November 2010 Grocery Challenge

wow I can't believe we're twelve pages in by the evening of the 1st! I have been lucky this week because DH brought a load of food home from Explorer Scout Camp (he's the Leader) which included sandwich meat, cheese, coffee, crisps and bread oh and 8 tins of He*nz Soup! So between what I already had in and this gift then I should be able to get by on very little this week. I hope just to need toilet rolls (Can't do without them!) and F&V so will aim for £10 - £15 spend only. I've joined the NSD challenge, I've guessed I can manage 12 so we'll see how it goes! Hope you're all doing well so far, will catch up on the thread tomorrow night which is when everyone except me is out

Want_to_be_free wrote: »

Opps, I don't really know what to call it- it is passed to me from my mum. Shall we call it 'Cheesey Dough' - But I am glad you like the sound of it. I fried 3 of them and had it with georgeous salad as a dinner tonight. God it is only 5.30 pm and I already had my dinner:eek:

Couple of more points on this,

*you can freeze it,
**instead of cheese you can use veggies such as aubourgine mixed with tomoto cubs or you can make it with mince and onions.
**Please make sure that the shape it flatish, it fries better with that way.

XXX

Thanks, that sounds like a good name to me Maybe you could add these notes to your original post?

triticale, thanks for taking the trouble to list all that :T

I've added the links to the recipe index (I linked to the front page of Jamie Oliver as there are so many good recipes there) and listed the others, including your pizza base, thanks, you're a star!

My first spend of the month also. A mere £10.18 but this didn't get me much. Im following SW and really trying to get (back) to target before xmas so Im buying more f&v. So a loaf of bread, some bagels, strawberries/raspberries (2 for £4) :eek:, a pack of mange tout, baby s.corn and some cherry toms eats £10.18 into my budget. Hopefully my well stocked freezers will compensate for the extra f&v spends this month.

as i type this, im eating my m&$ melt in midddle pudd. with lovely vanilla ice cream. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm is all I can say. this was meant to be my treat tomorrow but by the time i get home and eat my tea (after weigh in) it will be too late for pudd ! im hoping it won't impede my date with the scales - I have been pretty good the rest of the week.

I know some of you are following sw and also doing the GC. - what do you do about all those items of food that are not sw friendly - have been bought and are hiding away in your cupboards/freezers. I thought the best way (especially since I am trying to eat up the contents of my freezer). was to perhaps have "one bad thing" a week. worst offenders at the moment that i can think of are the lamb kebabs and the burgers with sweet chilli sauce in them (both from m&$). ?? what do other sw members think ? its only me that going to eat them - i don't want to give them away ?

I still haven't meal planned. too tired to do tonight but must do soon. will be another visit to the supermarket tomorrow evening and will then try to avoid until the weekend. Some of you have been talking about whether you buy meat from the butchers or the supermarket. I would like to support my local butcher more and the tray of of beef steaks that I bought for £10 (which went in my curry on sat) did for dinner saturday evening with leftovers tonight plus a portion for the freezer. I served up generous portions too so could have gone further...

The rump steak i bought though was disappointing. The packaging was poor - didn't survive the journey home and had to wash my Hessian bag it was also quite tough when cooked despite resting might stick to the s.market for steak in future.

in other news, agree with other posters that taking out the relevant amount of cash each week is a good plan - will probably go back to having my "grocery purse" it feels so much different when you hand over cold hard cash!

Have just had to pop out and buy milk - £3.06 spent. Milk's so dear!
Was pretty happy with the fact that our tea was SC turkey leg casserole - mmmmmm, the meat fell off the bone and the smokey bacon I put in really made it tasty!