June 2009 Grocery Challenge

Baileys_Babe

Evening everyone, reporting this weeks spends £69.00 This is mainly F&V delivery and toiletries & over the counter medicine which we do include in our GC. The toiletries & meds did seem a lot but it DP has hayfever meds for 3 months now.

clutterydrawer

Did well today, quite a big shop with lots of unnecessary things but only came to £12....so about £23 this month so far, not bad discovered the joy of aldi for cheap veg too, hurrah!

sistercas

going for a NSD today, thanks to Poohbear I want to go through my cupboards and freezer and see if I can concoct enough meals until the 30th, I'm sure I can I will just need to get fresh milk bread and fruit.

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Once again -thanks for the kind thoughts for my lovely mum...




on to GC things.. We did nip out yesterday and I ended up picking up:-

1. 10 organic natural yogs -whoopsed to 24c each ..they have a week left on them too (non of this selling stuff on the day it should go out:T)
2. 7 packs organic cooked meats (3 different sorts) -whoopsed to 83c each
3. ready to eat apricots €1.99
4. gold cocktail toms -49c
5. plum toms on the vine -49c
6. pack whole almonds -79c
7. 1kg black grapes €1.20
8. punnet peaches €1.39
9. 2.5kg apples €1.99

So that comes to €16.53 to add to the total -so I can declare at €106.53 -which is a fair bit more than usual, but still under budget -and lots of fruit, nuts and the like in there-and a lot of what I have will get used for July ;)I will be sticking to the way I have been eating this week ...masses of fruit n veg, juicing etc as I got on the scales this week and have lost 6.5lbs without any exercise :TRight I will get off -hope everyone is well and has a good weekend
Orkney -glad your mum is out of hospital , hope she is on the mend soon ...

ellemm

Morning all

Just back from two weeks hols in Greece and trying to catch up with the thread - read through about a weeks worth so far-all very interesting as usual.

Only spent £21.96 this week stocking up on fresh stuff like milk, eggs, fruit, veg & fish as still have loads of meat in the freezer so with one shop to go next week hope to come in just under budget this month.

Carried on the OS while on hols making own yoghurt which I had every morning for breakfast with lovely fresh fruit and also tried homemade lemonade which was lovely and refreshing as it was well over 30 degrees most days. Going to make some here too, bought lots of lemons yesterday, although temp here is rubbish - I've been feeling cold since I got home!

Also going to try home made ginger beer which I made years ago when my kids were small.

Off to read the rest of this thread and others to catch up.

Regards to Mrs M & Orkney & others with worries at the moment.

Changingme

This weeks grocery spend is £38.50 so have £8.24 till last to the 28th have enough meals for this week and hopefully milk to so I might just make it .:D

Callisto

Spent £28.07 for this week, so I have £12.98 left to the end of the month, not very optimistic about staying within budget...

Sunnyday

Afternoon everyone,

I`ve just been to MrM`s and have updated my sig accordingly :rolleyes:

I`ve now got £34.80 left until the end of the month, i do have to buy a sack of dogfood out of this next week but i`ve got my fingers crossed. The 2 sacks of food that i should need the week after will come out of next months budget but they are usually cheaper and i can get away with only one sometimes to give the hounds a bit of a change in the mix that they normally eat. I have had to buy a few extras this week as DH is off fishing for a couple of days but i`ve not done too badly so far.
I also bought some whiskas pouches as a treat for our cat, she`s been on tins for a while but the pouches were 24 for a fiver and although i didn`t need them i get them for her for a change. They are stashed upstairs for next week.

((((HUGS)))) for your Mums MrsM & Orkneystar x

SD

OrkneyStar

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Orkney -glad your mum is out of hospital , hope she is on the mend soon ...

Thanks, she is getting there. Have other close friends hubby waiting for op too just now, so am a bit worried about that too . Not much to add GC wise today other than needing to run down some stocks preparing for stocking up when away next month. So must not must not must not must not must not buy any more whoopsies .

meanmarie

Spent another €10 today...on potatoes and strawberries....

Marie