May 2008 Grocery Challenge

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JennyBee wrote: »

By the way - we had a bbq yesterday and got the burgers freshly made from the butchers....35p each which I didn't think was too bad! Especially because you knew exactly what was in them!

the burgers sound good but how do you know exactly what was in the them - does he list the ingredients?

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

My 4th NSD in a row now :j mind, I have joined the "spend nothing for a week challenge" which starts today ..... have checked and double checked and i have plenty of everything...had a mini wobble that i was getting low on fruit :eek: but when i went into the basement and had a peek in hubbies beer fridge (which i use for an overflow fridge:o ) I had 2x2 kilo oranges and 8 more yogurts in there :j ..and on the shelving -hiding behind the weetabix i had 4 huge tins of fruit 1 peach, 1 pineapple, 1 pear and 1 apricots....so that should keep me going

Hubby has left for his golf competition so i only have myself to feed until tomorrow evening...so it will be mainly fruit, yogurts, SF jelly . Hubby has has been packed up with the last 10 date/pineapple bars and a flask of coffee for the journey and the bars will then go in his trolley to keep him going... really filling and full of slow releasing energy -so that should keep him ticking over through the day and not cost him a fortune:T
Have nipped into the garden to check the tubs and overnight lots more has popped its head through the compost :j , Still have loads more to move outside from the spare bedroom windows and more to plant :whistle: ..im hoping to get the membrane down on a patch of garden today -its earmarked for the butternut squashes, courgettes, aubergines and petit pan squashes
and then i can move the melons, chillies and peppers into the tents heck im easily excited :rotfl:
Had better get off and get started...
have a great day everyone

weezl74

galacticgreen wrote: »

I've now updated my sig after shopping at the beginning of the month. Since then I've only had to buy some milk, so pretty pleased so far. Ate quite a lot of salad this weekend as we were given some lettuces and salad leaves, which was lovely. Made some HM burgers for the first time, which everyone enjoyed. Spent a lot of today weeding the veg patch, planting the tomotoes out and sorting out my chilli plants. Looks like I'll have at least 15 chilli plants growing!! Not sure what I'll do with them all:o

hi galactic green,

about putting the tomatoes out, I keep reading different advice about when to do it. BBC gardening site says not till they flower. Is that what you did? One of mine died which I'm sad about but I don't think her stem was hardy enough!:o

Weezl x

Sharon_1970_2

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

hi sharon...what temp did you cook your yogurt cake at cos it doesn't say on the recipe! was yours scrummy?;) i fancy having a go in the morning with some runny yogurt that went wrong in the yogurt maker :rotfl:

Sorry I didn't see this earlier hun. I replied to your PM. I haven't tried it yet because it says leave it wrapped in foil for two days :rolleyes: It did look lovely when it came out of the oven though

mumzyof2

Im having a GC no spend day..hopefully

ifonlyitwaseasier

morning,

well i hoped for a nsd but as we have hardly anything fresh in (no carrots, potato's, lettuce etc) i'm going to have to go to mr S at lunchtime and see what i can get.
have meal planned til next thursday already and inventoried (sp?) the freezers, fridge, dry goods and condiments. amazing how many meals you can make from what you have in.

have decided tho that i'll plan, OH can just eat what he's given, as i was suggesting things and he was umming and ahhing over if he wanted them.

cheerfulness4

Just spent a mammoth £83.34 of my monthly budget yesterday.
I'm horrified at how steeply the prices are still going up. Sunflower oil was £1.09 in Netto yesterday. Thats nearly double what it was not so long ago. :eek: And Morrisons have put their cheap instant whip up from 3p to 8p. I know its still cheap but that was such a lovely pud for hardly anything that the kids loved.

On the plus side, like many of you my veg are growing like billyo so I'll soon be making a few savings there.

Off to stir my vat of bolognaise ready to freeze up....thank goodness for whoopsied meat!

shaz_mum_of__2

Hi all lovely day here too

Superspam i got my BM for free but if i had paid for it it would have paid for itself by now i am saving about £5 week not buying shop bought bread and i make pizza too and things like malt loaf ,chelsea buns ,iced fingers etc so not buying cakes either

I have a M Richards Icon its a basic one but does what i want

I have a recipe for bagels to try too will keep you all posted


Shaz

ifonlyitwaseasier

shaz, could we have the iced fingers recipe? pretty please????

weezl74

superspam, I was going to put my BM on freecycle as I don't use it, I don't know where you're based, but if it would work out cheaper to have that posted to you, or you wanted to collect you could have first refusal.;)

Weezl x