June 2012 Grocery Challenge

MrsCD

Meg72 - Sorry to hear about your Mum. I'll remember you and your family in my prayers. Hope you can soon remember happier times.

NSD for me today.

Dipndo

Proud of myself today,went to SM to buy the Sun for the voucher and only bought that...must be a first.

elsiepac

£3.85 spent on rolls, noodles and chocolate...

LC

Eyebright

Thoughts are with you and your family Meg at this sad time.

Last weekly shop of June will be taking place today. I know I'm going over my budget so just need to see how much over it will be!! Will make sure I stick to my list, so the damage is minimal :P

jumblejack

Florenceem wrote: »

NSD here.
We had roast potatoes, roast parsnips, beef/onion slice, gravy,asparagus, Chantenay carrots and onion for dinner.

Do you take lodgers?

jumblejack

Dipndo wrote: »

Proud of myself today,went to SM to buy the Sun for the voucher and only bought that...must be a first.

Well done. A small victory is still a victory!

What did I miss in the sun?

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

jumblejack wrote: »

At the moment, I am just using optrex along with the chloramphenicol ointment.

I need to research it though as I am unhappy with how the medication ends up in my throat (tear ducts spill over to the throat). I only realised this after having the eye stain for the eye examination on Thursday. I had a strong chemical taste and every time I spat, neon stuff kept coming out that had reached my throat:eek:

I don't want to put chemicals into my eyes long term that could create health issues as they will inevitably be ingested.

I will research to see if there is a healthy option.

Mrs C recommended cornflower as an eye wash so there must be over the counter stuff too?

Yes I know what you mean, I had to have an eye op last year and had the eye stain several times and the ointment you mentioned!

The artifical tears I was recommended (by my optician) was a spray over eyelids one which was supposed to penetrate through as it's more of an oil. The problem with it was the price and I'm not sure how effective it was. I think I'll research it too .

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

little_miss_moneysaver wrote: »

Oh Meg72 so sorry to hear about your mum. Big hugs to you and your family at this sad time xx

Just needed bread today, so annoyed as was in town yday and forgot it :mad: so OH drove me to tesco....big mistake! He wanted hotdogs (those nasty tinned things) for lunch, told he straight it's not coming out of my housekeeping money. So he asked could he buy it with his own money so I told him he can buy whatever he wants - so he did then got home and cooked them for us both lol. He also bought some 19p doughnuts too. Yep he's one healthy guy! He's not really grasping the idea of GC so well, it's near the end of our month so I'm not buying non-essentials.
Did buy £9 of fruit and veg yday at the market. Did get loads and treated myself to cherries. Was gone 3pm so many things were down in price. Just over my target, but not too bad for the frst month. Still it ends on Thursday so we'll see. Will update sig now.

Does anyone else's OH just not get the idea? And does anyone else have to be the meanie in the shop saying we're not buying X, Y & Z?

Yes!! I feel very mean most of the time! But like you say it's near the end of the month and we're already over our budget so are only buying essentials too. I'm scared to send DH to shops because he rarely ever comes back only with what we need :eek:. Once he did and I gave him loads of praise :rotfl:. The problem is that we've never been very good at sticking to budgets and now I'm trying really hard to do that but DH is struggling! Still, I'm sure he'll get there in the end .

bossymoo

Morning all, just a short update as at the paid stuff today. Quick Ald! Shop before work and purse £30 lighter. Have updated ticker.

Will have some more spends at end of week as going camping on Saturday and will be taking some picnic grub, but will check freezer for anything portable I can make to take before writing a shopping list...

jumblejack

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Free food at Greggs this week with 30p/50p Daily Star
Free Greggs treat every day this week, The paper costs 30p during the week and 50p Sat/Sun

Today - Chicken curry bake

Tuesday - Doughnut

Weds - Breakfast Roll

Thurs - Muffin and Hot Drink

Friday - Cream Cake

Sat - Savoury Bake

Sunday - Pizza

Might be of use to someone?