August 2008 Grocery Challenge

WelshWoofer

Hello!
Well its all gone spectacularly wrong!
Got the Mr T voucher yesterady and thought I'd go and stock up on the essentials and spend no more than £30 (so only paying £25).
Got to the till - £49 then £3 off for multibuys etc and then £5 off with the voucher - a spend of £41!!!!:eek:

I must have taken leave of my senses! I haven't done that for ages - at least I have plenty of cleaning stuff, toiletries, dog food and frozen bits to last a couple of weeks:o

That should last me through to the end of next week with meal planning done (in shock yesterday after the bill!)
So I will be over budget this month but I'll try really hard to keep it to a minimum - hmmmmm - all gone wrong!

Never mind - we live and learn.....
Will update sig now.

teedy23

Went to Tesco last night and spent a whopping £70.52. I nearly fell off my perch.However felt better when I took off the spends for holiday clothes, printer cartridges and my pals shopping , to discover I had spent just over £4.00 on food. I got 500 points for buying the ink, so thats another £20.00 towards next years hols, and £15.00 nearly was coupons. Still I was shocked, havent spent that much a shop for.... I cant remember when. Got all I need and more till friday, when I,m off on me hols. Have a good day all.

KAAT_LADY

good morning all

just going out to look for archie cat he has gone missing ,, dont know where he went and dont know how as he could not walk or anything last night ,,will let you know later

Ann xx

thanks for the support

Pink.

Hi Smiley,

I'll add your post into the grocery challenge where you'll get lot of help and support in making the £17 last.

For help with losing weight have a look here:

Weight Loss the Old Style Way! Part 5. Please read posts 1 and 2 before posting.

and for help with decluttering look at these threads:

Weekly Flylady Thread 11th August 2008

Simplifying Life

Enough is enough - the great declutter

Pink

mumofjusttwo

Kaat Lady-hope you find Archie cat.

Well pent £60 in Mr T at the weekend but did manage to get quite a lot and a few points too:D

gunsandbanjos

Morning all, good luck finding him Kaat lady, i know how awful it is to lose a cherished pet.

Spent £57 in Mr T yesterday:eek: Will add it to total, about £8 wasnt really GC but was for a girly night in last night. Will add it to total anyway. Shouldnt need anything else this week though:D Think hubby may finally be coming round to OS/GC ways, he's always been easy to feed but a bit fussy about certain things, especially his coffee. He came shopping with me yesterday and we needed coffee, i picked up the cheapest branded one. DH said 'i wonder what the Tesco own brand is like?':D And it is definately drinkable;) Another few pounds saved.

moneysavinghornette

The last fortnight has gone to pot, so i'm starting again.....looking at the cupboards, they really are bare, so going to stock up and then will allow myself £50 a week to buy fresh essentials, also decided to use cash....

SmileyS_2

Well I kind of blew it already---sort of-- what do you reckon???

Went down to B+Ms and thought I would pop in the local charity shops(a new thing for me) picked up a pair of brand new M+S school pants for £1.50,a waterproof addidas football training top for £2 (my son has the pants to match and he will wear them all winter for his 3 x a week football practice and an as new school blazer for £3 ,they cost £35 new and my ds1 needs one this year)

So I spent that and then 99p on toilet roll,£3.69 on dishwasher tablets (all they had but a pack of 60 with 50% extra free so will last 3mths ish) and £1 on electric tape that DH phoned me to get!

So what do you reckon,should I have nipped into the chairty shop and spent? Bearing in mine it will save me about £50 in the long run?

Thaks once again for your tips

SS

susan946

Morning all - and welcome SimleyS

Had a good day yesterday. I cooked the custard cookies having left the dough sausage in the fridge overnight. They were awesome!!! Think I may have to join the weightloss board if I make too many of these!!!! I also made some tomato and lentil soup for lunch, a loaf of wholemeal bread and my first batch of sugarfree icecream. The icecream was lovely, but I think I should look for a cooked recipe next time because I'm not sure how wise it is to eat raw eggs.

The freerange organic chicken I bought in Mr A, and roasted for supper last night, was tough and tasteless. :mad: I always fill the cavity with garlic, herbs and a splash of white wine and it still tasted of nothing. DH thinks I should take it back. Not sure myself - do you think it's a cheek?

The hairdresser's just been round to cut my hair which saves me a bomb on going to the salon and so off to try to make some order of the chaos my house has become!! Flylady I love you!!!!

Sue

susan946

SmileyS wrote: »

So what do you reckon,should I have nipped into the chairty shop and spent? Bearing in mine it will save me about £50 in the long run?SS

If you have the money go for it but you need to be organised. I have been known to buy things because they were a bargain and then lose them, or forget I've put them away somewhere and buy again!!! That or else I buy something and find I have almost the identical thing in the cupboard already.

As far as food is concerned the same thing goes. It's easy to buy more than you can use and then it's wasted. We have some very organised people on this board - I'm not one of them - so there are always good tips to pick up!!!!

Good luck

Sue