September 2011 Grocery Challenge

thegirlintheattic

Did pretty well today - £64 in ASDA compared to the usual £100 and something.

mrs-moneypenny

an NSD is if you dont spend money from your food budget on food (or items you allocate that budget for)
i wouldnt call apintingitems food budget, i go to carboots but i allocate seperate money for those so dont count anything i buy there

boultdj

A £21.59 spend today between Mr.S and Al*i

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Thanks Mrs moneypenny, thats how i was doing it. Love that read your unread books challenge. Something for the future, when my declutter and decorating is done.

nic73

think i will start this one in October..

Gorgeestwo

Called in to Mr T's to get the few bits I'd forgotten yesterday again got some reduced bits that'll be handy, so spent £13.20.
Enjoy your Sunday afternoon

losingpatience

Popped into Mr S with my list of things I needed to bake the items for the charity bake sale at work. Came to £11.11 :eek: and then I have to pay extra to eat the stuff on the day. Don't think I'll be baking for it again, it's just costing me too much, and then I'm using things like eggs, flour etc that I already had in, fair enough I'm going to have ingredients left over from the money I spent, but it's ending up costing me a fortune.

So another £11.11 to add on to the budget and I think I'm going to have to go to the fruit and veg shop tomorrow to get some things in for the guinea pigs

FoxFace

Hello all,

I am officially going to start this one on my next shopping day... I shall budget pro rata for the remainder of the month

It should be a little easier from then anyway, as my children will be back at school all day and I start my new job... I need to be organised

meg72

First spend of the month today £4.05in Asda

I got a couple packs of kippers on the fish counter reduced to 32p each, 4 fillets in each pack.I also got a huge bbq pack of 36 sausages and 12 beefburgers for a £1.So fair few meals there.
rest was spent on pitta breads, sp frozen peas and 6 fresh tomatos.

Hoping not to go now untilnext Sunday, but might run out of milk.

sproggi

Spent £28.09 in Mr T today, only got what I had on my list and included things like cornflour and cocoa for cooking, teabags and the scampi and frubes on the 3 for 1 offer, so quite a few things that I don't buy every week.
I am starting to think that it would be cheaper to buy a cow, our household seems to get through a mountain of milk every week!!
Still sticking to cash only, it is certainly working to discourage things from jumping into my trolley:T

Sproggi