July 2011 Grocery Challenge

helen_jelly

Spiggle - couldn't you get tile paint and paint them to tide you over till you have to/need to replace them

Helen x

QOTD

Went shopping yesterday at Te$co an spent £17.44 so under the £20 budget but I forgot tinned tomatoes so I'll need to pop in somewhere to get some as haven't got any in the pantry at all :mad: THat's not going to help...

Total so far is £49.43 I can't believe it, I'm really impressed with this :T:T

THe only thing I bought that wasn't on the list was some cereal for DD as she keeps asking for Weetabix but we don't have any. Fortunately they have a 3 for 2 offer on so that helped and I hadn't realised that had an offer of the sandwich ham/chicken so I got 2 for £3. It all helps

cutiepieabf

Thank you quintwins, spiggle and 69chick. Yes i will take the advice given and see how we get on. I have had A LOT of NSD's this month, so i am doing better in that way, but i have little motivation at the moment. i lapsed in our last shop and bought a lot of pre-cooked things. i need to get back on track and keep my receipts and work out a budget based on that.
Hope everyone is well and your budgets are going well.

SavingJane

Hi all

I havn't been about much in recent weeks, being kept busy by a daredevil 11month old who has learnt to climb.....stressful lol

I know I'm late in getting here this month but have been keeping track, we are having a VERY VERY hard month so having to really cut back...Can I be put down for £150 this month please that's for 2 of us and the baby. To inc everything food/household thanks

Will add up spends and report back later

Hope everyone is doing ok, hugs for thous that need them

Jane

catznine

Morning all!

Though I had better update as this month is going by quickly, I've been popping the totals into my page a day diary, these are great btw as I can copy my flylady list in, add recipes and keep track of spends as well as where I should be each day! I drop hints about Christmas time to dh for one each year and they are well worth the pennies!

So far my spends have been:-

£11.50 from the fishman (calls round every 2nd tues) for that I got a huge meaty piece of smoked haddock, enough to make up 2 large meals (4 portions each so 8 portions total) of kedgaree.
A large bag of prawns which should make up 2 x 4 portions of prawn curry and 6 fr eggs which I am putting by for omelettes which dh loves and we share. So hoping for 22 portions - dinner for 11 days.
Have plenty of rice, onions, peas, eggs and spices in for the kedgaree and still a few tins of af curry sauce tucked away. We add leftovers to the omelettes and I've found bags of grated cheese tucked away in the chest freezer (still working my way through that!) must defrost it soon.

£12 for the organic box which yielded celery (argg! have too much of that) cherry tomatoes, 3 courgettes, new potatoes, red onions, nectarines, bananas and some little dessert gooseberries.

£16 spent in M & S (after getting home from a tiring trip up north to see our ds dil and beautiful new grandaughter). This was for some instant food needed as far too tired to cook, so 2 bowls of salad, 3 packets of cold meat, loaf bread, 3 boxes fruit juice and 2 pints milk!

That means we have £101.32 left to spend, still haven't made any jam yet though!:o

Spiggle

helen_jelly wrote: »

Spiggle - couldn't you get tile paint and paint them to tide you over till you have to/need to replace them

Helen x

Hi Helen,

Thanks for the suggestion but as we have a lot of tiles it's going to be all or nothing! We had the grey ones put in there when we renovated the house in the late 80's. The ones immediately around the bath cracked and about 8-10 years ago I got a set of the larger ones that complemented the originals and fitted those as a second layer over just around the bath to a height of just two tiles - they are the big rectangular ones. I must have done ok as we've never had another leak since! Trouble is that I think anyone we get in will want to rip off all the existing tiles which will be hugely messy and noisy and expensive. And the mse in me (and OH) is saying totally unnecessary as all the others are sound.

If though I decide to change the shower ... well not sure how sound they'd be then. Same goes for replacing the radiator. But then we're getting into a complete refurb rather than redecoration which is as far as I want (and can afford) to go this year. I am definitely not changing my suite which to be fair looks as good as the day it was fitted some 10-12 years ago (the one from the 80's was drab, dire and grey!).

Right enough rambling on my bathroom, must get into the office. back late tonight so I'll see you all tomorrow.

Take care,
Spigs

medsdemon

Just popping in to add that today will be a NSD and I will update my sig with £2 odd that OH spent on the maple syrup I needed for sundays roast chicken dinner. Will maybe need to buy teabags, milk and onions tomorrow and then won't need to spend till monday .

minnie2

hello everyone i think i totally missed junes thread oops!!! and it is probably more likely i went over my budget however july is another story as we have so much going on i cannot afford to buy food!!!!!! so going to live out of cupboards as from today. we have been eating out far too much too and just cant afford it so here goes again.

espresso21

Sorry, things have been so hectic that I haven't be around to see how everyone is doing and now I will be away for a week so again I won't know what's going on! Hope you are all doing well - nearly halfway through the month already - hang in there!

Pinwheel

Hi all

Just popping in to update, I've been to L**l and Sa**sburys this morning and bought milk, yoghurts (stocked up these alone came to £7.70), cheese (2 x 500g for £5), tinned tomatoes, loads of fruit and vegetables, orange juice and spent £33.04!!!!!!!!!!!! I've added another £1.17 on milk and plums over the last couple of days and it comes to £34.21. I will probably still need milk and maybe some more fruit before payday so I'm going to be even more over budget. I am trying to eat sensibly after weighing myself for the first time for a long time and getting a shock! This means that I am eating more fruit and less rubbish so health wise it's better, purse wise it's not!

Hope you're all having a good day.
PWx