August 2011 Grocery Challenge

greent

First spend of 50p to report! I have a Sains delivery tomorrow morning of about £44 - they sent me some £10 off £50 shops - so I spent £50.48 before delivery of £3.50 and then the £10 to come off. I 'offer shopped' for storecupboard items, too - only about 5 things were 'normal' price - the rest multibuys or on special offer.

I shall then use the coupon in it's paper format at T's this week (they take Sains spend and save coupons) - getting me £10 off a £50 shop there - I only need to spend about £35 I've calculated, but shall buy some things like lentils and some offers to get to the £50 - meaning teh last extra £15 of shopping will in effect cost £5. I am good at spending the right amount of money too - last week when I did the same I spent £50.22 in Tesco before the £10 sains coupon and a £5 T's coupon from a newspaper (that and a till spit meant my shopping was £33.22 )

I shall cancel our veg box delivery this week, I think - we have masses of courgettes and potatoes to harvest and 2 drawers full of veg and fruit in the fridge (and much more in the freezer!)


ETA: we have a pear tree laden with fruit - we shall eat some as they are, eat some poached in red wine & orange juice, make some pear & plum sponge puddings (we also have a plum tree) and chop and freeze the rest for use in crumbles, sponges, maybe throw some in some chutney later in the year... None will be wasted

losingpatience

Another spend today as I've somehow used a loaf of bread since Sunday night :mad: So needed bread, butter, some things to make a stir fry for tea for 4 people tonight and ended up spending £15.63 so total now stands at £85.77 :eek:.

It's going to be a struggle to come in on target

teaandcakeaddict

Spent £2.87 today, £1.30 of that was on milk but the rest was just ON crap (sweets and crisps) for the kids. REALLY need to get out of that habit, especially as our corner shop is dead expensive, the robbers.

flower91today

Can i be put down for 150 again please, hopefully i will be on budget this month

69chick

Small spend of £2.10 today in co-0p got whoopsied soft rolls for the kids pack ups a big milk and a nice crusty roll for my lunch

Shouldn't need anything tomorrow, am going to try to get to Friday before any more spends...

Gotta get the kids tea on now, chilli wraps to make with chilli fromthe freezer but phew its hot today, wish mine would eat salad !

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hi All!

Please could TheThriftyScrumpers be put down for £250 in August. Thanks to all who run the thread. I am going much lower this month as we are kindly being given eggs and veg at the moment and I have a full freezer.

I have made 4 loaves so far in the BM, White, Cibatta, Malted Fruit loaf and 50/50 Wholemeal and White. I am really pleased with the results. I just need to get organised so we don't run out.

Good luck to everyone for August!

quintwins

£5.24 today in te$co on fruit they didn't have any reduced really (other than still far too expensive strawberries and blueberries) so i got banana's, grapes apples and oranges we've already eaten a whole punnet of grapes i'm completely wrecked so the kids are having a quick tea of value noodles with peas and sweetcorn, me and hubby will have something later, thats my shopping more or less doen now til next week when did an order to take advantage of the £15 off code it's mostly cupboard stuff and chocolate however it should last us the month except for fruit and milk fingers crossed

KolaKube

Evening all!

£11 spent at the farm shop yesterday and a further £24 spent in MrT this evening but I managed to come away with a full trolley so I'm quite chuffed with myself! Went shopping on my own and took my time dawdling round and picking up the offers and whoopsies.

I had £10 in clubcard exchange vouchers for MrT finest range too so stocked up on naughty things which have been hidden away with the booze in my secret hiding place to eek out over the month - large bars of finest chocolate x3 & large bags of crisps x3, a bag of finest oven chips for the freezer (yum!), and a big bag of their nut granola (nut granola / crisp is my favourite cereal but really I find it quite expensive so don't buy it often).

I've decided to sort the cheese issues by buying cheese in forms which aren't particularly edible... value mozarella for pizza etc :rotfl:thanks for the tips!

Kola

Baking_Mad

Spent £2.77 at Mr Ts today. Can't complain though as I had a price check voucher from them for £19.02. Bought 2 boxes of pampers nappies for £20, a cucumber and a pack of tomatoes. So £2.77 for the lot after my voucher. Not bad at all!!!

Think I'm going to place an order as a new customer in my husband's name next time as there is a promotion until 14/08 "spend £50 as new customer, get £15 off plus £5 cashback" That's on quidco :j

cutestkids

Had to get some stuff to tide us over till I do the main months shop on Thurs so £12.70 spent today.