July 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

spent £11.47 in te$co but as i was leaving i noticed a great deal on loo roll so spent another £6.50, then i stopped in lidl and got 2 gammon fillets and some choc mousses for £7.50 i still need a big bag of spuds but other than that were sorted for the next week

espresso21

I'm doing ok so far this month...but I'm scared I'll jinx it by saying it out loud! We have been eating our way through the food in the freezer so it was chicken tonight and will be pork roast tomorrow.

CupcakeLisa

doing amazing this month - have spent £91 so far and just double checked my meal plan and i only have 5 dinners still to get...need a few lunches and a few bits to go with the dinners but i have pretty much everything i need!

so pleased with myself!

helen_jelly

Spiggle - oh its lovely to see you back, very glad to hear the good news - looking forward to seeing your posts

Hippiechiq - how are you and DD

Helen x

XSpender

Had a lovely weekend away at my DM's and did a small £10 shop in her local Mr M on mainly fruit and milk.

I feel like I am doing OK this month. Only 2 weekends to go as we are paid on the 22nd and DH is out for a meal with work (free) on Saturday and I will eat something out of the freezer. Weekends are always my downfall with too many visits to the SM.:o

My total is £180.01 out of £260. I stocked up on a lot of non food items at the beginning of my month as I had run out but will need shampoo, conditioner and deoderant for me and full fat milk for DS tomorrow but will avoid buying any food items until the weekend.

Mothership

Spiggle wrote: »

PS - Hippiechiq and Spiggle - let us know you are ok even if you don't want to post, missing you

Hello All,

Thank you so much sistercas, Chloris, guccigoo and helen jelly for your good wishes - good to see you're all still here. Sorry i've been MIA but everything got very strange in April and then May and I couldn't keep up with posting. But I did keep track and I've posted my figures on the respective threads.

I won't go into detail but suffice to say that the experts' worst fears were not confirmed and I will be with you for some time yet, thankfully.
Spigs

So glad to see you back, the boards not been the same without you, sending you love and light.

Had pizza for dinner, chicken tomorrow, no GC spends to report, been awfy good.

Bought a brand new cardigan with tags on e bay for £3.85.

Got a £40 next spend code from Thompson and Morgan as compensation for two missing bolts for a hanging basket stand, (replaced them for £2). Ordered loads of stuff in their sale £100 worth, got free delivery and it only cost me £10, then my neighbours gave me £150 towards plants etc for the garden. Went 30 years without as much as a seed from them. And £40 cash back from Quidco, and a £30 tip from a happy customer, So I'm well pleased.
I gave £50 to my wee bowling club, and sold some pillowslips and Tea towels, and managed to raise around £90 for them (funds are a bit low).
The T Towels were one of my bargains I thought I was buying 50. They came in 50 packs of 5 :rotfl::rotfl:

My garden was in the Sunday mail magazine yesterday, the newspaper contacted me to enter the competition, the prize is £1,000 of stuff from Dobbies, if I win I will get some benches and things for the club

Think I might have hit a lucky streak lol , more coming in than going out, gonnie try the lottery (dont usually), I heard one of my friends say the euro one is £2 and you get the tickets on Tuesday.
If I win, I will throw you all a crust when I buy my rolls.:rotfl::rotfl:

Going food shopping with DD2 I hear Morrisons have Ribena for £1 nom nom 2nd Purse full waiting for bargains

Love and hugs to all that need them.

69chick

Budget is gonna take a bashing I think this week, got loads going and sooooo tired after a hen weekend..have ordered some wine and bits with extra points at tesco...going to put the booze away thought for next month so will take it from that budget I think (also I don't include acohol in my gc) another plus is I made a lemon cheesecake at the weekend which has done 2 puds and will do another tomorrow (I always feel so great when I make something like that and the kids like it!!)

Was pleased today though as my girls had lo chilli and chips and ds and I had pasta with a sauce I put together myself (tomato) and I made enough for the girls to have tomorrow for tea and another meals worth in the freezer, so thats something...

Will update my sig when I have my figures through from my Ocado shop from last week as well as a couple of little MrT bits and then tomorrow my T delivery...

Hope everyone is enjoying the weather...

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hello All
I had a flurry of spending activity over the weekend. S4vers, Al-di, c00p and sainsbugs. Total is up to about £70 so will have to watch that carefully. Got some whoopsies 2 sausage Ragu and penne meals 40p each, two garlic breads 39p and smoked salmon 90p. Missed out to a professional on the packs of reduced meat but very pleased with my haul.

Sainsbugs had a half price sale on their own brand organic tomato ketchup which was down to 64p. Just make sure it goes through correctly as I had to get a refund at customer services as they tried to charge me full price. lucky I realised before I left the store.

Sausages, cabbage and new potatoes dug up today from the garden (smiles proudly) planned for tomorrow night.

Night x

yummymummy05

Ok will update my sig later but spent £25.04 at mr T's! Only £14.96 left for this week!!

millionaire_in_training

Going to join this to try and focus me on shopping spends and get all the fab tips for bargains. I will have £250 per month for all food, cleaning supplies, toiletries, juice etc for 1 adult and 2 teenagers. I've spent £129.28 so far