August 2011 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

hi...went to tesco today and got a few useful bits...dishwasher tabs and chicken...also had a look at the ipad2 which we might be getting ds for xmas...better keep on the os bandwagon to be able to afford it

need to make a quiche for tea...i got a packet of the cooking bacon and found it to be very good....enough in the packet for x4 bacon sarnies and a quiche for 75p i think

have a great weekend
tess

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Havn,t had a chance to have a read throught yet, but wanted to update my spends.

Finished work early today, so went for a quick stop at Mr S. Spent £48' but that included £12 on cat food (will last 3 of them about a month) and a bottle of scotch as a prezzy - £13' so that £23 on food, i have included the full amount in my budget though.

Hope your all enjoying the sunshine, its like a completly different planet here today....

Take care all x

cattysmum

Just back from Tescos, spent 87.30 but got it down to £18.66!!!!! Got £40 worth of catfood for £20.00 in exchanged clubcard vouchers, Daily mail £5.00 coupon, a £4.00 off a £40 spend coupon (surprised they took both but they did) and various other coupons and multisave offers so a good shop, went and got another Daily mail for another £5.00 off for next tuesday.

medsdemon

Hello all. Just popped on to update my spends. Wednesday managed to get to town and did a big shop at just A*di for the first time and on the whole think it worked out cheaper and am hoping except for milk and friut & veg won't need to shop till payday at the end of august. I spent £64.23 which sounds alot but the cupboards and fridge/freezer are stuffed and definitely have enough for the 14 main meals needed plus stocked up my store cupboard a little. I like that the store is small and there isn't a massive array of choice which stops impulse buying. Will be doing it again definitely.

Just eaten a lovely spag bol and fed extra teens too made in slow cooker and was enough left over so I toasted some spices popped in a can of red kidney beans and we have enough for a main meal plus I think some lunch portions of chilli con carne. Not bad with one pack of mince . I'd not bought a*ldi meat before but the lean mince was very lean and hardly any fat came out so I'll be buying again.

Monday,Thursday and friday have been NSD and I plan on the weekend not spending too as we're out walking tomorrow and have the meals planned for the weekend and plenty of milk so alls good.

Small slip up was a shop in sains on tuesday where my planned couple of £ shop turned into 18.23 so all in all am now slightly over my £200 budget but aiming to keep as little over as possible.

Off to update sig now

KolaKube

Hello all! :wave:

Sent OH to the shop after work to pick up milk & ham from the farm shop and he came back an hour later with £35 of shopping from MrT... :eek: the only required things amongst it were the milk and some bacon for carbonara! He bought 'proper' 2L diet coke x2, loads of bread rolls, pack of 4 cream cakes, pack of fifteens, pack of 4 dairy milks with caramel, fancy garlic bread tear and share, bacon lardons AND bacon rashers, carbonara sauce in a jar, fancy ham x2, cheddar slices, 2x multipacks of fancy yoghurts, and fancy icecream (honeycomb mmm). He also bought himself a random DVD. Note no fruit or veg, and nothing whoopsie.

As unhappy as I am about the unscheduled spending (I know its not much but its the value for money that gets me!), I guess its the weekend so nice to be relaxed, we're technically still well under budget, and it's hard to be mad at him whilst stuffing my face with cream cakes... :rotfl: And in his defence, the carbonara with garlic bread was delicious and he did remember to get the clubcard points too lol.

Must try harder to reign him in from now on. I'm thinking sending him with a fiver only would have been cleverer. Or letting him do one or two little budgeted in shops for whatever he likes each month to the value of say £20. Ideas anyone?

ab7

I'm here to be sent to the back of the class I've already overspent by £53.42....
Whats made it worse is it should have been doable but son finally able to pay his digs to me so what do I? Spend it! How much more food do we need? :eek: £70 today!
Am determined to do this next month. :A

KateC

Hi everyone, it's probably my first post here. Not even sure if I am in the right place. Someone told me today that they spend £100 a month on food. I thought ' how is that possible when about 600g chicken breast cost £3-£4 ' . She said to come and have a look at the forum on this website. I've been on it for the past 5 hours I am absolutely gob smacked ! I absolutely can not believe how many people are here. Now I wonder why didn't I think of this before. I still don't know how it's done but had a lightbulb moment and am determined But could you please point me in the right direction ? where do I start ? how ? thank you

rosieben

Welcome KateC

You'll find some useful information and ideas at the beginning of this thread but to start off its probably most useful to keep a note of what you're currently spending then you can decide on a figure to reduce to for next month - better to reduce in small steps rather than a shocking big leap

once you've decided what your budget is, post it in red and MrsMc will add you to the front page list

You can include whatever you like in your budget, some people include all spends, some have separate budgets for entertaining or pets or alcohol

If you have any questions please ask, everyone is very helpful here

Savvy_sewing

I have been missing in action all month sorry. other things on my mind.
I managed to have my Meat Parcel £90 worth from beginning of July, still lasting me. I go on HOliday at the end of August, so really needed to save.
I have enough meat to take us to the holiday.
I have not spent on a big shop at all. Still need to do the exact figures. But I think I am getting there. With a little help from my daughter buying the squash the other day, and my best friend donating some tomatoes, and other salad bits.
Bread, Milk have been my main purchases for the start of the month.

quintwins

morning all, theres a meat parcel deal on group-on today no use to me because they don't deliver to n.i but thought i'd mention it, todays my birthday so were off to a carvery lunch, followed by a lazy afternoon and possibly the cinema later will prob nip into poundland and maybe grab my bag of spuds when i'm out things are still looking good, 11 days to go