June 2010 Grocery Challenge

Souk08

Well it's payday tomorrow so my spends for the month are £28.11, £8.11 over budget. This is just for me and doesn't include food/snacks I bought for mates coming over which comes out of the Ents budget.

Sunnyday

Downsizing__for_sanity wrote: »

Lakeland do those really big deep trays for soaking your oven shelves in - would they do?

DFS

Thanks for this :A

Just had a quick peek and they arn`t quite big enough:( shame, never thought about lakeland though so i`ll have a nosy through the site and see if i can find anything else

Thanks again!

SD

Spiggle

Hi All,

Welcome ralloctiger :wave:

We have all food, household items, toiletries (if I was buying them!), wh***as cat food, medicines in our GC budget. We don't include any alcohol (we each have £15 pocket money per week) unless it's for others to drink. There's just me, the OH and two gorgeous big black cats and a beautiful 8 yr old GD1 once a week. But CW18 is absolutely right - it's your budget and you decide what you want to count in it.

Well done tinkerbell73, I wish I could be as organised.

Hex2 I laughed to read your post. When we kept chickens a very long time ago they would lay all around our garden so my DD would have to go on an egg hunt. We eventually kept them in a very large pen which took up about half the garden.

Snorkmaiden I'm so sorry about the horrible experience you and your Mum had. Some people can just be downright ignorant. Sending you and your Mum hugs and condolences. :grouphug:

Well, I was hoping for a NSD again today but needed bananas so I called in the dreaded MrT and spent £1.22 on them. Sig is updated.

I found out today why MrT had disproportionately put up the price of the pains aux raisins to such an extortionate level. It looks better to have a special offer tag that claims 'save 32p' rather than save 3p! :mad: The packs have now been reduced to 97p. It'll be interesting to see what they go up to when the 'offer' ends. Grrrrrr, mind games, mind games ... :mad:

So, £79.75 left until next Wednesday so I think it's doable. Although we still have to achieve another four NSD to reach that particular target. :undecided

Ok, I'm off. Keep up the excellent work everyone and remember what we save is important but what we learn is invaluable.

All the best,
Spigs

angelatgraceland

Had a few nsds lately but Im having a Tesco delivery next tues(unless I delay it)as they sent me a £10 voucher to get me back!
We have been living off of the garden for our salads so that is a saving. As the "kids" are grown I'm finding more and more that it's a waste of time cooking for anyone as its not what they want or they aren't hungry right now or going out or whatever! Scews up any possible meal plans so Im trying to fill the fridge with quick edible good stuff they can grab as they please.
Bought a new ironing board cover in Wilkinsons the other day-all of £1.57. Cut up my old one-a piece from each end for the girls to rest their straighteners on-better than burning the carpets. Just threw away the middle piece. Very little on the workfront at the mo but Im enjoying the time off. Started selling Avon after a 20+ year break! Must NOT buy stuff from them I dont need though! Used up some safe out of date stuff today. Strawberry whip and packets of custard and couscous. Whip and custard poured into individual dishes in the fridge to grab as needed.Amazing what is in those cupboards. I just had couscous and ham for tea(just me)-refused to cook after yesterdays whingeing. I'd done chicken breast wrapped in bacon with salad. DH said he wanted it cooked more-he likes everything cremated. DD1 said it was overcooked,DS said he wasnt hungry and most of it was wasted, DD2 ate it all without complaint.I'd say it was overcooked a little-not terribly though. Id also made potato salad. DS asked where his meal was today after putting it in the micro for "later". Well-the salad was yuk and Id removed the chicken to the fridge for the cat who enjoyed it. Hence today-I refused to cook. Ok-Rant over! Does anyone else suffer this nonsense or is it just me?

franby64

Morning

Got my A*da delivery yesterday but there was no list/bill with it:eek:. This made me a bit anxious...I needed to update my sig!! (Much more important than knowing if the shopping was all present and correct!!) I emailed them but got nothing back. Anyway it finally occurred to me to look at the account on the website and I found the total so calm has returned.

Now I only have £21.59 to last 'til next Weds night but we should be fine 'til the weekend. More making cakes and trying not to eat them today !

tessie_bear

hooray i have nearly used up the contents of the freezer....in a week i think if i dont buy anything else...blimey its been a heck of a job and i suppose i will fill it up again...i just dont like to leave food in it for too long....things go to the bottom and get forgotten about in our house

just planned all next weeks dinners....how organised makes a nice change...will need to visit a shop to get some fruit and veg oh and some icecream

i got some lovely shaped lolly moulds in £shop yesterday and froze some fruit juice in them....got a thumbs up from the kids

have a great day
tessa

Winged_one

I decided to be bold this morning and go for a swim on my way to work, and then spoil that goodness with an M&S pain au raisin. Which comes out of my "weekly misc" budget (covers things like any lunches/coffees, bus fares, car parking, etc). But I also ended up getting a few other things while I was there.

Like pastry shells. I know - but I am really not good at pastry and I have a load of leeks that i can salvage bits from (all bolted but outsides are good), onions which are sprouting and need to be used (so intend making leek and feta quiches, and onion (nad goats cheese?) tarts. And I ended up getting 2 HUGE boxes of redcurrants from the bushes last night, so going to make some fruit tartlets as well, and some redcurrant jelly. (So that also needed proper custard). I got a fish stock as well, as I don't have any in freezer, and intend making a fish risotto at the weekend to use up various odds and sods bits of fish from freezer. And the really nice tomatoes were on a special offer - and I do eat a lot of those in the summer with my salads.

I've managed salds for lunch 3 of 4 days this week, and intend another tomorrow. And we also had salad for dinner 2 evenings with BBQs - most unlike us! I got another HUGE head of iceberg lettuce last night as well, so that means I won;t have to go to the plot unless we want to at the weekend. And the first handful of peapods and broad beans - so we'll eat those tonight as a side dish with the quiche from the freezer. We're starting to actually get reasonable food from there - nowhere like a full week's worth yet, but the spuds should be good to eat from next week (they were still a little watery and slightly small at the weekend) and I am amazed at the salads this year. (Note to self - sow more lettuce seeds this weekend to have plugs to plant out in about 2-3 weeks or will run out soon). And the radishes I sowed at the weekend have already sprouted!! Hopefully in the next 2 weeks I'll have eating sized ones again.

AnnieG

I'm not going to keep within my budget this month, but am absolutely 100% going to win next month. Even if we have to eat grass. So there!

guccigoo

well ive totally f****d up the budget this month and gone well over :mad: ive got a mr t delivery coming soon but that is going on to the july GC. can you please put me down at £240 next month and will try 100 percent not to go over. I also need to do some more baking but in this heat i really cant be bothered

guccigoo

forgot to add im declaring £294.63 :mad::mad::mad: when it is supposed to be £220 :eek: