July 2011 Grocery Challenge

emmad5689

Bread and milk today so another £1.89 to add, got delivery coming tomoro and then budget won't be far from gone

20somethinghousewife

I'm getting scarily close to using up my budget before the end of the month. I'm hoping I can get through the next few weeks on less than £40 :eek: I reckon it's do-able though. I have a fairly well stocked cupboard & freezer.

I've spent a lot but I've started stockpiling. So far I have stockpiled...

• Fairy Liquid 740ml £1
• Nescafe Parisian Coffee £1.50
• Typhoo Teabags x 80 £1
• Pasta Sauce jar 18p
• Mayonnaise 740ml 34p
• Digestive Biscuits 21p
• Penne Pasta 18p
• Tortilla Chips 17p
• Baked Beans 25p
• Kidney Beans 17p
• Custard Creams 40p

I have bought LOADS of most of the above but now have to shift my focus to staying away from the shops and making do with what I've got.
I have almost run out of milk though need it for visitors tomorrow

annem38

well on to the last 2 weeks of my month and while i am pretty pleased with spend so far, can't believe how much stock piled stuff i still have, most of which i bought "to have in" as opposed to it being a good buy. Am also amazed by how many prices i don't know so don't know half the time if i am getting a good deal or not, think i will have to start carrying a notebook with prices of all the basics in, still at least i know i got a good deal on red lentils in mr t's yesterday £1.99 for a 2kg bag in their ethnic foods section ( i get thru a lot of lentils as i prefer to cook my own ham joints and the cooking liquer makes the most fabulous lentil and ham soup!)

right off to try and turn frying steak into burger mince,don't have a mincer so just going to use the food processor, wish me luck!!

anne x

CupcakeLisa

still got £36 of my budget left and have enough dinners in the house to do me till the end of the month. I only need a few lunches. think with anything i have left over I will use it to stock pile a few items like i did last month

franby64

Morning

I was just sitting here feeling a bit peckish but deciding to wait until dinner time before eating anything when DD1 came home early from her work experience in a bakery with a box of doughnuts:j!!!
You know the rest! And they were free!

Today I bought ice-cream (wouldn't have bothered if I'd known about the doughnuts!), bread, eggs and lots of fruit and spent £11.94 so new total is £325.22.

quintwins

afternoon all, tesco has just been and came to a grand total of £45.50 it includes alot of food, i had to play tetris with my fridge and freezer so get it all in, were having mince and taties for tea we now have enough food for the rest of the month except next weeks, milk, bread and fruit, and that really will have to be all i buy since i can't fit anything else in

QOTD

Oh dear, I didn't do so well today - yesterday I spent £4 (exactly!) on some milk, bread, tinned tomatoes and a couple of other things which was ok but then today I blew the budget

I kind of figured that I would, since finding out yesterday that I've been offered a permanent job I was a little bit excited whilst shopping today and didn't quite stick to the rigid regime that I have followed over the last 3 weeks.

Still this is the last week of the challenge (for me anyway) and I spent £46.88 taking my total to £100.31... a huge 31p over budget :rotfl:

I forgot to buy some tuna so I will need to buy this tomorrow but that will take me to about £5 over budget I'm guessing at the end of the 4 weeks.

I know that I could have stuck to the budget this week if I had needed to, but with my happy thoughts I let loose a little this week - having said that, getting a weeks worth of shopping for less than £50 is quite impressive in the current climate as a month ago I was spending up to and around £80 a week for 4 people. In addition this week everyone has been at home which means that lunches have been more than just sandwiches and DS has been raiding the pantry for cereal most days (and several times a day) which means that more food tends to be eaten!

69chick

Gone really dark here and bucketing with rain, sort of feels like autumn time, I love the sound of rain when I am all cosy indoors, the kids are all behaving well for a change as well

A nsd today, kids are on whoopsied chicken breast with mash and beans and me and dh are on hm pork strogonoff from freezer with rice and veg.

Hope it doesn't mean our summer was over by the end of May

annem38 would love to hear how you do the ham and then the lentil soup, sounds scrummy :drool:

rosieben

Mrs Money Penny, so sorry to hear about your Dad, I'll be thinking of you and your family

its very autumn-y here too 69chick, let's hope we get this august heatwave I've heard we're promised

alionaear and cutestkids, welcome to the GC

QOTD, congrats on the job!
Good luck with the last days of the challenge everyone :beer:

emmad5689

Well Mr S delivery has arrived and another £44.51 spent, got about 25 to last the next 12 days which I know won't happen but I am going to come in as close as I can, hope you are all doing well.