August 2008 Grocery Challenge

Brighton_belle

MMmmmmm 13th aug and £3 left of food budget:eek: . Thing is, I have bulk bought some stuff which will last quite a time, and totally restocked my spices & herbs and it is cheaper to bulk buy them through mail order & they will last ages so it will not be all used this month. Got loads of food in. Will just run short of fruit I think. The challenge is on! There ain't no more money.
Big bird - I get paid on 28th of the month but I'm doing calender months for the challenge, it just feels better in my head.
Love the sound of your patio growers:j . Nearly planted a sprouting potato today....maybe tomorrow:D

perrywinkle

Hi everyone,

so much for my planned NSD for today - ended up spending £45.42 and have updated signature. Managed to get my 10kg bag of potatoes from Mr M that I had been waiting for and the rest was for reduced items in Mr A which will give lots more meals. They were all reduced by at least half - I know that if I go later in the day the reductions (if the items are still there) are much better but I can't go then and having them at this price is still a big saving as they are things I would buy anyway.

Perrywinkle

galadriel

No spend day for me today. DS treated me to tea, which was a lovely surprise. He came home with a bag of prawns, stir fry veg and sauce and a tub of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream. I only had to provide the noodles and garlic Bless I am having a proud mummy moment - don't have many of those - tomorrow I will be yelling at him for leaving his boxers on the bathroom floor :rotfl:

Chell

*bigbird* I find it easier to do a weekly amount than a monthly. I was finding that I was shopping on random days then spending more. If I try to plan a weekly amount in my head then I spend less, I start my week on a Monday.

DH gets paid on 15th and when I was working I got paid later in the month. It meant that I never really felt when the month begain IYSWIM.

applemella

well.....I gave in to kid pressure this evening and am feeling very annoyed with myself!
I am just so tired from work this week that I can't be bothered to cook from scratch tonight so I bought a load of stuff for the kids tomorrow whilst I am at work.
Unfortunately it includes bottles of diet coke, crisps and chocolate bars.Bad mother me!!
Was just so tired of being moaned at and having to prepare/cook lunch for them the evening before.
They did have HM pizza for lunch with salad today as I made a pizza last night.
On a more positive ms note Iceland have 4pts milk at £1.20 or 2 for£2 which is a bargain!!

KAAT_LADY

evening all .

.this is archie and we have been to the vet and she has said its only a matter of time now,,not long,,just keep him warm and safe and love him,, he is sleeping at the moment,,and doing a lot of that

Well will see you soon

sorry to post something that isnt OS but I needed to

thankyou

Ann xx

chocolateteddy

Forgot to say when I went to Nottingham I took the ingredients for weetabix Chocolate Brownies with me I premixed sugar, flour and cocoa powder and thought I could just add weetabix egg and marg and it would mean cheap cakes whilst out and about. But in my haste to get it cooked before bed one night I forgot to add the weetabix. Couldn't understand why it resembled a sponge cake rather than te brownies we are used to then I realised Whoops forgot weetabix Gingerly tried and wow I forget the weetabix every time now It is delicious obviously doesn't make quite as much and I think I will add a bit of orange zest next time I'm drooling just thinking about it.
Surprised it was edible but the girls and oh love it.

andrinaperry

I would like to join and I am hoping to stick to a budget of £350 this month, thats the 15th to the 12th of September. My usual budget is around £400 so trying to cut back

Andrina

perrywinkle

Ann - Thinking of you and Archie

*BigBird*

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Big Bird

:j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j :j on the patiogro.. Im waiting to hear if they will do mine tax free (well if you don't ask you don't get ).. either way i will be ordering one and the plastic cover jobby..can't wait..hope you haven't had the last one :rotfl:

Fingers crossed you can get it tax free. I'm hoping I will also get some cash for my birthday that I can put towards the plastic cover. Can't wait to start planting stuff Thanks so much for putting us onto these :T