October 2011 Grocery Challenge

helen_jelly

Recovering Spendaholic - Aldi ones are fine and so are the Lidl ones - Lidl's rinse aid and DW salt is good too!! Sadly my DW packed in and its all done by hand now but at least there is a water and leccy saving there.

Just updated my siggy and at the weekend had a little chat with DH about popping in to a SM every day and what affect it was having on the budget - showed hin how much it was costing us - he nearly chocked on his beer lol so he is now on board again with the no shopping malarkey hehe

Helen x

franby64

Only needed some chips today and total is now £169.47.

I'm getting another Sainsb*ury order on Weds to use up my last £12/£60 voucher but it's getting more difficult to get up to £60 with stuff that I wouldn't rather get somewhere else!

quintwins

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

NSD today for me - like Quintwins it's not through choice as my bank is is dire straits until I get my fee cheque through. It's unlikely to arrive today as they won't have posted it out on Saturday so hopefully it will arrive tomorrow. Thing is I will have to take it somewhere to get cashed as I can't wait until it clears - grrrrrr:mad:

Quintwins - I don't have a TD anymore but when I did it was always getting blocked with fluff - so maybe worth a look....


This week I don't think that I NEED to buy anything much in the way of food, but I do need swing bin liners, dishwasher tabletsand doggy poo bags (have two new puppies who are not yet quite housetrained). Has anyone tried the Aldi dishwasher all in one tablets? I usually use the fairy platinum ones but don't think they are on offer anywhere at the moment and the Aldi ones are only £3.99 but I don't want to make a false economy.

i don't have an aldi but i use lidls w5 dishwasher tablets (they had 2 boxes for £2 at one point theres 30 in a box so i bought 6 and i'm still using them i'm also still using fairy ones from dtd lol) and there fab i use tesco own dishwasher salt and rinse agent (these are both on my list for the end of the week so an expensive week but they last ages) i also use value bin liners and double them up, of not eco friendly but theres a big enough price diference to make is purse friendly for me

well my dryers fixed it had shorted out at the back (i'm not very techinal...clearly) so he replaced 2 wee things and told me it was prob cause i hadn't cleaned the condenser filter well enough and to take it outside and hose it rather than just running water threw it to get more pressure

hex2

recovering spendaholic, I have been experimenting with DW tablets. Cheap from anywhere work as long as you use salt and rinse agent, works better than finish all-in-ones. Hope the cheque comes soon.

We had visitors yesterday, and I have lots of cooked veg, some cold roast potatoes and no meat. Trying to decide what I can do to pad it out. Cheese sauce springs to mind.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Spent the princely sum of .53p on a pint of milk this morning:A Was starving when I woke up, so took some cereal into work with me and grabbed a pint - cheaper than a bacon butty:D

I baked a Sausage Meat Plaight (sp) yesterday - took me right back to my childhood, OH loved it, will be lunches for a few days and cost me pence to make :T

Off to nuke some chicken breasts, I fancy a quick curry tonight

Have a fab evening x

Car-ree

Spent £1.95 at the farm shop, bought some peppers and the owner let me have a bag of apples for 50p, : D
and then spent £12.64 at Aldi's, mostly essentials which should see us through to the end of the month but did get some chocolate and a bottle of wine (the wine I will be sharing the chocolate I won't!) Also got some chocolate bars for the 2DDs as it works out alot cheaper than getting stuff out of the vending machine after swimming (naughty naughty!)

westlothianlass

HI all,
Waiting on my first ever online delivery from sainsbugs (feel like a grown up ), heres hoping it works out okay. We live in quite a rural location so i've never been able to get anyone to deliver before so quite excited (sad eh), but betting I get a phonecall to say he/she can't find us:rotfl:. If all stuff is available I have spent another £55 pound (have updated sig in anticipation), but feeling pretty good about budget at the mo as only ordered stuff we need for this weeks menu plus a few store cupboard bits and bobs.
Hugs and positive vibes to all x

looie

hi all, latest spends from the weekend. Mr t £7.98 and mr a £3.02

I don't seem to have spent much at all so far this month ... not that i'm complaining. Any spare money left over will go in my garage fund

I'm on holiday from work this week hopefully should get a few nsd's in and should be relatively low spend.

katydo12

Butchers (£8.03) and Farm shop(10.64) today. Also had a bit of treat in the way of KFC for lunch (13.99) a bit naughty but so tasty and we deserve a treat now and again. Out tomorrow with some friends and spending the night away from home. Probably end up spending a fortune.

Twiceblessed

£4.33 at the corner shop. Sadly entirely on junk food Both me and Dds suffering from cold so needed something to cheer us up. Will need to try being a bit more OS and attempt to bake some treats for next time. Any suggestions for cheap and easy comfort food welcome!