July 2011 Grocery Challenge

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Good luck to all today as its a new month and another challenge for us all.I will be shopping from my freezer for as much as I can this month again as I am determined to try and get it emptied at some point so I can defrost it if nothing else.So doing my best to stay away from shops as much as possible I did well with the tinned stuff last month and had a few err... unusual meals at times but adapted what I had around mealtimes.The sardine mountain is reduced quite a bit now I have the tinned smoked mackeral to get through ,still fish is good for the brain (apparently) :)
I have had so much in the last month its a wonder I didn't grow fins .I had been given a large amount of tinned mackeral and sardines so have been working my way through them.:)
So its onwards and upwards chums and staying focussed on making every pound a prisoner
Good luck everyone
JackieO xx

cyclura

Can I join please, I have 3 adults, 2 kids, 1 dog, 1 cat and a few other animals to house and feed. I want to make the budget for all of us £200 this month

SilverBird_2

My GC budget is £250 for July.

rachbc

£250 for me please.

So far I have spent £4.50 - £3.50 at the market on a ham hock, huge bag of pears and 4 big pointy red peppers - £1 on a bag of kettle chips for with our sloppy joes - this is the kids favourite meal ever and makes me the most fun mum according to DS as they are allowed crisps for tea!

TheThriftyScrumpers

Morning

Thanks to all who run the thread. Please can I be put down for £410Thankyou.

Sending hugs to all xx

sistercas

1st day of the new month and it will be a NSD :j ( although i shopped yesterday and am counting it in julys budget )

whoopsied mackeral fillets for tea tonight with hm oven chips, m ight make a cake later, but i feel so tired dont know if ill get round to it

hippeechiq/ spiggle hope you are both ok xx

ebayqueen_2

morning all

First day of July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoping this month I will do better and keep within my goal of £400.

This is for 5 normally, though there are days when I cook for eldery relatives and visitors.

First shop of July at Mr T's yesterday came to £52.14.

Lots of fruit and veg whoppsied chicken and bread. Do not intend to spend again until Monday or Tuesday.

Menu for next few days is

Friday..........Homemade burgers with whoopsied baps, home made chips and salad....(includes homemade coleslaw and potato salad)

Saturday......Homemade pizza with peppers mushrooms onion.

Sunday........Chicken Balti, Chicken Korma, rice and homemade chips, Naan bread, salad.

Lunches are normally sandwiches, pasta/noodles etc. also maybe scrambled/poached egg on toast.

Best wishes to all for the coming month. Hope we get lots of good weather

quintwins

morning all, my kids are now officially off school so were all still in our jammies i'm waiting in for my new dishwasher anyway and oh pinched the car so i'm housebound, making today a nsd i did get a few fruit pots juice and chocolate bars from poundland yesterday so i need to add £4 to my total

we just had toasted muffins from the freezer, for lunch i'm having some lo curry from the freezer and yesterdays lo pitta, the boys are having tatie waffles and sweetcorn and dinner is spag bol from the freezer and 6 crusty rolls from the freezer i can acually see the freezer going down abit now i have no bread but loads of muffins, baps and bagels in the freezer so i'm gonna use them up til i need milk on mon

rosieben

Welcome to new GCers sprozza, miss_corerupted and cyclura - good luck for your first challenge

Gorgeestwo

Have done my first July shop at Mr T yesterday, spent £130.72 :eek: but got a few reduced items and a fair amount of meat, so hoping apart from getting milk, bread and veg again next week we should be ok for a couple of weeks, have done my meal plan for the next week and am determined to stick to it

Thanks to everyone who gets this thread organised :T