August 2009 Grocery Challenge

emmab2001

Evening all!!
well 1st day of the sept challange for us today and we haev done really well so we have taken the true mse route to our shopping as both me and hubby are doing the weight watchers we went to our local poundland as i have discovered they do the ww sauces /cakes and snacks!! great for us as we love the ww chilli sauce!!! any how we bought

6x sauces
1x pack of carrot cakes
1x bag of snacks

8 things for you guessed it...£8.00!!!:rotfl:

saving us £3.17 on what they would have cost in asda!! did have to go to asda for a bag of onions!! 75p!!

also went baby stuff shopping in boot armed with advantage card and moc!! i managed to buy...

2x tubs cow and gate stage 3 milk
3x packs of fruitpura tubs (4 tubs in each pack!!)
5x hipp baby food jars
1x baby wipes!! (as we run out during shop!!)

i had moc for £5 off £15 spend, 3 for £3 on the fruitpura and £2 off hipp baby food

total spend came to £22.10 with all moc and discount total paid came to £10.10!!!!!!!!!!!!!:T:j(think boots assistant made a mistake in pricing but hey more savings for me!!)

this is one heck of a long post to finally say i spent in total at all shops £18.85 but i'm just really chuffed with my savings!!! (saved a total of £15.08)
thanks for reading if anyone got this far!!!:D sorry!!:o

shirleytch

Evening All - completely new to doing this but your good selves and Economy Gastronomy have inspired me. We are a family of 3 (myself, dh and dd aged 12). Please put me down for £280 for September and I will total receipts and see how I go.

Thanks

brummiebabe

Haven't been around for a while.....busy selling my house & now waiting for it all to go through...so been a bit busy. Have been generally doing okay though.

Can you put me down for £400 for September please....this is for 2 adults, 3 children, includes all packed lunches, cleaning stuff, toiletries & contact lens solutions...oh & food of course:rotfl:

It's a 5 week month for us.

Have had my 1st spend....went to Lidl (using £5 voucher fromt he Daily Star:money:) and spent £29.14 (including big box washing powder, bag of pull ups - for DD at night, and 24 Charmin loo rolls!!!) Then went to Mr T for the stuff I couldn't get at Lidl - spent £60.82. Was really pleased as I stuck to my list & only went to the aisles I needed to go to:T. Would normally have spent around £110 on my 1st shop of the month, so was pleased to only spend £89.96 in total!!

philsmum

Hi everyone.
Not done bad this month I am declaring at £137.45:D
Mrs Mac could you put me down for £140.00 for September.
Good luck everyone

Flat_Eric

Please put me down Mrs M for a FAIL for August and £350 for September.

This is generous but is to include everything (i.e including the two items i want for the house from Argos that have money off at the moment).

I have been on holiday this week and its been difficult to plan / shop etc. Lots of snacks/meals out and unplanned shops to the supermarket at the last minute spending no doubt unnecessary pennies!!! Oh well back to normal soon so hope to get back on track.

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Total spend for august was £350.00:eek::eek::eek:

So MrsM please could you put me down for £300.00 again:rolleyes: for september. Hoping this month will be alot better, as the kids will be back at school and o.h will be back at work:j:j:j.

lilgrayfox

Please could I join the september challenge ? I aim for £250 hopefully I can use up a lot of my stash in the freezer with planning ahead.Not done this seriously before but am encouraged by all you people on here!
Husband retires this month so I must practise practise ......Due to this site I have saved properly from the beginning of the year and my sealed pot is pretty heavy whoo hoo.Thanks to you all

HowlinWolf

I have written my menu plan for September pretty much, now need to write the shopping list and go and buy the food and other bits tomorrow - it's pay day today hooray. Menu plan is a good one I reckon and should keep us fairly full and hopefully under budget with some new meals to keep dp interested. I'm aiming to have all of our lunches come out of the budget this month too - don't know whether I will succeed on this one but I'm going to try.

attentionseeker1

Please could I join in the September challenge? Last month I was just counting my receipts and was horrified at how much we spent- I thought we were doing ok but it's all the 'top-up' shops that add up!

I would like to aim for £120 for attentionseeker1 for two adults and a kitten, which would be a reduction by a third :eek: on what we spent last month!

wilf55

hi i tried to account for my spending last month AUG but failed to even do that

can you put me down for £350 WILF55 please and i am going to aim at that

thanks in advance and good luck:money::money::money: