September 2010 Grocery Challenge

JulieGeorgiana

Okay, Final shop of the month done at Mr T... I only need £4 to buy a few bits next week...!

Spent £46.29... then realised that half my stuff was squashed or split... saved as much as I could by re bottling some damaged stuff... and got a £5.10 refund!

Although as they squashed 1/3 of 3 loaves... I may need to buy another loaf next week!

Brains of Britain!!

boultdj

katholicos wrote: »

boultdj, just as a matter of interest, i've noticed you use dollar signs rather than £ signs when you post about money...is that because you work things out in dollars or because your £ key doesn't work or is there some other reason.

It's cause me pound sign doesn't work.:o

Billie-jo

Doing well using food from the freezer, today it was some belly pork and yesterday was some chicken. Only thing is that my uncle has given me a load of cooking apples so will have to freeze them. Luckily mum has some room in her freezer so its not a problem.

Have made some soup today with some sad looking veg - celery, mushrooms, pak choi, and added some chicken and noodles to it, so tomorrow just need some crusty bread and we will have that for our lunch. Tea will be fish in a leek, white wine and cream sauce with some potatoes and green beans - we have a huge amount of them and they are about the only veg we dont like once they have been frozen

Just added up receipts and have spent £14.22 since last update, that was on white wine, cream, a big bag of mussels, flowers and some lemons. Not to bad as got two large bunches of flowers which were reduced. One taken up the cemetary for our beautiful daughter and the other one for the house in front of her photo.

Have to do a meal plan tomorrow and a shopping list ready for either Thursday or Friday.

Have now spent £62.94 / £160 so very doable this month and realise should have budgeted even less with us being away for some of the month. Never mind at least we wont be over budget and will hopefully get at least one christmas present with whats left.

Milly-Ann-Molly

Hi all, I just added up this weeks receipts and am gutted I have grocery shopped up to £375.97 and my planned budget had been £300 for the month. I am overdrawn and have only acheived 3 NSD out of a target set at 21!!! Grrr I do have a 3rd birthday party, wedding anniversary, stuff for baking school fundraising cakes etc and christmas luxury foods out of that too. I got lots of great whoopsies in mr T, mr A and AF though :j I have a full to bursting freezer and have filled my laundry room with dried goods!!! I will have enough food now for at least 2 weeks. I always spend more when DH is on nights as he grazes all day

Fingers crossed to the next week being filled with NSDs and a DH happy to be full of home made snacks / bread etc...:A

cw18

Billie-jo wrote: »

Only thing is that my uncle has given me a load of cooking apples so will have to freeze them. Luckily mum has some room in her freezer so its not a problem.

I've got 2 carrier bags of apples from my Dad to deal with, and no room in my freezers

So I'm going to use some of the (many) jars my DD and I have collected over the last 12 months and "bottle" them this year

youngmummy

can i join the grocery challenge please .... xx

gdyr1945

Had two deliveries today; one from Tesco £76.60 and one from Dan ApFd. £18.59. Have enough bread mix and rice to last a couple of months! Also some 99p Lloyd Grosman sauces.:)

Am hoping that I will only need fresh fruit, veg and some milk for the rest of this month (18th - 17th). I have enough meat etc in the freezer to make up my meal plans for the month so fingers crossed.

Ofcourse last month I thought everything would be ok but had
3 extra expenses; a new freezer, new shoes and £68 to sort out computer! Although not included in grocery challenge they still have to come out of the same pot of money. Thanks to the encouragement:T received here there was some 'spare' cash to pay for these essentials.

I find I now think twice (or even 4 times!) before buying something as I know I will have to 'put it down' . I have learnt sooooo much from you all.:A I even have a separate fund for Christmas and have worked out a rough budget for our spending. This is the first time I have done this. Normally I just keep buying all those 'oh isn't that lovely/useful/fun/someone might like it items' and get a shock in January not only with the cost but the amount of food we haven't eaten or things we still have. This year will be different:rotfl:at least that is the plan! And I am reasonably optimistic that I will be able to stick to it. So good luck everyone - for the most expensive time of the year is fast approaching.

cw18

Not updated on my spending since 13th - Oops!

14th saw a couple of Whoopsie spends - a total of 18 'Best' sausages (9 meals worth) and 16 'normal' sausages (8 portions of sausage casserole) for £3.96 instead of £9.02 and two boxes of Lemon Cupcakes at 25p/box instead of £1.29.

15th saw more Whoopsie extravaganies - a pack of 2 Lemon Drizzle muffins (nothing to write home about, so won't bother again) for 19p instead of £1.39. and a gorgeous cheesecake for 49p instead of £3.99

19th saw the purchase of a further 10 Mvller Corners before the '10 for £2' offer ended

20th was a bag of frozen sweetcorn (£1)

katholicos

boultdj wrote: »

It's cause me pound sign doesn't work.:o

Ahh...thanks for responding. I'm pathetically anally retentive i'm afraid and such questions as these highlight the depth of my contemplative soul...:rotfl:

muffin_man_7

just totalled up spends up to today and im over again £139.67 thats £19.67 over only a bit but was really carefull this month and still im over although some of frozen might last to october so it won't be too bad an i've still got a lot of tins gona need a new can opener soon it only works some times

meanmarie can i ask where you got the whole dried milk i've never been able to find any and ended up using skimmed always wondered if it made a lot of difference
hope i can keep total lower than august heres hoping