August 2011 Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

£8.31 spent in August so far.

£2.01 last week in Tesco on ice creams and Wispa bars.
94p on Sunday on milk.
£5.36 tonight in Sainsburys (a new store has just opened here so I had to visit!) Got some jelly, bananas, courgettes (reduced), prawn toast (also reduced ) and some of the basic teabags that I have been meaning to try for ages.

ixia

Spent £7.27 in the last couple of days wil update what's left later.

Freakyogre- I bought the basics teabags last week i was waiting for someone to say the tea was awful- nobody seems to have noticed. I didn't like it at first but I'm getting used to it now- bargain and fairtrade.

rej-c

Another NSD yesterday, £11.53 spent today in Mr S on the way home. Got sent home early from work [police advice, riot precautions], and just managed to nip into Mr S near home before they closed early too, at 6pm, to get some top-up stuff.

Spend would have been closer to a fiver, but there was an unexpected bonus: heavily reduced meat items for the freezer. Sausages, beef and pizza that should keep Him Indoors sorted for weeks.

Stay safe, everyone in affected areas; and keep up the good GC work, everyone. :T

emmad5689

Evening all, had a nightmare yesterday, arranged an A*da delivery and the driver pulled down the road and then drove off again after numerous phone calls between A*da their contact centre and my mams credit card company turns out the payment was rejected as A*da decided they would try to charge me twice - after much complaint I have rearranged delivery for tomoro with a £10 discount off them.

Once I have the delivery tomorrow I should only need a few more bits and then fresh stuff, have a £6 off £40 for mr T so hoping to get my fresh stuff at the weekend and try and find a toy for my daughters first birthday to make use of it as I won't need £40 of groceries.

Must remember never ever take OH to a sm with me, went to Mr M on sunday for dog food which costs around £10 for this month and managed to spend £36 mainly his doing such as microwave burgers and little sausage / pork pies etc that we did not need.

Hope everyone else is doing well still keeping fingers crossed I might managed budget especially as we are away for 4 days soon and this won't count towards GC.

guccigoo

hi i have spent way too much so far this month, kids constantly eating doesnt help :mad: roll on sept!!
Well heres my update on my spends 1st august £66.89 in mr t and 8th august £79.56 in Morris*** :eek:. Oh found another recipt for the 31st july for £27.15 in mr t. Really got to stop the spending and carry on with my online ordering next week as i find it works out cheaper for me plus i have £22 in clubcard vouchers so that should bring the bill down a bit.
Off to update my sig now, hope everyones ok

69chick

A nsd today for me, was a close one as I am nearly out of milk and bread, but have held out to get it tomorrow locally so as not to tempt myself in MrT as planning on going there for my big shop on Friday.

Hope everyone is well and keeping safe with all this horrible and very scary stuff going on!

Night all, off for and early night :money:

KolaKube

Hello all!

Just updating spends... £33 spent in MrT on Sunday, and the freezer is now well and truly packed with food. All we'll need now is milk and a few little bits and pieces. £2.76 spend in MrTexpress on the way home this evening on milk, a paper, and 4x whoopsie veda bread (NI folk will know what that is!) reduced to 18p each - stashed in the freezer for another time despite OHs mockery of the freezer stash

Off to update sig!

Hope everyone is well and on budget.

Kola

cutestkids

Just updating spent £2.79 on coffee for other half so not too bad.

Will be needing fruit and veg as have done a lot of batch cooking and used up a lot in the last couple of days but hopefully will be able to stick to the budget.

Tinkerbelle1971

Hi All

Could I please join this grocery challenge. I am aiming at about £150.00 for the rest of August and then next month am going to do it weekly.

Tink x

quintwins

do they not have veda is the mainland? i didn't know that i love veda lol

nsd today, gonna make mince and taties for tea, just had a yummy bacon toatsie for breakfast and were having soup for lunch