October 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Another wee shop tonight of which I am justly proud. Armed with my £6.00 Glade coupon gleaned from Discounts thread and a few others I approached |Tesco in an orderly manner. My mission was to get a couple of things but mostly to get a £10 top up for my phone, left with all sorts of tins and reduced veg, not to mention 140 tea bags, priced £3.00. After coupon usage I spent .....29p. earned 13 points too.
Forgot the top-up though.
Have spent £1.79 on milk for work this week.

Hi MRS MC can i declare my total for sept at £299.23 :j im really pleased at this as money is so tight at the moment and i refuse to touch the (little) savings.
I ve already set budget for oct which runs for us until the 7th of nov.
The positive of being SKINT is that the freezer is running down in time for christmas shopping.;)
Good luck to all on their challenges.
TTFN
Oh its nice to see your still around angelnikki:D

Hiya not been on for a while as i've been busy not spending. Got some milk and a fresh chicken yesterday. Should of come to £5 odd but cost me nowt coz my lovely mum got it for me. So far i have managed 8NSD this month, might actually come in under budget!!!

Good Morning Everyone,
Not posted much this month as i have been busy, glad to see everyone is ok and managing.

Went to Mr T this morning and spent roughy £30, have updated signature.

For anyone thats interested,
MR T are selling 18x284ml bottle of carlsberg export for £5, Offer expires 12/10/08 (got 2 boxes for OH out of his money)
Bramley Apples (5 large apples per bag) BOGOF £1.68 per bag
Muller corners are still 5 for £1
Celery is half price. 34p each

I bought some T value mild cheddar cheese and noticed that some of the price per £/kilo were different on the packs, looks as though they are putting there price up... Most of the blocks had £5.20 ish per kilo and a few others were £4.70 per kilo... i know its only a few pence per kilo but it all adds up. I bought 2 of the cheaper blocks and put them in the freezer
Whiskas (sp?) cat food is half price for the pouches, £1.68 per box

HTH someone

Well I'm a 1/3rd of the way through the month & I've spent £104.82, including some on xmas pressies & several month's worth (hopefully!) of hay for guinea pigs (will update sig in a mo). We're off to Portugal for a week 23rd-30th too -so there's NO way I shouldn't come under!

I need to go to Mr A tomorrow & get milk, ham & rice crispies (own brand). Not sure we'll need much else this weekend, except for a loaf of Mr T bread & perhaps a cucumber. We have loads of f & v in and still have peppers, carrots, onions, chillis in garden (and a couple of teeny cucumbers), so we're well sorted

I'm off out to lunch today with some friends - but that's not GC money

Re Mr T's value, we don't have a huge amount in my local store but online (from different store in centre of town) I can get over 450 items - so I'm guessing the majority of the range! We haven't got the mkt value stuff in our local one either - although we do have some of the 'discount' offers (Daisy cleaning stuff etc) - but they don't seem that much cheaper to me??

DH is now complaining about how full our cupboards are! I'm trying to use up stuff as much as poss this month, just to make sure things are rotated effectively (and stop his moaning!) It's his (DH) birthday next week, so I may get an M&S dine for £10 - or even Waitrose - I notice they're also doing the dine for £10 option. I'm also going to buy him a cake - something I wouldn't make, like a choccy fudge one, cos I don't like them! We 'seem' to have the budget this month, after all!!

Glad to see people are faring well - especially glad to see Orkney still posting

greent
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