March 2008 Grocery Challenge

mumzyof2

Ok thankyou i will get some tomorrow

weezl74

Hi all, big batch cooking day today. Just made a lovely filling for beef and onion pies. Wondering now what kind of pastry would work well with them. Ideally I'd like them to be individual portioned ones, a bit like a pasty. Might go on a forum search. Or feel very free to post me any ideas!

betterlatethannever- I just freeze the uncooked cookie dough rolled into a fat sausage. Then slice it into rounds before baking later. HTH

Love and waves to all.

Weezl x

redmel1621

Hi everyone

I keep putting off adding up what I have spent already on food, but I will do it. We have been a bit mad lately buying all sorts for the house (techy stuff) but we are savvy shoppers so everything we got was the cheapest around.......

I have done my shop (Tesco) for tommorrow so will report back once it's been delivered.

I am going to have a big overhaul of all our budgets actually as I think I have gne a bit off the rails with it all, not just shopping.

Mel x

JayJay14

I just popped into M&S to have a drool - don't buy much there these days but was passing. ~They have a 'value' mince at £1.49 for 500gm which seemed quite decent to look at so I bouight 2 packs as I had 2 £1 &more coupons in my purse:j Not often you could make 2-3 family meals for 98p at M&S is it!! (or even more but I'm not that frugal yet - give me time)

The sun is beautiful here but tonight will be an experience:eek:

Hope everyone survives the storms tonight OK.

candygirl

Just been to Home Bargains and spent £11.42 on jars of curry sauce, ginger, garlic, coffee etc.:D

Did a freezer check and I have enough stuff in there for 27 meals!!!!Getting tesco delivery of all the bulky tins, and milk cartons on Tuesday night, so hopefully wont have to do much more shopping this month.yipee:j :j :j

redsquirrel80

Not updated for a bit - have just done a top-up shop of milk, cheese, frozen veg, potatoes and garlic. Totted up my total and I've spent £41.29 out of my £45 budget with ten days left till I get paid again. Shouldn't really need anything till next weekend, I'll have to plan very carefully what to spend my £3.71 on - likely to be cheese, tuna and toilet roll!

mumzyof2

storms tonight??????? where????

searching_me

:hello: everyone and good afternoon to you all.... a nsd as i planned today... although the oh came home with a take away so thats another £9.20 on top :rolleyes: ... so im up to £141... its gettin close... bloody men :rotfl: xxx

earthmother

Thought I ought to update for the week.

Have spent more than I'd like at this point - £145.77 out of £175 - but I've been stocking up, and should only have cooked meats, a bit of cheese and fruit & veg to buy for most of the month now.

lil_me

mumzyof2 wrote: »

storms tonight??????? where????

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7285859.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/warnings.shtml

Instead of going shopping, I didn't really NEED to when I sat and thought about it, I've spent most of the afternoon moving things so they don't get damaged, sealing things etc. Thankfully our bin gets emptied in the morning but I am putting it into a corner so it doesn't get blown over and I don't have to clean up everything, hopefully.