June 2010 Grocery Challenge

Want2BMoneySavvy

Well it's battering down with rain here so my plan of nipping to Sainsburys for milk and fruit has been washed out (bad one, I know!).

Managed to rustle up a frittata with some leftover veg and chicken for lunch, and have a portion of cottage pie base defrosting, so can just mash up some tats and have that for tea.

So I guess it's an unplanned NSD for me

huxley

Having a baking morning its our local LETS group meeting tonight:D so making cookies and cakes to trade with, this month hopefully lots of people will be trading plants and seedlings so hoping to get plants for the allotment :T. ds2 has gone to work with dh before college to try and help him catch up rain stopped work yesterday (gardener) so no pennies earnt! Aiming for a nsd.

peetzil39

Hi could I be put down for £422 for June please Mrs M, sorry I'm a bit late!
thanks
Peetzil

rentawitch

Popped bone from lamb shoulder in the slow cooker with water on low. Then realised I also had some liver out defrosting but didnt use.
Rather than waste it - also popped that in there.

By lunchtime or this evening will have some amazing broth and also liver I can eat with green free-range bacon I have.

It is amazing how different 'good' bacon tastes to the cheaper stuff.

skilly

morning all,up to 5 nsd so far ,spent £57.00 in mr a's yesterday.

guccigoo

morning all well ive had another spend this morning on bread flour, yeast etc for the BM, plus yogurts so a total of £6.29. Its a lovely day here today so im waiting for my washing to finish then out it goes for some fresh air have a good day everyone.

cw18

I had NSDs on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday - taking me up to 6 this month.

Been out this morning and spent £5.67 - 8 pints milk, ice-cream and two frozen pizzas (one for DS this coming weekend, and one for another weekend when I'm not around to cook for him ).

Milk would normally have been picked up yesterday given how low we were, but I've been housebound since Monday due to a 'bad tum' (which unfortunately means I lost 9 hours pay Mon, 8 hours yest, and am losing another 4 today - hopefully back tomorrow, as today is really a 'play it safe' as I re-introduce regular meals)

rosieben

Welcome to our newbies :hello: Good luck with your first challenge.

Banana bread is now in the recipe list, thanks catznine Forgot to say that there's also a couple of banana muffin recipes in the 'cakes' section of the recipe list!

another nsd for me today; I'm off to town tomorrow and I think I will be parting with a penny or two there but no food shopping needed until about weds next week except for friday's chippy lunch which I share with auntie and maybe a loaf of bread

have a good OS day everyone

Emzy81

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I still haven't logged all my spends at the supermarket for June and need to do this but I know I haven't gone over budget yet as there is still money in the bank!

Last night was my first proper foray into a food shop for a few days and I hit lucky with the yellow labels picking up quite a few salad bits half price or more and a half price pineapple :j I know that if I had gone back later, the items would have been even cheaper but I was happy with my buys at the price I had paid and didn't want to go back and buy more which would only have been wasted.

Im trying to use up what I have in my cupboards and freezer (which is full) so there will not be any home delivery shops this month because I overspend when I do these (does anyone else find this? ) I do need to meal plan as I make the mistake of wandering round the supermarket and being tempted by stuff (that I don't really need) when I already have ample food / the meal planned for that evening. I have considered breaking my budget into a weekly amount, arranging a transfer of said amount into a separate account or drawing it out the bank each week and then paying for everything by cash because I think this will keep me on track better. I also need to sit down and do a meal plan so might start that now ! Have a good day everyone.

I always overspend when I shop online as I add stuff just to get a discount (£10 of £50 etc..) so in the end I pay more anyway lol!
Im also starting to take the money out weekly...which hopefully will be £25 and pay in cash as I think Ill keep track of it much better that way.

A meal plan also sounds like a very good idea


Thanks for the nice welcome, you all seem really friendly and helpful :j

I forgot to say what my budget is going to be....for me, my DF and my cats it will (try) be £25 a week so say £100 a month and then its just under £25 a week which is even better Ive already had over a week of June so can you put me down for £70 this month please

slowandsteady_2

Hi everyone,

gosh im bad, im normally on here every day more or less but havent been posting for some reason, however i have been watching the spends, i will dig out receipts when dd goes to bed tonight and add up properly.

I have been good though and all i left in my bank account this week was my grocery money and i transferred all my other pennies to savings:T im so proud of myself! I allocated £60 for the week so each day i dont take anything out for grocery spends i move the daily equivalent to savings i.e. £10. My WTC goes in on Monday so i plan to do the same, allocate 2 weeks GC money and leave just that in my account and move the rest to savings. I have no need for anything else, car is almost full with diesel, amd im still off sick for next three weeks:( so no need to worry about lunches. I also did a freezer inventory yesterday, altogether i have a five drawer upright and a medium size table top type freezer, and after having a thorough look through and by working out how far items will stretch (and only based on stretching things generously) i have enough food for around three months of main evening meals:eek: i dont know if to be pleased or ashamed! I have now done a meal planner for the next three weeks i am off sick, and will have to see what happens after that when fingers crossed i should be back at work.

So basically i have no plans to do a main shop as i have to use my freezer stuff, will just be the usual essentials i will be needing.

Oooh might come in under budget this month!