August 2011 Grocery Challenge

SilverBird_2

So far this month I've spent £33.30 at Mr S and £104.52 at Okaydo (2 deliveries) which makes a total of £137.82 so far.

JIL

I just cannot shake my old habit of buying bargains but I am improving so there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I had a cooking day yesterday, made a couple of banana breads that I gave to my parents and mum in law which went down well. I dont really like frozen veg apart from peas and sweetcorn so I made some vegetable dishes that dont have the frozen taste if that makes sense. So from a red cabbage, two cauliflowers and courgettes (from the garden) and aubergine (50p from Lidl) 2 peppers (39p each from Lidl) and last weeks left over tomatoes (also from lidl) I made 6 dishes of cauliflower cheese, 8 dishes of ratatouille and 8 dishes of delias red cabbage. I also made a recipe with runner beans (from the garden) that are cooked in a garlic and tomato sauce, I have frozen these as well but am not sure how these will taste after freezing, but are lovely fresh.

My husband did have a little moan at me, he could not see the point of me making home made roast potatoes,( i had a big bag of Potatoes that needed using) telling me to think of the electric I was using to boil them, part roast them and then store them in the freezer and was it really worth the effort as they would then need to be cooked again anyway? I hope they taste ok. He did not seem to moan about the steak and kidney pie filling I had in the oven at the same time. I don't eat meat so this also got portioned up into 6 tin foil dishes and then I cut the fresh ready made and rolled pastry 99p from aldi into 6 tops and froze these separately for ready made lids.

I get quiet a little buzz out of cooking and being organised.

76rosie

hi, it's been a big spending day today. 3.16 in Mr M, 2.88 in Mr T and 0.37 in another Mr T and 10p in Wilko.
These are all bargains so cupboards full. Found 16 tins of 18p pasta in Mr T. Bought mangos, blueberries, melon strawberries, cabbage, beetroot and utterly butterly in Mr M.. 2 litres of milk was the hefty 10p.

I did buy a mustard TMF. And a persirex and veet. Not adding those. Cos will get too complicated. But I've never eaten so well.

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good weekend!:D

Some spends at Mr A yesterday of £34.92 - up to £111:eek: already.

However, managed to get 3 x 1kg (2 x 500g) packs of mince for £10.

Made a huge Chilli with one yesterday (1 last night & 8 in freezer), another for Mince today (1 tonight & 6 in freezer) and hoping to do the same with Spag Bol tomorrow - trying to prepare for post-op and these should hopefully help.

MILLYMOLLY

just updating went to lidl on Fri and spent £12.69, Tesco spent £17 DH went for milk and came back with do-nuts as well
Today went to Tesco and spent £45.29 AND LIDL and spent £8.04
Total spent £83.02 will update sig

millionaire_in_training

Hi folks. Well despite being away for a few days and on a different budget I am still doing awful :rotfl:. I am at £155.90 from a budget of £200. Hmmm!! 17 days to go :rotfl:. I think I am setting myself up to fail to be honest. I have cut down as much as I am willing to do and I am very good at not wasting food by ensuring we use it etc and not buying too much fresh food but I just do not seem able to get this bill down any more. I don't want to live on pasta and rice as my debt paying will be for years rather than months so feel I need to allow some stretch in my budget for a couple of treats or we will just go on a crzy shopping spree . I will see how I get on but reckon I will give myself a higher budget in future and just ensure I stay within that.

emmad5689

Have now worked out that I just need to stay away from shops full stop, everytime I go to a shop I see something that I think is a bargain and just buy things we dont actually need. Going away on sunday so need to eat our fridge contents before then although I know I need to get milk tomoro as I forgot it when I went to the shop earlier. Still hoping that by some little miracle I may just scrape the budget but we will see as I am buying a selection of treats to take away with us to use on picnics.

Tinkerbelle1971

Hi Guys

Shopping budget is usually £50-£60 per week but managed just to spend £26.75 yesterday at Mr A.

Could well be within budget.

Tink x

supersally01

OH spent £17 toady, need to spend nothing as moving soon and need to empty the freezer. Managed to stay out of Mr T's and the wine glitch, my waistline will thank me! Decided to tell everyone at work instead, so felt I was still getting a bargain bi-proxy!

annem38

evening all, well this weeks spend is 46.01 which brings my 2 week running total to 105.95, so still not quite within budget but boy am i learning fast, the amount of stuff i pick up, think i should get that either "just to have in" or "that's a bargain" even though i have no room in the freezer and it goes off today!!

mind you if i see a proper bargain now, and i can store it, i will get it, eg i have now moved back to soap powder after reading all the os cleaning threads and got a 4kg box of surf for a fiver, yet in mr t's the same size box of persil is a whopping 12 quid :eek: am also embarassed by just how many everyday items i didn't know the price of, just chucked it in the trolley or clicked on usual groceries online without checking out the (cheaper) alternatives