July 2010 Grocery Challenge

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Afternoon all!

Cheryl - I use frozen cream (double and single) in cooking and it's fine. It sometimes splits a bit, but give it a good stir in and it's ok. I've frozen it whippped and 'as is' and would go for as is, as it made no difference imho! No good for coffee, though

Hit Mr T in the next town today (had a tesco direct order delivered there - I was not goingt o pay delivery fpr something costing £12!) Not too bad - £70, inc Finish d/w tabs half price (I've tried cheaper ones and they just leave dirt on some things, so I always tend to buy finish on offer now) Napolina tinned toms half price (bought 12 cans - making a total of 33 here... DD thinks I've gone mad!!), 6 bottles of 2L cravendale (2 for £2.50, so I got 2 each of red, blue and green), 52 packs walkers crisps, 10 toothbrush replacement heads for 21.32 (saved lots on that one) and some other 'usual' bits n pieces. Also got a 5p off litre fuel because I spent over £50, so shall give that to DH as my car was filled last week and still has more than 3/4 of a tank (plus his is over £80 to fill and mine's about 50)

Had a takeaway last night - but only £6.25, because I have a throat infection and felt too rough to cook. Dh also bought himself lunch yesterday because I was too ill to make him sandwiches in the morning!!! Need to fnd out how much he spent

poppy-glos

£1.85 spent in lidl yesterday, wash up liquid and choccie treats for work as we needed cheering up..
need to sit and do a meal plan for the next week or so, and buy only what i need and not what i fancy....

Lindy_-_Loo

went shopping today to netto and b&m, hopefully with the sainsbury shop coming monday we shud be set for the week. Dont normally shop at sainsbury but Tesco had no offers.

Have spent too much already this first week - but cant go over budget again!

muffin_man_7

another thing i when double cream near use by date is turn it into ice cream its a bit too rich as is we cant have whole milk so i mix with skimmed or semi-skimmed milk never had any problems i do le the cream defrost in the fridge mine is colder than it needs to be need a new one it cant be fixed another reason for making every penny stretch hope you succeed try whipping for a little longer very stiff and icing sugar or caster is better than regular

dazzle21

Hello! Can I rejoin please! Have been MIA for a while..but with baby no.2 on the way we need to reign in our spending! Have decided to try out online shopping as i am awful at picking up non-essential items..

July Budget: £250

Have spent some already but need to gather receipts to see exactly what!

3431Anna

could I please be put down for £200 for July thats for two adults and two dogs

fedupandskint

£11.06 spent today on the weekly shop at Mr S as have plenty of food in to keep me going

scotsaver

Hi everyone - well as you can see from my total I'm only 6 days into the new GC and over half my Budget been spent but there have been so many Whoopsies this week, I now have 2 full freezers with 3 Free Range chickens, 2 Pork Joints, 1 lamb joint, 1 Gammon Joint, 1 Beef Joint, various packs of Sausages including Scottish Beef from Lidl which I've never seen in there before but looking forward to trying, also got a few packs of Lean Steak mince etc etc so I shouldn't need to buy any more meat this month and possibly not next month either.:o

On the plus side the Garden/Allotment are starting to produce things which helps with the Budget so not all bad. Promise to stay away from shops until we need Milk and F&V.:cool:

Have a good weekend everyone.:D

dannie

Was optimistic yesterday about this challenge which lasted till this afternoon when I felt the urge to look for groceries. However, avoided the shops but now realising how difficult it will be to change.

Kitchenbunny

Afternoon all! I've spent a grand total of £5 today on sausages. I love market day. There's a meat van and they sell really good butcher's sausages for £5 and you get 20 thereabouts. Anyway, I've split those down into 2 packs of 8 and a pack of 5 and they've gone in to the freezer. Toad in the Hole tonight, or sausage sandwiches depending on how late DH gets back from work.

KB xx