September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Girl_least_likely_to

Hello everyone :wave:

Having gone slightly over last month (again!) I reeeeaaallllllyy want to stay within budget. However have just found out I'm pregnant with baby number 2 I'm wondering how easy this will be for me. Last time by the time I'd cooked dinner I'd completely gone off what I was cooking and my packed lunches that I took to work morphed into nice butties and pasta salads from M&S! Not very money saving .

Anyway I am having a big tesco delivery tomorrow to stock up my freezer which should last me for much of the month, jusy shopping regularly for F&V, and milk.

Please put my budget at £200 for this month

Good luck to everyone this month

ShelBell

Congratulations Girl least likely to! Heres hoping to a happy and easy pregnancy

cammumof3

HI every one

Well done girl least likely to, great news. Here's to a good and happy pregnancy.
I am trying to do my menu so I can do my shopping list, been trying for about 30 minutes so far and have nothing written down:mad:
Am going to go and look at the other sites I want to look at IE freezing and stuff
Caz

ladyroughneck

Good evening everyone.
I have just declared my total for august over on the august thread, thankfully it was under again:j
I am now ready to set september's budget at £190 please,as my month starts from tomorrow! a slight decrease from last month, lets see if i can rise to the challenge.

Good luck to all the newbies and to everyone taking part.

Mrs_Money_Penny

Evening everyone

Had a delivery from Mr T on friday evening the first shop of the month. This came to £79.34. Had a NSD on Saturday and today. I am on my own now until Saturday so i had meal planned for myself using up some one portion meals i have in the freezer. I save these when i make a meal for the family. If there is any left i put it into a plastic container anything like chilli, spag bol etc. have one portion of pitza dough defroasting for tomorrow nights dinner.

Ifonlyitwaseasier lovely photos congratulations. Also congratulations to Girl least likely to. Good luck everyone.

Herewegoagain

Girl_least_likely_to wrote: »

Hello everyone :wave:

Having gone slightly over last month (again!) I reeeeaaallllllyy want to stay within budget. However have just found out I'm pregnant with baby number 2 I'm wondering how easy this will be for me. Last time by the time I'd cooked dinner I'd completely gone off what I was cooking and my packed lunches that I took to work morphed into nice butties and pasta salads from M&S! Not very money saving .
Good luck to everyone this month

Congrats to to you girl, a least this time you know what to expect and so can plan, why not cook up loads of HM meals and freeze so you only have to heat them up when you get home:D
HWGA xx

greent

Mrs Mc please put me down for £475 for Sept. I am reducing by £25 this month. I'd like to go down a tad more, but am planning on getting some Xmas spends in that figure

Have already spent some of shiny new budget on Mr T and Waitrose deliveries - offer shopped from W and got £50 of food for £24 after delivery and the save15 code :T

Ooh - waitose save15 code will work for orders placed today but not arriving for a couple of weeks or so - so I placed an order earlier for 3weeks time and also one in hubby's name using the code for 4 weeks time Not much time left to do it, but any nigt owls out there might benefit - I only realised earlier, but have had intermittent internet today, so my priority was ordering whilst 'net was working before posting on here


Have also placed abel & cole delivery through quidco (thanks jaycee 1972) so should get the £10 cashback and made the order up to £25 by adding a bottle of washing up liquid to get free mob - so LOADS of f&v here this week :rotfl: :rotfl: Hmm... may need to make some room in a freezer to actually fit some in!

Off to catch up on posts now - have declared on Aug thread but not finished reading this one yet where we've been away. Also need to update sig :-))

Gt

genkijen

OK im in for £250 to start with , will take the advice and save all the receipts...my fridge and freezer are pretty well stocked so should be ok for this week, but back to work as well ,so will just see how it goes.OH has been unemployed for last 6 weeks as well , staring a new job soon , but don't know when the money will start coming in.

tq16

wow can't believe how many posts there are on here already, going to try and read through as many as I can before washing machine finishes andI can go to bed. Challenge officially starts for me tomorrow though bought a few bits today, can't find reciept so estimating £7 - going to tesco tomorrow but have list and determined to stick to it :-) good luck for Sept everyone x

cammumof3

Hi
all

Just 1 question before I toddle off to bed.

I want to bulk cook a chicken curry this week, but have 2 problems.
! dont know how to
2 cant eat hot or mild curry, has to be very mild.
i have asked on cooking thread but just in case no one answers or something, I thought I would ask here.
has someone may be got a very mild recipe, please

thank you so much
Caz