September 2011 Grocery Challenge

Gorgeestwo

poppy-glos wrote: »

got caught by the offers in mr t today, bought the tomatoes (4 pk buy 1 get 2 free), lurpak two packs as cheap as value butter, utterly butterly bogof for baking, they didn't have the beans in so got a promise voucher, plus some bread , ham and apples for sp lunchbox on monday. saw on here the offer at lidl on bean so going to compare if tesco or lidl cheaper (if lidl still have in on wed). saw on here the mr t b1g2f scampi mentioned so may go looking for that when next in mr t (or get a promise voucher as our tesco is bound to have sold out!

I also got some of the tinned tomatoes offer, neither of the Mr T's I went into today had the beans I didn't realise you could get a promise voucher, do you just go to Customer Services to get one?

Managed to stick to my list :j did stock up on lager for DH and some wine for me so although not the cheapest shopping trip ever, we've got plenty to last a couple of weeks if I'm careful
Was really pleased to get some reduced meat, so won't have to buy that for a few weeks either.
Did forget to put a couple of things on my list, but they aren't life or death, so can wait
Spent £143.05 :eek: always looks more scary writing it down lol off to update sig.
Hope everyone has a good saturday eve

Winchelsea

September1986 - was that right about toothpaste at £4.50 ?
(I've never seen any that expensive!)

tessie_bear

hi....had a small spend today in b and m which have an interesting range of foods they do cheap bits for packups...i got a jar of bonne maman jam for 99p oh and they had a load of halloween stuff in

got a chicken roasting as unsure what we are doing tomorrow and i dont want to be held to ransom by a chicken...strange image...might make a pie with some of it

picked some more blackberries this afternoon which i might also make into a pie...um could make one lot of pastry and cook in the same oven...thats money saving

have a great rest of the weekend

tessa

september1986

I posted this on the August thread but can I have £600 for September, to include absolutely everything we spend except mortgage and bills.

Well so much for the no spend weekend

Spent £10 this morn on a fry up for me, OH and my dad. But my dad had come to help us with the garden, and £10 for a day's hard labour is pretty cheap in my book!

He also brought us some dog food, dog treats, crisps, biscuits, cheese, bacon and bagels (he always brings food!) so that should keep us going for a while

£73.23 spent so far and only 4 days in!

september1986

Winchelsea wrote: »

September1986 - was that right about toothpaste at £4.50 ?
(I've never seen any that expensive!)

Yep! I buy this strange pink one- corsodyl I think it is- which is not only expensive but also tastes horrible, lol. It's supposed to be good for your teeth tho

JIL

Sorry I am late posting this month but please can I aim for £280

losingpatience

Another spend today of £8.74 at our local shop. This was on 6 large free range eggs £1.29, bottle of lemonade £1.49 and 4 bottles of brown ale £5.96. I'm quite surprised, out of curiosity I checked how much the same would have cost at Mr S ( our nearest supermarket and where I would have called into if I hadn't have popped to the shop ) and it would have been £10.13!!

Need to pop out to a supermarket tomorrow as I need to bake a cake for a charity thing at work so need a couple of things for that. I'm going to make a list and JUST buy whats on the list. I will do it!

poppy-glos

5.60 on takeaway on the way home, not neccessary but was very nice :-0

now got less than £20 for the rest of the week. Have food in so this is doable, going to try to get some of the b1g2f scampi so thats £4 spent if it's in stock (or i'll ask for another promise voucher)

poppy-glos

Gorgeestwo wrote: »

I also got some of the tinned tomatoes offer, neither of the Mr T's I went into today had the beans I didn't realise you could get a promise voucher, do you just go to Customer Services to get one?

Managed to stick to my list :j did stock up on lager for DH and some wine for me so although not the cheapest shopping trip ever, we've got plenty to last a couple of weeks if I'm careful
Was really pleased to get some reduced meat, so won't have to buy that for a few weeks either.
Did forget to put a couple of things on my list, but they aren't life or death, so can wait
Spent £143.05 :eek: always looks more scary writing it down lol off to update sig.
Hope everyone has a good saturday eve

well done on sticking to the list. yes, asked at customer services, first time i've tried and it worked - not sure where i heard about it :-)

quintwins

i'm not feeling great so just a quick update, mil gave me back £6 for the stuff oh bought her and 3 packets of fishfingers i asked her to get (3 packs for £2 in the local nisa gonna grab more tomorrow, there 100% fish so heathy ones ) spent £11.25 in the farm shop on 20kg of spuds, 7 apples, a bunch of bananas and a huge bag of grapes which are all gone already

had a mcd's for lunch and chips beans and sausages for tea so not the healthiest day but not feeling great and it's a one off