June 2011 Grocery Challenge

toddles*

seehar wrote: »

Decided to try other supermarkets last month and this month, decided M's is pretty good, specially just before they close, N3tt0 is nothing special, @ldi is awesome, specially the fruit and veg, and ic3l@nd is full of crap!

Gave me a chuckle thanks Seehar. Thats exactly how I feel about them supermarkets. lol :rotfl::rotfl:
I do love L*dl too.

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi Everyone £200 budget for me again please.

Special thanks to Pink, Rosieben and Mrs M for all their time they spend on this thread.

Have a good bank holiday shame its drizzling here.

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone,

went over slightly last month. Included some gardening items when I went to supermarket. Shouldn't really be included in GC but as they were supermarket purchases I counted them. So not too bent out of shape about coming slightly over budget.

Would love to go into garden today as my brother has given me lots of trays of bedding plants. Livingstone daisies, marigolds, and petunias. However due to the fact that it is like November here with wind and rain battering down I think my gardening will be very limited this bank holiday.

Will perhaps clean out a cupboard instead. I enjoy cleaning cupboards as you never know what you may discover. There is always something that I have forgotten about. Might reorganise toiletries. Don't think I have bought any for ages. I always receive so many gifts of "smellies" that I seldom have to buy much.

quintwins

it's lovely here today, but oh has to work

i think icelands ok for some stuff like cheese, and branded sausages the do a big bag of white fish thats very good value, i've also been known to buy there cheapo pizza and add toppings, i only buy the plain one tho because i dread to think what meat is on a pizza for £1, you can also get supernoddles on offer, and they do 4 beans for £1 which is the cheapest we can get them round here


today will be a nsd foodwise however our drains blocked so we need to go get sewer rods but that doesn't come out of my budget, i'm just off to pop a pork casarole in the sc for tea

69chick

I also want to thank Pink, Rosieben and Mrs M for keeping this fab thread going, you are stars :T

I also have a problem of a ds that is hungry all the time and all he wants to eat is rubbish, I do limit him but feel like its a constant battle with him, he is also not great at eating stuff like veg although a bit of a breakthrough yesterday as he at some broccoli and cauli as I did it with a cheese sauce and he liked it like that On Saturday I bought some smartprice choc nut spread (tastes like nutella) and already the jar looks half empty :eek:

Should be a nsd on groceries today..was having chilli but as we have leftover tatties from yesterday going to do me and dh chicken breasts with them and veg and the kiddlies are having chicken dippers and chips (which is a once a week 'treat' for them)

Tomorrow I am going to try a sausage casserole recipe I have seen on the recipe thread in the slow cooker, I will cook the sausages later today and then tomorrow morning throw everything in the sc, fingers crossed the kids will like it.....I made the one from the sainsburys 50 quid meal plan a few weeks ago and it was awful!!

Happy bank holiday Monday all xx

*Twizzle*

Morning peeps

Rainy and gloomy in yorkshire

After a disasterous May challenge :mad: I am declaring £120 for June and i will do it this time

Spike x

hex2

scotdebs wrote: »

would love to say we are eating lobster and drinking champers everynight - the overspend is mostly down to waste and bad meal planning:mad:

Me too

Hex2 for £350 again in June please.

I saw in Lakeland (I think) a magnetic blackboard with a white marker that I could tick on the front of the freezer. Maybe then I would actually strike things off the list?

Good luck everyone

Winged_one

Can you please put me down for €350 for June, Mrs Macawber? I NEED to spend less this month. Hopefully I will get through more stores and spend less.

Sparkerly

Hi

I would like to join this challenge after just having my LBM.

Can you put me down for £400 I know this is still a lot, but not really keeping track of how much we actually spend on groceries, this is less than my original budget and think for month one it will be a good place to start. Hopefully next month I be able to aim even lower.

Thanks

natlie

£400 for me for June please way over-spent last month. Off to sort out cupboards now to see what have to do a meal plan for the next two weeks - may help a bit
Nat
xxx