July 2008 Grocery Challenge

savingfortravel

Jediteacher
Well done!! You can get some real bargains!!!
SFT

lingojingo

Just had massive delivery from Mr T - £106.31 :eek: but that should be all tinned/dried/frozen/cleaning/toiletries/cat food for the month, only milk fruit and veg to buy I hope. I don't have a car and am about 5 miles from town, so it's worth the expense of delivery now and again. Got small co-op. tiny Somerfields and an independent grocery shop in the village, but prices are a little higher.

Sunny_Donny

NSD yesterday too!!!
Spent 59p in Lidl on way home for some carrots - no white cabbage in there so OH being sent to town tomorrow for one from the market. can't make coleslaw without it. Have cut up all carrots and onions tonight and these are sat in fridge. Have boiled potatoes and carrots for russian salad and will add rest of ingredients tomorrow night. Time saving expert as well as money saving!!
Will update signature shortly as forgot earlier when I signed in.
Off to be a guinea pig tomorrow night for my friend - she is applying falsh eyelashes on me. Should be fun!!

cookinmummy

Did my first shop for this months GC and spent £72.10 :eek:

But, it was a good haul so shouldn't be needing to shop for quite a bit. Did get a naughty whoopsie as they had one finest choc cheesecake usually £3.99 reduced to £2 - I think it would have been lonely on the shelf all on its own, so I did the kindest thing .....:rotfl:

fertyskids

Hi everyone.

ive managed my 2nd NSD this month today as i started my challenge on 27th. its a lot harder than i thought as hubby sees were a bit low on something the pops out to get it. ive tried explainging if were low on milk maybe toast would be okay for breakfast for one day. never mind.

i made homemade pizza last night. got the reicpe of netmums. i left it in for a few mins too much was a bit crispy. they all eat it though.

i made a homemade leek and potatoe soup today - no one liked it!!!! hubby ended up making beans on toast fro himself the kids eat it as there was hm apple crumble for pudding.

was planning on doing a curry tomorrow. feel hesitant to after todays disaster. might swop it for one of next weeks meals instead.

Freezer and cupboards still overflowing i think i need to eat out of them to make room for more whoopsied potatoes!! still got 3 bags to do something with. oh i'll do cottage pie tomorrow that will use some.

anyway its so nice to see so many of us on here. i cant believe the amount of posts each day. it keeps me going, i find it truly inspiring - especially when hubbys home!!

take care everyone. karen

p.s off to update my signiture.

jediteacher

savingfortravel wrote: »

Jediteacher
Well done!! You can get some real bargains!!!
SFT

Thank you. All down to this thread and all the wonderful people on here. :A

fertyskids

thanks Perrywinkle for the hotpot reciepe. will try it soon!!

debbym

Late posting this but £400 again this month please
Only made last month due to some money off coupons for £15 passed on by MIL and its DS1's birthday at the start of August so we are having his party at the end of July before everyone disappears on holiday, oh and started weaning DS2 so costs going down this month? no hope!
Good Luck everyone!

Mrs_Money_Penny

Evening everyone. A NSD today. Have made since getting in from work my first batch of Twinks Hobnobs & the iced buns. The Twinks are delicious and I may well ice the buns in a minute so they can set overnight. Thanks for posting all these great receipes.

Ches

wish my local supermarkets did decent woopsies. we have 1 asda,2xsainsburys 2x tescos 1 aldi and a morrisons not too far away. I always look at the reduced section when I am in any of them and all that is on offer is 20p off things that are in really battered and tatty packets resealed with selotape. I am really jealous.

NSD for me today.