October 2009 Grocery Challenge

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone

nice to hear from you again Mrs. Mc.

Well monday and tuesday night went well and yesterday I made a chicken and rice soup with left overs and other bits such as cold meats I froze for packed lunch sandwiches. So there was literally no waste. I feel really pleased because sometimes I must admit, in the distant past, when I was tired after hosting a dinner party or having a few friends in I tended not to organise the leftovers and they ended up in the bin.:eek::eek:

Hope everyone has a good and frugal day.

rockie4

Morning ladies

Mid month update from me, spent £120.68 so far which includes loads of cleaning stuff to clear up after a messy bathroom leak:eek: and restocking the Easiyo

Planning a shop at the weekend to restock the basics box...we're running a bit low on teabags :eek: coffee and milk!!

Hoping that my increase of the budget should mean I will suceed this month!

chewy62

Must be losing my mind, added up my shopping spend so far and thought I'd spent £370 when I've only actually spent £308! My calendar is so full of things to remember and that's where I write my spends for each day, so I got confused in the scribble!
Anyway, hooray, now have about £140 to last the next 2 weeks, I might just be able to do it!

Eltee12

Did a small shop yesterday, due to stinky cold and wanting to get home to bed! spent £14.38 in A$da, got a couple of whoopsies in the form of lumpy yorkshire ham (£1.84 instead of £3 something) and lumpy garlic sausage (40p instead of 87p). Lumpy as in end of the lump when they cant be asked to slice it any further in the deli section, not lumpy as in diseased-night-of-the-living-dead or anything.

Got half the budget left to last 2 weeks, am well pleased.:j

Does anyone know where I can get a BIIIIIG bottle/carton of distilled white vinegar? seems to be hard to get hold of apart from $ar$on-bottle sizes and that doesnt last long. have tried 99p shops, homewear type shops etc..

LT

skilly

morning all ,went to market yesterday and bought ..25kg potatoes,8kg swede,5 peppers,2 cabbish,1kg grapes,5 big boxes stawberrys,6kg pears,1kg toms,1 bag apples,1 bag bannans,1 bag cooking apples,2 califlowers,4 galic,7kg carrots all for £20 !!.also went to tesco and spent £30.

Fire_Fox

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Been to Tesco to spend a load of vouchers but realised a £6 one expired yesterday. :mad: Ended up with £64 of groceries for £41 after coupons, of which £27 was food (including two reduced organic chickens!). Also spent £2.50 on ten pouches of good quality cat meat at Home Bargains, taking my Grocery Challenge total to £73/ £100 just ten days into my month!! :eek:

Having hit £73 by the 5th of the month, I've since spent £10 on cat litter, wet food and cat milk (£5 voucher used). Thought I'd blown the GC in style, but some wrangling with an online retailer over a missing/ damaged freebie has resulted in the promise of a refund of £23! :T Although I have a fair bit of food in I am getting low on washing powder, fabric conditioner, kitchen and toilet rolls and usually buy these in bulk so next month will be a challenge.

Keiss_21

Eltee12 wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can get a BIIIIIG bottle/carton of distilled white vinegar? seems to be hard to get hold of apart from $ar$on-bottle sizes and that doesnt last long. have tried 99p shops, homewear type shops etc.. LT

Eltee12 - we buy 5 litre plastic bottles of "non-brewed condiment", sometimes spiced, sometimes not (both brown and white). The cheapest cost us £1.99 from our local grocers. I use it for cleaning and instead of fabric softener. It doesn't matter whether it is spiced or not and also comes in useful for chutney-making!! Cheap as this is (39.8p per litre), the cheapest is the Value vinegar from Mr T (13p a bottle, which works out as 20p a litre), this is also real vinegar too. The problem is all the bottles you collect, but at least they can be recycled!

You will find lots of grocers with rows of these "vinegars" at the moment as it is the time for chutney-making. My local grocers used to have them all the year round, until I started telling everyone that I use it instead of fabric softener!

Good luck in your vinegar hunt!

Woops, just re-read your message again - you really want distilled white vinegar...I too have given up on that search. Somtimes you can find litre bottles, but I haven't seen them for some time now. It all depends what you want the vinegar for and whether any of the above will work as substitutes.

candygirl

Hi peeps:DBeing good again today and having a NSD, eating up soup n pate that I made on Tues:D:D

elizabunny

Hello Everyone,

Helen Jelly thanks for updating my totals.
MrsMc hope you're on the mend soon.

Still not shopping at the moment, hoping to venture out later today, but still struggling to get around so will have to be careful. DH managed a NSD for me yesterday but brought home some icecream out of his own money:D Can't wait to catch up on all the bargains again -our cupboards and freezers are bare:eek: However my DMIL is cooking dinner for us tonight which will be great, bless her. Hope everyone is doing well on their budgets, sorry still reading thru all the posts.
Bye for now, have a good day everyone!

rosieben

Eltee12 wrote: »

Does anyone know where I can get a BIIIIIG bottle/carton of distilled white vinegar? seems to be hard to get hold of apart from $ar$on-bottle sizes and that doesnt last long. have tried 99p shops, homewear type shops etc..

LT

I've never been able to find them in the shops apart from the tiddly little bottles. I buy gallon containers of white vinegar from summernaturals and they also do borax etc in bulk sizes