July 2010 Grocery Challenge

brodie1_2

Hi all,
just posted and lost it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Went to Adsa this morning , about 9.00am and loads of whoopsies.
Got lots of chicken products on whoopsies and needed chicken anyway. On the down side broke a bottle of lime juice and the checkout, but everyone is so nice in there, I did say ' thats why I normally shop on line'. Forgot rolls, onions and rice but shall pop in Tescos when I pick DH up.
Tonights tea is hm indian potaoe cakes ( they are handy for using up things in):). the last of the rice with bacon, and roasted tomoto, basil and lime mayo...bit of a using up tea.
Hopefully wont need anything else apart for myabee a few fandv and thebits I forgot:)

Doom_and_Gloom

Well we have spent another £6.36. It would have been stupid to not pick up what we did to be honest.

Got 1L of orange juice, 800g tiger bread loaf (by the way if anyone knows a way of making this my fiance would be really happy, we've looked but not really had much luck ), white chocolate spread (my partner really likes this, just hope it lasts him more than a few days :rotfl:).

Now for the savings:

• 6 bananas weighing 983g - 47p --> was £1.37
• 4 peaches weighing 498g - 36p --> was £1
• 1 lemon weighing 146g - 8p --> was 20p
• 1 head of broccoli weighing 327g - 37p --> was 76p
• 8 carrots weighing 868g - 22p --> was 62p
• 250g of mushrooms - 36p --> was 74p
• 1 red pepper weighing 145g - 10p --> was 30p
• 1 orange pepper weighing 146 - 10p --> was 30p
• 2 yellow peppers weighing 336g - 30p --> was 60p
• Tomatoes weighing 225g - 35p --> was £1.25
• 1kg of small potatoes - 32p --> was 50p
• Small potatoes weighing 851g - 21p --> was 50p
• Coffee cake for partner - 76p --> was £1.08

Saving on the above items £5.22 :money:. Which means our bill should have come to £11.58 :eek:. We would have gone over budget by £4.95. Instead we are still 27p within our £115 monthly budget as it stands :rotfl:. I do love it when we go to a store at the right time for reductions even if we only went in for bananas, carrots and tomatoes . Now I really can't see a reason why we would need to go shopping before the end of the month but will put a final total up at the end of my month just in case. To be honest I really don't want to spend anymore so will make sure there is no need to.

MadamMim2013

Spent £12.24 today (£9.27 at Aldi & £2.97 at Mr T) Got a few bargains, like bottles of bleach for 44p each (A) and a yummy coconut for 56p (T)
All in all doing quite well & hope to stay within budget..... (fingers crossed)

MRSMCAWBER

Sorry for your loss Rosiben -take care...

doelani

Declaring £442 for July :eek: I set budget at £350 and was just to low so will be £425 for August.

First 3 weeks of month I found ok then really struggled last week as cupboards where empty lol I know the mistake I also made was counting July as 4 fridays when really I had 5 , oh who know but overspent lol

So heres to August and trying AGAIN lol

CupOfChai

Hello once again, on way home today picked up a small loaf, a crusty stick and an unintended pot of Gu chocolate mousse that I found reduced to half-price, so a small treat there too. Very much doubt I will be spending anything else from the grocery budget this month so declaring at £98.48 for July. Just squeaked it! :jSo pleased since it's my first go at a GC, let's hope it wasn't just beginner's luck!

Please put me down for £90 for August MrsM!

Jedilibrarian

Declaring at £133.24 for July

Please can you put me down for £100 in August, thanks

Kitchenbunny

Final shop of the month and I've spent £42.72, which means ... I've blown my budget and come in at £192.66. I shall try to do better next month! For August, I shall try for £200 and see what happens.

KB xx

guccigoo

hi had a spend today in asda which came to £17.06 bu got lots of things for a £1 :j

Still got my weekly shop to do either tomorrow or friday and may goback to asda in stead of mr t but may end up spending more cos of the bargains, so will have to restrain myself somehow.

How long till the kids go back? :rotfl: 5 weeks i think, i can survive, i can survive

cw18

NSD yesterday
£6.27 spend today on naan breads, milk, ice-cream, frozen mushrooms and baking items (chocolate, soft brown sugar, flaked almonds)

I'm now over budget for this month (by £2.71), and even more 'in debt' against my year-to-date target for the end of July

Shouldn't need anything else this month, but not declaring as a final figure yet just in case



Target for August will be £105 please Mrs M