September 2010 Grocery Challenge

Morganarla

Well three NSDs for me!! Woohoo!

And for the first time I'm still in credit in my current account halfway through the month Only by 86p but there we are!!

kerrypn

Hi aliwali!

I have 3 children aged 4,2 and 7 months too plus me and DH-I reckon £260 is doable, mine this month is £220.

Good luck

Sorry if Im saying what you already know but I save ££££ on farmfoods milk and bread offers 8 pints for £1.50 and 2 hovis loaves for £1

HTH x

cw18

GC spend of £6.80 for me today

This was made up of £4.20 on full price items - milk, lettuce and cucumber from A!di, and Mvller Corners from Mr M (currently on a 10 for £2 offer ) - and £2.60 on Whoopsies worth £12.99 (all from Mr M, and including a 170g piece of 'The Best : Brie de Meaux' which was reduced from £2.29 to just 9p :T)

Winchelsea

Just called in for a quick update. Haven't been around lately - trying not to switch the laptop on too much, as monitoring my electricity use.

Had frugal (but tasty and nourishing) meals last week, until Friday, when I went away on a course, which was prepaid, with all meals provided. So I have not made big dents in this month's GC budget yet, and not much reason to, as have plenty of stores (apart from cheese, but can manage without that for a little while as I have plenty of other sources of protein).

Thought I'd check in mainly for some inspiration to keep me on the straight and narrow - and it's worked, especially the discussions on the pleasures of budgeting, e.g. JulieGeorgiana - thanks for that.

loulou0327

Another £28.27 for me over the weekend.
I stocked up on dried dog food, a few other bits we needed and had a really good whoopsy haul tonight at Mr T i got £23.41 worth of stuff for £4.88 including a lot of meat. Well it would be rude not to buy it wouldnt it! lol
Best go and update my signature hopefully i'm still on target.

Shysarah

Whooopsie... went to see my cousin tonight and stopped on the way back for some tobacco ( I know but its my only vice).

Anyway I decided to check out Asda for any bargains, spent a whole!!!!!! 97pence. I cant ever remember spending only 97p in Adsa.

4 bags of parsnips from 97p a bag down to 16p
1 pack of black pudding from 99p to 29p

Yay.. with that and my 12 pointed sweet peppers for £1 off the market (£1.49 for 2 in asda) I am rather proud of today's bargains!

elf06

Morning all - have had another couple of NSD's so I am feeling rather pleased with myself
Did get a loaf on Sat and a leek, tub of cream and a teeny bit of gruyere for a recipe on Sunday but my lovely Dad paid for them for me :T

Will need to get some shopping tonight as I need mustard, mayo, coleslaw (or something similar) and some bakers. Will have a look for whoopsied items aswell as tonight is my only chance to do so. Will update later this evening when I get home from work.

Hope everyone has a good day

Winged_one

I have to buy bread and milk later today so that will be about €5 (I need 4 l of milk).

I was waiting for the coffee shop to open this morning (stupid o'clock) and I went through my handbag as I had the loyalty mailings last week. I spent the €13.50 in SQ last weekend, but I have €6.50 worth for Mr T and another €8 for Dunnes, as well as a few coupons for things I actually buy (for a change, usually they're things I don't touch!).

I need to use a bunch of both before the end of the month, so I will go to Mr T this week, and Mr D next week. I reckon I could come in under €200 at this rate of going for the month! :0

JulieGeorgiana

I went to Mr T this morning for some essentials (potaoes, carrots, Apples, Marmalade and 1 Tomato)

And for the THIRD time running they put my single tomato (£1.86kg) through as a cherry tomato (£4.16)... if you say nothing and go to customer services they refund the whole amount

I got a FREE tomato today (worth maybe 18p... but oh well!!)

£4.58 - 41p = £4.17 Spend!

dazzle21

Hello everyone, sorry I am so late joining but OH pay dates have altered so my month will run from 10th -10th, and i am not sure how i will get my head around it - i Know that sounds daft but I am easily confused!! £200 for Sept please! Suffering with a cold and although we need to do a shop I cannot get motivated to move from under my cosy blanket so I am doubtful I will go. Going to write a meal planner and a decent shopping list, so I will have been productive even if poorly!
Have some peaches in desperate need of using up and i am tempted to make chutney, I heard someone mention 'curried peach chutney' but i can't see a recipe, if anyone has one would you share? Pretty Please!!
Will read back through the thread now!