March 2008 Grocery Challenge

mumzyof2

nykmedia wrote: »

Mine's cheap and cheerful... fine chop or grate cabbage, carrot and mix with cheap saladcream or mayo... that's it You can also add some grated/diced onion.

I also cheat for things like prawn cocktail - mix salad cream or mayo with tomato ketchum, add in a sprinkle of paprika and a squirt of lemon juice, hey presto - marie rose sauce or seafood dressing

Egg mayo - chopped boiled egg with chopped onion & salad cream or mayo

Potato salad - diced boiled potatoes, chopped onion and salad cream or mayo.

Cheese n chives - as above with grated cheese & chopped chives

Chives, parsley, mint (for srucing up potatoes) etc are all really easy to grow on your window sill, or you can just re-pot the growing ones that supermarkets sell and they keep on growing in the garden. Wonder how the mint is doing at my last house? It was taking over one part of garden when we left :rotfl:

You can include any chopped herbs etc that you like, but the above are the basics for my cheap and cheerfuls

Thankyou i have all the ingredients in for calslaw (cant spell), i have just chucked a pot away that i had from when i bought some calslaw from the shop..im about to go get it from my kicthen bin...good job theres nothing in bin except the pot LOL.. Il wash it also :rotfl: :rotfl:

MRSMCAWBER

hi mumzy

For coleslaw i grate carrots and shred cabbage, add finely sliced onion then a dollop of mayo and i add a dollop of greek yoghurt, squeeze of lemon and seasoning.... you can makes masses from very little
I love it..but can't eat shop ones same with potato salad...adore home made but can't eat the ready made ones

Nykmedia -have you tried your prawn cocktail sauce with a splash of worcestershire sauce nom nom nom :rotfl:

bails

Quick question - I have everything for Twinks' hobnobs except sr flour - if I use plain will it be okay?

chicken_pie_2

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi all,

Chickenpie- Maybe you can still do it, it depends what you've got in freezer and cupboards?! We might still limp over the finish line together, c'mon, I'll hold your hand! Maybe you could post what you've got in, and let all the creative folks on here suggest 3 weeks worth of meals with it and your remaining £20. I believe in the OS magic.

Bye for now,

Weezl x

Thanks Weezl, I went through all my cupboards and the freezer at the weekend, and managed to plan enough meals to last til pay day, will just need to get a couple of bits to add to some of the meals. Also managed to get 8 loaves of decent bread at mr t on Fri evening reduced to 24p each, so should last us the rest of the month. Got plenty of yogurts left for DS, so will need to buy fresh fruit, cheese and milk to last us. Now got about £13.50 left of my budget so may just manage to keep within budget. Thankyou for your support, it has really helped me think about what I've already got in, Chicken Pie

mumzyof2

bails wrote: »

Quick question - I have everything for Twinks' hobnobs except sr flour - if I use plain will it be okay?

I have used plain when i made them yesterday.. dont taste any different to me , get a second opinion tho off someone else b4 doing lol..i dont trust myself with giving out advice on food or recipes lol

jackiegibbo

Hi everyone another nsd for me today but thats really due to the weather,i dont fancy going out and getting blown away;)

weezl74

chicken_pie wrote: »

Thanks Weezl, I went through all my cupboards and the freezer at the weekend, and managed to plan enough meals to last til pay day, will just need to get a couple of bits to add to some of the meals. Also managed to get 8 loaves of decent bread at mr t on Fri evening reduced to 24p each, so should last us the rest of the month. Got plenty of yogurts left for DS, so will need to buy fresh fruit, cheese and milk to last us. Now got about £13.50 left of my budget so may just manage to keep within budget. Thankyou for your support, it has really helped me think about what I've already got in, Chicken Pie

:T Hey, well done, that's cool!

Sounds like you thought it all through really carefully. D'you sometimes feel like you're constantly doing sums in your head, I do?!

Weezl x

Sassamac

Ok, I have just worked out what I need to buy / spend for my weekly shop on Friday and it comes to under £9, plus say £1 for bread for next week, depending on what offers I can find. That will leave me about £18 for the following week, by which time I will need the same again, plus a few more things that will have run our by then, mostly fruit. So thats sounding more hopeful already. Just hope things dont 'crop up' as they have a habit of doing.

curly_cabbage

Hi all NSD today plan to have NSD till Friday (hopfully). Got H/m meatballs and pasta for tea tonight yum yum.

CC

Skint_Catt

I've lost track this month so I'll havr to sit down tonight and guesstimate how much I've spent. Off the top of my head no more than £50 so not doing too badly this month so far. Not well enough to do shopping tonight so thats another day saved :rotfl: