September 2011 Grocery Challenge

Fiasco55

I have a few more shopping bill to add to my total.

Waitro$e £28.51
HB £9.74
M & S £11.96
Mr S £5.42

Been stocking on on some reduced items as my mum is coming to say with me for a week.

Heading back to Waitro$e tonight to get some more flavoured watered as the are doing sugarfree volvic 3 for £2

CompBunny

Haven't posted for a while as I've been ill... with CFS it takes me longer to recover than most!

The one positive of this is that I haven't been able to spend much in this time, however would like to add in £20 to our total just to be safe...bought some very naughty things whilst feeling ill, like pizza, biscuits, crisps, yoghurts, ice cream and pre-made milkshake! NAUGHTY! But dairy feels oooh so good for sore throats.

May go shopping later as we are running low on a few things but will try not to!

Hope you are all having a nice start to this sunny week!

TrixieB

Hope you're feeling better compbunny, i find the opposite with dairy when am ill, if it's a tummy thing makes me more yeuch if it's a coldy thing it blocks my sinuses!

poppy-glos

nsd today :-)

tomorrow going to stockpile some dogfood and coffee for the winter with a bit of the balance left :-)

fingers crossed (and a bit of willpower and i )will still be on budget on friday

destroyerofdebt2011

some how managed to come in under budget with a grand total of 99p to spare for Sept. Guess tight budgets sometimes bring out our most resourceful and inventive sides.

Good luck to the rest of you who still have a few days left to go before the new month.

D.O.D

angelatgraceland

Another NSD today-I think that is 3 in a row. Used up my pesto sauce from my pasta the other night on home made pizza bases. It was truly delicious-I will now buy pesto for pizza bases! Mr A do one for 69p and its good! They do a red one and a green one(tomato or basil). I didnt get the beef and onion pudding or the bacon and onion pudding made so tonight Ive put the beef in Mr A casserole sauce(the smartprice one)it is actually red wine sauce! Ive popped it in a small dish with a lid in the slowcooker and put the bacon in the water surrounding it as it is chunky stuff DD used some bacon on a HM pizza tonight-she will thankfully use whatever is in the fridge. Just made some more pizza dough in the BM and I will leave this in the the fridge for whenever someone wants a quick meal. Also had some nice ginger cake DD made so Ive been a bit spoilt. Trying to get more organised as I am hoping to give up work and I know we will be spending more than we earn for a few years but Ive catered for that. Therefore organisation is crucial to get the most from my pennies. This also means more free home deliveries and less personal shopping and impulse bargain buys. I too have a baked bean stash but that is one food which always makes us feels "safe"-well-we will always have beans! Just been looking on ebay at washing liquid(laundry)and may bulk buy it to last the year. I think that 20 l plus my soapnuts should do it-Ive truly got DH hooked on them now too.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=washing+liquid+laundry&_sacat=0&_odkw=washing+liquid&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

lynneee

evening all, spend of £18.12 (2 lots of nappies, SMA, bananas, jam) so I should be able to get to the 30th now with very little or no more food spends. Which potentially leaves me with a small saving £9.07! Not bad for a first attempt!

medsdemon

oh gosh, am so over this month. Spent £2.98 this morning on a tin of 1/2 price coffee and some potatoes and £6.80 in sainzers on milk, toilet rolls, whoopsied bread, paracetemol and fruit pastilles.
Planning on a nsd tomorrow as dd is out so just oh and I to worry about and we can "make do" with what's in- so cauliflower cheese and baked potatoes will do . Won't declare till tomorrow night ...just in case. Then it's a new month and I WILL make it in October....:o

Planning a big shop to start off the new month, so will try and meal plan and make a list. I have a £7 off a £50 spend voucher for T8sco so will be doing most of my shop there. Am planning some budget meals this next month.

PennyGrabber

Hello all, long time no chat! Had a few demons to deal with, but I'm back and raring to go for October...

I have been vaguely watching money, and I've not been too bad while I've been away, but it's creeping up and up, and it's getting closer to Christmas :eek: so I need to rein it all in for a while.

I'd like to go for £150 in October, which is my usual budget, I think I've only ever made it once, so while I'm not holding my breath because of all the price increases, it will mean that I'll have to be really inventive, and tbh, I have sooooo much stuff in the cupboards that it should be really easy. I just need to learn not to stockpile on top of the stockpiles!!!

Thank you to everyone who runs forum/contributes here - it's appreciated by so many people.

PG xx

Savvy_sewing

Yesterday I spent another £4.39 on milk, bread, and ham. (96p saving on the ham). Today my Veg box is due, and a few other things I had put on the list, but I cannot remember the total, so will have to do that later. Still have vegetables left from last week, so I see a soup coming on.
Just as the weather is to warm up of course. Off to update the totals.