July 2013 Grocery Challenge

Islandmaid · 2 July 2013 at 6:07AM

IBNB - thank you - I just needed a reminder that it IS that simple - as my self control over my purse dissapeared for a few months, I need it back.

jumblejack · 2 July 2013 at 7:55AM

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Just popping on to update spends as had a Mr A delivery yesterday - now at £66.10 / £175.

Meal plan is as follows:
Sun – roast gammon with roasted carrot, onion and potato, and homemade apple sauce

Mon – sweetcorn fritters with spicy potato wedges, salad and yoghurt

Tues – vegetable fajitas

Wed – out for dinner to celebrate my sister’s graduation

Thurs – roasted veg arrabiata with salad

Fri – might be having dinner with friends; otherwise Spanish veg & bean stew

Sat – vegetarian sushi, miso soup and spicy king prawns

Had roast gammon with green beans, roasted carrot, onion & potato and HM apple sauce yesterday, and sliced up the rest of the gammon and froze for OH's sandwiches at lunch.

Then tonight made sweetcorn fritters for the first time, with (very) spicy wedges, salad and yoghurt - so tasty and OH loved them, so will make again.

I hardly ever eat potatoes so feels a bit strange to have them two nights in a row :rotfl: Made the wraps tonight for veggie fajitas tomorrow, which means a very quick to make dinner tomorrow, as we're redecorating and there's chores for me (:() and then after dinner I think I'm going climbing with a friend, so busy evening.

Thanks for the pic of the fritters. Always wanted to try them.

I'd it just regular batter and shallow fried?

Cheers.

I'm about to have skimmed milk on my cereal, yuck.

Ran out of whole milk again

jumblejack · 2 July 2013 at 8:03AM

I needmy raspberries to hurry up n ripen. Tea party is on Saturday and I resent having to purchase them when my garden is heaving with un ripe fruits

CountingPennies · 2 July 2013 at 8:11AM

£1 yesterday on some ice pops for my poorly throat. Would have been a no spend day if i didn't get them.... Oh well. Made me feel a little better

mrs-moneypenny · 2 July 2013 at 8:13AM

opps missed end of the month so have just totalled up june and declare £412.78 so over spent

going for £400 for july please

thank you to everyone who contributes to these threads and the people who keep them organised, my purse thank you as well as it would be so much skinnier with out you

Bluegreen143 · 2 July 2013 at 10:22AM

jumblejack - I used the recipe from CFR with a few modifications, so my take on it was:

1 small onion, chopped
160g frozen sweetcorn
50g SR flour
2 tsp veg oil
1 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp ground coriander
salt
enough water to make a paste & to make everything stick together

Mix everything together in a bowl, feel free to vary the spices. I shallow fried in two batches, using a heaped tbsp of mix to make one fritter, so got 8 to share between the two of us. Double for more people.

Will add this to the index as well so have re-added the pic below lol.

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sefilby · 2 July 2013 at 10:45AM

Mr T shop £13.26 & co*p trip yesterday £7.25

Meals
PizzaFish & chipsHam & egg saladFaijitachicken pieBologneseSausage & chips

Not very imaginative but when the weather is warm we don't really fancy "cooked" meals

SAVVYMUMMY_2 · 2 July 2013 at 11:59AM

It`s going to be another NSD today:j, I dug deep into the freezer and found some breaded fish, so will have that with wedges and peas for dinner tonight. Pack ups for tomorrow are sorted aswell. Might need to water the milk down a little as we`re running low, so this should last until tomorrow;).

We had our first strawberries from the garden yesterday, just a handful, but they were so tasty. I`m keeping a close eye on them though as some are getting nibbled and it`s not the kids:D.

I haven`t made a meal plan for this week though, as I want to see, what I can come up with from the cupboards.

jumblejack · 2 July 2013 at 12:09PM

Yippee. Went to fill up the car and milk was reduced t 20p for 2 litres at the garage.

I got 8 bottles.

Was gonna stock up at farm foods as it works out at 22p a pint as opposed to 25p a pint at lidl or aldi.

This was way better though!

They also had anchor mature cheddar for £1 a block as short dated.
I got all 7 packs. ��

That kind of impromptu bargain is up my street!!

Came home and made a quick pizza with sourdough base, passata that needed using up, cherry toms that were in need of using up and short dated cheese (and plenty of mixed herbs and garlic salt seasoning)

tessie_bear · 2 July 2013 at 12:26PM

blimey finding it hard going at the moment...spent £50 in aldi and then £30 in farmfoods...i wont say what that went on but they are lurking in the freezer....cheaper than the icecream man i suppose

i am finding in aldi i am buying fruit/veg and it is costing a fortune..i am going to look into frozen veg to try and getting it down a bit

sorry bit negative today but onwards and upwards
tess

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