May 2012 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem · 13 May 2012 at 1:55PM

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

I hung the washing out on a glorious sunny day without a cloud in the sky! An hour later and there are great big grey clouds looming :mad:

I am hoping today is a NSD and no plans to go out......Spanish GP on tv lunchtime, so that will keep me amused for a few hours.

1st thing this morning I baked cherry and blueberry muffins - just had one for breakfast, delicious!! It was a new recipe where you make the batter the day before, so perfect if you want muffins for breakfast but dont want all the faff 1st thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/blueberrymuffins_67846

Lunch will be LO ham, LO cold curried rice and LO Jerseys Royals which were lovely hot with butter yesterday and will become potato salad today.

I have a chicken and veg curry in the SC and planning on that for tea......

But yesterday I had lamb tagine cooking in the SC all day and when I got to teatime, I just didnt fancy it! :rotfl:I ended up feezing 3 portions

So I MAY have the curry for tea or it might get relegated to the freezer.

I MUST stop cooking and eat more out of the freezer, I have a DR meat order due next Monday and no room to store it

Love the muffins. Look so good on the Portmerion plate too- mine are still in the box - part of me wants to keep them new until the kitchen is sorted.

sonastin · 13 May 2012 at 2:00PM

We have a blackboard in the kitchen where I make a note of stuff that we're low on to build into my shopping list. Despite a huge shop on Friday which filled all food-storage locations to bursting, there's a worrying amount of stuff up on the board already!

Some of it is down to the marathon baking session I did yesterday. We were out of biscuits so I did a batch of twinks. And we're having a charity bake sale in work tomorrow and I haven't baked a cake for years so I made a couple of sponge cakes as practice too. And I made a jar of lemon curd now that I've finally found the recipe that my grandma's friend wrote down for me! Haven't tried the lemon curd because the only bread I've got in is a very savoury olive&pepperoni bread but a plain loaf is in the BM while I type.

cleggie · 13 May 2012 at 2:07PM

Just updating my sig..yikes, not been very good so far this month, and only have £80 to ast the rest of the month!!! Not sure if i'll be able to do it..but i'll give it a go!

[Deleted User] · 13 May 2012 at 2:14PM

If you click on my name on my post and then click on other posts by save dosh and that will bring up the grocery, store cupboard challenge etc, my links dont always work. Let me know if you get stuck

jumblejack · 13 May 2012 at 2:15PM

Just made the easiest peanut butter cookies in the world!

They use no flour either so are great for ones with allergies but not for those who are watching calories:

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The recipe could not be easier:

Easy Peasy Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup of peanut butter
1 cup of sugar (you can reduce to 1/2 if you prefer them savoury)
1 egg
1 tsp of baking powder
Pinch of salt if desired.

Mix together into a dough.

Roll into little balls.

Space them out on a tray and flatten them with the back of a fork.

(I pressed a nut into mine but you don't have to.)

Bake for about 8 mins or so at about gas mark 6 or 170 degrees.

Voila! Leave to cool on the tray as they will harden as they cool.

You may sprinkle with sugar whilst hot to make em look prettier still!

(I left mine in a wee bit longer than I normally do in the oven as I got distracted....!)

I made loads so I rolled up the excess dough into sausages and covered them in cling film to freeze.

I will just slice one up if i get unexpected guests popping in for a brew

....If you want to add choc chips in, that works well too!

[Deleted User] · 13 May 2012 at 2:20PM

Jumblejack that looks amazing - im looking at those sausage things for the freezer and wondering how much peanut butter they took, Loving the fact you can freeze and then pull out to bake,

jumblejack · 13 May 2012 at 2:26PM

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Jumblejack that looks amazing - im looking at those sausage things for the freezer and wondering how much peanut butter they took, Loving the fact you can freeze and then pull out to bake,

Cheers. I used one and a half jars of peanut butter. They were the value version from Tesco and I purchased them when they had a 3 for 2 promotion on jams etc a year ago!!! They needed using up. The half jar was only opened a few nights ago to experiment on a nuts n 'nanas cake that didn't work

It is such an incredibly simple recipe, that I thought I'd share it!

That amount of peanut butter I used for my batch, triples everything. The above recipe only uses half a jar of PB and the equivalent of sugar. I just thought I'd use the lot up whilst I was at it

Soworried · 13 May 2012 at 2:34PM

Save_Dosh wrote: »

If you click on my name on my post and then click on other posts by save dosh and that will bring up the grocery, store cupboard challenge etc, my links dont always work. Let me know if you get stuck

Thank you, I found it :T

JIL · 13 May 2012 at 2:44PM

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

I made a VERY rare visit to M&S last week and their own CC were reduced from £2.99 to 99p for 20

I LOVE the Dr Beckman cloth you can use 30 times but no where here stocks it anymore

is this the one? I am not sure if the cost is good or not, but its free p and p

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beckmann-Colour-Dirt-Collector-Cloth/dp/B003U6OAFW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1336916614&sr=8-3

DundeeDoll · 13 May 2012 at 3:41PM

jumblejack they look awesome and remind me of the rolls of 'home bake' cookie mix I used to buy when we were in the states (seemed a bit rich to call them home made but they were fun cos they had patterns like Billy Bear so you got ones with faces and pumpkins and all sorts). Sadly I don't like peanuts. Just wondering if I could do this with normal cookie dough. Time to experiment...

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