July 2008 Grocery Challenge

savingfortravel

Angelnikki-Thanks for the Tesco offers-will stock up on Utterly Butterly and Linda McCartney sausages.

Mouche-We would love the Lemon Muffins recipe

SFT

pink_princess

Hi all just popped into say yesterdays picnic lunch at flamingoland went down great with every-one.It was all mse recipies so thank you s all very much.

ANGELNIKKI goodluck for tomorrow hope it goes ok for you.:A

JAYJAY hope your first day went well ,they can be a bit scary hopefully yours wasn t .
HUGS to all who need it.
MRS MC hope all is as well as can be expected for you .
TTFN

OrkneyStar

Well not a bad day, slow cooker chicken/bacon/leek/mushrooms- sort of fricasse, with rice and asparagus, for tea. Enough left for tomorrow too, will have with baked tatties and green beans. Todays tea was followed by strawbs with ice cream (treat but strawbs were £2.99 to £1.99 to 99p and still enough for two portions tomorrow as well). Made some bread with the new honey. Did not spend anything on grocery (although £2 on a drink from the garage when I took DS out for a walk/to the park and a cookie for me/DS but that was a treat from the treat budget) so recording today as a NSD grocery wise.
Bye for now
:wave:

SAV3R

Not sure how we will go on with the meal planning this week, Ds1 away with school, Ds2 now off school with broken arm. Feels like all routine has been thrown out. Spent last night and most of today at hospital. Had to have operation to put back in line. We had all this with his other arm only 15 months ago. Feel like a bad parent.

KAAT_LADY

hi there all

just popped in to update my siggie but DH has just made dinner so I will pop in later

betterlife

hi, i was just wondering if anyone has been into MRm today, do they have anymore 50p offers as it was suppose to be weekly starting on a monday.

KAAT_LADY

good evening all


went into MrS and got a few whoopsies like grapes,, mushrooms all veg
spent nearly £10 but seem to have quite a lot left on my budget will have to look and see if there are any more receipts,, i bet there is stashed away somewhere

see ya soon

brummiebabe

Just don't get the chance to post much anymore - however, kids in bed early tonight, so have had the chance to update my spends - have so far spent £292.60 of my July budget. The remaining £107.40 is to last until the 30th July - not sure I'll manage it, but will try!!!!;)

cammumof3

Hi everyone
Hope you all having a good week.
I have my menus for the next 2 weeks on the wall, plus the shopping lists to go with them on the wall, not like me at all to be this organised.
But I have set my self a goal of 50 per week.
I went shopping yesterday with my list (that I normaly leave on the kitchen side)
I am so proud :money: :money: :money: :money: :money: :money:
this is my list

Asda mince 1.30
Pork sausages 1.34
frozen mix cabbage 1.00
frozen cauliflower 48 p
frozen mix veg 71 p
frozen brussels 87 p
milk x 2 4.24
white bread x 4 1.48
sausage meat x 2 2.10
asda salt 24 p
olive oil 1.88
mayonaise 1.73
vinegar 14 p
bfast topper 1.58
packet sauce (sausage casserole) 4 for 1 pound 1.00
schwartz jar Rosemary 1.02
coleslaw 22 p
sultanas 55 p
oranages 1.48
packet of 9 onions 48 p
potatoes 73 p
fresh carrots 78 p
1 butternut squash 90 p
1 lemon 28 p
1 garlic 34 p
golden del apples 8 in bag 1.28
cucumber 36 p
bananas 97 p
baby spinach 96 p
mixed grapes 1.98
salad 96 p
total is 32.74 :money:
This is all from Asda and it is all the cheap items.

todays dinner pasta with homemade butternut squach sauce and salad.
pudding -shop bought flan with quick set gel and fruit
tomorrow - home made shepperds pie,veg
pudding ice cream
Wednesday - home made sausage casserole with mash and veg
pudding - home made rice pudding
Thursday shop bought Faggots and potatoes and beans
pudding fruit cocktail
Friday Egg dinner
pudding home made apple crumble
Sat dont know
Sunday roast

My menu is a lot from my weeks shopping and some of the stuff I had in my cupboards so I am using them up aswell.

:money: July grocery challenge 200 pound. 50 pound per week
wk 1 = 0, as wasn't record amount
wk 2 = 60.98
wk 3 = 32.74
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Moniker

Hi folks

Had to take MIL to her choir practice so popped into Sainsbury's on the way home as I knew we would soon run out of bananas and thought that 7.45 pm would be a good time for a whoopsi hunt. Sure enough they made an announcement over the tannoy that they had reduced fresh food in aisles 12 and 13 - but when I got there what was left wasn't stuff I would really use, so a bit disappointing. Did get two packs of basic NZ lamb chops reduced from 3.42 each to 1.50 ( so £3.84 to go in to the PMS fund!) and they have gone in the freezer for later. Total spend was £4.06 for the chops some bananas and satsumas. I was hoping to find more reduced fruit and veg but not even the salads were whoopsied. Never mind, I won't need to shop again before Thursday and might stretch it out to Friday again like last week.

I'm all in - all that climbing up and down the ladder shifting books - I'm not as young as I was!

Night night everyone.

Moniker