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June 2012 Grocery Challenge

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  • adelight
    adelight Posts: 2,658 Forumite
    I'm back on the tv :j £140 for two this month, I'll try to get it down gradually once I figure out a cheap way to feed oh:p
    £19.35 spent so far and 4nsd so must update my Sig.
    Living cheap in central London :rotfl:
  • meg72
    meg72 Posts: 5,164 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    Florenceem wrote: »
    I went away on Thursday and came back yesterday afternoon - wow - so many posts/pages on here to read! :eek:
    I have a spend of £2 by Mr F to add to sig plus more when I get receipts out of my handbag/suitcase. My friend had bought me goodies - bargains from her local mini market. Then we went there on Saturday - so I spent money!
    Last night we had gammon in batter, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrot, cauliflower, leeks and gravy for dinner.

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    Ah you are back, I have been dying to hear about your crafting,
    how did it go and any pics.
    Slimming World at target
  • Florenceem
    Florenceem Posts: 8,585 Forumite
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    Hi, I went away to stay with my craft friend on Thursday. I came home yesterday.

    We went to a class with Lisa Baker on Friday – she has had cards published in magazines. I went to her class when I was staying with P.. in February. The June class was decorating a wooden mirror frame using a brayer and Lavinia stamps. We had a lovely time – another craft friend M...... drives us there as it is in a village near Maidstone and difficult to get to.

    On Saturday we just popped to a near by mini market that has really good bargains – I wanted to get some yarn for my Sister but they were out of stock of pale blue. After lunch we did some crafting – I spent ages colouring in a Sarah Kay stamped image with Cosmic Watercolour paints. I will matt and layer it on to a card.

    Sunday the three of us were off to a day workshop with Paul Church in Rochester – he works with Barbara Gray formerly Santerelli. Paul is also a regular demonstrator on Create & Craft. Again we used a brayer but this time the Clarity stamps. We also used Flitter Glue and Mica flakes. Also DS adhesive sheets with acetate.

    I learnt a lot at both workshops. I had bought a brayer years ago but never used it – I will now! I felt more confident with the brayer on the second go at it – as always – practice is what is needed to do new techniques. The Paul Church day was a technique workshop where we produced pieces of artwork that can be made into cards later.

    Photos will be posted as soon as I am unpacked and settled back home. :)

    Paul Church is doing another workshop in August so we have booked for that – unfortunately – it means I will be away for my Wedding Anniversary. :(:o:eek:
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  • WelshWoofer
    WelshWoofer Posts: 5,076 Forumite
    Well, I'm back from Mr S and managed to spend a grand total of £21. Within that I got enough dog food for the next 2 weeks, bits and pieces for visitors (coffee, milk, sugar, biscuits, desserts, strawberries etc), a saag aloo and rice for tea tonight and a few things for the week.
    That takes me up to £45 for the month so far - hopefully next week will only be F&V and so a small spend.
    If I'm to get anywhere near my budget it will have to be!
  • FlacosFloozie
    FlacosFloozie Posts: 830 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    First spends of the month to declare. £43.86 in Mr T but I had a voucher so needed to go over £40 as a result we are stocked up on our staples.
    Also investigated the new Al@i which has opened in our town. Very pleasently surprised with their furit/veg/meat and am trying some of their own brands too so £12.69 there briging my total up to £56.55 :)
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  • Coxy11
    Coxy11 Posts: 5,592 Forumite
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    £12.91 in MrT on veg, pots, cheese, ham and some sweets for the children plus DNephew who is 4 and totally gorgeous! I don't usually get to spend time with him so it's lovely that I do today. His Dad is building us a deck in the garden, poor chap, out in all that rain :o
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  • Bikingbint
    Bikingbint Posts: 51 Forumite
    Florenceem wrote: »
    Re slicing HM bread - you could invest in a slicing machine. I just make sure my bread knife is sharp - resharpen as I cut the loaf as well. Let the sharp knife do the work - my Dear Dad always told me that - relax your hand. hth.

    I have an electric meat slicer, why didn't i think of that.

    thanks

    bikingbint
  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
    Does anyone know- if i do an online shop with @sd@ today, to be delivered on Friday, will they take the money out today or Friday?
  • Hi I'm not doing very well this month so far £238.35 for 2 weeks out of £400 for 5 weeks :eek:. We seem to have been entertaining quite a lot in the last couple of weeks. Order from Asda due today will also be quite a bit as I (nearly) emptied my freezer to defrost it so need to stock it back up again. Never mind, I'll have to be especially frugal for the rest of the month :).
    Pay debt in 2012 #278 £2347/£5364
    Sealed Pot 5 #1713 £78.57 //Crazy Clothes Challenge #97 £79.49/£100
    Grocery Challenge:
    Feb £359/£360 Mar £390/£450 Apr £335/£320
    May £330/£320 Jun £455/£400 Jul £321/£320
    Aug £399/£370 Sep £345/£300 Oct £421/£400 Nov £0/£320
  • cleggie wrote: »
    Does anyone know- if i do an online shop with @sd@ today, to be delivered on Friday, will they take the money out today or Friday?
    They don't take the money out until they deliver it :).
    Pay debt in 2012 #278 £2347/£5364
    Sealed Pot 5 #1713 £78.57 //Crazy Clothes Challenge #97 £79.49/£100
    Grocery Challenge:
    Feb £359/£360 Mar £390/£450 Apr £335/£320
    May £330/£320 Jun £455/£400 Jul £321/£320
    Aug £399/£370 Sep £345/£300 Oct £421/£400 Nov £0/£320
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