August 2008 Grocery Challenge

juliejim

Hi All

I've been missing off here for a couple of months but I'll be back next month. Just thought I'd say though that I had a Lemon and Ginger cheesecake from Asda yesterday and it was 50p instead of £2. It's a new range so I assume that's why they've rolled them back to promote them.

Jue

Anzac_Biscuit

Morning all,
Just did my weekly shop - came in just under 15 quid and bf put in 5 (aw, bless) so fingers crossed I don't need anything else this week.

I'll be doing a big crockpot of chilli later to use up some about-to-turn peppers from my housemate (thanks), have chicken and soup in the freezer and anything else will be storecupboard stuff I think - GF pasta and a sauce

I've been lazy again about doing a proper meal plan so will need to do that later today so I know when to defrost stuff:rotfl:

Hugs to all that need them!

Flylady_Flower

Morning all,
not been on proper for last week or so coz working so much but am off now so trying to catch up with everything... :wave:

Haven't used the breadmaker for a while so wondered if anyone has a full-proof recipe for it ? I don't have a book and had to give my Mum back the book I was using as it was for hers (different make, but still came out OK although a little heavy?). I started making it by hand, but with work, etc, i don't have much time now, so if I can just "chuck it in and leave till bleep" I should be OK.

Want to get housework and stuff done today (catch up on list...) and then spend tomorrow cooking (well, that's the plan?) so we'll see.

I only have 4 items on my list at the moment, but will do a quick reccy around to check for anything else drastic as don't want to go back again later in the week - (only have £25 of budget left till Friday :eek: ) so fingers crossed... We have loads of HM readymeals in the freezer - cottage pie, chicken tikka masala, chilli-con-carne, spag bol, plus some HM soup - and plenty of frozen stuff ready to cook, even 6 pints of milk, so should be set to last (am determined to be on budget this month... )

Quick Question: Does anyone know a good, cheap, toilet cleaner with limescale remover? I brought Lidl's one, which say's helps remove limescale, but it's not :mad: (keep getting that line around the water mark and blue lines staying up the pan, even though I clean it every day - bad limescale around here...) sorry to be so 'indepth' :rotfl:

calleyw

After reading about food prices going up again:mad: I am going to use my last £20 to stock up on porridge, a couple bags of flour and pasta. Any other breakfast cereals that are on offer and either UHT or powdered milk to put away in my already well stocked larder.

Yours


Calley

ShelBell

Just added another £3 to sig, put some bread in the BM this morning to make sandwiches at lunch but left it too late so it didn't finish till just after noon. So walked DS round to the sayers at the end of my road and bought him a pasty and me a sandwich (which I hate doing as I can only eat 1/3 of one at the moment, such waste!).

Still, the breads done now so we can have sarnies tomorrow.

Pitlanepiglet

Oh dear....I'm not sure how to confess this...:o Firstly, :wave: I've been lurking around the GC for the last few months, I've not actively participated because I buy in bulk (Costco) over a couple of months (meat/fish etc) and we work away at weekends quite a lot so its's difficult to have a budget....so I've been using you lovely people for inspiration, recipes and just trying to cut down, think about brands and just being careful.

This month was a "non Costco" month and I was doing really well at just about £100 (two adults, packed lunch for me every day and DH works from home) plus this included £23 for Domino's pizza (I know, I know!) and some fleeces and plastic storers from Asda I've got a good stock of food in the cupboards so if I'd dug into the cupboards instead of adding to them I could have done better BUT I was quite happy with my spends....

UNTIL.....Tesco (Asda & Sainsbugs) has beer on special offer (3 cases for £20), now we drink too much (not that much but prob too much IYKWIM), so.....I put in two Tesco orders (for delivery Thurs and Friday) and bought six boxes of beer per order (they won't let you have more than six :rotfl:), so we now have 12 boxes of beer lurking in the cupboard under the stairs which will do us for ages and will cover Christmas. So on one hand I feel quite smug, we're sorted for Christmas, we saved £40 on the beer, got one £10 off voucher and one 1000 point code....but, I blew my budget on beer :rotfl:

cookinmummy

OMG - just did last shop for my GC month (£48.01) and I am declaring £212.47!:j

I cannot believe that before I started this challenge we were spending over £400 a month, and I have halved my spend! A big thanks to this thread and its posters for inspiring me to be more careful of my grocery spend, recipes and for price-cutting suggestions.:T

I think I will aim for £210 in September as we were away for a few days this month - so I think that is a suitable target.

Thanks again, CM.:D

OrkneyStar

Well have just done the main shop of my last August week. Spent £1.81 in frozen food shop and £18.06 in Tesco (actually got £26 worth of stuff but there was a couple of BOGOFs, a COOP £3 off £20 TS and £2.85 worth of clubcard vouchers so not bad). Would have preferred to go on Sunday but with my back playing up we went today so DH could 'help' as we were off into town for DS's new shoes anyway (managed to get Clarks ones in his exact size reduced to £14 from £20, then they took another 25% off as they were in the sale so actually only cost us £10.50- well pleased with that as they go through them so quickly ).
Not much else planned now, need to make this weeks meal plan (which will likely include peppers lol as they were 34p each today in Tesco). Dinner tonight is stuffed pasta with yesterdays sauce and I will also make apple and blackberry crumble and need to make HM bread for Garlic bread too.
Bye for now and take care peeps.
x :wave:

bails

Hi all, some happy totals coming in, it's great how much we can help each other! :T

Went to the market this morning, spent £7.30 on veg but got 2 massive boxes of mushrooms (normal and flat) £2.50 each :j. Also spent £3 on teacakes for the workers. I hadn't anticipated the extra spends of feeding them every day but still hope to come in under budget, and with lots of bulk veg etc put away for the months to come Will update my sig later.
Have a great bank hol all x

KAAT_LADY

HI THERE GUYS

will start september GC next week..and hopefuly nothing will happen to put me off ,,

will start on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday

will start off with £200 for september

Thanks NIKKI

see you later

ANN xx