September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

rosieben

I've just updated my sig, spent £9 odd in the local shops (butchers etc) and my sister did some shopping for me when she did their supermarket trip. I'm not able to travel far at the moment so I'm only shopping locally with another sister; both my sisters are being really great but I'll be so glad to get back to normal!!

mama67

dazzle21 wrote: »

SO far this month we've spent £89.80, and I need to get some milk and cheese in tonight. I think it's going to be a tough month.. Can anyone suggest a quick and simple receipe to use up some lemon curd? Money saving Diva could i ask you for your lemon curd ice-cream receipe? TIA xx

I use lemon curd instead of jam or treacle under a sponge mix for a pudding, lovely with custard.

pink_princess

Hi every-one im finally finished on august so can i please declare £354.79 for august thanx angelnikki.
Mrs m , you already have my new reduced amount on the list for september thanx .
It will be a real struggle this month as i have less budget and we ve used up the majority of our freezer and stores .I may need help of meal ideas by the time we get to the end of the month.We do have savings to get through oh s redundancy but really need to try not to use them if possible.
To leebarton re the fuel spends i track mine in my sig every month ,i don t go on a thread about it not sure if one exists.I do find writting it down helps me limit what i waste and makes me walk further.
Good luck to every-one on your challenges and hugs where appropriate.

jackie_w

Hi All,


Just updated sig, spent another £85.23 during this week, taking my total way up. Thing is, I havent actually bought anything for proper dinners, its all just been odds and sods that ive needed.

im not doing too well at this, but, i will keep on trying.

Just off to read through all the posts.
Jackie

annelouise_2

Hello,

Have spent £11.00 on fruit & veg,fromage frais,marj,pop,jaffa cakes,4p curry sauce and 28p sweet and sour sauce and biscuits for next week.

Still plenty of milk inc my free candia 1 litre I got from the Bounty website at Mr S yesterday.

HM ham & veg pizza for lunch and honey mustard chicken for tea with noodles/rice.

Run round fridge for tomorrows lunch and Roast at friends for tea.Will make Twinks / peanut butter cookies to take as a thankyou.

Have put my menu planner on a printable table so I can jiggle and redo monthly and look at my shopping list to add/take away.

DD9 at friends overnight and for lunch.

Update sig for this week only spent £140.21 to date,so looking good.

annelouise

angelatgraceland

Just made my "well-planned" trip to Tesco armed with my shopping list and the vouchers Id been forgeting to use up(mainly clubcard ones). Took my £5 daily express one from last weeks paper also.
Bought 2 copies of the Star and ripped out the vouchers for the Rustlers big one(like a big mac)so I also bought those-worth £1.95 each.Got 3 chickens for £10 so thats the next 3 sunday lunches sorted-we don't eat much meat midweek.. Bought some tins of broken mandarins for 11p per tin,these are lovely in with a trifle(8p orange jelly)also got some fruit cocktail which is now 23p as thats nice in a fruit cobler with some mixed dried fruit or sultanas.To use my voucher off tinned toms I had to spend a £1 on them so got 6 tins of value toms at 19p per tin so I think they are a penny or two cheaper than before.Bananas were only 77p per kg so got some of those too-basically only bought bargains and items with my vouchers which were "needed" rather than buying aimlessly.
8 loaves of value bread-37p per loaf so thats a weeks supply of bread for us and six 2 litre bottles of "the one" milk which is £1 per bottle. Good date on it-it will keep until 22nd and we normally use 2 litres per day so a weeks milk it will be(near enough).Total was £60.56 before multiple savings and vouchers. I paid £33.68 woohoooooooooooo! Got some till spits which included the 5p off per litre on fuel but doubt I will use it as it works out same cost as my local garage!(petrolprices.com for updates via email)
Now going to change the proposed Asda delivery to next Friday instead of Wednesday. Can't see I will need a lot during the week-just a bit of F&V I'm guessing. Took out some steaks from the freezer today and chopped them up for a beef stew in the SlowCooker(they were all reduced)I never seem to get around to cooking them so thats tonights tea sorted-=just need to chuck in a few more ingredients now. Also used up some boiled pots Id frozen-perfect in stews so Im glad they didnt get wasted. Now I need to take back a tin of paint I bought as I found we already have a new tin-so will swap it for gloss. Glad I kept the receipt!I tend to keep them all for at least 2 weeks now-just in case I need them.

WendysWorld

Hi All,
just updating to see my signature. Just spent a whopping £97 on shopping/groceries....so embarrassing when that's what people spend the whole month!:o
However, should last for a couple of weeks and there's a lot of non-perishables in there....I hope....

Off to do a load of batch cooking now!

BM

suzybloo

Well todays shopping was slightly over budget in Mr T's was £62.80, (went away without my £5 vouchers - wasted £10!!!!)- included in this was nappies for putting away as first grandchild due at christmas, semi chem for washing up liquid, kitchen cloths and hand wash came to £3.86 so todays spend takes the total to just over £150 out of £300 for the month - not too bad freezer is full, hubby got dozen free range eggs for nothing, only thing forgot was leeks for the soup - they might not notice as difficult just to go for one thing!! away to watch x factor now with cheap plonk!!!

redbaileys

hi everybody :hello: i've just been reading through this thread and i would like to join. would anyone mind if i set a target but its to start on the 15th of each month and run until 14th of the next month? its just i always do my biggest shop just after pay-day so would be easier for me to keep track that way. if any objections no probs i can try to work it from the 1st of the month and just start next month

MRSMCAWBER

amethystcash wrote: »

Just wondering if Mrs McAwber would adopt me...

Are you mad?:rotfl: Form a queue .... We have 1 spare bedroom but a big loft with electrics etc and a basement where I could make room :rotfl: ...might help me get my freezer run down

Well we have just had marmite on toast for tea ..... we are addicted and as we had a "proper" cooked lunch we didn't fancy anything much -although we have made quite a dent in the new loaf :eek:

Tomorrow is going to be leftover chicken with roasties, hm stuffing and veggies -(when i made broc/cauli cheese the other day i ended up with 3 tubs of it in the freezer and a tub of cheese sauce) -so its an easy day... time for lots more knitting/x stitch :j

right will get back to my knitting