September 2009 Grocery Challenge

Rachel021967

Went to the dentist which is next door to Lidls. Spent £13.02 on carrier bag, crisps, sausages, potatoes, Taxi bars, expensive toffees, grapes, lemonade, Fruit shots and bananas. Just realised most of it was on junk food, I only went in for sausages and potatoes. Should be better next week when little one starts school full time.
This leaves £332.23

jackiegibbo

spent £3.92 in lidls on bread milk and lots of loo roll:D

[Deleted User]

Yet another NSD today.Had my friend down for lunch and have enough lasange left over for lunch tomorrow.Went to craft class and she treated me to my cuppa there so havn't spend a bean today.:j:j
Will try to stay away from the shops tomorrow, as I have enough stuff in the fridge and freezer to last me out till probably Friday.
We are all doing well aren't we:beer: Stick at it ladies :T

candygirl

Hiya peeps:hello:
Spent £8 today on icecream, salad , crackers, choc and other luxuries:oOn the other hand have just made a massive veggie curry out of all sorts of veg left in the fridge.It'll last me for days :p
Both the freezer and cupboard are full, and i'm off bread so don't think i'll need a lot this month:T:D

scotsaver

Updated my spends from this morning, had a lot of Xmas baking ingredients to get plus some booze to go in each so spent more than I was planning but I'm still confident that I will be on target as I have meal planned until the end of the month, have all the meat, pasta etc that I need to will just need to buy Fruit, veg, milk etc.:cool:

Got fruit soaking overnight now for Xmas cake, puddings and mincemeat so a busy day in the kitchen for me tomorrow.:p

Dinner tonight is a chicken, bacon and mushroom casserole, boiled potatoes from the Garden, sliced green beans from the Garden and Carrots, that's saved me some money on Veg.;) Pudding is an Eve's pudding using Apples from the tree in the Garden - love it when things are ready in the Garden and you feel like you are eating healthily and saving money at the same time.:cool:

Have a good evening everyone.:D

jayward

hi ,did some shopping today spent £6.31
naughty but did get a lot,carrots,2 big apples,three bananas marg,butter,washing up liquid,30 shredded wheat,spring onions,bag dried cannelli beans,2 packets of cream crackers, basics shortbread and lemon curd but i only like the best one .got 2 big boxes of jelly babies for xmas but that will come out of xmas money tin

poohbear59

Hi, This is my first post of the month and I have already spent £76. We are down to just 4 adults this week but DS3 thinks he may come home for wekends so I won't change my target for now. I have a problem. I have been cooking for six for 18 years and now I have to try to cook for 3 from next week when DS1 goes back to uni. He reckons we should cook usual amount and save half for anther day. I know we will end up eating it and becoming larger if I am not careful. Tonight I am making a tuna and veg lasagne but my dish is huge!

MRSMCAWBER

Evening everyone

Well, Im on 13 NSDs out of 14 -and tomorrow was going to be another BUT -hubby has just returned home with some damson plums -that grow in his friends garden and they don't use seems he has filled the green bin several times allready with them :eek:-anyway Im now the proud owner of 26lbs of the little beauties :rotfl:and hubby reckons we only have about 1/10th of what is on the tree....
So tomorrow on the way to the hospital I will be stopping off for sugar to "jam" some of them.... I will be doing my best to eat as many fresh as I can too;).... Im off now to see how many jars I have waiting in the basement for recycling :rolleyes:. I will keep some of the jam to go under bakewells once the blackberries in the freezer run out -and then take plenty back for mum at xmas (its her fave)
Hope everyone is doing well

yellowmonkey

£15 odd for me today ( Ouch )

On the plus side free food at work so Tuna Pasta bake will stay in fridge for tomorrow so wont have to spend out for lunch

Little blessings

ym

ChocClare

Hi all, didn't post yesterday as was rushing round like a mad thing. So yesterday I needed puff pastry - went to Sainsbury's with daughter and therefore got puff pastry AND a packet of nachos, but to be fair, she took her own lunch this week instead of lunch money, so that's a slight offset PLUS we went to Sainsbury's after picking up a free icecream maker courtesy of a nice lady from Freecycle. Woohoo!

I went into Aldi's today to see what their 49p bargains were: bought leeks and potatoes and was going to buy sweetcorn until I remembered DD's brace no longer supports this! And amazingly, that came to £7.52 instead of 98p. Not sure how... oh yes, it was the other things - all "bargains" and none will go to waste, but that's how your budget goes to pot, isn't it???