February 2021 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£40 yesterday on the 3rd tyre since New Year, 2 nails in, frightened to look again, £26.37 in AIdI, lemons for freezing, drying, a y.s. small lamb shoulder, £3.37 is less than chops, some battered fish and other bits so I only need tonic water some time next week.

zafiro1984

My fruit food box  and veg box arrived yesterday, Good selection and the quality looks good as well. Total cost 31.00 including delivery, so with an online shop due this weekend we should be Ok for the rest of the month.

I haven't stepped foot in a supermarket since Feb 2020 everything has been bought online. Total spend so far this year £125.96/£3317 - quietly pleased.

moneyonmymindsam

Been shopping. Spent my remaining for this week.
I have overspent by £9.97 but this is because I really got a lot of YS bits so we shall either live like Kings for a week or it will go to the freezer/cupboard stocks. I've meal planned around what I picked up so 
hopefully can claw that back over the next week or two to stay in budget.

Sam x

thriftwizard

£44 spent at the market this morning - sigh,  a bit more than I'd meant to. Bought fish, cheese, fruit & veg. Didn't buy any of the herbs & spices I'd meant to top up, because they didn't have them; they've been struggling to get hold of supplies for quite some time now. Not good

Florenceem

First spend of the week here - £1.15 on milk - it was safe for Mr F to venture out.

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Thanks @Suffolk_lass, that's so much easier.  Thought i'd share some of my lazy  (somewhat rubbish) recipes.

peanut butter, who knew it was so easy.  Just bunged a bag of salted/roasted peanuts into the blender and blended for 2 or three minutes, voila.

tahini, which is just blended sesame seeds (toast them in a pan first).  It's a bit yawnville, takes about 15/20 mins of blending, but comes out lovely.  I use it to make houmous or make a peanut (not really peanuts) stirfry with it, or water down for salad dressing.

health(ier) chocolate spread, just add pure coco powder to the tahini and some golden syrup. Really very moreish.

I made the golden syrup as well (oh yes I did, I have that much time on my hands), it's just water and sugar, reduced with a lemon.

Vegan Mug Cakes a few tablespoons of plain flour - 2/3, some cocoa powder, some sugar, some ginger, a teaspoon (or less) of baking powder.  I add dairy free chocolate chips, and mix to a thick(ish) paste with plant milk, usually soya, then put in the microwave in a bowl (or mug I guess) for 60 seconds, I then give a stir and put back for another 30 seconds and its done.  You can swap out the ginger for cinnamon or add both, miss out the choc chips.  I have no patience with measuring stuff, but you adjust to suit.

Vegan (N)Icecream - you just blend up frozen bananas (peeled) till creamy.  It honestly does taste like icecream.  I sometimes add a splash of plant milk.  Depends really.  You might want to leave them on the counter for 10/15 minutes to soften, but I have a strong blender, so its fine.  This will break a weak blender.  You can flavour with cocoa powder for chocolate one.  I made my friend a biscoff one with biscoff spread and bashed up some biscuits and stirred in.  Too sweet for me, but nice though.

Enough of my rubbish recipes - will need to shop for salad tomorrow.

Florenceem

No spending again - didn't think we could manage to get though without our weekly shop but been inventive.

Suffolk_lass

@elsiepac - @Save_Dosh posted some vegan recipes here

Save_Dosh said:

Thanks @Suffolk_lass, that's so much easier.  Thought i'd share some of my lazy  (somewhat rubbish) recipes.

peanut butter, who knew it was so easy.  Just bunged a bag of salted/roasted peanuts into the blender and blended for 2 or three minutes, voila.

tahini, which is just blended sesame seeds (toast them in a pan first).  It's a bit yawnville, takes about 15/20 mins of blending, but comes out lovely.  I use it to make houmous or make a peanut (not really peanuts) stirfry with it, or water down for salad dressing.

health(ier) chocolate spread, just add pure coco powder to the tahini and some golden syrup. Really very moreish.

I made the golden syrup as well (oh yes I did, I have that much time on my hands), it's just water and sugar, reduced with a lemon.

Vegan Mug Cakes a few tablespoons of plain flour - 2/3, some cocoa powder, some sugar, some ginger, a teaspoon (or less) of baking powder.  I add dairy free chocolate chips, and mix to a thick(ish) paste with plant milk, usually soya, then put in the microwave in a bowl (or mug I guess) for 60 seconds, I then give a stir and put back for another 30 seconds and its done.  You can swap out the ginger for cinnamon or add both, miss out the choc chips.  I have no patience with measuring stuff, but you adjust to suit.

Vegan (N)Icecream - you just blend up frozen bananas (peeled) till creamy.  It honestly does taste like icecream.  I sometimes add a splash of plant milk.  Depends really.  You might want to leave them on the counter for 10/15 minutes to soften, but I have a strong blender, so its fine.  This will break a weak blender.  You can flavour with cocoa powder for chocolate one.  I made my friend a biscoff one with biscoff spread and bashed up some biscuits and stirred in.  Too sweet for me, but nice though.

Enough of my rubbish recipes - will need to shop for salad tomorrow.

joedenise

Spent just over £40 yesterday.  Run out of shower gel this morning so as we were going into town to have our jabs popped into Mr Ts and picked up some plus some new nail brushes, spent just over £1.50 leaving us with £144.20 for the rest of the month, so just over half the budget left so should be OK.  Glad it's a short month!

ancientmum

It has been a high spend week for me, with a trip to the butcher £32.00 which includes honey, butter and cheese as well as meat.  Another expense was water filters for the jug.  I had a £2 off £20 coupon from txsco so bought them there along with some fruit and veg, also realised later that I had run out of tin foil, so that was another trip to the supermarket.  Oh  and some fish pie mix from the fishmonger. 
 However, the meat should last until the end of March, the water filters until next January  and the fish pie will be four meals.  Not sure about the  foil  but that should last at least two months.  So I'm looking at it all as investment  and hopefully will only need a small amount of fresh food over the next two weeks. 
Love the freezer tetris PJ.  I will be doing this with portions of cooked mince tomorrow!