August 2011 Grocery Challenge

Sue14

This week I spent £5.00 in I*eland, £1.19 in S**erdrug, and £22.14[FONT=&quot] in Mr T's.
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KolaKube

Evening all!

Thanks for the info Re: freezing breadcrumbs. The two rock hard stale bagels got eaten up lol so it'll have to wait until the next stale bread comes along... We're trying to be much better with waste and so far it seems to be working well, I'm quite pleased with how little we're throwing out compared to what we used to waste. I think having access to a nice big freezer is playing a part for definite.

Items this week for the xmas stash: 2x pickles, 1x stuffing mix, 1x jar of olives, 1x longlife fancy juice.

£4.35 spent today and I'm ashamed to say £2 of that was on rubbish (wine gums and crisps) - just really having a snacky evening. MIL was not impressed lol. The rest was spent on a loaf of fresh bread, 4x whoopsie yogs at 10p (hazelnut yum!), and a bottle of squash (avoiding diet cola.. not sure how long it'll last!). 5 out of the 6 packs of crisps are left and they'll do for over the weekend. I'm currently sat with the 6th and a bottle of pear cider from the stash (well deserved, long day at work...).

As our challenge runs until a week tomorrow its definitely looking like we'll be well under target (first month so set it high-ish). I'm not sure whether to lower the target for next month from £400 to £300 or £250. £250 would be more of a challenge but I'm worried if I can't stick to it I'll lose focus. Would be nice to put that extra £150 aside. Also, I'm pleased to say, for our first month living on one wage rather than two we're actually going to be in the black at the end of the month! We're normally slightly in the red lol despite the second wage. Just shows what a little planning and book balancing can do and I definitely think the grocery challenge has helped big time so thanks guys!

If only it was OH with the job and me at home baking & batch cooking properly... just think what we could achieve lol.

Kola

emmad5689

Well I went to mr T yesterday and spent 41.98 but £12 of this was for a outfit for my daughters birthday and I literally spent the rest of rubbish that usually gets rationed (biscuits, crisps etc) for picnics whilst we are away. We won't have a fridge as we are staying in a travelodge so we are getting fresh buns and meat each day at the local sm to do picnnics to keep holiday costs down but that is from the holiday budget. Managed 2 nsds this week and today should be another although no way i'll reach the target I set myself. We come back of our hols on wednesday with only 6 days left of the budget so am crossing my fingers I can do it this month!

quintwins

morning all, i had an awful afternoon yesterday with kids playing up so come tea time there was now ay i was standing making sauce ect so i just threw the fish in the oven with olive oil,lemon juice and salt it was acually really nice i served it with rice and 2 tins of the 8p sweetcorn from ages ago, sounds good but because we'd had such a rubbish day i needed comfort food so hubby went out and got me a kebab and himself chinese that comes out of a seperate budget tho

today is a nsd the kids are having leftover rice and sweetcorn for lunch and i'll have a cheese bap, dinner is sheperds pie, tomorrow is birthday so we'll prob go out for a meal or mil might offer to cook for us things are looking good budgetwise, i really need to manage a few months on £100 to get back on track for the year i have plenty of food in so it's do able

Chloris

Hello All. Big shop done on Wednesday. I have just shy of £20 to last 12 days. I am aiming to miss my next big shop and we are away for 4 days which will be holiday budget. It is always the last shop which sends us over so I will be interested if missing it makes the difference! Can only try. Good luck everyone else!

Hex2 - think I may put my money in a separate purse too. Make it look lonely and precious - to be cared for. :rotfl: Anything that will work!

cutestkids

Had to do a top up shop for fresh salad, veg, fruit, cold meats, bread, milk, coffee and cheese etc also needed some toilet rolls, toothpaste, washing powder.

Mr M - £24.96
Sem* Chem £7.66

Good news is I have managed to convert OH to Cheap Digestives, he loves digestives but would not even contemplate trying anything other than the Real thing so I bought cheap ones, put them in the biscuit barrel and after he had eaten half the pack came clean.
He had to admit that they wre nice and that he would be happy to eat them again :j

Also doing the same with some other stuff to see if he notices

So just under £40.00 left to stay on target should be doable as still have plenty of meat in the freezer and willl be doing a lot of batch cooking this weekend.

Nimeth

Managed to restrain myself from spending money this week, so clocked up 6 more NSDs since last week's shop.

Did my usual rounds today, spent £28.52 in A!di and £25.92 in Morrison$, so up to £163.38 for the month so far with one spend to go. Got about £50 left to come in under budget, and I've got company coming up next weekend. Fortunately I got some money off Te$cos vouchers so those will be very helpful for covering the extra food.

Long_tall_sally

Just about to update signature with spends. I went to the Co Op this morning in search of gluten-free flour which they didn't have & somehow managed to spend £23.55 on other stuff! This included Cathedral City cheese on BOGOF, some salad cream & HP sauce, some whoopsied rolls, toffee crisp chocolate bars, biscuits some veg for Sunday & not a lot else!

Naomim

I've just done my online shop with Mr T for delivery tomorrow. It comes to £45.14 but that's taking into account a £10 off coupon as they messed me around so much last week I got my delivery refunded and the extra coupon :T

Fingers crossed it'll turn up on time tomorrow

Naomi x

meg72

Struck very lucky with Asda whoopsies.Spent £17.45 on meat and fish,drastic reductions and proper price would have been over £60.

So still in budget,have £15.60 left for next week. and have most of next months food in.

This has been the best challenge ever for me and I love reading how everyone else is doing.