery Challenge money but thought I’d share.  For £43.67, we purchased a large chicken, 1kg stewing steak, 4 huge pork chops, 2kg minced beef and 600g lambs liver.  By my reckoning, that works out as 16 or 17 meals, which break down as follows:-

1 Chicken = roast dinner (legs) + 4 portions risotto +  4 portions Chinese chicken curry + stock
1kg Stewing Steak = 2 x 4 portions beef stew or curry
4 pork chops = if cut up is 2 x 4 portions pork stew
2kg mince = 8 x 4 portions bolognese sauce/chilli
Lamb’s liver = 1 x 6 portions Liver in Orange Sauce

So that’s almost a month’s worth of meat-based meals for £3.67 over what we normally set aside each month.  And only one meal - the initial roast - won’t feed four or more.
- Pip

Doom_and_Gloom

£1.84 spent today ☹️.
My last lot of bananas went very ripe so wanted to make banana bread to not waste them. Only didn't have any baking powder to make it so went out to get that. That and a couple of items later and I was able to make the cake in my pressure cooker. 
Banana cake is resting on the side now. OH keeps eyeing it up as although he doesn't like bananas on their own he loves banana cake. 

OHs dinner is beef stew with sweet potato. 
My dinner is sweet and sour vegetable rice. 

£191.70/216.22. 
£24.52 left. 

PipneyJane

Doom_and_Gloom said:

£1.84 spent today ☹️.
My last lot of bananas went very ripe so wanted to make banana bread to not waste them. Only didn't have any baking powder to make it so went out to get that. That and a couple of items later and I was able to make the cake in my pressure cooker. 
Banana cake is resting on the side now. OH keeps eyeing it up as although he doesn't like bananas on their own he loves banana cake. 

OHs dinner is beef stew with sweet potato. 
My dinner is sweet and sour vegetable rice. 

£191.70/216.22. 
£24.52 left. 

How do you make banana bread in a pressure cooker?

- Pip