August 2009 Grocery Challenge

Coxy11

Well that was wishful thinking - managed to spend just shy of £55 at the pampered chef party :eek: - and didn't even order the oil mister!

Coxy
xx

moneytree1

Hi there just a quick update spent £28.87 so far this month and the cupboards look full have an extra adult this week as Mum come for a visit but she is also buying in extras so should be a break for my budget this week. £103.63 left for the rest of the month.

Savvy_sewing

The local butcher come village van shop came around today. Not cheap, but only instant access to food without doing an Asda delivery.
2 Lemons, 3 pieces of neck of lamb, 2 pork chops, some streaky bacon. £7.85!!! But it would have cost me £5 in petrol to go to the shops and I would have spent even more, as I would have been tempted. (But until the car is back on the road I am not able to).

Mrs._Irwin

Hello all! I'm jumping back in for £200 for two adults and one toddler.

I paid the milkman and did a Tesco order last week, but I'm counting from Saturday so we've only spent £3.
That means I need to keep the spend really low so there'll be enough 'budget' left for the big spends when benefits come in at the end of the month.

beasygirl

Can't beleive it is upto page 16 already, this is the first time I've logged on in August!

Can I be put down for £280 this month, we've come in under budget the last 2 months running so I'm optimistic we can reach this.

Again thanks as always for keeping this thread up and running I promise to try and follow a bit more this month

mummysaver

Can I just say a quick thanks to those who mentioned the mozzarella for 27p at Lidl's, am now stocked up for a while! They also have red peppers at 20p each, plums at 29p a punnet and branston beans x 4 for £1. Next stop Aldi tomorrow for their super 6!

MadamMim2013

Coxy11 wrote: »

Well that was wishful thinking - managed to spend just shy of £55 at the pampered chef party :eek: - and didn't even order the oil mister! xx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh dear, it is rather tempting isn't it!!
(One other tip... if u really start to like the stuff look on ebay!)

misscreditcrunch

Just got back from town, have just spent some of shopping budget on taking girls (x 2) ice skating and car park for 2 hours. Forgot to put budget down earlier on for week (am doing it weekly as the amount of bodies in house is changing on a weekly basis. Shopping budget for this week for nine people is a grand total of £140.00 - spend so far £86.99 (including ice skating and car park £12.00) should just about manage it!!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas on cheap healthy meals - enough to feed nine?????????????

Moniker

Disaster has struck! My Cookworks bread maker bought from Argos for £22-99 about 18mths ago has finally given up working. The paddle became stuck in the pan about 3 or 4 months ago but it still worked till today. The pan comes out but the bread isn't even at the dough stage. Does anyone know where I can get spares as the instruction book just refers you to Argos and the guarrantee has run out!

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Had my Sainsbury's delivery today- mostly household stuff. Off to update my signature.

Moniker

misscreditcrunch

hi moniker, try typing in the make and model of your bread maker into google, maybe it will come up with some usefull info? I know my partner ordered a spare paddle for a friend's breadmaker off the internet although i can' remember the make or where he ordered it from (sorry if this is not much help)