January 2011 Grocery Challenge

Spent £77 in MrT tonight!! Hits my mthly target lots but i think we should still be ok - fingers crossed!! Have loads of meat and main meals so shouldnt need to go to the shops again for a while.....i hope

Moniker-I'd use the evaporated milk. I'd open it fully and look at the inside of the tin. If the tin looks good condition(not brown bits falling off the sides)I'd take a teaspoonful and taste it-that is if you want to be cautious. Personally Id just use it without doing the above-its not "that" old.
Nicl-re stilton its ripe rather than mouldy Id say-cheese is a funny one re useby dates as a lot of it juct carries on maturing rather than going off.
Ive made cheese sauce with my stilton by melting it in the micro and mixing in some cream and serving over some nice leeks!
Nearly had a nsd today but ended up buying throat sweets for £3.76-oh the luxery! Got around to handing in my sicknotes at work and explaining why I couldnt phone in daily-well-I literally lost my voice for a week and they have serious phone problems so had to text the manager daily. she is totally understanding but HO are not to bright at times.If I get paid it will be great but Im assuming I won't then I won't feel let down. My feeling was I was/am to ill to work so money or no money I won't be there-there isn't an option!
Darn flu is hitting so many people.
DD(16)has a mate staying over tonight and normally Id pop out for frozen pizzas and treats but today I told dd she would have to cook something for them(she is studying prof cookery)so we all ended up with a very basic spag bol and she cheated-putting in meatballs to make it speedy(sometihng I showed her once). Tasted fine but not our usual standard,and I ate too much and feel heavy now!
MummyEm-do you have an airing cupboard? Thats where people used to prove bread but with the new combi boilers it doesnt work now unless you have an older system-an immersion heater.
Hippechiq-you can buy frozen chicken breasts at low cost in Iceland-that is where I always buy mine.
Rosieben-I echo what everyone else says! Keep posting as normal!!!!!!!!!

seductivesmile wrote: »

This weekend!!
Breasts are half price!

HTH xx

Ooooh seductivesmile I could kiss you!......in fact - I will :kisses3: Lol
Thank you

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Hippechiq-you can buy frozen chicken breasts at low cost in Iceland-that is where I always buy mine.

Thanks for that Angela, but I always cube mine up into bags of 200g and freeze. That's all OH and I need for a meal. SS wont eat chicken and DD has difficulty eating due to meds, although....... actually....:think: I may just buy a bag to see what the average weight of each breast is (unless you happen to know?) It may well be that they're all roughly around 200g, so thanks for the suggestion.

Hope you're on the mend soon hun :grouphug:

Morning peeps :wave:

i`m planning on a NSD today, the only thing that i need is carrots but i can manage for a day or so without them

Mummyems - When i make pizza dough in the panny i just leave it in there until i need it, i`ve never taken it out and proved it and it makes lovely pizzas, don`t leave it too long though or it will end up huge

HappyCrafter - Will pm you shortly, i would love a copy of your shreadsheet, i don`t have a clue about pivot tables but it would be very useful for me and also help me to learn, thanks

Rosieben - I`m so glad that you have decided to keep posting and leave things the way that they were, i find your posts useful and often look for your name to follow links to recipes, thanks for all your hard work - we all know that you donate a lot of your free time to the thread and we appreciate it very much.

I`m off to send that pm, have a good day peeps.

SD

bella121984 wrote: »

That would be great, thank you, I have sent you a PM with my email address!

hiya happycrafter

would you kindly send me this spreadsheet too have pmd you my email address

maz :beer: