June 2022 Grocery Challenge

Greying_Pilgrim

Meal plan for 6th - 12th June

M - Smoky vegetable Jambalaya
Tu - Mulligatawny soup*
W - Hungarian Casserole**
Th - Mung bean casserole and rice
F - Italian Sausage and pasta
Sa - Curry Plate (f), lentil dhal and rice
Su - Omlette, mixed veg and baked beans

* There is no doubt, the mulligatawny soup on the BBC cheap recipes site inspired my thought to make it for Tuesday, but my version (original source lost in the mists of time - sorry), doesn't use as many vegetables and is much more about the spicing and lentils.  

** This recipe is not the source for the recipe that I make.  I make Adele McConnell's version from The Vegan Cookbook.  But if you add in 1 tsp caraway seeds, 250g cooked butter beans and 60g chopped walnuts, you would have the version that I make.  

I had hoped that meals would be a bit more slanted to salads, but the weather is still a bit iffy and I need to make more use of my PC to save energy, so.........

Greying X

leftatthetrafficlights

I'm at £112.24/£300 

We went to an ethnic supermarket yesterday along with the normal one and I stocked up on some spices and bought a giant papaya again! They are expensive but totally worth it for me - I absolutely love them! ❤ 

Pinwheel

Hello

Some spends to report here.  £36.32 in L**l which included a £1.50 box.  I was told again that I wasn't allowed to take it around the shop with me, I knew this after last time and was only trying to queue up to pay for it (I took it out to the car after paying, then went back in to do the rest of my shopping).  I think the lady (the same one as last time) enjoyed shouting at me in front of a big queue of people.  I understand the reason for not being allowed to walk around the shop with it, people were adding to it and still paying £1.50, but it's hard to know what to buy if you haven't seen what's in the box.  Anyway it was a lot of carrots, 2 leeks, 2 little gem lettuces and one bigger lettuce, 3 potatoes and a bunch of green bananas which have since ripened.

I then spent £34.10 in S**nsburys and have since spent £6.80 between C**p, W**trose and S**nsburys again.  I need to stay away from the shops for a while now.

That all totals £77.22 which I will add to my signature.  Left over quinoa/cous cous salad for lunch and homemade pizza for tea, have a good day.

mumtoomany

Milk again! £2.04, new total £1162.83/£2640. @Greying_Pilgrim, did you manage to use up the rest of the turnip? I have loads in the freezer. I grew them last year, thinking the seeds were swedes. Nobody likes them! Even the sheep wouldn't touch them. Been hiding them in soups and curries. Hugs to all, mumtoomant.xx

Greying_Pilgrim

mumtoomany said:

....... @Greying_Pilgrim, did you manage to use up the rest of the turnip? I have loads in the freezer. I grew them last year, thinking the seeds were swedes. Nobody likes them! Even the sheep wouldn't touch them. Been hiding them in soups and curries. Hugs to all, mumtoomant.xx

Ah, mumtoomany - I think what I have been referring to as turnip is swedish turnip aka swede - so the orange fleshed one.  I did use up most of it.  The last bit, I tried to be "clever" with and I thought I would make a salad with it based on swede sauerkraut, but that you used straight away.  But although the process worked and the 'bitter' juices were certainly extracted (I grated then salted it), I got cold feet when I read on some 'raw food' websites that if you couldn't find recipes to eat things raw, then it was probably a bad idea to try.  And as I wasn't looking to eat my swede as sauerkraut, but for tea that evening, I decided that it still smelt very sulphurous (not helped by being a somewhat veteran vegetable when it came to me in the MrL box), and may well cause gas and bloating, whatever other ingredients I added to it.  So I am ashamed to say that it went into the compost bin 🙁 I'm not sure I have ever had the white with purple tops, turnips - so wouldn't know what to do with them.  Sorry 🙁 Although if sheep won't touch them, I am clearly missing out on nowt! 🤣

Greying X

DawnW

No spends today. Made lots of biscuits for a cake stall DD is doing tomorrow, in aid of the local playgroup. Used ingredients I already had in. GCs had to test them to 'make sure they tasted nice' and then had to make additionally sure by each eating 3   Good job I made loads!  DD hastily packed away the remainder in cellophane bags for sale. I must say, they did look nice - gingerbread stars with clementine and ginger icing, and choc chip shortbreads

Kaylataste

£2.95 on a TooGoodToGo magic bag to declare but I’ve cancelled a Tesco delivery for tomorrow so hopefully I’m on track to save some money this month as anything left over will go into a savings account.£209 for the month left.

Sayschezza

mumtoomany said:

Milk again! £2.04, new total £1162.83/£2640. @Greying_Pilgrim, did you manage to use up the rest of the turnip? I have loads in the freezer. I grew them last year, thinking the seeds were swedes. Nobody likes them! Even the sheep wouldn't touch them. Been hiding them in soups and curries. Hugs to all, mumtoomant.xx

Isnt turnip used in cornish pasties

goldfinches

And I'm off with my first spend of the month in M*rks where I was irritated to find that they were out of stock of the 1kg plain yoghurts so I had to buy a 500g which worked out much more expensive per 100g and then their loyalty card tried to offer me a free packet of sweets none of which were suitable for vegans which meant I couldn't share them with my friends at a party I'm going to this week so I left the shop in rather a bad mood! I do wish they'd stop giving me free things I can't use and pay more attention to keeping their shelves reliably stocked, grrrr.
Anyway, I spent £11.93/£120 on milk, yoghurt, radishes, lettuce, cucumber, tomato paste, tomatoes and y/s mango salads as well as a free and rather uninspiring copy of their food magazine which has lots of rather dull recipes so that's gone into the recycling. My average daily spend so far this month is £2.98 and the baking fund hasn't spent any money yet.

nannygladys

Purse still tightly shut, well not exactly I haven't been near a atm to draw the money out or paid by card, waiting until next week as I have enough in, except bread that I can do in the bm if I really want some.