September 2022 Grocery Challenge

mumtoomany

Thank you, @boultdj. Will give some/all of those a try. Pity I can't use it with jelly! Haha. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

Wraithlady

bupster said:

I'm perilously low in the freezer stocks. I'm down to the slightly peculiar yellow stickered stuff: ' 'how actually do you cook a spatchcocked pheasant?'. 

I presume you're meant to roast it, but it will work well jointed and used in any stew/slowcooked recipe for chicken - I've done pheasant au vin before, and it's very nice.

Obviously it's smaller than your average chicken, but add enough veg etc, it won't be a problem

Ginmonster

The big shop arrived today and came to £99.85 so I've gone big quite early in the month. It was needed though as we had run all the perishables down before the summer hols so I had to get pretty much everything. I'm busily planning meals for the next few days and looking at ways I can start using the slow cooker and pressure cooker more. I'm going to start with gigantes plaki in the slow cooker tomorrow as that's something I make a lot so it should be a doddle.

107.98/200 so far.

atrixa

£12.02 spend to report in Mr M this evening. They seem to add a random 20p to an item on every shop I do nowadays, and a lot of the shelves aren't well stocked. May switch back to Mr S and A!di, but Mr M is closest...

Total now £108.74/155.

bupster

Wraithlady said:

bupster said:

I'm perilously low in the freezer stocks. I'm down to the slightly peculiar yellow stickered stuff: ' 'how actually do you cook a spatchcocked pheasant?'. 

I presume you're meant to roast it, but it will work well jointed and used in any stew/slowcooked recipe for chicken - I've done pheasant au vin before, and it's very nice.

Obviously it's smaller than your average chicken, but add enough veg etc, it won't be a problem

That's such a good idea! Thank you - also to Jackie O who had really good suggestions before and who I meant to thank for that ages ago too 

goldfinches

bupster said:

Wraithlady said:

bupster said:

I'm perilously low in the freezer stocks. I'm down to the slightly peculiar yellow stickered stuff: ' 'how actually do you cook a spatchcocked pheasant?'. 

I presume you're meant to roast it, but it will work well jointed and used in any stew/slowcooked recipe for chicken - I've done pheasant au vin before, and it's very nice.

Obviously it's smaller than your average chicken, but add enough veg etc, it won't be a problem

That's such a good idea! Thank you - also to Jackie O who had really good suggestions before and who I meant to thank for that ages ago too 

I meant to say that there are several possible recipes on Delia's site here which might be helpful. I haven't tried any of them myself though so can't specifically recommend one.

I had the thoroughly depressing experience of finding that my usual milk had gone up by 5p since last week when I was working my way down my list in M*rks this afternoon followed by the unwelcome discovery that they were out of frozen green beans again. The other thing I couldn't find on their shelves was a bar of soap, there were any number of bottles of hand wash and moisturising sanitizing lotions and so on but not a single cake of soap which means I shall have to traipse all over town tomorrow looking for some so grrr. You'd think at a time when we're all still washing our hands at every opportunity that soap would be a good thing to sell.

Anyway, enough of M*rks and their idiocies. I spent some more of the Baking Budget money on ground almonds and soya yoghurt this afternoon as I've had a special request to make this cake for tomorrow's walking group outing to a museum. The Baking Budget now stands at an astronomical £22.94/£20 + £20.

I also spent £3.30 in Mr T's on frozen fruit and then parted with £11.98 in M*rks for 4x organic milk, 1kg greek style yoghurt, avocado, 2 x radishes and then 3x YS jalapeno poppers to go into the freezer for a treat sometime. I know the YS stuff was wrong but I did leave lots of other reductions behind so am fairly pleased to get out with just the three additional purchases. My new monthly total is £22.41/£120 and my average daily spend is £3.73.

I'm off to the kitchen to get baking, have a good evening everyone.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening GC'rs!

A 48 pence spend to own up to.  No YS's caught my eye in MrA tonight, but I did spy a set of 3 cartons of the JE orange juice cartons on the shelf (last ones).  I don't buy them routinely, but we do like to have them sometimes for a picnic.  

I made tortellini in a HM tomato vegetable sauce for tea in the crockpot.  The tortellini was MrAl's ambient product - 75p a pack.  It worked well - not tried it before - but at the moment, I am wondering whether it is a significant saving on electricity though.  I'm working out how to use it/the best type of recipes to try etc etc.  If I can sort that out, perhaps the power useage will sort itself out and be a clear cut saving, or not.  If not, the crockpot will be despatched to the chazzer.  I need the crockpot to 'earn' it's place in the kitchen.  I never thought that slow-cookers were much use for veggie cooking, but I've seen a few recipes lately, so thought I would take a gamble. My first dish was a made up affair that used courgette instead of lasagne sheets.  That worked out OK and importantly, LG liked it and ate it all up - as they did with tonight's tortellini offering. 

£69.20/200

Greying X

Suffolk_lass

Gosh, it has taken me a week to catch up on here. Big silence but still reading than following. So far have paid for last month's eggs, milkman and 30p 45p it turns out! for some carrots (not quite as bargainous as JackieO's 12p YS ones but still OK and all we needed.

We are joining others on Sensible September Spending so trying to be mindful. The emergency fridge freezer purchase is being returned and the emergency fund will be relieved to have the money back

London_1

I am a definite slow cooker enthusiast and use mine regularly. At one time I actually had two when I had the family at home, and found them brilliant. Today I do a good deal of batch cooking and will make a large pot of say chilli  for portioning up, or curry, both with either meat or veg.
 A whole chiken is brilliant in mine and I swear I get more meat from it than roasting I never eat the skin of the chicken anyway so I'm not fussed that its not crispy, and its brilliant for an overnight rice pudding.

Second batch of NSDs starting today as I got all I needed yesterday with my small shop.
 Today I am using up the celery head I have in the fridge and will make a spicy celery soup which will make me at least 5-6 portions.
It only cost me 43p when I bought it about ten days ago, and I've used a couple of sticks in other things. I found a jar of roasted red peppers in the cupboard I had forgotten about and may chop a couple up, and pop them in for a bit of extra zing

Hope everyone has a good and frugal day we all seem to be managing quite well so far

JackieO xx

                           
                                              Spent £4.89/£60.00        £55.11 left for September

mumtoomany

I must stop skim reading! I read your post Jackie and my first thought was, "oh, that sounds interesting, must ask how she makes rice pudding with chicken skin." I blame the dyslexia! Hugs, mumtoomany.xx