June 2011 Grocery Challenge

cat_smith

espresso21 wrote: »

toddles, did you say you could freeze milk? That would be excellent for me as whenever we run out of milk and I pop over to the little shop, I end up buying something extra. OH is worse - send him over for milk and he returns with a bag of sweets!

I always keep a few pints in the freezer. Never caused any problems. Mine is Skimmed or S/S. Never tried it with FF though.

fedupandskint

£200 budget for June please

Will try harder to keep close to it as on holiday for a week away and spending the next 2 weeks trying to use up a lot of freezer and cupboard items

Need a few items tomorrow including milk so lets see how I get on after May's disaster!

becky170

My first online shop of the month came to £34.56 which was more than I was planning on spending, but I wanted to stock up on some money off and multi-buy offers. I've been meal planning, so hopefully I won't run out of anything and won't be tempted to go for little shops

quintwins

full fat milk freezes fine aswell, but my oh has asked me to stop doing it because it tastes different, it doesn't but he's convinced it does

mummygems

Hi all. Mrs M can you please put me down for £400 for this month. I went horribly and disgusting over budget last month

Aril

Please can you put me down for £245 for June.
Thanks
Aril

MumOf2Beasties

hi everyone, another month, another gc to battle against lol

was under last month, and was going to stick to £215 for June, but have decided to try

£200 for June Please

Have decided to lower it a bit as we will be away for 5 days, will include groceries i buy while away, but will be eating out alot(not included in gc budget) so it won't be as much as a usual week

Also DD is fully 'toilet trained' lol and has now dropped her daytime nap, for which she would wear a nappy, so that's 30 less nappies to be used in june, shocking:eek:!!!!DD ans DS still wear a nappy each for bed, will be working on DS being dry at night sometime soon:D

Already spent a bit of junes budget stocking up, got a few bits in m'sons today spent £19.40, will pop in again over the weekend as i forgot pesto:mad:must be good and only buy what i go in for!!!!spent £3.99 in s*vers on washing gel for the WM that i forgot to add!!

Going to check out the market saturday morning for fruit and veg, surely better than the supermarket;)

Good luck everyone in your own GC's and thank you for your posts, this thread definately helps to keep me on track, i know full well that my grocery spends could be a lot lot higher!!!

SavingJane

Hi I'm back in for June and can I be put down for £200 please, hopefully should do it

Jane

toddles*

espresso21 wrote: »

toddles, did you say you could freeze milk? That would be excellent for me as whenever we run out of milk and I pop over to the little shop, I end up buying something extra. OH is worse - send him over for milk and he returns with a bag of sweets!

I have SS milk also and there is no difference in taste when you freeze it IMO. I can buy now 12-16 pints at the supermarket rather than just 4-6. Also you can make the most of the big 4 supermarket deals. I think its 2 for £2 isnt it?

Pinwheel

Hi

I 've asked for £220.00 for this month and have already spent £62.68, £45.77 on a T**co delivery and £16.91 in L**l. I haven't got any chicken, sausages mince or fish yet but am hoping to find a 3 for £10 in either Sai**burys or M&S. I got the pack of 20 M&S sausages recently and my family loved them (I don't eat them). The mince is good value in there too - I usually buy 2 packs (£4 if on offer) and make a large batch of savoury mince bulked up with lentils and lots of veg in my slow cooker. I freeze this in portions and make it into shepherds pie, bolognaise, lasagne and chilli by adding different spices/beans. This lasts the month and makes lots of meals so it works out really well.

Anyway enough rambling, have a nice evening everyone.

PWx