September 2009 Grocery Challenge

mummy2mygirls

Hello i had to get some marg today so spent £1.09 even though i have a big tub coming tomorrow from mr t!!!
Trying to stick to my once a week shopping with no top ups as then i always spend more and more...

Rachel021967

Spent £3.70 at Tesco Express on bread, ham and crumpets. Leaving a total budget of £345.25

NorthWest-Lass

Rosieben thank you for the cheese pie recipe and the link to school dinners I'm looking forward to reading through that and reminising. Some of them were horrible, I still shudder when I think of the custard tart with coconut on top (YUK) but on the whole they were very nourishing if not always very exciting.

millienjacksmummy

Hopefully should be a NSD for us too as dinner is planned (shepherds pie from roast lamb Saturday)
Lunch is left over roast chicken and some salad toms and grapes and avocado that wont last til we have fajitas plus banana and biscuit from cupboard
Kids back at school so hot dinners for them (even though thats 2 cheques of £59 and £54 eek - but that covers till end of October - not coming from my grocery budget!
Hubs is in his other office so wanted cash for lunch (usually takes sandwiches) and I didnt want to give him and of my £1 coins!! so he will have to get some cash out but will only spend £2-3 and wont spend the rest
Kids have after school activities tonight (dance and golf practice) so that will keep us out of mischief and keep me busy!!!!
S

cw18

millienjacksmummy wrote: »

Kids back at school so hot dinners for them (even though thats 2 cheques of £59 and £54 eek - but that covers till end of October - not coming from my grocery budget!

That's cheaper than my GDs primary school !! 38 days this half term @ £1.95/day = £74.10

When mine were at primary school is was under £1/day for years - think by the time my youngest left it was £1.20 - and I always tried to pay half-termly as it was one less thing to have to remember every Monday morning :rolleyes2

Through secondary school mine were given £1.50/day - plus a can of pop from home, as the ones at school were over 40p each. They complained about having to remember to take a drink with them, but I stuck to my guns...... These days my youngest (now 18 and at college) now stocks up on 500ml bottles from a pound shop (or anywhere else he finds them cheap) using his EMA money, and takes those as he says 'the prices in college are ridiculous' :rotfl:



DD 'sent' me to Mr M this morning...... she bought a chocolate b'day cake yesterday - reduced from £4.65 to £1.25, so she bought it to use as a 'standard' cake for my GDs (who love chocolate cake). It wasn't until this morning she realised it had gone through the till at full price (she'd bought a fair bit of stuff, and not totted up as she went round, so hadn't realised when she paid - and she didn't check her receipt before leaving the store :eek: ). So I trotted down with the (still intact) cake and receipt this morning - and they were brilliant about refunding the difference :T First time I've ever had to query a price in a Mr M (but I've only had easy access to a store for about 7 or 8 weeks).

mama67

cw18 wrote: »

That's cheaper than my GDs primary school !! 38 days this half term @ £1.95/day = £74.10

When mine were at primary school is was under £1/day for years - think by the time my youngest left it was £1.20 - and I always tried to pay half-termly as it was one less thing to have to remember every Monday morning :rolleyes2

Through secondary school mine were given £1.50/day - plus a can of pop from home, as the ones at school were over 40p each. They complained about having to remember to take a drink with them, but I stuck to my guns...... These days my youngest (now 18 and at college) now stocks up on 500ml bottles from a pound shop (or anywhere else he finds them cheap) using his EMA money, and takes those as he says 'the prices in college are ridiculous' :rotfl:



DD 'sent' me to Mr M this morning...... she bought a chocolate b'day cake yesterday - reduced from £4.65 to £1.25, so she bought it to use as a 'standard' cake for my GDs (who love chocolate cake). It wasn't until this morning she realised it had gone through the till at full price (she'd bought a fair bit of stuff, and not totted up as she went round, so hadn't realised when she paid - and she didn't check her receipt before leaving the store :eek: ). So I trotted down with the (still intact) cake and receipt this morning - and they were brilliant about refunding the difference :T First time I've ever had to query a price in a Mr M (but I've only had easy access to a store for about 7 or 8 weeks).

My 2 boys now both at Secondary school have £2/day and take a bottle of squash from home as pop is not allowed under "healthy eating rules"

for this £2 they can get a main meal for £1.40 and then either a muffin etc or they get bacon buttie at break and then a panini/baguette/jacket potato at lunch.
DS1 sometimes gets a toasted teacake at break and then the main meal.

Luckily the main meal is written on the board at break so they can make their choice of what lunch they are having then.

ellemm

cw18 wrote: »

That's cheaper than my GDs primary school !! 38 days this half term @ £1.95/day = £74.10



DD 'sent' me to Mr M this morning...... she bought a chocolate b'day cake yesterday - reduced from £4.65 to £1.25, so she bought it to use as a 'standard' cake for my GDs (who love chocolate cake). It wasn't until this morning she realised it had gone through the till at full price (she'd bought a fair bit of stuff, and not totted up as she went round, so hadn't realised when she paid - and she didn't check her receipt before leaving the store :eek: ). So I trotted down with the (still intact) cake and receipt this morning - and they were brilliant about refunding the difference :T First time I've ever had to query a price in a Mr M (but I've only had easy access to a store for about 7 or 8 weeks).

I have always found staff at Mr M great in these situations, my OH checks the till receipt before we leave the store to make sure he has got all the reductions we should have and is not slow at querying any discrepancies.:rotfl:
Even if he has made a mistake himself he invariably gets some sort of reduction!

kayjay1809

Look at our bank account yesterday :eek: I've told hubby not to buy anything we don't NEED (he's very good at buying bargains but not necessarily what we need).

95 pence spent on half a dozen eggs today from the local shop for my lunch :T

mummy2mygirls

just had tesco delivery £78.84 out of my bugdget :eek:
Should have what i need to keep us going till next week though - i better not have forgoten anything......

millienjacksmummy

cw18 wrote: »

That's cheaper than my GDs primary school !! 38 days this half term @ £1.95/day = £74.10

:eek::eek:

I should think myself lucky then (our just went up by 10p per meal this year) For the first time since they started school I contemplated them taking a packed lunch - maybe next summer, I would prefer them to have a hot meal in the autumn and winter but I can see why less and less parents opt for school lunches