September 2009 Grocery Challenge

WelshWoofer

Just made myself laugh....
Found myself in the kitchen stewing apples that have gone past their best and making potato salad out of leftover new potatoes.
Also have teas sorted for the rest of the week....

If only I'd been this way 5 years ago - would never have had any money worries!

I'm just glad I found this forum - I've been around for a while but am still learning every day.

ktpie

Somehow we've already spent £58 from our £280 budget and that was just things for the weekend! Still got to do a big shop of all the basic stuff! Can't carry on like this.

Fire_Fox

ktpie wrote: »

Somehow we've already spent £58 from our £280 budget and that was just things for the weekend! Still got to do a big shop of all the basic stuff! Can't carry on like this.

Do you still have your receipt? You could post up exactly what you purchased (brands, sizes, prices included) for comments on MSE swaps? I type into my diary everything I spend over £2 per item and ... it's all meat and snacks.

merlin1

i am in too! £280 for september please?! i cant wait to see where our money actually goes!! :rotfl:

yellowmonkey

Hi

Only had to get Coke, Ice cream and rice today so only spent £2.80 . Still under my target of £10 a day so far

ym

Caroline73_2

I realised that we had forgotten a few things - butter, cereal for children and fruit juice so that was another £6.62 today.

JayJay14

I've now totaled £20.61 since 28th, and I've done the main bit cos I have such a lot of stuf I can use up. Why do you end up with so much in the freezer when you are trying to cut back:rotfl:

Have a lamb curry in the oven (woopsied lamb and veg) to be eaten with pashwari naan (19p in home bargains) so I'm on the straight and narrow. Trouble is I was oggling the cream cakes in Asda - and the diet isn't going as well as it should.

Of to update my sig and deal with the WM.

dazzle21

First spend of September £8.48, everything for a nice roast dinner going to streeeetch the chicken this week!

kirstygem

Hi can I join too please? Am going to aim for 250 which might be bit unrealistic but going to give it a go. We bought our 1st house at end of June and seem to have been struggling since then. On paper we have enough to get by each month and pay off very minimum of other debts but it just doesnt seem to be going too well. We are 2 adults, 1 toddler and 1 baby.
Spent £30 today but now freezer is full and cupboards look quite healthy.

Sept GC £250/£30

Moniker

Hi everyone. Have made 7lbs of marmelade and 3lbs of blackberry jelly(sorry, hedgerow preserve!) this afternoon. I have also made two shepherd's pies with the beef leftover from yesterday. We were going to have cold beef and salad but the beef was so tender after its slow cook yesterday you could carve it with a spoon as they say! With it in pieces the only thing left to do with it was make a shepherd's pie - and as the weather here has been mostly dull and windy (no rain yet) it seems right to have this kind of comfort food! I am told the sun shone somewhere in the UK today but apart from a brief glimpse it has been very typically Bank Holiday weather here!

Hope you are all doing ok.

Moniker