April 2008 Grocery Challenge

Phoolgrrrl

Have been lurking for a while. Made some changes this month, switched to frozen veg and was amazed at the difference.Much cheaper and no wastage. Also bought enough mince for 8 dinners for £5 and portioned and froze it. Felt pretty pleased with myself!I can't eat already frozen meat but can buy fresh and freeze it I'm sure theres loads of ways I could save more. Gonna try HM bread, not the mixes. And HM pizza. OH isn't too interested in saving and a bit of a food snob so can't go as far as oats in mince but will try and cut down as much as I can eg ast night used 1/2 amount of chicken normally would and twice the veg.
Working 6 days a week at the mo and really want to give up the saturday. That would cost me £150 a month nearly so thats what I'm tryin to save.
Sorry got a bit wordy.
Can you put me down for £200 for May please, thats for 2 adults. Prob extravagant to some of you OSers but it's our first month!That £50 less than we normally spend.Hopefully do it and bring it down again!

MRSMCAWBER

Oatcakes
makes 8
pre-heat oven 150c/300f/gas 2

1. 175g medium oatmeal - plus extra for sprinkling
2. 1/2tsp salt
3. pinch of bicarb
4. 15g butter
5. 75ml water

• Mix oatmeal, salt and bicarb in a bowl
• melt the butter with the water and bring to the boil
• add to the oatmeal mixture
• mix to a soft dough
• turn out onto a surface sprinkled with oatmeal and knead to a smooth ball
• turn a large baking sheet upside down and grease it and sprinkle over with oatmeal
• place the dough on top and roll out to approx 10" round
• cut into 8 and seperate slightly
• bake for 50-60 mins until crisp
• leave to cool and then remove with a palette knife

MRSMCAWBER

DILL AND POTATO CAKES
makes 10
pre-heat oven to 130c/450f/gas 8
grease a large baking sheet

1. 225g SR flour
2. 3tbs butter -softened
3. pinch of salt
4. 1tbs finely chopped dill
5. 175g mashed potato
6. 2-3tbs milk as needed

• sift flour
• add butter, dill and salt
• mix in the mashed potato and just enough milk to make a soft dough
• roll out on a well floured surface until fairly thin
• cut into 3" rounds
• place on baking sheet and bake for 20-25 mins or until golden

mama67

Put them staright into freezer in a box marked "liver" or some such that they don't like. LOL!!

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Hi there everyone:hello:

Well did another shop today, Lidl and Asda. Bread flour still only 48p, tinned toms 19p, cuecumber 29p, bag of red onions 33p and jar of wholegrain mustard 39p. All from Lidl if anyone is interested.

Mullerlight yogs 5 for £1 offer still going at Asda so brought 2 lots:D . Usually make my own but fancied some of the flavours, so treated myself.

So this is officially my last day of Aprils budget(suppose to be Sunday, but brought everything needed for the weekend).
Spent total of £298.59 :j this is great for me as I was spending so much more before starting the challenge this month.

So MrsM could you put me down for £300 again for May. This will finish on the 31st May, making it a 5 week.

Keep up the good work everyone, you`re doing great:T :T :T see you all in the May challenge.

Justamum

Mrs Mc - I looooove oatcakes. I'm going to give these a go. I tried making some years ago but they weren't very successful - they fell apart, but I think that was because I didn't let them cool. I always had the same problem with flapjacks until I learned to leave them until they were cold.

chimp_choker

Sunnyday wrote: »

Rofl - *wipes tea off screen*

Another NSD for me yesterday and i plan on having another one today:j


Yesterday afternoon i put a bottle of long life milk in my wilco food flask and microwaved it, added some greek yogurt and put the lid on, this morning i opened the flask and now have a big tub of gorgeous tasting greek yog YUM!
I though it would need straining or something but it`s great just as it is. This will save me a fortune and i`ve also read that if i strain it through muslin in the fridge i can make soft cheese and add things like chives to it so i`m well impressed - just need to find somewhere now that sells muslin squares so that i can have a go.

SD

How do you get a muslim to stay in the fridge ?? Bit cold isn't it?

Chimp

Sunnyday

chimp_choker wrote: »

How do you get a muslim to stay in the fridge ?? Bit cold isn't it?

Chimp

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searching_me

ello everybody and how are you lovely lot today.... pretty pleased with myself as ive come under budget (only just mind you) so threw what was left in the savings tin for xmas (i know the dreaded word but hey its only 8 months away :rotfl: ) so im declaring this month as £196.70 .....
my shiny new month starts tomorrow so Mrs Mc put me down for £200 again for May ....
hoping to get it down to £150 by december (mind you even im laughing at that :rotfl: ) xxx

clair2305

great quote searching me :rotfl: