August 2008 Grocery Challenge

gunsandbanjos

Was meant to be a NSD today but hubby had used all the sugar. So spent £2.30 on bread and sugar:eek: Cant remember the last time i bought bread, couldnt believe how expensive it was! £1.35 for a white hovis loaf, that is extortionate. My lovely homemade loaf was still too hot to cut by lunchtime and i didnt want to wreck it.

kymbogs

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

.he always replies either -"not at that price" or "no, I will only eat it" :rotfl:

That 'no I will only eat it' really cracked me up. What a thing to say when you're food shopping lol. Good on him though

MRSMCAWBER

Here we go again

I just slice up the mushrooms and freeze raw..once cooked -we can't tell the difference.. I even buy bags of frozen -like you i got sick of them going icky before i could use them..

Mummysaver just said something worse than Lakeland :eek: she mentioned a le creuset shop :eek: ..I love that stuff and have quite a collection ... but you never can have to much can you

Astonished.. My hubby would love being banned from going into the "bad places" :rotfl: he normally sits in the car with a suduko book.. or wanders off and catches me up near the checkout -which suits us both as when he does go with me he runs off with the trolley -trolley surfing -leaning on the handle, running and lifting his feet in the air like a kid..he is 44 :rotfl:

Kymbogs.. i know :rotfl: but I have given up trying to point out that "YES dear that is the general idea of food"... I know what he means though.. if i buy salted peanuts etc..he will want them because they are there... if we have none he won't be bothered ...so I don't buy them.. Its odd as my hubby rarely puts anything in the trolley when he DOES go with me... guess i should be gratefull

angelnikki

:T :T Well Done everyone thats under budget :T :T

And well done everyone else for trying

I've just looked at my GC spreadsheet and since this time last year I have had £4760 housekeeping (this would have been £5400 if I hadnt found this site). My total GC budget has been £4605, and I've only spent £4225.08.

So this year, I have been £379.92 under my GC budget. :j which means I have saved £534.92 :A of my housekeeping.
Yippee!

Thanks everyone :beer:

Nikki x

Flylady_Flower

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

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

I think you're right Mrs M - my hubby is definitly learning, just slowly - I think he needs to see the savings like you say - it's hard for men isn't it, they like things black and white and proof that whatever you tell them actually exists - show them the proof and it's all their idea to have started anyway! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Bless 'em eh. I wouldn't change him though... (well... )

Astonished wrote: »

And that leaves me £32 in my budget to get some plonk - do you know, I think I might be able to pull this off and still come in under budget!!

Astonished - did your OH not say it was bring a bottle either? Ohhh, couldn't you just kill them... I know Mr T's and Mr A's were doing a special on wine - buy so many and get one free or something, but not sure if they still are - You've done well though, sounds like a nice feast...

kymbogs

Well done Nikki thats such a huge saving over the year, and just think how much you would have spent otherwise!:j

Flylady_Flower

Astonished wrote: »

I don't eat any of the ruddy meat anyway - hmm, there's a thought - it'd be a damn site cheaper if I made them all veggies for the day...lol..:D

Oooh, quick thought, what about veggie kebabs? (or even meat kebabs, but just one square )

kymbogs

Had a couple of NSD's this week though I had to top up on self-raising flour and eggs yesterday which is mostly down to me making 3 banana loaves - all my nanas went brown and speckledy and I just can't eat them like that, so they got mooshed up and put in banana bread. So my mum got one, one is in the freezer and the other is fighting for room in the breadbin.

Will need to go to town tomorrow as I have a library book to take back, then again maybe I can ask DH to take it back for me on his way home from work, he finishes early on a Friday. Will save me bus fare and I'd rather avoid going into town this saturday as it more or less always ends up meaning stopping for coffee somewhere while we give one or other of the babies a bottle or some lunch.

Just had a better idea, I could wait till saturday then use DH's weekly bus ticket to go to town on my own while he stays home with the babies

It's chilli from the freezer tonight with jacket potatoes and some sour cream, yumyum.

Kimberley x

EagerLearner

Re hubbies, I nearly fell over last night when MrEL not only agreed to my proposed spending plan for him in terms of amount to go to his savings, but then he increased the amount by £10 when he was on the phone to the bank and grinned at me - I was very pleased! Plus he's been great with food shopping and is definately on board as he now makes our bread once a week and loves it. Plus he likes the HM yoghurt and batch cooking results.

Bad moment last night as I underplanned for our dinner, so he ended up spending £4.60 (ish, can't find receipt) on dinner at the Co-Op... plus £2.01 for bread and ham.

So I will declare my final totals once the Co-Op one shows up and I will enter it on www.spendingdiary.com to get my August tally...

OrkneyStar

Afternoon all.
Raining here so cannot do washing as currently nowhere to dry it :mad: (nappies and other stuff in heater cupboard). Been to town and used Boots points to get some shampoo so technically nothing spent GC-wise.
Hoping today and tomorrow will be NSD's then will declare Augs on Friday evening.
Hugs to all who need them, not had time to read all the posts as been busy.
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