July 2010 Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

£4.84 spent in Aldi yesterday. I took advantage of their super six and got three packs of tomatoes, a cucumber and a lettuce as well as some cheese, a yogurt and some chocolate bars for lunches. The majority of the tomatoes will be used this weekend in a recipe and will go in the freezer.
I might need some milk before the weekend, but not much else. I'll have to see if anyone at work is going near a shop...getting bored of having to ask people for favours now, can't wait to be able to drive again (although that may not help with this challenge!)

Also just remembered that my dad gave me some garlic. My grandma's just come back from France and brought some MASSIVE bulbs of garlic back, so my dad gave me some. The cloves are huge! Think I may have to attempt freezing some as already have a regular size bulb on the go.

katholicos

An NSD for me today. We ate out food we had in already so no need to buy anything :-)

Long_tall_sally

Seductivesmile - Thanks for the suggestion. This might be a good alternative for OH's sons but probably not my son (as he has Coeliacs). What triffle mix do you use? Unfortunately I don't think any of them like jelly or angeldelight though.

Hippeechiq

:grouphug: to everyone who is struggling this month
to those who are doing well :j
and :T to those eating their home grown produce

Had a spend of £3.38 in Te$co yesterday making my total spend so far this month £135.34 out of £275

NSD today, and possibly one tomorrow too, I hope

Don't know how many of you use it, but I just saw this on another thread on the forum that is discussing the soaring cost of corned beef and thought some of you might find it interesting.

ghanagirl wrote: »

There are 4 reasons for this

1) slaughter houses have reduced workers hours and material costs are shooting up in brazil were 90% of corned beef is tinned as mentioned above.
Beleive it or not after the Falklands War Dozen's of countries still boycott Argentine products so they moved most of the corned beef production to Brazil.

2) Argentine and brazilian farmers have slaughtered 30 million cattle this year and because of the high cost of cattle feed have turned to growing Soya instead so there are less animals around.

3) Shipping costs have shot up due to the amount of shipping need to move goods around the world, i.e lots of manufacturing moving to asia esp china. There is a global shortage of shipping containers so prices of materials are rising as containers are being ordered for the first time in 7 years, which pushed up the price of tin plate.

4) The dollar to the pound.

you should buy plenty if you find a good use by date as the price is expected to hit £2.50 for a 354g tin by the end of the year.
Ye olde oak have decided to stop selling corned beef because there is not enough profit in it.

winterfrost

As you can see, I'm a bit over already and there's still about 2 weeks of my July left to go (am having a 5-week August, as far as the budget is concerned). This is partially due to mitigating circumstances for one week of major overspending, which I shall present along with my final total for the month, and also I think being a bit optimistic about what I would spend in a good week.

muffin_man_7

im def not going to meet my target yesterday spent £5.50 in f fds 2 milk 2 bread block cheese £2and 3x 7upfor £1 was pleased i stuck to my list except the juice but i was really thirsty and i always take a drink with me and i always keep the small bottles and refill them this saves me in the long run i even managed to go to mr A and i only spent £2.95 but used a gift card as had no cash on me funny thing was there was only £2.95 on the card do i count it as a spend ? need to check my book if i can find it I think i will put amount on card again and this may help me keep track of my spends at least i've had more nsd's than usual freezer content not to bad at least 7-10 days cupboard depends on which tins get used at the minute meatballs going down as my son promised this week also his best friend has been guinee pig on some new foods and they got a thumbs up even with gas oven not working right think temp thing gone oh well i 'm hoping for a quiet night fingers crossed

rachbc

mid month and we are on target - not got the exact figures as petrol comes out of the same pot but the pot is empty, the fridge is full and the jar is refilled when i get paid in 2 days....

spent 250 quid in all but that inc big ocado delivery and 90 on petrol and non grocery spends so reckon the rest of the month will be ok

Moniker

Have just updated my sig as spent on a few groceries in Waitrose today - but got some good deals:BOGOF on Philadelphia cream cheese and Copella apple juice, both with long dates and we will use them. Also had to buy some toiletries in Boots, but had a £2 off voucher and got the points so that helped. Have about £90 for the next two weeks so I will have to be very disciplined! Need to do some baking for visitors coming next month and DD1 coming home next week. Trouble is we are trying to avoid bread and cakes and such - will we stick to the diet if I start baking again? Hope so!

Keep up the good work everyone.

Moniker

muffin_man_7

right found me book not quite as bad as i thought nsd's =9 and total spent on food for july so far £78.23 which leaves a grand total of £21.77 for the rest of july im doubtful i will be on target as still got two weeks to go although if im careful and manage another 9 or more nsd's then i might just do it. But if i had nothing in to begin with i doubt i could do it .How would you plan a month if you were starting from scratch or if you had already used up what you had most of us put a few things aside for such a time but what if you couldn't build up a store what would you do ? i will only manage on £100 as long as my store lasts and cos its never been totally empty i don't know how long it will last or how i will ever manage to stock it again with prices always going up ?????any ideas would be really apreciated thanks

seductivesmile

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

Seductivesmile - Thanks for the suggestion. This might be a good alternative for OH's sons but probably not my son (as he has Coeliacs). What triffle mix do you use? Unfortunately I don't think any of them like jelly or angeldelight though.

i usually use these:
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=258870038

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=260467696

or the chocolate one, which i cant find a link to, i'm sure it still exists tho!

today has been another NSD for me! Feeling quite proud of myself! payday y2dy and i haven't been in a shop - need petrol 2m tho! :P

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