July 2011 Grocery Challenge

Long_tall_sally

Just bought some veg for the rabbit & guineapig for while we are away plus also some olive oil that was half price & Robinson squashes that were on BOGOF so another £9 added. See you all in a week or so!

Mothership

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GC
Green Beans
Potatoes
Carrots
Onions
3 Jugs milk
1pack strawberry Triffles
Total Spend £7,30

2ndPurse
6 Bottles Lemon juice @ 20p Each £1.20
5 Litres Sunflower Oil £5
2 Packs 6 Heinz Baked Beans @ £2 each £4
Total Spend £10.30

There were loads more bargains, but I was good and stuck to what I went in for. I've got a Top Rump Roast coming today from Donald Russell, we are having it on Sunday with all the trimmings.

The M&S BBQ Chicken tonight with rice and salad nom nom. Had Quiche for breakfast lol, I know weird choice, I had just taken my insulin and felt a bit whoozy, so it was the quickest thing I could rustle up, got strange looks from my OH. Think I will really spook him by having cornflakes for lunch and give him a Quiche and salad.

I've been a good girl clearing out my laundry room and wardrobes 3 Black bags to clothes for cash £15. 2 Bags of the better stuff to the charity shops, even better stuff given to thinner friends, I've kept the top end stuff for ebay going to have a bash selling a few bits and pieces, never done it before, a bit scared, but going for it anyway.

I've also had two stools recovered with leather I had in a drawer for £20 each. 3 prints at the framers £56 ( the first quote was for £70 more same materials!!!).
Have gorgeous old armchair getting recovered (get it back today) in tan leather for £60, that includes the leather. Bargain eh? The upholsterer had it left over from another job. (I was quoted £190 from another guy).
I've still got £250 left of my repairs and renewals budget, think I will spend that on a new bathroom mirror and glass shelves.
Moral of the story, shop around and be cheeky if you need any upholstery recovered ask if they have any materials left over from other jobs.
Before I started hanging around here I'd have paid full price, not any more!

love and Light to all xx

emmad5689

spent £6.44 in Ald* this morning and £24.45 in MR M, still need to go to Mr A for some sauces and pop tomorrow and am considering whether to buy one of the mega boxes of pampers even though I know she won't need them this month I hear they are selling them at £10 a box. Fahitas for tea hmmmm, off to update sig, hope all are well

cutiepieabf

has anyone discovered the cheese windmill's they are making in Mr T bakery??? 40p for 6 portions and its delish!! bought one of these on monday and a loaf of bread. the bread i made into sandwiches and froze, and the windmill me and OH have had in lunches for 3 days with ham in it! kept him happy and something a bit different!

NorthWest-Lass

Mothership may I ask where you purchased your sunflower oil. The cheepest oil I can find in @sd@ at £5.54/3 lites Thanks

helen_jelly

NorthWest-Lass wrote: »

Mothership may I ask where you purchased your sunflower oil. The cheepest oil I can find in @sd@ at £5.54/3 lites Thanks

MrT had 5ltr bottles of veg and/or sunflower oil for £5 - that was on Tuesday

HTH

Helen x

Mothership

NorthWest-Lass wrote: »

Mothership may I ask where you purchased your sunflower oil. The cheepest oil I can find in @sd@ at £5.54/3 lites Thanks

Morrisons 5 Litre for £5 or 3 x 3 Litre for £10. I think it was part of their Ramadan offers. The lemon juice was only 20p.

calleyw

Just to up date I have now spent £53 now.

Should not need to go to the supermarket until next week.

So hope that I can bring it in for £60-£65 for the month.

Yours

Calley

rachbc

£16 is asda on a pork shoulder joint, some icecream, forzen veg and a load of whoopsied bread. Got suckered into buying some smoothies for dd too.

£28 in aldi on the rest of my shopping

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Budget - £100
Spent - £12.49
Left - £87.51

Since the last time I cheecked in we have spent another £39.49! £4.78 of that was on my toothpaste but it was on offer so I took advantage of that.
I got a really good buy - 7 400g punnets of strawberries for £1.40. After sorting out which were still good or not I have about 2.6kg of stawberries in the freezer (after being washed) which works out at around 52p/kg :T. These strawberries were, before reduction, £2/punnet :eek: a saving of £12.60 :beer:.
8 satsumas for 20p.
Loaf of good wholewheat bread 32p.
1kg of carrots 20p.
We bought a lot of the beans on offer for 99p for 4.
2 packs of organic beany burgers for £1 (50p each pack)
Basically we bought quite a lot of offers and reduced items .

I have 11 frozen home made ready meals in the freezer so I am doing well there.

Later on I will be enjoying slow cooked vegetable curry as at the moment that is cooking in my slow cooker. That should be 8 portions so 7 for the freezer to join the 11 'ready meals' I have already .

It looks like we may just come in on or under budget this month which will be good as last month we were over budget .

Budget - £100
Spent - £51.98
Left - £48.02