June 2008 Grocery Challenge

vickster0304

I used Cocoa powder...

victory

£10 spent today on bananas, bread, milk, apples just the basics, weaiting for the cheque to clear for the advance in pay ,hoping to go to Mr T tonight for the whoopsies and to use the MR M voucher there so that will save £5, oh what it is to be without a penny:rotfl:

mumzyof2

Thankyou everyone for your response i will use little chopped up peices of chochlate as im about to make rice krispie cakes also.

mumzyof2

They are in the oven now..

Can anyone tell me if i can plant a sprouting onion i have in my fridge? If so how to i plant it. I have a big black tub and some compost

Tesco-shopper

angelnikki wrote: »

You can freeze cakes/muffins/etc I think it's best to freeze them if they're not iced though.

Just thought I would mention that for years I have only frozen cakes iced with butter icing (ie butter and icing sugar) and not frozen ones with glace icing (ie water and icing sugar), then it occured to me recently that certain places that sell iced ring donuts have frozen them before they sold them, so I thought I would give it a go. So I made some fairy cakes and iced them with glace icing and froze them, and they came out fine. So it can be done!

Tesco-shopper

mumzyof2 wrote: »

I want to cook millies cookies again but i dont have any chochlate drops to put in them - what else could i use?

I never buy chocolate drops now as they work out quite expensive per gram. If you like plain chocolate I find the cheap own name brand Tesco and Sainsbury's chocolate is very good and its much cheaper - at around 26p (ish!!!) per 100g. I don't think their milk chocolate is so good though, but I still use it! I put an unopened bar in a sealed food bag, put it on the floor and whack it both sides with a rolling pin. (I put it on the floor as it makes a terrible noise on my work surface!)

mumzyof2

Thankyou very much Tesco-shopper i will remember that for next time.

galadriel

Another non spend day for me - that's four in a row! Probably due to the fact that I have an awful cold and haven't got the energy to go shopping. Even parking outside the local shop as I drive home from work is too much effort. We are running out of bread, milk and fruit though so I will have to make the effort over the weekend.

TheBees

Evening everyone

Tonight we had chicken curry but I did an experiment. I made one lot with a lidl's korma jar and the other from scratch using a recipe on here from a few months back. I didn't tell the family which one was which and they had to vote for their favourite! Mine was very spicy and the lidl one was very nice too so the votes were equal!:j Our favourite korma comes from
Asda but unfortunately we don't have it very often as we live too far away.

The IBS tablets seem to be doing the trick and the tum is a lot better today.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

jackk_2

Made faux crabcakes for tea , faux because i used tuna instead of crab as its too expensive :rolleyes: . It worked very well, and everyone enjoyed them :j .

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