a month without supermarket - new challenge for 2011 starts at post 1013

Bargain_Rzl

Thanks catz - the link works fine. The bags look funky too! However, seeing as they are £4.50 each :eek: I might do a hunt round my local shops before buying them from the site

hazzie123

Have you looked in your local charity shops for the string bag? Was one in mine 2 weeks ago for 40p.I was gunna buy it,dunno what changed my mind?

kscour

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

so did i win my challenge or did i lose because i still had to use a supermarket....
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Definately won! :T :T :T
a) there are now another 25 (at least) people doing this because of you
b) I think you've done far better than you ever dreamt you would in the begining
c) In some ways using the supermarket is a good thing - it's being realistic, if this is going to be a long term change than it's going to take far longer than a month to source everything. Being a martyr and doing without something thats really needed would just have put you off the whole thing.

As for Xmas prezzies I have already discovered some lovely little shops - I suppose the presents will appear smaller for my money but they will be more individual. Also I'm going to check out ebay for small traders on there selling things.

Hope you're feeling more with it soon - sounds like I don't have to ask if you enjoyed your trip!:D

rach

i don't think i will be going back to the supermarket for much at all. a few bits that i will probably go back for are:

UHT skimmed milk (use about 3L a week in yoghurt and porridge)
very low fat soft cheese (haven't found this elsewhere yet)
oven bottom muffins

but as it stands at the moment, i think that's it. i can't believe we're a week into the new month and i haven't yet spent a penny of my food money!!!
normally i would've done my big shop at tescos by now! my cupboards and fridge are still full but my fridge (except for veg) is quite bare. popping out to get milk and maybe salad from corner shop soon, and then will go to the market on thursday/sat.

Lelc

I'm definitely not going back to supermarket shopping. I have had to go in this week to get coconut cream as I couldn't find that anywhere but that's all I haven't been able to source.

I have spent far less than I would normally and I have only been shopping once a week. So I have more money and time - long may it continue.

Thanks CTC for such an eye opening challenge.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

yep kscour..... fantastic weekend....

got there about 8pm on friday night... very bad weather... and we were on the bike:eek: my boots were soaking.... plus my leather jacket was soaking... my knickers were dry though as i had my hubby's wet weather trs on

so had to borrow a pair of boots for the weekend....the best bands of the weekend were a t.rex tribute band....

slade.... with good old dave hill.... my god have they still got it.....

and i had a total shock:eek: at the language that was coming out of cheeky monkey and orvil's mouths :eek:

when you see keith harris and orvil on t.v he seems a bit cheesey..... but i tell you what... his adult show is brill.... i see him in a diff light now....

we are all going back next year.....( i'm glad really as i feel as though its going to take that long to recover:cool: )

back on topic now.....

i havent bought toilet rolls or washing powder.... during the month... as i had a stock of this....but li-me had a load from ebay..... and the loo rolls well i prop would have bought them in the £1 shop.....

with me only being able to get my high juice from a supermarket... has proved.... that in this day and age we do need them..for certain things...... but .....lets hope we dont have to get dependant on them for lots more things.....

will go back through the posts again from over the weekend.... as i am sure there was a link about a sausage club...which sounds good.... as i want to find somewhere nice where i can order wildboar.. and venison sausages from.......

but i must admit the programmes on t.v about what te supermarkets get up to.... plus all you peeps joining in... as been really good and helpfull... especially cometitionscafe:T with all those brill links.......

maybe the thread title could be changed to a lifetime challenge :rotfl:

kscour

http://www.supremesausages.co.uk/

and they are yummy, people at the show were raving on about the parsons nose ones but supremes looked much nicer, were presented far better and were cheaper.

withalj

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

Oh, one more question - does anybody know where I can buy some old-fashioned string shopping bags?

How about making some? http://www.wampumkeeper.com/netstringbag.html
or get a macrame book from the library...

kethry

someone who's sort of actually getting somewhere in the anti-MrT battle (at least he has the high court on his side):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6423923.stm

basically the high court have removed alcohol worth £60,000 from a tesco store after it refused to pay a man for repairs to his car after he bought contaminated fuel from their stores (this goes back to 2003 and is nothing to do with the recent contaminated fuel scares). the bill is about £2,500 for the repairs!!! madness!

keth
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COOLTRIKERCHICK

looks as though tescos think their greater than the law....

with this currant bad batch of petrol.... i wonder if they will try and offer only 25% to those peeps.....

by the looks of it tescos would rather lose 60k worth of booze than pay just under 3 k......

i wonder if this will be broadcasted on the bbc news in the next few days....