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June 2022 Grocery Challenge

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  • thriftwizard
    thriftwizard Posts: 4,862 Forumite
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    Aaargh, what's happened? Went to update my grocery total, and my signature's showing as somewhere in March! Off to rootle round & see whether I can retrieve the correct figure from somewhere, then add the £113-odd that the Offspring & I have spent between us over the last week.
    Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
  • Ginmonster
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    Ginmonster I noticed today that Lidl have low sugar Granola in stock.
    Thanks Grumpelstiltskin. Sadly I don't have a Lidl near me so I can't try their version. Hopefully the Sainsbury's one will be good enough. 
  • Greying_Pilgrim
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    edited 15 June 2022 at 9:40AM
    Morning GC'rs!


    MissRikkiC - perhaps in future, it may be worth you growing your own Lupin beans?  Although I was interested to see that they are not advised to be eaten by people with peanut allergies, due to a similar compound being present in Lupin beans as is in peanuts.  I learn a new thing everyday!

    Aiming for a NSD today.  

    Will have to change the meal plan around a little.  We didn't have the smoked tofu buddha bowl on Monday, so that is now pencilled in for today, as it will enable me to make best use of items from the food table and last week's MrL box.  The stuff is still OK, but neither do i want food waste.  The lentil bake will keep in the freezer for another day.

    Last night's soup was scrummy.  I cooked it in the PC, which worked beautifully.  I'm finding vegetarian food more flavourful cooked this way - in much the same way that a slow-cooker/slow cooking may enhance meaty stews and casseroles?? I made up some of the Zanzibar spice mix (anyone else get a B1lly J0el ear worm when they mention Zanzibar?  Nope?  Just me?  OK 😊), and have enough left over for another soup or another dish.  

    I used one jar of bottled black eye beans in the soup.  I had got 2 jars 30% reduced in MrL a few weeks ago.  At 42p (reduced price) for 400g drained weight, they were cheaper than tinned, and I have to say, they were good.  As I cook dried beans too, I'm not sure they were any better than dried being home cooked, but they were good enough.  I appreciated the opportunity to try them out at a lower price.  I would certainly give consideration to buying them again (proper price is 59p), if dried beans weren't available, but I'm not sure that they are an economical option for me.  I think that the quality aspect of jarred beans (as discussed in the R4 Food Programme about beans), holds true though.

    Greying X
    Pounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
     
    Grocery Spend July 2025 £292.82/£300 
    Non-food spend July 2025 £96.71/£50
    Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£10 
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