April 2008 Grocery Challenge

JennyBee_2

Hiya! Hurrah - it's payday tomorrow! So I'm all declared at £173.02 I know it's high as there's only two of us, but previously we would have spent quite a bit more than that so it's all progress Looking forward to starting May with a budget of £170! I'm sure we can do it!!

Thank you so much to everyone for their help! It has made a huge difference!

ifonlyitwaseasier

well i spent £9.09 in sains today, used some coupons for some pringles rice infusions as a treat for OH,

should be under but that depends on what OH needs for the rest of the week

i'll declare on sunday

carolt2

Good evening everyone.

I hope everyone is doing ok.

My challenge finishes tomorrow and I'm not planning on going into the shops so I would like to declare our spends for the last 5 weeks as £192.45.


I would also like to be put in for May grocery challenge for £210 again. Am going to do this challenge for 5 weeks again, which will take me up to the end of May.

gunsandbanjos

I'm a definite convert to bulking out meals with oats etc. I have one problem though, everytime i have bulked out my spag bol, it has stuck to the bottom of the pan. Pre-bulking i never had this problem Is it just me?

JennyBee_2

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I'm a definite convert to bulking out meals with oats etc. I have one problem though, everytime i have bulked out my spag bol, it has stuck to the bottom of the pan. Pre-bulking i never had this problem Is it just me?

I don't add the oats until I've added everything else (veg, sauce etc). Would this help?:)

ifonlyitwaseasier

same as jennybee, and i've found i need to add more water as the oats soak up a lot of sauce

JayneC

scotsaver wrote: »

Think people must be getting put off by the price of bread and making their own as Asda had totally run out of Asda Yeast and Hovis Yeast, only had Allinson stuff which you can't use in a BM but luckily I've still got some in the cupboard to see me through for a little while longer.

Didn't know you couldn't use Allinsons yeast, maybe this is why my BM attempts have been less than brill shall we say! Do you know why you can't use it??

juliejim

I've spent another £20.76 at Mr Ts - that's from Sunday and tonight so updated my signature for that. £12.19 left of my budget.

Oh, just remembered DS has had school dinners twice and they've both had stuff at breakdast club so that's another £4.60 so that only £7.59 left - I'm cutting it very very fine!

Off to update my sig again for the bit I forgot!

chimp_choker

JayneC wrote: »

Didn't know you couldn't use Allinsons yeast, maybe this is why my BM attempts have been less than brill shall we say! Do you know why you can't use it??

You learn so much on this site it's incredible.... i just hope there isn't a metoer strike on the earth to knock out t'internet.....

chimp_choker

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I'm a definite convert to bulking out meals with oats etc. I have one problem though, everytime i have bulked out my spag bol, it has stuck to the bottom of the pan. Pre-bulking i never had this problem Is it just me?

not happened to me probably because I use lentils instead of oats....new recipies I think,lol. Would it be worth soaking the oats in say marmite and hot water before adding to the spag bol.