June 2011 Grocery Challenge

pepsi-kins

Hi everyone,
Gone over my budget again! even though I only bought what was needed for the menu plan, hopefully I won't need to buy anything other than a bit of milk and fruit until the end of the month, (in reality I know thats not going to happen. lol) Doing well on the NSD's though.

Have a good week everyone x

quintwins

didn't manage a nsd yesterday because i went to te$co for the leggings and tops for £1 spent £27 altogether and i got 6 pairs of leggings 9 tops a cardigan and a pair of shoes so i'm very happy

GC wise i dodn't spend too much only £6.10 got some reduced stir fry which we'll have during the week and the kids some sweets off to mil for sunday dinner now so today really should be a NSD

PennyGrabber

So pleased with today! My sms are never really generous with reducing, or I'm never there at the right time. Well, not so today!! I got £18.17 worth of stuff for the princely sum of £1.08!! That's about 8 meals for the 3 of us, a (nice) ready meal for me, sandwich fillings for 2 days, a couple of pork pies, and a few other bits to boot! I'm so happy, AND I also managed to fit it into my freezer, so extra cool! (Was worried for a while!)

Spends way over where they should be - need to tot up, but think have gone over already. Will update later.

PG x

toddles*

been to A*di today for the first time in about 2 years. Only needed fresh stuff and bread milk etc so thought I would try there. I was pleasantly surprised. Spent £28 and got a trolley full. Lots of lovely veg all super cheap. Some was reduced so made a huge portion of roasted veg for tea and had it with a rather large fillet steak. nom nom. The steak was from my FILs farm, his own heard so completley free. Things taste so much better when they are free.

Im pretty much bang on for making my target this month. Really pleased. Does help though that my chest freezer is full.

Tracey.32

Evening all!

Just popping in to update.

Spent another £27.20 in Mr M's on Thursday ... on nothing of note really. Got a couple of Robinson's squash @ 50p each, cereal 2 or £4.00 (omg cereal has gotten SO expensive!) and got large sliced sesame seed bloomer reduced to 25p, so that's now in 2 halves in the freezer. Got another reduced cooked chicken too, £1.50 this time, but was as dry as sticks. Oh well, you win some, you lose some, I guess! There was a lady in front of me at the till who had a trolley-full of reduced stuff, bread, rolls, meat, etc - I was DYING to ask if she was an OSer!

Also went out on Saturday. I have £-land, Heron's and B&Ms on my local high street ... and I've never been in ANY of em :eek: (or at least, I might've been in Heron's about 5 years ago). Had a look in all but didn't buy much since I didn't need anything - oooh look at the new, improved me!! I did get a 4 pack of imperial leather soaps tho for a pound - the mild one which I really like but you can't get everywhere. And I will defo be visiting those shops again.

Got to go and mealplan for the week now ... hope you have all had a good weekend :wave:

TheBees

Hi everyone - TheBees are not taking part this month, due mainly to me having my appendix out last week and spending several days in hospital... DH took charge of food and shopping while I've been recovering and he did really well making a menu plan and mostly sticking to his list! We're just going to lurk this month and start again in July.

69chick

Hope you make a great recovery TheBees .its been a weird day today, dh got back from the Isle of Wight festival at just after 1 oclock, I was dying to get out after being with the kids all weekend and I could have easily popped into town, but I couldn't think of anything I needed and had budgeted for to justify it, so stayed in a cooked a lemon meringue pie that went down well after a lovely roast that dh and I cooked together...(he was all for taking the kids out the harvester but I stood my ground and was so glad I did )

Hope everyone has had a lovely frugal weekend..

katholicos

Got loads of catching up to do and i will need to adjust my signature in a bit as well. So far in June i've sent on grocerys :£38.15. Actually i think i may have spent more than that but i can;t find any more reciepts :-(

Actually i recall yesterday spending just under £4 in Aldi, so i will call it £42.00 so far for my GC spends!

Rightio, off to catch up with the thread and to see what i have missed generally on the OS board.

supersally01

Evening all, been busy at work, but need to report some spends,
£5 in LIDL for beans,
£68 in Mr T's, mostly on BBQ stuff (OH is BBQ mad, two this weekend!!!!)
£20 in ALDI, for veg etc.
NO room in my freezer, I am sure if I repeat it enough times, I wont bulk buy any more!!!!
Gonna try to spend very little until the end of the month, just need to control OH. Good luck all!!!

rosieben

TheBees - take care of yourself, and well done to your OH!

take care all