April 2008 Grocery Challenge

Mollymop5

Afternoon everyone.I've lost most of my morning trying to get my breadmaker to work

If anyone can help that would be great.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=882823

beemuzed

Hey, Guess what? Last shop for April - and I'm within the budget! Spent £272.81!!!! (Can you tell I'm feeling pleased with myself?)

ifonlyitwaseasier

hello folks!!

well i broke my poor budget but i'm going to declare now on..............


.................. £151.21 so not nearly as bad as i thought i might end up at.

new month start on monday as am paid then.

savingfortravel

Ifonlyitwaseasier
I think only £1.21 over sounds like a triumph to me!!!! You've done great.
Good luck for May
SFT

JayJay14

Well I have been to Lidl this morning to get dog food and a few bits and I am declaring at

£202.12.

Thankyou Mrsmc for all your hard work (not to mention all the wonderful recipies)

I will be trying for £200 for May so please can you add me to the list when the May thread is started.

Mrs._Irwin

Ok, I'm going to declare, and the horror should help with next month's challenge!
£386.47. :eek:
Out of £250. :eek: :eek:

Oh well. Lots (and lots!) of that was take-away food, but that was included in the challenge, so I'm not going to deduct it. I did toy with having a separate budget for take-aways, but I don't think it will help, so I am, once again, going to aim for £250 for May's challenge, for two adults, one bump (still), including all food, snacks, take-aways, toiletries, and household stuff, starting from today. I'm going to nip to Tesco for a couple of bits, check if the flour's still 48p, and what's in the reduced section. I'm making pizzas for dinner and I'm going to try and work a meal plan.
I'm going to give birth soon, but seeing as I've gone to such trouble to save money with buying re-usable nappies and second-hand clothes, it would be very silly to waste all that on convenience food!

Mrs. Irwin
xx

ifonlyitwaseasier

thank you SFT, i'm quite proud, esp given i made OH tell me his spending at work so i could include that in it.
i'm going to tell him it's only £125 this month and squirrel away the extra for our HMoon spends account!

MRSMCAWBER

Afternoon all

A NSD for me today...well out of the grocery challenge anyway :whistle: had a walk to the garden centre and picked up a few more bits..i have an obsession with veg seeds so gave in to the lure of some curly kale, yellow courgettes, some more reetboot and an oriental mix all of which i have just planted -well the first lot i have..have also potted up cucumbers too as they were getting too big for there little pots -but can't wait to get everything into place outside... so far everything is doing really well..fingers crossed everyone as im trying to grow allsorts so its gonna be trial n error this year

Forgot yesterday to declare the rice i got..I blame all of you ya know Driving along telling hubby about rice shooting up in price and saying how im glad we don't use much..pop into ALDI and they had 4 x 150g pouches of boil in the bag in a box for 49c -about 37p:T ..so i still grabbed 4 boxes "just in case" :rotfl:
1 pouch is too much for 1 too mind hubby insists on tipping it out of its bag to cook . But that seemed so cheap i really couldn't resist They also had boxes of pudding rice -so might pick up a couple of those next time im in there "just in case"..ready for winter

Superspam... I have made lahmachun.. using minced beef mind and hubbie loves them...a great weekend "snacky" meal...will add the recipe -just incase anyone wants a go.. i think they could soon be tweaked to suit most tastes..and think they would be a hit with children..... No veggies in sight and you eat them with your fingers

LAHMACHUN RECIPE
makes 8
pre-heat oven to 200c/400f/gas 6

1. 1 cup water
2. 2tbs olive oil
3. 1tsp salt
4. 2tsp honey
5. 3 cups bread flour
6. 1 tsp yeast
7. 1 small onion -chopped finely
8. 1tbs olive oil
9. 1tsp mild chilli powder
10. 1tsp ground cumin
11. 200g minced beef
12. 200g chopped tomatoes
13. 2tbs fresh coriander -chopped (optional)
14. seasoning to suit

• place first 6 item in you BM in the order to suit
• set to "dough" (i make my dough by hand so use about 14g fresh yeat)
• Heat the oil in a frying pan, add onion and cook until soft
• add chilli powder and cumin and cook for 1 minute
• add mince and cook until browned-stirring all the time to break up the mince
• add tomatoes and cook over a low heat to allow to reduce and thicken
• add coriander and season then leave to cool
• turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly
• divide into 8 equal sizes
• roll out to approx 12" round -making it as thin as you can
• transfer the discs to lightly floured baking sheets
• divide the meat mixture between the bases and spread thinly..leaving a 1/2" border
• cook for 6-8 mins or until just golden around the edges

You can eat these hot or cold, and you basically roll them up to eat them like a tortilla

Right i had better get off and catch up with the goings on with the weight loss thread;)
have a great afternoon everyone

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

We still have around £70 left..will have to have a fully tally up next week but have got loads of stuff in and filled the car up with diesel yesterday which will last for 2+ weeks hopefully.

OH went to Makro yesterday and bought some great reductions. Anchor (500g spreadable)x 4 reduced to 75p and have froze them, 20 pints of milk for £2.00 (frozen), mozzarella for 19p and have frozen all 5, FR eggs x 20 to 50p...then 32 loo rolls, 32 yorkshire puddings (lovely), Extra mature cheddar 500g BOGOF, 12 bounty kicthen rolls, gammon joint reduced to £2.25 and it all came to £22.00:D

Will update next week as my new4 week cylcle starts Monday but havent added up properly yet.

PP
xx

mandy_moo_1

just been to mr T's this morning to get dog food and some veg. i spent £3.53, so as i'm not going shopping tomorrow, i'd like to declare my total at
£226.36 out of a budget of £240 :j

i think i've probably cheated a bit because i started off with 2 full freezers, but as they're still about half full cos i kept topping them up, that makes up for it!!

i've just made a humongous pan of veg soup. it only cost me about £2.40 to make and i got 9 portions out of it, so i'm feeling really chuffed with that!!

well done to everybody in this month's challenge, and thanx for keeping us all in order Mrs Mc....

please can you put me down again for £60 a week for May when its up and running?

and thanks to everyone for all your help and inspiration this month :T