August 2008 Grocery Challenge

nickynoo08

Morning,

Can you pu put me down for £110 for sept GC please.

Cheers nicky

Lizzieanne

I'm going to declare £369.56 for August, a little under budget.

There are a few things going on in September, so I'm in again with a budget of £400.

WelshWoofer

Just reporting a NSD day - had tea out with clients and brought lunch to work with me.
It was going to be a NSD today too but the OH has decided that he would like tuna pasta bake for tea tonight and I've discovered I've run out of cheese - so will have to pop out for some on the way home. I also need milk and possibly garlic bread too so a few pounds will be spent, will try to buy nothing else though....

Is the new thread up yet? I'll tootle off and have a look....

Edited to say that I don't think the Sept thread has been created just yet.

inamess200

Hello everyone

I have been busily studing all the threads ( alot of my week off has been spent reading on here!!) and want to join the shopping challenge - our LBM came in July 2005 and we set up a DMP with Payplan which is going well but as our income creeps up ( husband went back to work this month after 3 years on the sick) our shopping seems to have crept up to stupid levels mainly because we are now both working and have not been organised enough to plan ahead ( therefore making daily trips to Mr S Mr t etc) - this stops now.

Last night I made a list of meals and a plan for the next 7 days - we have cupboards of food and a fairly well stocked freezer - mainly cause I've been buying daily!! So today I will list the freezer contents as well.

I am ashamed to admit we have spent £600 on food in August add that to school uniform shop and alot of money had disappeared this month!! So I think my budget for 3 children and 2 adults and 2 rabbitts will be £450 for September - hopefully less as I get more organised.

Thankyou to you all for doing this - I am glad not to be alone

Flylady_Flower

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Well hubby came home from the golf course armed with 2 bottles of cravendale -whoopsed to 50c each :T Im just shocked hubby thought to pick it up -and wouldn't have the €1 :j ..apparently there were no other "super bargains" -I think i have created a monster :rotfl: I was on about needing a new airfreshener for the car... he went under the sink and came out armed with a bottle of my scented burner oils and declared he was going to put it on the one we had..."we are being frugal " was his comment :eek: ... ok who has stolen my hubby and re-programmed him? :T :rotfl:

Oooh, I wish someone would reprogramme my hubby - he is getting better but is still a nightmare, goes to get fuel and comes back with 3 big bags of sweets for us all, EVERY TIME! He does it coz he thinks it will be a nice treat for us, he means well but :mad: I really don't want sweets coz I'm trying to cut them out and also it's such a waste - £5 a time! luckily we have leftover money on the fuel account, so I have been leaving it off that, but next time he does it its coming out of his spending money, so will mean less beer up the club - maybe that will teach him... gawd bless him

Right, am going to declare today to stop me spending any money on my last day, or I will be even more over budget - Declaring August as £302.81 for Grocery spends and £151.15 for Extras - so over on both but glad I split it as now I can see where the bulk of my spending has gone and I know I will be able to get that down next month.

Mrs M, Please can I be put down for £300 Groceries and £100 Extras again for September please, thanks

gunsandbanjos

cammumof3 wrote: »

I went shopping on Tuesday and spent 43.90, when I had gone through the check out I noticed on my bill that there was 2 lots of 4.66. It was the 2 (2 to cover the baking I intend on doing) lots of Lurpack butter I had picked up, so I went straight to customer services and asked if I could get my money back and buy something cheaper, I told the lady at the desk there was no way I could afford to pay that much for butter and when she scanned it she said 'blimey 4.66' yeah exactly my point.

Was it the Lurpak spreadable you were buying? I am a complete Lurpak snob:o Never used to buy anything else, but i bought the Mr T Butterpak and it is brilliant, i checked the ingredients on pack and it is almost identical to lurpak except it actually has a higher butter content. Tastes identical and is on offer for £1 for 500g (should still be on offer but not 100% sure)

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Just thought I would pop back.. I have just recieved my despatch note from lakeland (which hopefully means my parcel will be arriving with hubby soon )...on the note they have listed my free gift -the melamine utensils set.. but they have also added a free trial of their foil... only 4m X 30cm ...but free..should be 99p ... plus in the box there is a 99p coupon of the full sized one :j I like freebies ..I won't use the coupon as I love LIDLs foil and its a big roll -but i can send the coupon to my mum along with the other ones i have so she can use them in asda
Hope it gets here soon as i am running low on washingup liquid -but refusing to get anymore as i have ordered 6 bottles of their eco one -on half price @ 79c each -cheaper than my normal stuff :j

On the subject of reprogramming hubbies/OHs I wish i could help :rotfl: Im not sure what has happened to mine..it must be the "drip drip drip" affect of me waffling...almost like subliminal messaging (that or he is seeing how my savings account is building up ) I say "mine"..its our money -but just happens to be in my name as someone [strike]is[/strike] was a spendthrift... and its only money leftover from housekeeping (just over €900 /£720 in just over 2 months)... But Frugal does seem to be said by him more than me now ... and when i say "do you want" whilst in the supermarket..he always replies either -"not at that price" or "no, I will only eat it" :rotfl: ..so don't give up on em folks.... mine has got there -much quicker than i expected :j

gunsandbanjos

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/keyword/remoska

Mrs M may i remind you that this is a moneysaving website, posting links to Lakeland will likely have a serious effect on my bank balance:rotfl:

Herewegoagain

Hiya guys,
Will be declaring today but just have to check a few things, this is my last day and although I need a few things I refuse to go near the shops so am also declaring another NSD 15 in total:j:j
Thanks Mrs Mc will read up on remoska, looks interresting and anything that saves money:rotfl::T and if you can clone hubby, put me down for one, my part time OH flatly refuses to be mse:mad:
Princess Leia, good luck for tonight hope it goes well, keep us informed hon, your so much braver than me:j
Well off to sort a few things and upgrade sig
HWGA xx

MRSMCAWBER

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Mrs M may i remind you that this is a moneysaving website, posting links to Lakeland will likely have a serious effect on my bank balance:rotfl:

I can only appologise very sorry all ..Think I'm safer -being out here...much less tempting to shop on line than to go and rummage through the one in Nottingham when im home..especially there "whoopsie" corner ..although I have been known to go in 4 times in one day -much to my nieces amusement :rotfl:

Herewegoagain... hmmm cloning hubby.... took me a long time to find him you know then I had to go all the way to Kosovo (via mail) to find him :rotfl:... the only thing I have ever wanted to alter was his spending habbits :j but we won't tell him that