September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Choccybix

Well, my 1st GC doesnt start officially til Monday but today I invested in a SC(less than half price... bargain ) after reading lots about them on previous GC threads.

Also I have frozen my 1st HM ready meal!! I made a spag bol for tea and normally we eat the whole lot and feel over-faced all evening :rotfl: Anyway I decided to make a larger portion of bolognaise using an extra tin of value toms and more veg and I now have frozen half :T We still feel full and well-fed tho

KAAT_LADY

WILL READ UP TOMORROW

pink_princess

I m so glad its gone well for you and mr ioiwe ,you will have to sort picture s out for us :beer:
Denise some of us are still on august so aren t on the list but i ll say now can you please include me MRS MC £350 for september although my pay month doesn t start till 12th so i ll keep reading both threads till then.
I have to reduce my budget due to other half s redundacy.
Also mrs mc thanx for the tip about the seeds got loads drying now so role on feb / march so i can plant them.
Cammum your post about processed foods etc nearly made me cry it s just what i was like a few month s ago and the guilt i now feel about what i was feeding my children is awful .
Thank you s all so much for this thread it makes me such a better parent and person i think x
TTFN:D

Lelc

Can I join in please? I have tried before but I always forget to make a note of what I've spent. I'm going to try really, really hard this time to stick to £250 - for 4 adults (although there are quite a few days when dd or ds will be at friends or eating out).

My freezer is full to the gudgeons so I have loads of stuff to use up. Also my ds is away for a week which means it should be cheaper week.

brummiebabe

Had to pop to get fruit/veg this afternoon. Went to Sainsburys & they'd got 1/3 off all nappies, wipes etc etc. Ended up spending more than planned as bought 2 big packs of pampers (£5.98 instead of £8.99) as too much of a bargain to miss!!!! My daughter now has 4 big packs of nappies in her wardrobe:rotfl: - perhaps I might have a couple of months now without buying ANY!!!!!

In total - spent £26.04 today and still didn't get bread (which I hadn't realsied we'd need!) so have got to get that tomorrow!!:rolleyes:

taka

Yay... managed as NSD today for once Total spent since Thurs is £14.48!

I'm thinking of getting a slowcooker - are they any good for veggies? What size/ features / brand should I look out for? Its just for me but I have reasonable freezer space so I'm happy to batch cook.

meanmarie

My first September shop to-day....€108.41, but there were 2 bottles of wine on that for OH so he can buy the milk until his 'debt' is paid off! By mistake bought 2 lots of tea so there should be enough for October as well.

My family is usually 3 adults and a 6 year old, but we have lots of visitors too.

Night all

Marie

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi everyone

Hope you all had a good day although being without MSE was so hard had to go out and walk about. Luckily I managed to survive the day without spending any money on my grocery challenge, my friend bought me some coffee in starbucks as thanx for cooking him dinner last night, so not too disasterous.

Goodnight everyone
Cheers
Casper
x x x

Jacks_xxx

:wave: Our family is my husband and me, my son who is 20 soon, and my daughter who is 13, plus our grumpy old poorly cat who is 13 too, and only eats meat and fish (although he does have a back up bag of Mr T's expensive cat crunchies on the go for emergencies.)

We all take a packed lunch, tend to have the standard cereal, tea and toast for brekkie, and I do a lot of pasta and rice based evening meals.

I'm not much of a cook, but I'm slowly expanding my repertoire and I still get ridiculously pleased when my kids tell me something I cooked was good!

I throw extra veg, porridge oats, beans and lentils into (almost)every meal so we can stretch them into a batch to freeze for next week or for my hubby and son to take to work for lunch.

I prefer a one handed sandwich type lunch cos I'm usually typing as I eat and my daughter has just had braces fitted so she's panicking about what she'll be able to eat for lunch at school cos she's really self conscious at the moment.

Blimey so that's *my* life story...!

Love Jacks xxx

Blairweech

Fertyskids - I could come and stay in your house, I would eat both of those things and be bl00dy grateful for them!!

Denisefowler - I have the same problem with the TV, even if its a programe I hate, I just can't listen to anything else at the same time. Conversations often go "blah blah blah blah blah"........PAUSE.......(Me: what?')

Cammummof3 - I would go with tinned beans - dried beans are such a hassle, and I can never get them soft. Well done you for trying beans again - they are great :clap:. Tins of pulses are with the tinned veg/baked beans area of supermarkets usually.

I agree with angelnikki about not listing people's families etc with their amount - it is impossible to compare. This is why every time someone posts a Meal Plan/Shopping List thread, it ends in controversy - Black Saturn got an absolute slating in hers, as there was not much fresh fruit and veg on it, despite her saying explicitally several times that it gave her family gripe. This is a personal challenge,to lower your spend as much you feel comfortable with and no one should be going to extremes to get their budget down - remember that food is one of the great pleasures of life - we could all live on £10/week if we ate value beans on value toast but where is the fun in that?


Anyway, after all that waffle - I am going to go for £100/month again this month please. Have not finished adding up August yet, will do so later

EDIT: LOOOOOOOOOOK I GOT A MEDAL!!!!!!!
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