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July 2011 Grocery Challenge

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 17,413 Forumite
    10,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    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
    cyclura Posts: 295 Forumite
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    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
    Debt Free...yay! 10/09/2013 :j




  • SilverBird_2
    SilverBird_2 Posts: 310 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    My GC budget is £250 for July.
    #Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain #We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us #If you focus on what you have left behind, you will never see what lies ahead - Gusteau/RatatouilleGC 2022: £0/£2,500 total spend
  • rachbc
    rachbc Posts: 4,461 Forumite
    £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!
    People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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  • Morning

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

    Sending hugs to all xx
    GC Mar 11 £437.08Apr 11 £459.26 May 11 £485.52 June 11 £423.79July 11 £409.22 Aug 11 £250.10Sept 11 £396.14Oct 11 £382.37Nov 11 £372.55Dec 11 £332.29 Jan 12 £375.19:Feb 12 £349.58Mar 12 £279.66Apr 12 £249.12May 12 £337.66/Jun 12 £362.58/Jul 12 £317.03/Aug 12 £354.02/Sept £439.72/Oct 12 £210.16
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    1st day of the new month and it will be a NSD :j ( although i shopped yesterday and am counting it in julys budget :o)

    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
    ebayqueen_2 Posts: 1,175 Forumite
    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 :)
    "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream" :) C. S. Lewis
  • quintwins
    quintwins Posts: 5,179 Forumite
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    morning all, my kids are now officially off school so were all still in our jammies :o 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
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  • rosieben
    rosieben Posts: 5,010 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Welcome to new GCers sprozza, miss_corerupted and cyclura - good luck for your first challenge ;)
    ... don't throw the string away. You always need string! :D

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  • Gorgeestwo
    Gorgeestwo Posts: 537 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    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
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