June 2011 Grocery Challenge

Winged_one

Just updated again, after buying bedmats, bread, a donut and tomatoes yesterday. (Donut was a treat for sick DD). I am going to be WAY over this month. I know that, but we are also using up a lot from freezer and cupboards. Last night, I made spaghetti with the last plain jar of tomato sauce, 2 portions of bacon lardons, handful each of sugar snaps, courgette and pepper, and a large portion of mushrooms - served the 3 adults with that and my lunch was leftover too.

Tonight, we are having chicken fajitas. DH is out on Fri night, and Au pair usually is too, so I will have something rubbish from cupboards for myself. And Saturday, we are having a curry feast night - our neighbour had to do a quality control check and needed someone else to ring for her, so we got the food as a reward!! (And as it was the chain she works for, that is GREAT curry and it happened to be our usual order too!!). The only thing we don't have is fresh naans, but I might get creative Sat afternoon.

cutiepieabf

espresso21 wrote: »

Thanks cherry pie and 69chick. I feel bad as I know it's a good cause and I know I would want it for anyone I knew who was suffering from cancer but at the moment every penny really does need to be accounted for. Maybe I will phone tomorrow and cancel. I'm going to feel like a real rotten person doing it though. I do make a tiny donation to Macmillan every month and am doing my best to keep that going (it's only a couple of pounds a week) so maybe that can be considered as doing my bit. Thanks for the advice and for not making me feel too bad about it!!

I have had another nsd today. I used to resent these as I'm a bit of a compulsive shopper, but now I enjoy the challenge and feel like I have really achieved something. It's even the silly things like not buying my normal cup of coffee at the station - that was about £2 per day. Now I take my own in my travel mug....which reminds me I haven't washed it yet tonight!

if you are worried about phoning them to cancel, you can go into your bank and cancel from that end instead (or if you use online banking its even easier).

tessie_bear

hi went to c00p this morning they have a few good offers on and i got some nice fruit...raspberries/apricots/cherries/grapes

just made some bread...6 loaves so should keep us going for a bit...we have the end of the rubber beef tonoght it has been nice and would buy a large joint and use over a few days

made a jelly for tea with peach slices in that look like goldfish im my sons opinion so that should be interesting

all the best
tess

cutiepieabf

PennyGrabber wrote: »

CherryPie - I had the same thing happen with the NSPCC. A woman rang me, asking for £12 a month, I said no, she said how about a lot less, like £8 (?!?), I said no, she asked me what I would be comfortable with, I said £2. She then said, and I quote "Ok, I'll accept that." WHAT?!! I told her how rude she'd been, and that I already give £15 a month to charities, but still ended up signing up. It's horrible how they make you feel.

GC note, today will be a nsd as I have the children and we're just going to come straight home from work - dd wants to watch tangled again, so need to be home in time for it to finish before 7 so they can get to bed on time!

Have a good day all,

PG x

i would also love to know how much the people signing you up are being paid by the charity.... dont get me wrong i am no scrooge, i do plenty of volunteering in the community and fundraising for local charities, but the people signing you up are basically sales people and can be quite rude and overly pushy. You have every right to say 'no thank you' and either close the door or put the phone down. it is not unreasonable.

i will add, i also work for a charity, but i would never dream of phoning or knocking on peoples doors asking for money... HTH.xx

sistercas

muof2beasties thanks for the heads up on the 50% of bodyshop , i have just ordered a couple of xmas pressies and a birthday pressie

espresso i am sure as it was a cold caller you have the right to a 'cooling off' period - give them a ring and cancel your DD just to be sure .

pennygrabber i used to give £2.50 by DD to NSPCC then they asked me to increase it and when i said no , they were incredibly rude to me , i was gobsmacked and cancelled the DD immediately . I would rather give my money to people who appreciate it

spent £47.32 with a sainsbugs online shop , they did 2 swaps though one i ordered 15p pack of razors and they swapped with bic at £1.49 :eek: and basics pancakes 29p for kings mill at 70p

got a new fridge freezer coming tomorrow as my old one has packed up , so trying to use up the contents of the fridge . the new freezer is bigger than the one ive got but i bet i soon fill it

cookiemum

Visited the local farm to pick up a tray of eggs and they have gone up from £4.50 to £5 since last month! There are 30 free range eggs though and the yolks are sooo yellow. I am planning a baking day tomorrow to see us through the weekend.

Updated sig. Enjoy the rest of the day - nearly the weekend:j

crockpot

Been into [EMAIL="Al@i"]Al@i[/EMAIL] today and spent £20.38, have drawn my weekley money out today so it will come out of this weeks £70 budget, came in under budget last week, and have stuff in freezer and cupboards. Got the meat deal at Mr s and half of each left, so will not need meat this week.

Have a beef goulash for tea tonight with 1/2 of the braising steak, and have put 1/2 a cooked chicken in the freezer and have 1/2 the 700g of mince left too. Not sure if the 2 ds`s will eat the goulash, but will try them.

pipersky

Hi - not posting much (still!) but just wanted to check in to let you all know that being heavily pregnant (due July 14th) and incredibly uncomfortable has done absolute WONDERS for controlling my grocery shopping! I have so far spent £47.72 out of a £250 budget (I go from 1st to end of month) and don't need anthing for at least a couple more days

Hope you are all well and am thinking especially of Hippeechiq and Spigs, our usual cheerleader

quintwins

pipersky wrote: »

Hi - not posting much (still!) but just wanted to check in to let you all know that being heavily pregnant (due July 14th) and incredibly uncomfortable has done absolute WONDERS for controlling my grocery shopping! I have so far spent £47.72 out of a £250 budget (I go from 1st to end of month) and don't need anthing for at least a couple more days

Hope you are all well and am thinking especially of Hippeechiq and Spigs, our usual cheerleader

i remeber that well, when i was preg this time 2 years ago i had really bad spd and couldn't walk so i only did shopping online and never left the house, unfortunatly i also started buying baby stuff from ebay out of borem we ended up with far too much stuff (also i'd had twins before so was used to buying for 2)

well my mil kindly offered to bring me chinese later :j i'm acually excited because otherwise we'd have no takeaway this month

XSpender

Small shop done today on the way home from work. Spent £13.94 less £5.00 nectar points so a spend of £8.94 to add to my total. Bought bread 2 lge and 1 sml white for DS, fruit, rusks, salad, ham and crisps. Will cover lunches today and Monday and a picnic we have planned for Saturday. Need to try and hide half the ham from DH;)

I am planning to make a victoria sandwich cake filled with buttercream and jam and choclate buns to cover the weekend/next weeks lunches.

Having checked the meal plan I do not seem to need anything until next Friday for meals. I feel a bit :eek::eek: but I will need bread and fruit so it's not that great.