September 2017 Grocery Challenge

BrassicWoman · 6 September 2017 at 9:50PM

£15:05 - lots of treats I am afraid!

Rolls
Vegan "turkey"
morrocan hummus (LOVE, cannot get the spices right myself)
yogurts
corn on the cob
coconut hazlenut "ice cream"
olives
portobello mushrooms
a sandwich
dark chocolate spread
banana malt loaf

Planning big mushroom burger buns for dinner tomorrow

Will make up some peanut butter and jam rolls for the freezer tomorrow - that saves me buying overpriced lunches at work. I just don't have the energy tonight!

Got voucher for £7 off a £50 spend, but dont have £50 in the budget or anywhere to put £50 of tins and packets, so that's for the bin.

BrassicWoman · 6 September 2017 at 9:53PM

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Just decided to use cash only this month as it's too easy to flash the card. It's already making me think.

weirdly I find it works the other way round, If I have a tenner I think "how much can I get for a tenner", not "what's the least I need."

BrassicWoman · 6 September 2017 at 9:54PM

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Dilemma - I've still got a £20 voucher off a £100 online shop at Wait...
So comparing their website with mysupermarket and using the 10 picks of Wait.... 'My Favourites' I can spend £80.20p and save a total of £141.79..

I'd do it if it is things you would genuinely usually buy

lynnejk · 6 September 2017 at 10:07PM

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Dilemma - I've still got a £20 voucher off a £100 online shop at Wait...
So comparing their website with mysupermarket and using the 10 picks of Wait.... 'My Favourites' I can spend £80.20p and save a total of £141.79.

Do I spend the money - it does seem like a no brainer and I can freeze everything? However, I don't exactly need the items at the moment and it would eat into my monthly budget and just leave me with about £100 for the rest of the month. I can't leave the dilemma on the back burner because Wait... changes its offers each week and what is on offer now may not be on offer next week. Help.....

By the way I've worked out I can make a total of 126 meals from this if I use vegs from my plot which works out at an average of 64p per meal.

Would you really have to buy much else this month if you are using home-grown vegetables ??

Over the year would your budget level itself out ?

If, honestly, it's all stuff you can and will use then I would go for it !
Lx

pajama · 7 September 2017 at 12:25AM

This week I have spent so far £9.94 in Home B's and £52.11 in Ald!
Signature updated

armchairexpert · 7 September 2017 at 3:30AM

Goodness, I'm doing little top up shops every day this week. Bread flour and coffee beans I knew I was going to have to buy. A meat pie and trail mix for lunch, not so much!

I'm at $307/$whatever I said already, with a Costco trip looming on tomorrow's horizon. Eep.

Wysiwyg49 · 7 September 2017 at 9:08AM

armchairexpert wrote: »

I'm at $307/$whatever I said ...

:rotfl: thought I was the only one who forgot what I'd set for the month! I have to check my posts or sig every time.

Have only topped up with milk for £1 this week so far, but DH has run out of cereal today. Now kids back at school maybe they won't eat as much in the house - sure hope not as DD's "cafeteria" style school lunches add up to about £20 a week! I'm trying to get her to keep to about £3 a day but it will be a challenge. Once they get to 6th form and start buying coffee you've had it.

dumpling · 7 September 2017 at 9:51AM

Good morning everyone, just popping on to update my signature. Had a tesco delivery this morning and I manged to keep it at £46 which is less than half of what I usually spend.

Ginmonster · 7 September 2017 at 11:47AM

I had to buy onions yesterday as we'd totally run out and I can't cook anything without onions! I nipped into the local co-op and they only had a bag of 3 big onions for 75p which I thought was a bit steep but I had a tired from his first day of school 4 year old with me so I just went with it.

Today I went and did a proper shop for some fruit, a few veg bits and some quorn for the freezer. I've been running down the freezer and using things like beans and lentils more but hubby complained that it's too hard when it's his turn to cook as he's not as confident cooking from scratch and prefers to chuck some sauce on some quorn and veg. £15.30 there.

£41.05/£100

PipneyJane · 7 September 2017 at 12:03PM

Cassox wrote: »

Hi I am a newbie to this. Don't know if I'm posting this in right thread. Due to mounting debts I am in a position of needing to be a lot more savvy with my shopping. My pet food unfortunately I cannot get below £20 due to certain prescriptive items so I need some help and guidance with making the best out of what's left.
My neares Aldi and Lidl are 6-8 miles away so are not always that easy to get to on a regular basis.
Anyway my budget has to cover not only food but all household and toiletry items so my starting budget was goibpng to be £30 but I think I have already failed miserably.
I shopped today at my local Morrisons. My bill came to £25.65 with very little to show. Still need to buy meat and salad.

Items
Pack if 9 toilet rolls. £2.80
Toilet wipes. £0.78
2 x washing up liquid. £1.00
2x pot noodle. £1.00
2x soups. £0.90
Fruit. £4.22
Yoghurts. £2.00
Choc mousse x6. £1.00
Tub Philadelphia. £1.00
Milk. £1.50
4 x tins tuna. £4.00. Should have been £3.50 was overcharged
Tin sweet corn. £0.38
Uncle beds rice. £1.00
Savers loaf. £0.36
Crisps. £1.00
Biscuits/bars. £2.09
Magazine. £0.67

I think this was a disaster. Please feel free to comment. Dissect etc

Thanks

Hi Cassox

You've had some good feedback from others about your shopping. If you feel up to it, do an audit of your pantry and post it on here. We may be able to help you with meal ideas, etc, to stretch the food out further.

- Pip

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