July 2011 Grocery Challenge

medsdemon

Okay, just did a big shop at Tesco Online to stop me shopping daily and overspending!! Let's hope it works..I had a voucher and altogether it came to £64.57 But they didn't seem to have green lentils on the site however hard i looked so will be having to buy those from Sainzers when I batch cook some veggie shepherds pies and such. I have used a meal plan which i made up till the end of next week and includes some batch cooking for freezer for when i go away for my OH and DD to get some easy meals!!.
This means it should go over into next months budget so won't be going mad at the start of August spending, except i have got my lovely sister visiting, but we will probs eat out some and she'sa veggie so will fit in with most of our meals easily.
I have had 2 NSD over the weekend:T:T so will add those but I have a sneaky suspision I have missed a couple of little shops last week that my OH will have done without my asking him to:o.
Today we're having a lovely veggie lasagne that I'm defrosting with hopefully lemon drizzle cake after if I get my fingers out.. lots of bits of snacks to use up including houmous and dips and cheapie tortilla chips, so planning no actual going to shops until my order arrives tomorrow.

69chick

On my last day of my July GC and am very pleased with my spends this month, I did get a sandwich and some grapes today which I need to add to sig, but won't be buying anything else today so that should be it...

Have just made the lasagne (well the meat sauce bit) from the first page (Mothership many thanks ) and it smell delish, hope the kids love it as much as they did when I made it before (they have a nasty habit of loving something then the next time I do it they turn their noses up, very strange!! anyway if they do that today, I will just keep more back for me for another day and they can have something else..

Tumble dryer has gone kaput (not mine my parents where we are living at the moment while our house goes through) I don't use it unless I have to anyway but this weather isn't helping, hope it cheers up soon..

I have also noticed the increase in basics prices at Mr T's the wipes seem to be different every time I go in...I reckon maybe so many people are going for them over the brands now that they are having to do it to get people back on the brands maybe...

right off to pick up the kiddlies, it's bound to chuck it down now!!

franby64

Evening

I bought a few more things yesterday as DD2 has gone to the lake district (up at 5.30!) and needed a packed lunch.
So I bought R*bena, bourbon biscuits (which may or may not disintegrate en route) and a humungous £3 bag of crisps from the C*-op (26 pkts I think).
I didn't give them all to her! - only the prawn cocktail one's. The healthy gesture was cucumber sandwiches.

This morning I bought a lovely warm baguette from T*sco on the way back from seeing her off and ate a good 1/3 of it with marg and raspbery jam for breakfast - really enjoyed that - I'm pretending it's Summer! Anyway another 80p.

So total is now £313.28.

Baking_Mad

Hi all, I've just been trying to add up all my spend to date this month (quite difficult as I don't have all receipts) but while I was doing it I got a couple of questions

Do you add the supermarket cafe spends to your grocery shop? I quite often have to shop with kids and almost always end up feeding them in the supermarket cafe.

Also I recently bought school uniforms as part of my weekly shop, should I add them to my groceries or not?

Thank you very much

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I am quite pleased with my spending this month as I am determined to eat from my stocks as much as possible for the next four weeks at least before we go on holiday Tonight I am having some salad with chicken kiev from the freezer and some yoghurt for pudding. I think I have only had three shopping trips so far this month and have enough fresh stuff to last me until at least the end of the week fingers crossed.

69chick

alionaear I don't include school uniform (or any other bits I pick up for the kids, like clothes, undies,bobbles etc.) as I have a separate budget for those things. Also I personally wouldn't include 'eating out' spends but I don't use the smkt cafes much. I would say it was up to you whether you do, it depends on your finances etc. you could include it and budget for it and then try to save a bit by not going there every time, or else you might want to separate it out so you can see what you are spending on groceries.... and welcome to the thread too

Just eaten my lasagne, it was lovely (although as predicted 2 of mine are now not keen!!) I don't mind as I will just do this for the adults in future (+ save some for my littlest girlie as she loves it!)

Still rotten weather, washing been on the line and off several times now :mad: I have given up....hope tomorrow is better,otherwise I will have to venture out and find a laundrette...

Baking_Mad

69chick, thank you very much. I definitely have to try and steer clear of the cafes, I think so far this month I've already spent over £20 on them!!!:eek:

TizerCat

Decided to try a new recipe for tea tomorrow Chicken, broccoli and pasta bake, due to my broccoli harvest from the lotte. Popped into Mr T's at lunchtime and bought some chicken breasts, bread, pasta shapes and some sweets for me total £4.12. Bringing this weeks TOTAL to £21.82

cutestkids

Hi
I would really like to join the grocery challenge I am spending too much at the moment and trying to motivate myself to cut back and use what I have before going shopping, I didn't start to keep a note till the 8th July so this won't be a full month.

So far I have done a large shop and a few little top up shops and have spent £259.46.
This is my main supermarket shop for the month for most of the things we need any top ups are just fresh fruit veg milk bread etc.

I am including all toiletries and cleaning items in my grocery budget.

I am hoping till the end of this month to keep it to £300 as I should just need fruit, veg and milk.

We are a family of 2 adults and 2 kids.

I would really like to reduce my total spend so need some motivation

freakyogre

£4.94 spent since my last post. Got some milk yesterday and the rest was on pure junk today - cake bars, cherry bakewells and crisps