January 2008 Grocery Challenge

MRSMCAWBER

KBL...

If the gammon joint you got was the one on offer at £2.99 for a 1 kilo piece then you will forgive yourself for forgetting the tomatoes...;)

I stashed 6 to bring back here :shhh: .... cooked 1 yesterday... the stock went to make soup, had some of the ham with mustard on fresh baked bread yesterday :drool: and with salad and potatoes for dinner tonight and im going to slice and freeze the rest tonight... you can get heaps of meals out of 1... so its deffinitely worth the spends

Singlemum.... i read cook books like novels :rotfl: but have banned myself from buying any more at the moment - but my DB got me jamie olivers one about growing and cooking for xmas and a mandolin- its brilliant :T but i still tend to cook all the old staples my mum used to

kayharcombe

I saw the bero books in morrisons before christmas, and picked up 4 for myself for me and presents, and 3 for my nan, who cant even see well enough to read them but insisted i got her some, as she has had these since the fourties. I swear by them, very simple recipes with few ingredients that you can adapt easily, straightforward instructions etc.

I still have an old one from around the sixties, the disappointing thing about the new one is that it doesnt have the recipe for peanut butter cookies i used to like so much.

NSD day for me, kids back at school, loadsa tidying/recovering and waiting in for delivery of a part for carpet cleaner. Still hasnt come, so might have to wait in tomorrow aswell, thus spending no money, not such a bad thing

Kay

kbl

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

KBL...

If the gammon joint you got was the one on offer at £2.99 for a 1 kilo piece then you will forgive yourself for forgetting the tomatoes...;)

I stashed 6 to bring back here :shhh: .... cooked 1 yesterday... the stock went to make soup, had some of the ham with mustard on fresh baked bread yesterday :drool: and with salad and potatoes for dinner tonight and im going to slice and freeze the rest tonight... you can get heaps of meals out of 1... so its deffinitely worth the spends

It was on offer for €4.99 here, a bit more expensive but not totally out of order, unfortunately cooked it for dinner and it was gone like snow off a ditch!:rotfl: Absolutely delicious:p . Just to explain myself, for meals there is me, my dh (builder, usually starving eats at least one and a half times average man, still keeps his washboard stomach, thinking of taking up building as a diet aid:p ), and our three wanes, two teenagers and one nine year old. They also have a massive appetite, and are rail thin, I eat less than the youngest and have about two and a half stone to lose:eek: . Where oh where is it all going wrong? (Probably in the biscuit aisle to be honest)

NEgirl

lol about the bero book - i knew it couldnt just be me who loves it!! When my mum and dad moved away i got their old box of recipes too - you remember the ones where they would send some each month or so with a box to file them all in under sections labelled 'picnic food' 'starters' etc :rotfl:

Frugaldom

nykmedia wrote: »

Hello everyone, just playing early evening catch-up in the forums. End of week one and my grocery spend for the week was only £17.58 This included today's Co-op additions as follow:
2 x Co-op wholemeal loaves (2 x 65p)
1 x Dairylea (on special at 67p again)
2 x Walkers Crisps multipacks (I think I've been overcharged! Receipt says £1.35 per bag, shop shelf said 2 for something... watch this space! I'm away to the Co-op now to check.)

BRB

OK, I ran back along the street to Co-op, receipt in hand, and can now confirm that Walkers 6 packs of crisps ARE 2 packs for £1.79 but the items had scanned incorrectly. I have to say that I don't often have this problem with the Co-op, it's usually Somerfield that happens. So, have now had my daily exercise twice and updated my signature to show week one's grocery spend as £16.67

Now - anyone know what I can do with the other half of my homemade spaghetti Bolognese sauce? Tacos, chilli and lasagne are all out as someone in this household doesn't like any of the aforementioned. :mad: Spag Bol is 'tolerated'. I can't freeze it because it was made from mince I had in the freezer.

MRSMCAWBER

Nykmedia

Was the mince frozen raw? if so you can now freeze it again now it has been cooked....

lingojingo

Well, that's the end of my first week, and I only spent £11.33, but we've mainly been using up the xmas leftovers, so it will soon change.
Well done and good luck to everyone else on the challenge.

funkyfunkymonkey

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Nykmedia

Was the mince frozen raw? if so you can now freeze it again now it has been cooked....

I'll second that, we do it all the time. Same with any other raw frozen meat, once cooked it can be refrozen. Never had a tummy ache from food poisoning, so must be okay.

FFM

singlemum_4

Now - anyone know what I can do with the other half of my homemade spaghetti Bolognese sauce? Tacos, chilli and lasagne are all out as someone in this household doesn't like any of the aforementioned. :mad: Spag Bol is 'tolerated'. I can't freeze it because it was made from mince I had in the freezer.[/quote]

Could you use it for a cottage pie base?

Frugaldom

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Nykmedia

Was the mince frozen raw? if so you can now freeze it again now it has been cooked....

Yes, I bought several packs of the lean minced beef when it was on special offer and split it up into smallers cartons, so it was frozen raw and defrosted for cooking. That's great news! I'll away down the stairs right now and transfer it from fridge to freezer for another day :j Thanks for that MrsMC. Hope your trip home was OK and you weren't overweight with all your bargains