May 2008 Grocery Challenge

ifonlyitwaseasier

welcome, i can't remember who posted it orginally, but thanks to them!!

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Spent another £5.54:eek: on large milk, paper and fruit, so have updated siggy.

I am hoping to make bacon, onion and pepper quiche with HM pastry for OH and my dinner tonight(any left OH will take for lunch tomorrow) and the 2 little fellas will have a HM bacon, pasta and veg mixture. Also make some more bread and choc biscuits for DS2 packed lunch and freezer.

Have been to garden centre this morning already and brought more compost(3 for £10), bedding plants and flower seeds. Was hoping to get up to allotment today, so will see how I get on for time as I need to plant the sweetcorn in.

Anyway will read up on some posts, then into the garden I go.

clair2305

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

morning all,

hoping for a nsd but we'll see how i go

here you go Sharon, they are lovely!!

"How about making banana flapjacks very easy to make?

125g butter or marg
3 tbsp sunflower oil
125g demerara sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup (you can use golden syrup but I think maple healthier?)
1 or 2 very ripe bananas (or 100g chewy banana chips)
200g porridge

melt butter, oil, sugar, syrup over a low heat. Mash your bananas with a fork and add to the pan or add you banana chips snipped into small pieces. Add the oats and stir well. Put the mixture in a tin and press down evenly. Bake for about 20 mins 180C/350F/gas 4. Let it cool for 10 mins then cut into about 12 flapjacks."

i actually ended up cooking them for about 30 mins, they were lovely, and vanished very quickly.

Hi, could I use caster sugar instead of demerera?

And did anyone watch the programme last night on ITV1 - I missed it :mad: - did it say anything different than we already know?

madmittens

Morning all

Just dropped in to thank you all for your good wishes for my dad last week. He's still in hospital but doing ok. Hugs to all those that still need them, and congratulations to those with good news!

Haven't spent anything since mrT last Thursday, although I might pop in tonight and see of the crimson grapes are still on offer Then my weekly shop will either be Thursday or Friday night depending on time, but I won't have internet access until next week to update you all!

Moniker

savingfortravel wrote: »

Hi Denise

Regarding your question-Well when I first came to this thread I thought OH meant old husband.. don't ask me why... so as I'm not married (yet) I thought OB could be used for my boyfriend (old boyfriend).
Then one day the penny dropped OH means other half...
By then OB quite liked his name so I kept it.

SFT

And there I was thinking it meant 'Older Brother'!

Moniker

meanmarie

Spent €41.33 in Lidl yesterday and € 1.39 in local shop, leaving my total to date at €124.72. Have topped up with things like DW and WM tablets and there is lots of meat and fish in freezer, so DD4 may not have to spend very much between when we leave on 22nd and 31st...she won't keep track anyway so am just hoping to stay within €200 in meantime....IYKWIM.

Have a good day all

Marie

saffouri

Morning all. My neck and shoulders are still painful but at least I can gently move them and get around - I'm leaving the house today :jto pick up some flour as I haven't got enough ordinary to make the courgette tea bread recipe. (Have mixed up the rest of the dry ingredients though.)

I've done an inventory on the flour we already have in the kitchen, and found bread flour both wholemeal and white in glass jars with tight seals, as well as a few other small bags. Some of this flour is - I kid you not - probably 7 or 8 years old ( you can tell we haven't really been baking bread much). The flour in the jars smells off - maybe natural oils in the grains cause this? - but the bits and bobs in bags smell fine.Also there's some buckwheat flour, again fairly ancient (like 2002), I can't tell if that's OK or not mainly since buckwheat smells a bit different anyway. Anyone out there know about flour's shelf life?

And I can see that DH decided to make sandwiches to take to work after all :T

Cheers and happy anniversary Zend!

saf

angelatgraceland

Moniker wrote: »

And there I was thinking it meant 'Older Brother'!

Moniker

Maybe old boyfriend and older brother amount to the same thing! hahaha:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Hoping to spend nothing today as Im off to work at any moment having left instructions for DS to clean up the kitchen after my cooking spree of choccy cakes last night. Well there is a spare cake in the kichen he can have some as a reward! The first cake went in five minutes!

WelshWoofer

No spend day for me yesterday on groceries.
However, I 've run out of squash and don't drink anything else (tea or coffee etc) and don't like the taste of plain tap water.
So a little pop into the shop is required later - will try to just go to the corner shop near home rather than a big supermarket - it may be a few pennies more expensive but I'm not likely to go bonkers and buy tons of other stuff I don't need too.

Am still debating over whether to cancel my Tesco order - I don't really need £50 of stuff but have a £10 voucher to spend. Hmmm, will dither for a bit longer....Any views?

Having either homemade pizza or jacket spud tonight to use up the fresh stuff in the fridge and out tomorrow with customers.

dink1

hi nsd for me today, happy baking. Did the orange chocolate muffins yesterday and they are all eaten already!!!!! Am making some banana flapjacks to see how yummy they are.

ZEND - happy aniversary!!!!!