September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

heatherbelle_3

I'm going for £200 this month. Had a rubbish start as hadn't got anything in on tuesday night and ended up spending £14 straight off (that's normally 3 days!) argh! I'll have to try harder to make up for it.
A few receipts never got added in either
MUST TRY HARDER MUST TRY HARDER MUST TRY HARDER x 100

dink1

Hi Guys,

having to try to get a grip of things now the munchkins are back at school. That means the purse strings too. Hoping to have a no spend day apart form the dentist where I am having a tooth out!!!!

Princess Leia – Thanks for the heads up on the morrisons offers
Shelly 1977 , Ysatis, Sparklymessygirl, Aangel, smlsave, pollysg & Andyslinz – welcome everyone is really nice, so don’t be afraid to ask questions
Rachel83 – I know exactly what you mean! I have been uniform shopping this week and cant believe the amount of other stuff I have bought on the way! I think that I am one of these see it buy it peeps lol

jackie_w

Had to go to Asda this morning, and In basically bouight rubbish, im so mad with myself:mad: . I bought yogurts and cooked meat, im an ice cream fanatic, and they were doing their Special make Ice cream for £2, so, I bought 2 tubs:o , and I bought biscuits. Im afraid my baking isnt brilliant, and the kids moan when I bake biscuits and cakes rather than buy shop bought ones, BUT, i am working on it, havent given up hope of converting them.

So, Im afraid I was £16.60, at the Asda today.

Must try harder, must try harder must try harder.

Jackie

Boomdocker

Thanks for bumping that request Pink Winged. I was going to mention it as only 51 people have voted on the poll so it would be great to get some more thoughts and ideas so we can keep this great thread a success.

Money_saving_Diva_2

Hi all!

I popped in to change my siggy and hyperventilate about the amount we spent on shopping. :rotfl:

However, we did have friends for dinner and my OH wanted to cook a roast which meant buying a £14 beef joint from Sainsburys.. There is enough left for us to have another meal tonight but it was still a lot of money! However, we were given carrots and runner beans from the FIL garden so the veg were free.

Apart from milk I am hoping to have a NS week, so will check in again in a few days. I hope everything is going well for everyone with their own personal targets.

*hugs* to all

Diva.x

Little_Belle

Can you put me down for £200 again?

Can someone tell me where August went....??? think I blinked and missed it

princess_leia_3

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Recently some people have been finding it difficult to take part in the Grocery Challenge because of the sheer volume of posts. The board guides are looking at this and trying to come up with a solution that will be acceptable to the majority of people who post on the GC.

We are trying to gather as many opinions as possible so if you have any ideas or suggestions, please will you post on this thread: Grocery Challenge Thread Options

Thanks,

Pink

I think it would be good if you changed this font colour (can you do that on edit?) as I nearly missed it as I was just skim reading, off to look at the other thread now

mumofjusttwo

Ok Can I put down for £250 as it is a 5 week month for us.


Thanks Kind of missed the first 16 pages so apologies but haven't played catch up. I may never get anything done

victoriajj

Hi, I've been reading this thread for a while and tried some of the recipes.
I've just been reading Take a Break, which I try every week in the faint hope of winning something, anyway in the cookery section is the headline credit crunch meals, guess what is considered cheap -trout fish cakes - costed at £6.92 for 4 people and lancashire hot pot using lamb chump chops - costed at £7.24 for 4 - do you think they are having a laugh, I must admit when I'm cutting back I don't immediatly think of buying trout!!!!

kymbogs

Hi guys

I was given some runner beans yesterday - or maybe they are green beans...anyway they were given to my parents by their neighbour and when I asked my mum where they had come from she said I could have them.

Is there anything I can do with them other than cut them up and steam/boil them? Some of them look big and thick and tough whereas others look slimmer and are softer. I thought for a minute that they might have broad beans in them cos some had giant lumps in but I popped one open and the thing inside was only small.

Any ideas appreciated!

Kimberley x