August 2008 Grocery Challenge

savingfortravel

scotsaver-Thanks, can't wait!!! SFT

meanmarie

Spent another €53.83 today, leaves me with €126.40 to see me to the end of August...planning on using salad stuff, cabbage, onions and spinach from garden as much as possible and apples and rhubarb for my own fruit allowance at least...will have DD2, DDIL 1 and three grand-daughters to-morrow, then DS, DSIL from Friday, so may not make it even though there is very little space for any more food...will do my best as most of stuff in freezers could do with being used up.

Susan...happy anniversary...3 more years than me!

Good luck to all

Justamum

Herewegoagain wrote: »

mr m and mr t have also brought it down here, petrol at £1.11 I think,, do you have either of those justamum, hope so;)

No Mr M. We have a MrT but they don't do fuel (or clothes either :mad:)

nessquic80

My local mr t is selling petrol for £108.9 (hamilton, leicester)
Just back needed a few bits,dishwasher salt soda crystal,hubby came and put stupid things like sliced salami (end up in bin), chicken bites ( full of processed carp) biscuits, cakes, "oh look squid in tomato sauce, shall we give it a go??" guess what my answer was.........:rolleyes: . Anyway what should have been a £10 shop come to £55 odd thank god for BOGOF and the NOTW voucher, then i got a free jar of coffee,but they'd ran out so gave me a promise voucher for next time.I think that takes my total to £191,the freezer is so full i dont know where anything is cus it got shoved where ever it fitted and the cupboards are fit to burst that im suprised there still hanging on the wall:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: .Oh well off out for dinner now TTFN!!

gillaman

Just updating sig. Spent £19.19 on fruit, veg and some stock items, plus some milk and jam to make own yogs again. More than I was hoping to spend but some of it wash organic which pushed the price up and I also had to buy sunflower oil which I hadn't realised I was running short of. On the plus side, I didn't just pop stuff in the trolley, pretty well stuck to my list other than the milk and jam (but then I didn't buy the yogs on the list) and I'm still within budget at the moment. Think I've got about £40 to last until the 1st Sept. GS2 and GD2 both staying overnight tonight so have to get dinner for them, then GD2 off to her other gran in the morning and GS2 staying with me until Friday night - cooking for him and possibly dd. Haven't caught up on the thread today but will try to have a look tonight, but hope everyone's OK and not stressing over life in general. Checked my meter readings today, both under target - yippeee!!

chocolateteddy

Hi all back from a lovely holiday in Nottingham, ice skating sherwood forest, drayton Manor (3 times Thank goodness for tesco clubcard deals!!)Exhausting now need a holiday to recover. Even took breadmaker as refused to pay for bread!! Decided to give up on grocery challenge for the time we were away as impossible to separate it out so am starting fresh this week so it will only be a 3 week month Will adjust at end of month. Went to Asda and Lidl today and only got what was on list so have had a good start will update total when I tot up the receipts. Not even going to attempt reading up to date so will start from now, luckily all those lovely recipes are on page 1 so thanks Nikki.

galadriel

Less than half way through the month but halfway through the budget already and we are running out of things. Not sure if I will make it on my reduced budget. I'm trying to have a week using up stuff out of the freezer and cupboards but my DD has just moved house and has no cooker so am feeding her and DGD every couple of days as well. Yesterday we had value pasta and a jar of pasta sauce with grated cheese so that wasn't too expensive.

Essex-girl_2

Evening All

Have just had my first grocery spend today - going away is definately good for the Grocery Budget.

£12 local butchers
£7 greengrocers
£3 bakers
£3.70 local shop
£8 milkman.
Total - £33.70

I need to do a big Tesco shop but have just started making a list so will probably get it organised for the end of the week.

princess_leia_3

Spent just 65p today on a cauliflower :T
But I have just gone to make some yoghurt and noticed we don't have any UHT!!!:mad: So can I make it with normal milk??? Anyone here know that?

Savvy_sewing

Really not having the time to read this thread this month it just moves so very fast.!!
I have spent £15.58 in the butchers today.
I bought 600g pork and leek sausages, 2lb of stewing beef, 1/5kg of pork, a small chicken and 900g of Bacon pieces. That will make at least 6 meals for us. Possibly seven. If I look on here I am bound to find some of the best ideas to make the meat work wonders.