July 2008 Grocery Challenge

dink1

QUESTION....... Please can anyone put me in touch with the link re the pet medicine/wormer supplier? cant find it and I know its round here somewhere!!!! thanks Dink1

gunsandbanjos

Morning everyone, went a whoopsie hunting in Mr S last night as they had their chicken on Bogof. There was only 6 packs left! So i bought them all:D Spent £44.59 altogether so i'll add that to my total, did save £27.10 in bogofs though. Also got some great whoopsies, whole chicken for £1.79, nice piece of silverside £3.50, 4 butchers choice burgers 75p. I have enough meat probably for about 6 weeks;) Got some basics strawberries too as they looked yummy.
Need to go update sig, think it will look quite scary, but i'll only need F&V this week as i have milk in the freezer.

OrkneyStar

Wow this board was alive last night! And heres me sound asleep after a very tiring day ...DS was at the gurning stage most of yesterday. Made two loaves yesterday, by hand, but the first one did not prove at all and after more kneading went a tiny bit bigger. Cooked it but it was yuck. Second one was fine. Only diff was I had used sugar and not honey in the first attempt. Need to get some cheap baking honey as using DH's expensive very strong tasmanian honey.
Managed a NSD, hoping for one today as well. Milk can wait til tomorrow.
Shopping is going a bit silly here, the new Tesco printed 2 x £5 off £30 vouchers in the paper, valid until 02.08.08, last week, and this week the coop have printed 2 x £10 off £30 vouchers, one valid til 19/7 and one valid til 26/7! I think I will go get some juice, tins etc maybe Sunday or the beginning of next week.......1/3rd off is pretty good.
Not that nice here today, off to dental hygienist with DS but its just across the road so we won't pass any shops!
Chicken curry for tea with last weeks home made naan. Might make a nice pudding for afters....anyone got any good recipes for a nice pudding sponge or something ?
:wave: ta ra

taplady

morning everyone - not had chance to catch up yet but wanted to update my sig. I have spent £132.52 out of my total of £285.00 but we have lots in the cupboards ATM!:D

madmittens

Aargh, was away from internet most of yesterday and now have 7 pages to catch up on! Will try to do that later.

Quick update - popped into a different mrT as I was passing it yesterday to pick up the bits I couldn't get on Wednesday night - £1.41 to add.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Herewegoagain

Well trying to use up what's in the freezer so I can defrost it, but all you lovely people have got me so on track that I keep filling it with HM meals and left overs etc. What's a girl to do;)
Happy mse day to all and happy birthday to Bargain RZL, make it special x

Floxxie

Wow Herewegoagain, you are still on here! - you can't sleep very much. I got distracted last night and wandered off to catch up on the numerous threads that I subscribe to - I even read the Night Owl one - very funny, there are some characters there :rotfl:

Today I am going to make some chocolate fairy cakes to use up the value eggs I bought 10 days ago - does anybody else buy these? I like the fact that they are all different sizes but not so much with the words 'from battery hens'

Thanks for the advice from the teachers on end of term pressies - my DS wrote a lovely poem to his teacher and classroom assistant. I hope they like it.

I'm going to sort out the cleaning cupboard today and work out what chemical cleaners I have left (and get DH to use them over the weekend). Then I'm going to go through the Dri-Pak site and work out what I can replace them with instead.

All those who use Borax and the like (for whatever reason :rotfl:) how have you got on with it? Is the cleaning as good? There is one thing that I am a bit worried about and that is losing the fragrance that cleaners give you - the smell of a Toilet Duck cleaned toilet is one I can deal with, but would Soda Crystals make it smell clean? Any suggestions for chemical free fragrances?

I must try really hard today and put 24 items onto eBay - if I can rid of the clutter I can spend more time saving money.Before I do that though, had better go and deal with baby...and have cup of coffee..

Floxxie

mouche

Last night was late opening on the local high street so OH took me out for coffee to make up for the rain spoiling our date night on Wednesday. Popped into Sainsbury's on the way home and bought ... NOTHING! This is rare anyway but especially so because OH was with me. Normally he only needs to set foot in a supermarket for him to spot some must-haves! Wonder if he's ill. :P

Then again he's probably reeling from the fact that I have finally tracked down and bought the Wii Fit (and Wii) that he promised me for my birthday 2 months ago. I know it's expensive and a luxury but we live such a simple life normally and we work so hard, I think occasionally we deserve a little splurge (especially when they have been saved for like this one).

ifonlyitwaseasier

morning all.

well i've spent 1.45 so far today but that's it for me. (brekkie )

looks like last night was busy on here tho, have just about caught up.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARGAINRZL :j :j :j :j :j :j

angelatgraceland

I bought some packs of minced beef at Asda the other day for 50p each. Not whoopsies but either an offer or a rollback. Normally 99p. They may be still on offer-it was Sunday I bought them. Just the normal mince-not the lowfat kind or anything.