September 2009 Grocery Challenge

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second NSD today even though I went out with DD to Sittingbourne.Will have to spend a little tomorrow as I have to get some stuff photocopied at Llyods for Uni rebate on my course fees as I am on a restricted/low income being a pensioner but it hopefully won't be a lot.Am cooking up bangers and mash for dinner tonight will be shopping from my freezer for a bit .Only really milk to buy fresh as I topped up on fruit and veggies last week.

Ninno820

Three weeks today - pay day. So far I have spent £132.50 / £200 - with a freezer full of goodies. Toady is feeling much more positive.

scotsaver

An NSD for me today but will have to pop out tomorrow for a couple of salad bits as I have no lettuce left in the Garden.

Dinner tonight is HM Cottage Pie (made the mince base in the Slow cooker again as it was so yummy last time), carrots, peas & sweetcorn.;)

Hope you all have a good evening - I'll be watching Economy Gastronomy.:D

ChocClare

Well, it would have been a NSD for me except that DD is back to school tomorrow and dyed her her BRIGHT red for the school holidays so I had to swing by Mr T's on the way home to get her back to an acceptable level. I bought an el-cheapo brand I've never heard of (she is quite looking forward to her hair going green as a result), but I'll smear it with eight tons of conditioner in a minute and hopefully it won't destroy her hair too much.

slowandsteady_2

Hi everyone, went to Mr T today for dog food (usually DH expense, he got out of that one!) and a few baby bits and also picked up a couple of decent offers as well as milk/bread/bananas.

Mostly just got baby stuff though and spent all together £24.04 from grocery budget account and used two pound coins lurking in my purse to get two saver stamps. I am saving these for xmas and just get one or two if i am there and have a couple of pound coins i might not miss that day. They are adding up and i also have £20 out of £25 worth of clubcard vouchers that i can use at face value that i am also saving for xmas, and hopefully wil have a few pounds more worth in the next quarterly statement in December. There's only me DH and now DD so we dont spend loads at xmas but do like a few treats, and is DD first birthday 30 Dec so an expensive month!

Have worked out what we have left this month after taking everything into account and not too bad a month for once (thanks to OS and GC) so im going to the bank to transfer some money into my ISA tommorow. My goal is to have £1000 saved in it by end of year. Not much i suppose by some people's standards but a hell of a lot to us!

Anyway i shall stop waffling! Batch cooked mince and mash for us tonight and apple pie and custard, yummy, yummy. Get baby in bed and chill!

carolt2

Evening, just logged on to catch up with thread and to update total with spends so far. Over the last few days we have spent a total of £30.73. This included some reduced vegetables that have been cooked and frozen.

Just to add, noticed today that Mr T were selling tins of various chocolates on BOGOF. £10 each, so £5 each on offer. Did not say when offer runs out but on advert in store it says "deal of the week".
Might be useful for anyone starting to plan for christmas etc..

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lollyfin

Hi all
well I have done my major shop for the month tins etc came to 102.02
got my butchers meat for two months (think it will def do more) but have divided the cost in two 92.08
weekly fresh shop 41.88
and top up with things shop1 didn't have 9.26
Total left for month 145.94
hugs all
Lollyfin

missymouse

i will give it a go too. there are 5 of us in the family and i usually spend about £100 a week but do top up on extras in the week and if i go to M and S it is fatal. would like to bring it down but it varies from week to week. sometimes it goes over (bought stationery and stuff for school) but also reduced organic chickens to go in the freezer. do some mental meal plans each week and try to home cook things.

back to work though so may not have the energy to stick to it

freakyogre

Apologies if this has been asked/answered already, but do people include things like toiletries/newspapers/magazines etc in their total?

I have spent £6 so far on not a lot. £2 was on sweets for the cinema last night (bought 6 bags of various sweets and put them in a big bag - it did 4 of us and I had lots for lunch today ) Cheaper than the cinema prices.

I then spent £4 today on 2pts milk, some doughballs to go with dinner (cooked too long, gone rock hard), some oats (made Twinks hobnobs), a TV guide and 2 newspapers (job day...:()

I must create a signature to keep track of this!

I'll stop rambling now.

CRANKY40

freakyogre wrote: »

Apologies if this has been asked/answered already, but do people include things like toiletries/newspapers/magazines etc in their total?

That is entirely up to you. Some do, some don't. I haven't this month as I'm trying to reduce the amount I spend on food, but I still want to smell good :rotfl: