June 2021 Grocery Challenge

Finstickle

Sallyp2 said:

Men can be very critical. I want to aim to have 2 meat free weekday dinners. Trying to get in a Green Thai Squash curry. Fella just doesn't want to know. Says its just not a dinner. What is wrong with men??????????

i get the same off Stepkids - they have meat everyday at their mum's and want the same here.  Although they do love macaroni cheese, OH is former vegetarian so he is much easier to please!

Finstickle

A couple of shopping trips this week.  £3.77 at Lidl and £24.49 at Tesco giving us £216.82/£561 for the month.

Wraithlady

MissRikkiC said:

What’s your cheapest meal idea that usually flys with everyone at home?

I do a mean veggie-burger - tin of beans, tin of chickpeas, grated large carrot, 1 onion, 1 egg, (usually) about 125-300grams of mushrooms, and whatever green veg need using up, seasonings to taste ( I use cumin and paprika, but whatever you want) and porridge oats to coat. 
Whizz everything up in my food processor, and form into burger patties - they're quite soft, but put enough porridge oats on them and (with delicate handling) they stay in shape when being pan-fried. And they are very filling.

Just worked it out on the Sainsbury's website, comes in at roughly £3.00 (including the rolls, but not ketchup etc) for 6 substantial burgers - the mix freezes really well too.

MissRikkiC

Wraithlady said:

MissRikkiC said:

What’s your cheapest meal idea that usually flys with everyone at home?

I do a mean veggie-burger - tin of beans, tin of chickpeas, grated large carrot, 1 onion, 1 egg, (usually) about 125-300grams of mushrooms, and whatever green veg need using up, seasonings to taste ( I use cumin and paprika, but whatever you want) and porridge oats to coat. 
Whizz everything up in my food processor, and form into burger patties - they're quite soft, but put enough porridge oats on them and (with delicate handling) they stay in shape when being pan-fried. And they are very filling.

Just worked it out on the Sainsbury's website, comes in at roughly £3.00 (including the rolls, but not ketchup etc) for 6 substantial burgers - the mix freezes really well too.

That’s great value! We currently have everything in except the beans and rolls for this as we’ve just used them tonight in a chilli! If I can grab some yellow sticker rolls tomorrow this is going to be dinner! 🤤 Thanks!

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Took stock of my finances yesterday and feel a lot better about things.  Whilst I've gone over my original budget for the month, I now have £49.19 to last me for GC and I really don't want to go over that.
I spent £7 of it last night in the big Mr T though on 2 boxes of coffee pods - I am now the proud owner of a Dolce Gusto machine after an unexpected cash gift from a relative, and have become totally addicted to the Coconut Flat White - they are £3.50 a box and not available near me, hence I bought two.  I'm hoping to be really disciplined and ration them out a bit more than I have been!!
Fridge is still pretty full so just need to get my bum in gear and work out a bit of a meal plan! Back on SW as well - I've been a member all along but discipline has been ... variable shall we say! Back to real life groups now and that helps motivate me for sure, so onwards and upwards!

10 June - £49.19 budgeted for remainder of month

10 June - £7 big Mr T on 2x coffee pods - £42.19 remaining

Sallyp2

See on the main board thread that the MSE forum format is changing.
sighs!

thriftwizard

I'm a bit "plot lost" here; I know I've spent £90 between the market & the bakery this week, but there was a supermarket spend too & I can't find the receipt for love nor money. It wasn't much - milk, cream, bananas, kale & spinach, sliced bread for OH - but IIRC it was over £10 so there must have been a  few other bits. I'll add the £90 & dredge out the bottoms of all my shopping bags... anyway, shouldn't need anything major until next Thursday/Friday so I may not be too far adrift. Stuff has definitely gone up a lot, though...

ancientmum

I had to buy some extra provisions last week as I had a visitor to cater for.  That was £40.88, in Mr. S, then needed some bread, milk and fruit that brought the total to £44.18.

Fiona236

Oh dear, went over by £14.84 this week.

goldfinches

Did some shopping yesterday and spent £4 in M*rks and £0.75 in S*insby's which means my new total is £45.99/£120 and my average daily spend is £4.18, yet more evidence that prices are going up.