June 2009 Grocery Challenge

Changingme

Been really bad this week and spent £71.38 so only have £46.74 left for next two weeks,might make this up to £30 a week so can use Mr Ms vouchers. This will put me over budget by £13.26 so fingers crossed.

Flat_Eric

I am ashamed to say that I have fallen off the grocery challenge wagon spectacularly over the last few months so I hope to get back on track in July.

All my food stores are full and I still find myself throwing stuff away. It would be nice to be able to ban myself from the supermarkets altogether until every last item was used but there always seems to be the odd thing I need that then means a £10 shop becomes £50.

I know I need to plan better so also hope to start planning a weekly or monthly menu.

It really depresses me when I do a home delivery shop because only having a few items in your basket still means a huge bill

I would be interested also if anyone can tell me what the difference is between Nescafe coffee that you might buy in your local tesco - for example they have the 300g jar on offer at £5.00 as opposed to what appears to be nescafe coffee that you can buy in saver shops. for example superdrug is selling this coffee (200g) jar for £2.49 - much cheaper than tesco. It certainly looks the same but I didnt buy any so havent been able to do a taste test. In my opinion, coffee is coffee so I am sure I would be happy with the supermarket own brand but my OH prefers nescafe.

Julimk

Did next week’s top-up shop today once I had dropped DD at her Dad’s for the weekend. Grand total of £6.05, mostly for bits for pack-ups & milk, plus 500g pork mince whoopsied to 85p.

Only one week left to go for me & there is still enough for more milk if necessary; really shouldn’t need anything else.

sillyinthepast

Spent £42.71 today so I have £123.86 for rest of month:o

cw18

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I would be interested also if anyone can tell me what the difference is between Nescafe coffee that you might buy in your local tesco - for example they have the 300g jar on offer at £5.00 as opposed to what appears to be nescafe coffee that you can buy in saver shops. for example superdrug is selling this coffee (200g) jar for £2.49 - much cheaper than tesco. It certainly looks the same but I didnt buy any so havent been able to do a taste test. In my opinion, coffee is coffee so I am sure I would be happy with the supermarket own brand but my OH prefers nescafe.

My DH was a "Nescafe only" man for years - until I convinced him to try the Mr T own brand equivalent (at the time they were selling really small trial jars for something like 25p - and each one had the same amount attached as a MOC against a full size jar).

He reckoned he could tell the difference (though when I made his coffee and didn't tell him which I'd used - or told him the wrong one - he rarely identified them correctly), but when I showed him the difference in price he was more than happy to switch on a permanent basis.

meanmarie

Spent €6.26 to-day, bringing my total spend for June to €153.17....just over half of my budget, so will hopefully get by until 30th, although there will be a barbecue in there somewhere, either for Father's Day or my birthday....will make it even if its on bread and water for last few days!

Marie

Baileys_Babe

Just popping into update.
Me & the children spent the week at my parents, so no food spends. They sent us home with a coolbox full of yoghurts etc. F & V box £19.50 masses of lovely stuff. Did get a takeaway last night £10

Off to update signature

Moniker

Hi folks

Have just popped in to update my sig. I have just £28-50 to last to the end of the month! However, I used the £10 off £60 at Waitrose voucher for my last big shop and stocked up on more meat etc. I also bought two lots of 2ltrs of Sainsbury's 1% fat milk, which is still only £1 a bottle compared with £1-53 for the 2%fat version - a no brainer really! So, I really should only need to buy F&V next Thursday which is the last main shop of the month. We are out next weekend visiting family and away the weekend after so it should be ok (she says crossing fingers and toes!)

I made a lovely lamb casserole in the slow cooker today as I didn't want to have the main oven on - it was too hot. I had a pack of 6 chops and made it stretch with extra veg so I have two lots of meals for the freezer as well as the meal we ate tonight.

I am looking forward to harvesting some of my veg soon. The lettuce has done really well, but the stars are the radishes. Trouble is I don't know what to use them for apart from in salads. Anyone got any ideas?

Hope you all have a lovely day tomorrow in the sunshine.

Night night.

Moniker

taka

Looks like I'm not going to make it to the halfway point of my yearly food budget on target - I've only got £12.88 left for the rest of june. :eek: I've also got a £5 off £30 spend mr M voucher for the week after next too... :rolleyes: :wall:

To buy...
4pks x6 cans of diet irn bru @£2.45 BOGOF=£4.90 (will keep me for the next 3+ months - I have 1-2 cans a week at work. This is on special offer at the mo lower than normal so I want to stock up)
Diluting juice - 2 bottles of basics squash @47p each = £0.96

BUT... Rana tortellini is on special offer at the moment and its my favourite pasta - so I'll probably stock up with ~ 4 pks @ £1 each (need to double check that my local asda doesn't stock this variety or it'd be £1.50/2 pks) = £4 (or £3 if asda now stocks this variety) :rolleyes:

=> leaves £3.02 for everything else :eek: Even with F+V already bought for this week, a freezer full of veg + rhubarb and bulging cupboards its not going to work is it :wall:

Just once I'd like to be within my budget :rotfl: :rolleyes:

mooomin

Yesterdays spends were:

Lidl (1st visit for me, quite impressed!)

£7.06 on 1.5L apple juice, mayo, cookies, rice, little cartons apple juice, chewing gum, peanut butter and peppers (3 big uns for 79p, bargain!)

Asda

Didn't do quite so well here as I was in a bad mood so bought cheesecake and Ben and Jerrys (which was reduced to £3 though.....ach sod it, can't be justified )

Whoopsies: Tear n share bread (with cheese and bacon, which was delish) 75p, bread @ 74p, mince @ £1.50 and two packets of chicken @ £1.36 each and one @ £1.83.

Bad things bought - cheesecake, Ben and Jerrys, brioche

Total spent in Asda £40.49 :eek: but this did include all the above, cat litter, cat food, fruit for the week etc.

Total spend yesterday = £47.55

I now have 8 days until payday and am sitting at £179.89/£200 Careful spending for the next week, we really don't need much...