April 2008 Grocery Challenge

tylersbabe

Oh scary have just noticed I am on the list :eek:

Well so far I have done one big shop (£42.23), so I have enough in my cupboards to last the month. Also spent £4.23 on fruit and veg
But today for some reason I seem have gone mad in my local shop. I only went over for some potatoes. Ended up leaving with a sandwich, crisps, chocolate and fizzy pop and a scratch card! and all done without thinking. Result £6.42 spent :mad:. This is what I used to do before I found the OS site ALL the time.
So off to dust myself off and think of what I could have bought with the money instead :rolleyes:
So budget stands at £52.88 spent so £17.12 left which should last the rest of the month if I budget well

JennyBee_2

oooh..just found a recipe section on the lidl website

ifonlyitwaseasier

hey jennybee, i honestly never look at pasta dates, if it looks ok i'll use it.

and yes isn't the recipe bti at lidl great?!?!?!

JennyBee_2

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

hey jennybee, i honestly never look at pasta dates, if it looks ok i'll use it.

and yes isn't the recipe bti at lidl great?!?!?!

Thanks, that's what I figured about the pasta....if I don't ever post again it's because I was wrong!!

As for the recipe bit, I'm a complete sucker for things like that!!

JennyBee_2

Help...I'm on the hunt for a quick and easy pizza dough recipe and also wondered whether that wonderful sounding tortilla dough can be frozen?

carolt2

JennyBee wrote: »

Help...I'm on the hunt for a quick and easy pizza dough recipe and also wondered whether that wonderful sounding tortilla dough can be frozen?

Hi Jenny, Yeah the tortilla dough can be frozen and from what other people have said the tortillas roll out bigger from frozen dough than fresh.:D

With regard to your previous post about use by date on pasta.

If the product says "use by" it must be used by that date, usually applies to preishable(sp?) items milk, cheese meat etc.
A product that says "best before" simply means that the product is at its best prior to this date. It can still be consumed after this date but the quality maybe inferior.
things like dried pasta keep for a good time.

HTH

angchris

i still haven`t done any shopping yet since 2 weeks ago when i spent £90 :j last night however oh decided to take me out for a romantic meal to celebrate repaying the last payment on our tax credits overpayment which has taken us 2 years to repay our usual indian restaurant was chokka so we ended up going to the expensive one further away even though i pleaded to oh that takeaway was fine :rolleyes: ....£51 later :eek: omg i have survived for 2 weeks on £90 and in one meal for 2 people have managed to blow a couple of weeks worth of food budget we did however manage to make an extra £80 yesterday on the grand national and the nice mr betfair offering £50 cashback and free bets (didn`t win...i never do!) so im hoping i can count the meal out as a free splurge even though the quidco doesn`t payout till june
we have however saved the cost of brekfast and lunch as both of us were still stuffed like prize bloaters from last night
back to the grindstone today though, ds got fed at rugby earlier and oh will be fed at work at tea time so will just do something quick n easy like beans on toast later for me n ds.
will go and make some twinks hob nobs in a mo to keep ds happy as we have no goodies in the cupboards and i have half a tin of tuna/sweetcorn languishing in the fridge so will make some fishcakes for tomorrows tea.
i still have a relatively full freezer so will keep ploughing through that stuff till i cant make anything.
hope everyone else is managing to stick to their budgets...im not counting our meal out as technically it was free am i cheating?

Moment_of_Clarity

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Originally Posted by toniwoty2009
anyway i came on to ask if anyone has any ideas what i can do with a load of frozen fruit? i've got two farmfoods mixed berry, one tesco berry smoothie mix and one tesco tropical smoothie mix. HELP! i'm sick of them taking up the freezer now.
thanks in advance!!

Just a thought but you could use the berries as the base for a trifle or make a fruit pie - with lashing of cream. Very tasty but not very healthy!

Moment_of_Clarity

I'm sure this has been posted somewhere else on the site but where would I find the recipe for the fabulous tortillas I keep reading about? I would love to try them

Zend

I usually do my grocery shopping on Sunday but we think we can manage another week without buying anything. I went to a garden centre yesterday, my brother gave me a £20 gift token for Christmas. Bought a propergater, vemiculite and onion seeds ( the bods on Gardener's World said onions are going to be very expensive this year due to poor crops). Dreaded the final tally, it came to £20.34:D . OH gave me the 34p so no cost to me;) .