September 2010 Grocery Challenge

Botany

My budget for September is

£ 225

...which is a bit lower than usual, but only because September will be a three-week-ish month in terms of shopping (we'll be out an about for work etc for a number of meals).

Good luck with the new month everybody!

:T

claire1234

thank you Hippeechiq - such a great thread and everyone`s so friendly!

i do like the idea of seperate envolopes for each week - feels more organised but for this month i think i`ll keep a diary of what i spend (along side the soa i do each month),

i`ll include food, drink, dog food & treats and tolitries,

so today i need to declare £9.39
omg and that was just on milk, bread, dog treats and a few essentials! so suprising how soon it adds up!

mrsmortenharket

Gah. Another £3.30 spent today. Needed sandwich meat.

I never seem to manage a NSD.

Need bananas, bread & golden syrup tomorrow

Sig upto date

Lisa

jackieglasgow

Anyone know of any good loo rolls offers? I have somehow forgotten to get any and want to just do a run in and out to stop me buying anything else.

Hippeechiq

claire1234 wrote: »

thank you Hippeechiq - such a great thread and everyone`s so friendly!

You're welcome and you're right, we've a great bunch on people on this thread.

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Anyone know of any good loo rolls offers? I have somehow forgotten to get any and want to just do a run in and out to stop me buying anything else.

Hi jackie, I started using A$da/Te$co smart price/value ones - both 12 for £1.29 - a few months back. Te$co are better quality than A$da, but the sheets are smaller, but I appreciate they're not everyone's cup of tea.

It saves me enough to treat myself to a bottle of wine each month so that there's more to life than save, save, save......... Give me a glass of wine over something posh to wipe my backside on anyday

wssla00

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Anyone know of any good loo rolls offers? I have somehow forgotten to get any and want to just do a run in and out to stop me buying anything else.

Asda are doing 9 Triple velvet ones for £3.50....at least I think it's those who I have ordered... Might have been another brand but you get the gist!

EllieA_3

Oooh thanks for the bizzare food idea's.

Ok Kids back at school tommorrow so needed a "packed lunch shop" .. grrr... hate going to mrA's i always spend more than i planned.

£37.02 spent out of this months budget on the first day... not so good. However I do now have stuff to pop into lunch boxes for most of the month, including a few treats, so fingers crossed.

jackieglasgow

Thanks for the loo roll tips, I usually buy aldi £1.89 for 9 I think they are, but if a nicer one is on offer, I am not fussy The one and only time I used Tesco cheapie ones, they were full of whit powder, it took me a day or two to realise my bottom didn't have dandruff :rotfl:

Herbyme

jackieglasgow, Co-*p has 2 packs of (I think) 9 of their own label for £5 - I realise that's not cheaper than Aldi but you might like them more!

Hippeechiq, thanks so much for telling us exactly how you do it. Anyone else willing to share the nuts and bolts?

Just done the back to school shop, we're on packed lunches from now on so am going to cost out exactly what I'm putting in them vs £2.20 a day school lunch. My OH reckons I won't save any money but I hope I will as I've just bought teeny tupperwares and a new lunch box to sell the idea to my reluctant DS!

Sep starts here, as a result of the above. Stocked up on certain things just now as I don't always go to Ald* or Mr T but so far £25.60 at Ald*, Mr T 23.84 and Co-*p 11.49, ie £60.93, just off to update sig. Plenty in fridge and freezer so should be ok for this week... as I've often said before, and been proved wrong, it's the things I dont 'allow for, eg fresh veg, juice, milk etc that seem to tot up to so much.

Happy GC all!

elf06

Well my trip for milk ended up costing me £5.83 :mad:
Did get some bread, flour, potato, tea bags, sugar, milk, melon and mango though

Will not be going shopping tomorrow!!

Off to update sig.......