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June 2012 Grocery Challenge

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  • Florenceem
    Florenceem Posts: 7,930 Forumite
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    Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending wrote: »
    I've spent £5.63 in Sainsbugs but managed to get some really nice beef steaks reduced to £2 which will easily do the 4 of us for a lovely meal.
    Also bought strong white flour and yeast and made homemade pizza bases which I've never done before. (I'm quite proud of myself ;) and it was fun too!). Thank you to whoever it was on this thread who posted the recipe for this - I made a copy of it then but have only just got round to using it. It only cost about 54p for 8 pizza bases and I've frozen the 6 we didn't use :). Also made biscuits so a good day yesterday!!
    If it was the Jamie Oliver recipe - I posted it. My Son gets 8-10 bases out of the pizza mix - some smaller for the children.
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  • bossymoo
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    Planning nsd today, going to a friends for lunch so taking some bits and bobs, for the kiddies. Still need to meal plan. Haven't found the time yet. Was still logged on to work network at 9pm last night, and my spare half hours yesterday were spent hoovering and trying to make space in the garage... Must do better...
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  • Aldahbra
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    MrsCD wrote: »
    Hello Aldahbra - could you make some chocolate crispies with the hoops? Or you could crush them to mix with melted butter to make a cheesecake base. HTH :)

    Are these what you call chocolate crispies?
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    If so I've made them and although they were OK we don't want anymore just yet.

    The cheesecake is a good idea. Would you add biscuit to them to make a cheesecake base?


    ladymay wrote: »
    Morning!
    But the supermarkets are so sneaky :eek: I wanted some mixed nuts, so I had to look in the fruit and veg section, the baking section AND the snacks section! They were cheapest in the snack section, which surprised me tbh. It taught me a lesson, and it made me think how many extra pennies they squeeze out of people...

    Sneaky, I would have thought they would be the most expensive. That is a useful tip thanks.
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  • fozziebeartoo
    fozziebeartoo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
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    No plans to go out today so hopefully today will be Junes
    5th NSD :j

    The SC lamb tagine I cooked yesterday has a portion in the fridge for tea today and 3 in the freezer for some other time.

    But.......

    Fridge freezer is making funny noises :eek: and trying to replace that is something I really, really cant afford to do :mad: so feeling a bit panic stricken, but nothing I can do so fingers crossed it keeps stumbling along (just like me :rotfl:)!!

    No idea what to do for other food today, maybe defrost some HM cherry or blueberry muffins for lunch time.

    I need to sort out the freezer again as I was attacked by an avalanche of frozen HM meals when I opened it the other day.....was up to my ankles in frozen LO's ;) so I just stuffed them all back in any old how but now I have a mini avalanche everytime I look for something :D
  • meg72
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    Florenceem wrote: »
    If it was the Jamie Oliver recipe - I posted it. My Son gets 8-10 bases out of the pizza mix - some smaller for the children.

    Is this recipe on the front page, I cant seem to find it and would like it for my niece
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  • Bikingbint
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    Bikingbint - The secret of cutting bread is to saw and not to press the bread. The bread must not be squashed so lots of backward and forward movement and no downward movement.

    Hi

    I have made a loaf from a different recipe today (which I think is nicer) and it is cutting so much better, I think it was just that particular loaf/recipe and I hope I have now got the hang of it.:D

    Regards

    bikingbint (who will be the size of a stately home [already the size of a house] if I don't stop eating the bread I make).
  • m155piggy
    m155piggy Posts: 68 Forumite
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    I had high hopes this month of getting myself together but it all went wrong on June 1st - I did a big shop coming in at £73 _ I tried to justify it by thinking that we would be away for the long weekend but I still feel rubbish about it.

    Anyway Sat, Sun & Mon were NSD's as I had baked enough and used the freezer to prepare party food for the street party so no extras were needed. Tuesday I bought a loaf mof bread and a newspaper so pretty good really.
    Weds we got home and I went to the shops for milk, fruit etc and spent £11 so I was still pretty pleased.
    Another weekend away this weekend so I need to nip to the shops tomorrow to get some basic supplies and a bottle or two of wine but all main meals are accounted for in the freezer so we will have paella, spag bol and a salad with HM quiche etc.

    Hoping I can pull it back for the rest of the month - have quite a high budget for my first try anyway so fingers crossed.
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  • hex2
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    Aldahbra wrote: »
    The cheesecake is a good idea. Would you add biscuit to them to make a cheesecake base?

    I would whizz them in the food processor with some digestives for your base.

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  • jennypennysaver
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    Hi everyone

    Got an hour or two to myself so going to check out some recipes for next week's meals. Also got my eye on a couple of breadmakers on fleabay so I'll see where that's up to. Am constantly speechless at how much bread we go through (got 3 growing kids) and rely on the whoops bargains.

    Just me and OH tonight so we are eating a whoops bargain out of the freezer.
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  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
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    Having a baking day today:
    Millies cookies
    Almond cakes
    Banana and Lemon drizzle cake
    Flapjacks
    Twinks hobnobs
    Shortbread.

    That should easily keep everyone going for a week or so!
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