April 2008 Grocery Challenge

Boomdocker

Would love that Chicken & Chorizo casserole recipe too, sounds devine. Thanks for the risottto recipe that sound similar and equally lush too.

Skint_Catt

Well my first Tesco Shop this month and even though OH came with me we only spent £28.55!! I've talked him out of whiskey and wine until our holiday saying its bad for his IBS! :j
Also spent £1.10 on 4 pints of milk in Iceland - when did that go up from £1 :mad:
£29.65 so far this month!
Catt xx

redmel1621

fedupnow wrote: »

Nicki1306 I would make a stirfry. There is almost nothing that doesn't go in my winter soups or summer stirfries. The frying pan is a dustbin.

Mrs Mccawber your weightloss is awesome. Truly. My oh struggles with weight issues - I swear he eats very little, but I suppose he must be cheating somewhere. *sigh* But soooo well done you.

I am such a newbie I am struggling to get to know everybody so please ALL bear with me. I also fouled up on the meal plan. On day 1 actually. It was a time issue and I didn't have time to cook whatever it was we were supposed to have so I made something quicker and now I don't want to have mince two days in a row and.... you all know what I mean right?

Anyway, although this is only my first month and only the 4th I am already on plan B. That is, I have written down 15 meals that we all like and I will have each one twice over the month of April. So, depending on how much time I have and what guests turn up will depend on which meal from the list we have. May get a little dodgy towards the end but it is worth a go.

What do you all think? Doeas anybody else do it this way?

Hi, This is how I do it. I can never stick to set days as it depends on the weather and time restraints etc. as to what we eat. So I just make a list of meals we like with a mixture of pasta, rice, potatoes,oven chips. and some quicker than others. then I just pick one off the list each day and make it.

It works better for me this way.

mel x

sashanut

OK had a NSD yesterday - a rarity in our house - & hoping to have another today. There's a rugby game tonight & we always get a free meal once a week at rugby - home & away during the season - & *sometimes* the drink is free too, though not tonight..... so I don't have to cook today. Probably will as I have the dough & filling for chorley cakes in the fridge for a few days now! A bit of a faff to make but a big hit, partcularly with the males, don't know why?

Prefer chocolate myself & was planning on making a Delia chocolate cake with mashed potato cheat recipe, but then stymied because it only says ' take 6 discs of AB frozen mashed potato' - & no quantities so I can use HM mash..... Anybody any ideas how much this stuff weighs without me having to go & buy a packet to find out please??

TIA
Sasha

fedupnow

Frozen mash????? what's that???? do people buy it????

I'm afraid I can't help, my goodness.........frozen mash.....I can here my dear departed Grandma saying.."well, well, now ther's a thing.....frozen mash..........what will they they think of next.........bags of grated cheese?"

Nice free food at the rugy btw. Free food is always very tasty I think.

The Penines are beautiful.....lucky you. But of course it's here in Wales that we have the best rugby team.

Have a great time

findingmyfeet

only had potato discs once but not the ab ones. they were approx 1 1/2inches across and about 1/2 inch deep. dont know if that helps at all.... sounds a nice cake though..

Skint_Catt

OS people make mash and freeze it in ice-cream scoop size balls - you could try that quantity?

I buy cheese on offer and grate and freeze it - saves a large block going green and furry! :rotfl:

ifonlyitwaseasier

sashanut wrote: »

Probably will as I have the dough & filling for chorley cakes in the

oooh, what are these and how nice are they?? can we have the recipe???

:j :j :j :j :j :j :j

clair2305

Girl_least_likely_to wrote: »

Don't think anyone has answered this yet........

I had a huge haul of cheap mushrooms a few weeks ago. I diced them up, put them into freezer bags and shoved them in the freezer in their raw state. I'll be chucking them into spag bols, chillis and veg risottos in the future. They get frozen again after I cooked them in whatever I'm making. I always do this with mushrooms as I always seem to get a massive box now and again from one particular greengrocers I go to.

Thanks for this GLL2, last nite I froze some baby plum toms on a tray and so they're now in a tub in the freezer, may do the mushroom thing you suggested....but yesterday in Woolies I bought a mushroom grower for £2.99, it's like a large polystyrene tray with all the gubbins and instructions to do mushrooms....I will start it after the weekend of cold weather.

They had others, namely tomatoes and peppers, already have tomotoes plants that grew mental last year and although we got lovely tomatoes, over the 3 plants we only got about 50 for the season.

Rhubarb sprouting, may buy another tom plant and some strawberry plants, also have lollo rosso lettuce seeds to have a go with...we me and the OH become the new Tom and Barbara?????

Bargain_Rzl

Well guess what, it's nearly the end of my Week 1 and I have so far spent NOTHING! :j :j

I will get some milk today just in case (meaning I have some already but not sure it will still be drinkable tomorrow, and I have my mum staying the night and she can't get out of bed without several buckets of milky tea )

Although I do not need much in the way of cooking ingredients, I'm expecting my £10 allocated for the week to be pretty much used up over the weekend, as I will be buying some "luxury" deli-type items (nice bread, cheese, olives and maybe some decent sliced meat) to take over to my brother's for lunch tomorrow. Couldn't have done that without blowing the budget if it wasn't for the grocery/storecupboard challenge :T