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Please can i declare £170.61 for december and be added at £120 for january. Haven't managed to keep up with the posts ( due to w**k:o) but have managed to stick with grocery challenge.:j
I have reduced my budget quite a bit in keeping with my new challenges for january.;) Good luck one and All, hope you had a fabulous christmas and are looking onwards and upwards to the new year.:D
Anne:j
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Microwave Recipes
Main Meals & Side Dishes
Baked potato pizza
Baked Beans (home made)
Belly Pork
Broad Bean Burgers
Chicken Cannelloni
Chicken - Sticky Chicken
Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup
Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken with Garlic, Cider & Cream
Chilli
Chilli Cheese Crostini
Chinese style cabbage
Cobbler (topping)
Corned Beef Hash - MrsMCawber's recipe
Cranberry & Soy glazed cocktail sausages
Creamy Chicken and Potato casserole
Curried Parsnip Soup
Curry Sauce
Diet Coke Chicken
Duchesse potatoes
Fishcakes
Fish Pie
Ham and Lentil Soup
Iced cucumber soup
Individual chicken pies
Lasagne
Lemon Chicken
Lemon chicken with basil and tagliatelle
Meatballs
Meatloaf
Mediterranean Mince and Potato 'Pie'
Mediterranean Vegetable Pasta
Mince & onion pie
Minced Beef Curry
Mini Goat's Cheese, Pear & Walnut Quiche
Monday Pie
Moussaka
Naan bread - see 'Bread' below
Open top 'pizza' pie
Parsnip & Apple Soup
Pizza / Pizza Base Recipe
Potato layer bake
Quiche Lorraine
Real Tomato Soup
Sausage Casserole
Sausage Meat Patties
Smoked salmon soda breads
Spaghetti with courgettes, tomato and brie
Spicy Bean & Sweet Potato Stew
Spicy Carrot and Tomato Soup
Stuffing - MrsMcawber's recipe
Suet crust pie with quorn
Super Tasty Bacon, Bean and Sausage
Sweet & Sour Chicken/Pork
TexMex Skillett
Thai green curry
Toad in the Hole
Tofu burgers
Turkey and Bubble and Squeak Pie
Vegetable Casserole
Veggie Haggis
Bread
Bagels
Baguettes
Bread - Mrs McC's recipe for Remoska
Breadsticks MrsM's / angelnikki's (No Salt Recipe)
Cheese & Potato Bread
Cheesy Bread Rolls
Chewy Soft Flour Tortilla
Chocolate Bread
Courgette Flatbread
Focaccia
Garlic Dough Balls
Herb Quick bread
HM Bread
Naan Bread .. see also .. Curry Queen's ...... Mrs McCawber's ...... OrkneyStar's
Oatmeal bread
soft bread rolls
Super Seedy Bread
... don't throw the string away. You always need string!
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Dips, Jams & Chutneys
Alioli / Traditional allioli
Christmas Chutney
Elderberry cordial
Jams & Preserves
Pineapple Salsa
Tomato Chutney
Cakes, Biscuits, Snacks & Desserts
Apple delight
Apple Charlotte
Apricot Flapjack bars
Banana and lemon drizzle cake
Banana and Walnut cake
Banana Ginger Parkin
Branflake cake
Bounty Balls
Bran Fruit Loaf
Bread & Butter Pudding
Bulk pancake mix
Caramel Shortbread (Millionaire's Shortbread)
Caramel Shortbread (2)
Cheese n marmite twists
Cheesy Biscuits
Chocolate fudge
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Chocolate Krackolates
Coconut Cake
Cookie Dough
Courgette Tea Bread/Muffins
Cranberry And Chocolate Brownies
Currant Loaf
Custard Cookies
D&DD’s Apple Braid
Date, Nut and Oat biscuits
Eggless Chocolate Cake
Fifteens
Flaky Bars
Flapjacks
Gingerbread Men
Ginger Raisin Crunches
Golden Syrup Tart
Honey Frosted Buns
Iced Buns
Impossible Coconut Pie
Jammy Buns
Key lime pie
Krispie marshmallow bars
Lemon Curd Cake
Lemon Curd Ice-Cream JeniD's / MoneySavingDiva's
Malt Bread
Marshmallow Squares
Mascarpone and Lime Torte
Mascarpone Ice-cream
Millies Cookies
Muffins: Basic Recipe / Chocolate Orange Muffins / Gingerbread Muffins / Kiwi Muffins / Sticky Date Muffins / Strawberry Muffins / Toffee Apple Muffins
No fat sponge
Oaty Shortbread Biscuits
Peanut Butter Cookies
Scones
Spiced Apple Bars
St Peter's Mud Pie (no cooking required)
Sticky gingerbread
Sticky toffee apple crumble
Teacakes
Twink’s Hobnobs
Weetabix Brownies
Weetabix Cake
Wonderbites
Yoghurt: Homemade yoghurt, Slow Cooker Yoghurt
Yoghurt Cake (the easy way)
Top Tips & Links
Grocery Challenge Top Tips
How to feed your whole family a healthy, balanced diet... (Webook)
Laundry Washing Gel/ Gloop, Fab conditioner, vinegar.....
List of conversions
Love Food Hate Waste website
Show Jamie How To Cook On A Budget Champagne Contest... don't throw the string away. You always need string!
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Hi Everyone!!
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!!! We did. Recieved the book MSE Thrifty ways from Modern Days as a presssie which is made up of the invaluable advice from this Old Stylers forum.
Also M and S vouchers, lots of posh coffee and cheese. Not sure about how Camembert tastes however. Is that a soft cheese like Brie?
I wondered if any of you had some economical recipes for using up Turkey or Ham? OB has mentioned pies and I believe someone said about adding condensed mushroom soup to make a mixture???
Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
I have got a few from the recipe list.
Thanks SFT
Congratulations Searching-me!!!:cool: Frugal Living 2010 member MFW by 2014 Was 88,000 now £46,877.90 Grocery Budget for Dec-April=£173.72/£244 (Groc Budget 2010 from Ebay/Voucher savings/Quidco -If we can do it will save our £980 GC budget) Now living the dream -in our tiny country cottage-all thanks to MS forums. x 39 2 go
Stockpile Savings: £89.72 Voucher savings £80 -
Congratulations on the 'frugalmite' news, searching-me!
Rosieben, many thanks for your links lists to all those recipes. I hope you don't mind if I update the links on post 1 of my 4k per year challenge so they now point here.
My lettuce seedlings seem to have survived another freezing, icy blast in their plastic tub and I have now lined up a selection of herbs, tomatoes and peppers to start planting in the new year.
Hope everyone is having a frugalicious, festive food time, making lots of use of the leftovers and are all set for the new year. I cannot believe that I have been doing the grocery challenge on here for a year! Can that really be true? :eek: I've been on grocery watch for a few years now, but 2008 has been extra great with all the new recipes and tips I have learned, even although I don't always comment on them. Sorry about that, I don't mean to overlook important announcements, I just never seem to get the time to keep up in here. Anyway, hope you all have a great week and a great New Year when it comes, just in case I don't get back here. Thank you for all the help and support throughout 2008. :T I shouldn't be back anywhere near a shop until 2009 - sun shining, veggie garden preparations calling.
Savingfortravel - you can use condensed chicken soup or mushroom soup but it's just as easy (and probably cheaper) to mix up some cornflour to thicken the stock and use that in the pie Saves using/buying a tin of condensed soupI reserve the right not to spend.
The less I spend, the more I can afford.
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Hi all
Hope you all had a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas time.
Had the most chilled and relaxed day ever - and ate loads of really good food!!
Can I declare at £111.52 for December. Have got soooooooo much food left I won't need to shop again until next weekend! Xmas food was from seperate savings - so not counting in grocery challenge
Please put me down for £180 for January
Happy New Year to you all as prob won't be on again until 2009!!
Take care
Coolmum. xxxDebt at 2nd LBM (!) Jun 08 £8,435 - hm, let's not go there!!
DFW Nerd - 721 / DFW Long Hauler 4 / DFD - ASAP!!
Sealed pot challenge - member 336 - £200 target
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Count me in please Mrsm for January. I'll set my target for January at £400.
I've been away from the boards for a good few months as i've been splitting from not so dearest husband. Have made a new start now back where I grew up so lots of family help now!!! Ready to get back to my budgeting ways especially as it's just me and my two boys now!!
Happy new year to all - I know mine will be
M x#118 DFW Debt freely Christmas 2012 Challenge0 -
CAN YOU put me down for £120 for january please for me and 2 kids and includes all food and take outs.Sealed Pot dec 08 - dec 09 so far £27.67, Live off £4k Spent £330.20 GC £1,200 for 2009 Spent £50.78 PaD so far £650.07Debts: L/woods £154.00 C/One PAID O/D £649.90 Next £299.95 O/D PAID Gas £72.60 Electric £155.73 Mum £640.00 Orange £490.320
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I'm a bit ashamed of my £400 budget for january!! Especially when I know i used to be able to do it for £250 and sometimes even less!!
Hmmmm - need to get back into the swing of things i think!!
Any help much appreciated x#118 DFW Debt freely Christmas 2012 Challenge0 -
Hi everyone,
I completely lost track of my spending in the week before Christmas and lost a few of the receipts as well. Unfortunately what I do know is that I went way over my budget. All those last minute "popping to the shops" for things I forgot add up. I probably came in at about £400 :eek: in December. December probably wasn't the best month to join. So I am going to try again in January with the same amount. Mrs M, can you put me down for £300 for January please? I still think this is feasible. No birthdays, Christmas or any of those kind of things to stop me from achieving it.:cheesy::cheesy: Cheese… milk's leap toward immortality :cheesy: :cheesy:Clifton FadimanFeb'11 - GC: £105.89/£125 - NSD: 15:jMar'11 GC: £3.84/£100 - NSD: 00
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