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MARTIN LEWIS WARNS HSBC, FIRST DIRECT AND M&S CUSTOMERS AFTER MAN NEARLY CHUCKED AWAY UNEXPECTED CHEQUE
June 2010 Grocery Challenge
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I'm a vegetarian - the things we do for our other half!
Its the "big" shop tomorrow but will try really hard to keep it to £40 ish. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Ah well, I'll still have saved absolutely loads. If I secretly change the target to £240 that's still achievable and still means a £100 saving on last month which is still pretty good. I've learnt loads too so can't really grumble.
Will be over here lots tomorrow carefully meal planning for the rest of the month so we can spend as little as possible.
Sorry, I've not been posting much but I do lurk :cool:
Mortgage 1: [STRIKE]£95,000[/STRIKE] £78,900 at 3.1%
Mortgage 2 (BTL): £83, 489.15 at 2.99% (I.O.)
Savings (S&S ISA): £3000 Plus 6 months emergency savings earning 3%
is it really that price? i only use wine for cooking so at that price its worth getting
Moniker (((hugs))) hope dd is improving
not doing so well have over spent already :eek: I have noticed how much things have gone up though, I normally buy 2l bottles of sparkling water instead of lemonade at 10p a bottle and this week its 18p :eek:
also basic handwash was 30 something pence and now its 67p :eek:
its just disgusting, I just cant keep to my budget anymore
just back from a visit to town and I am delighted. Went into M&S and snapped up lots of bargains.:j
Original Price I paid
White vest top £8 £1
Silk pants £8 £1
Cotton pants £4 £1
2pk bras £15 £3
nightshirt £12 £1
pyjamas £14 £3
Know it is not really GC but just wanted to share my good fortune.
Might be worth some of you popping in down your neck of the woods.
Ooh brilliant, well done you, it is soo exciting when you find a bargain isn't it. A couple of evenings i was in Asda when they were doing the final reductions, i got 4 bags of shopping for £4.63, everything was reduced to 10 or 20p!!!:j:j
I was beside myself! when we got back in i put it all on the kitchen table and took a photie! My DD and her BF think i am absolutely nuts!! We got bread loads of speciality ones like cheese bloomers and caraway and rye, cakes, doughnuts coconut tarts, cooked meats, an extra special chicken pie, 3 packs of mini beefburgers, two large salad packs, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, mozarella cheese, tomatoes, sweet potato and butternut squash. the sell buy dates were for the next day so as well as feasting on the Thursday night, i invited my cousin and her family and my mum round for a prematch buffet yesterday, 10 of us all well fed and still things in the freezer! happy days, i will try and post the photo...
I plan to give the nightshirt to a friend in hospital who is fighting her illness with quiet dignity. Might give her a little lift. The pyjamas will go to a neice as part of her birthday present. There were other bargains to be had so texted my friends to alert them just in case any might have been suitable for them.
Just love to find genuine bargains.:)
November £300/ £167.14
Anyway, although I have been having more NS Days (just had another 3) I have still failed spectacularly and still have till Friday to go. A part of me thinks maybe my budget needs upping but then on the other hand I know that a) we cant actually afford to be spending this much on food and b) I did have a fair amount of food in the freezer but ended up buying more stuff on Wednesday partly because the joints of meat were half price and partly cos I needed to spend a bit more to be able to use up a £7 off £50 Mr T voucher & a triple points voucher when spending over £40 at Mr S. These supermarkets really know how to suck me in. Then I buy all this meat for the freezer and for the last 3 nights have just had salad for dinner!
Also just remembered another £5.40 that I spent at the Good Food Show Wednesday so will add that on now.
I think I definitely need to try & meal plan even though I find it really difficult to do and also to do more home baking even though I already feel that there is not enough hours in the day and tbh would rather sit at the computer for any free time rather than bake or cook.
I have just done a freezer audit and have 12 frozen chickens again. The co-op keep RTC half price on the free range ones - at £3 a go it would be rude not to.
I know what you mean about discount codes. I hate MrT, but had a £13 off a 90 last month which I used, they made a mess of the delivery and sent me a £10 off, which I could use with a £9 off a 90 but I would be buying stuff for the sake of it and I know they will make a mess of it yet again. I never get them for Mr S whom I much prefer.