June 2008 Grocery Challenge

cherie1122

I went to Julian Graves today to buy some cake liners for my 8" tins. They're £2.99 for 50 (I can't stand cutting up greaseproof paper to line the tin so I spend money on the liners).

The assistant told me that if I waited until Wednesday to buy them everything in the shop was going to be half price.

I don't know if this is the only Julian Graves that is doing this but it might be worth checking the other branches out - half price fruit, yogurt mix, cherries and all the other goodies they sell is well worth having :beer:

Pink.

Hi Jane,

I'm glad you have managed to sort out your menu for next week. I'll add this thread to the grocery thread where you will get lots of support and to see if any of the regulars can give you some more ideas on reducing your bill.

Pink

Barneysmom

Hello, arghindebt, I used to do every week Tesco/Asda online but only do once a month now, so I only pay one delivery charge, though mostly get a free delivery code from somewhere.
It's good for me so I don't have to carry 60 tins of dog food :j
Used my £5 off £30 shop at Morrys today, got a whoopsi loaf, and a load of Fairy Liquid to stash. Spent £35, but that included a book of stamps we needed.
I seem to have amassed a collection of discounted supplies now.
A little idea I have is to buy a litre cheap orange juice, dilute it to 1 1/2 litres and make ice lollys with it.
Cooked sandwich meat has gone expensive so toady I bought a bacon joint, we had some for tea and have tomorrows and the next day's sandwiches for £3. I wouldn't have got that much out of a pack of boiled ham :T

scotsaver

annelouise wrote: »

Any suggestions for 8 lemons that we collected on way back from town.I don't have any jam jars or I would've tried lemon curd so maybe next time.They are just hanging there on the side of the road ready for my kitchen.I will slice a couple and freeze for Sangria if not.

Have another 24 items listed on ebay at the moment lots of surfer stuff and Fatface clothes with 20+ watchers so I'm hoping they'll do well for me.

annelouise :rotfl:

annelouise - take 4 lemons, pare the zest off 2 of them, place the zest in a bowl. Juice the lemons and pour juice over the zest, boil 2 pints of water and add to the zest and juice, add 4oz of sugar, stir and leave overnight and hey presto the next morning you have some lovely refreshing HM lemonade. Perfect for the Summer - if it ever returns here!!

Trying to catch up with the rest of the pages as not been logged on so much as PC been in for repair - I'm using DD1's laptop at the moment, shall update my total tomorrow as looking scary for the rest of the month.

nickynoo08

Hi everyone hope you all had a good wkend. Warm welcome to any newbies.
Spent £5.25 (will up date sig) at shops today. Is it me or is milk getting more expensive! I only bought 2 lots of milk a few bananas and a few apples. Any way went through my cupboards and frezzers and i reckon i've got enough to last us till end of month so will only need to top up on bread, milk and fruit so should hopefully come in well under budget. Hoping for a few nsd's this wk, should only need to spend busfare.

hamish222

I am going to buy a bread maker in August after paid holiday. Is there any point trying to bake bread without one in meantime. i am bit rubbish in kitchen. Or would I be better just waiting till I get a bread maker and all peeps with one which is best to buy.

wen3

Hi All I think I am a little late for this month but would like to join in please any advise greatfully recieved:)

FelineFantastic

poppyoscar wrote: »

how do you do chocolate for the month? in my house any chocolate which is there is chocolate for the day, and I have nobody to blame but me and the cat - I MUST speak to him about that!!


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PO xx

This made me laugh soooooo much!! :rotfl: :T

My cats do exactly the same- maybe they are related to yours- one of them is sitting here at the moment looking very smug with an empty choccie wrapper by his little curly paws!

annelouise_2

SCOTSAVER

Thanks for lemonade recipe,free lemonade will go down a treat all Summer long here.I have got 2 x 1 litre pop bottles in my recycling bag which I am going to sterilize and use as I can lay down in fridge ( not me but the bottles!!!!!!!)HAHAHAHAHA

annelouise

sandy2_2

annelouise wrote: »

Any suggestions for 8 lemons that we collected on way back from town.I don't have any jam jars or I would've tried lemon curd so maybe next time.They are just hanging there on the side of the road ready for my kitchen.I will slice a couple and freeze for Sangria if not.

How about making some Limoncello