July 2012 Grocery Challenge

TheThriftyScrumpers

smelkel87 wrote: »

HELLLOOO!!!
I have not been on here for well over a week and the amount of posts i had to read to catch up was crazy!!
Went into hospital on 15th to be induced but i had apparently already started so they let me carry on on my own... After 19 long hours my beautiful son was born and as you can imagine i have been kept busy by my lil man!! I have updated my sig for spends, i still have one week left in july but its looking promising. Just wondering if i can cut the budget even lower next month.. :-)

Congratulations :beer: give him a cuddle from me xxxx

Sue14

Spent £3 in £1 shop and £5.40 in Mr S this week. I made some of the banana ice cream (the one that just uses frozen bananas), which was delicious and saved 5 bananas from going in the green waste bin, unfortunately I think I've broken my food processor while trying to blend the bananas, so it could turn out to be the most expensive ice cream I've ever had, lol, hopefully it will be something that can be fixed by OH!

prophecy_grrl

Hi, I'm just swooping in to say that I'm declaring at £151.19 for July £1.51 over budget

August GC is £150 as well, and that's to include food for a week's self catering holiday for me and DS.

See you all on the August thread

Sue14

Another £19 today in Mr M's, including nearly 2 kg of YS bananas for 25p, to make some more banana ice cream. We shouldn't need anything else before the end of the month, but I'll wait until Tuesday to declare just in case, lol!

NickJW

Hello all

Well, this month has been an unmitigated disaster and the spends continue!

£8.13 in a mixture of corner shops and M+S. I've been out all weekend and have been eating naughty things like pre-packed sandwiches and drinking diet coke on the go!

Then did an online shop with Mr W which is coming on Tuesday. My share comes to £40. I know that it will be all used in August but to be honest, I'm so fed up this month and am prepared to write it off and start August with a clean slate!

Tonight it's a cheap and easy meal - pasta with pesto, pine nuts, feta cheese and sundried tomatoes (all in stock).

Will need to spend money tomorrow though - it just feels as though money is slipping through my fingers.........

PennyGrabber

Not an NSD today, as I had to buy ice cream... We had corned beef hash for dinner, with enough cb left over to make corned beef and bean toasties for lunch, and then some sandwiches on Tuesday too!

For pudding, we went to dd's ice cream shop!! She has made a shop in her bedroom, so we went in and each spent £1.50 (of DD's money!), on a cone with some honeycomb ice cream in (bought today) and some white choc chips (form my baking cupboard)! Made it a really treaty pudding! Then, they had half a melon between them, to make me feel better!

Tom should be a nsd, as the car is being MOTed. However, thanks to this challenge making me organise my finances, I have a car account that should more than cover it! (Fingers crossed, as the insurance and aa cover need to come out of that in Sept and Oct!)

PG x

Soworried

I've just got back from MrT and MrS and have 4 bags full for £16 :j
I have had to use my tetris skills to fit it all in. I thought at one point that I was going to have to cook some of it now.
2x 1k packs of turkey breast fillets down from £7 to £2
2x chicken down from £4.49 to £1.14
3x apple and sage marinated pork steaks down from £3 to 74p
2x breaded chicken breasts down fron £3 to 74p
1x chilli beef skewers reduced from £3 to 74p
1x lge punnet of peaches down from £1.95 to 49p
6 more of the greens dessert mixes for 10p each.

That is it, I am not shopping again until the Lidl Thursday deals.:cool:

Make-it-3

Quite a few toiletry necessities bumped up today's weekly shop, so I'm now officially over budget at £208.74/£200. I won't be declaring till the fat lady sings and July is out, but hoping for NSD tomorrow and Tuesday.

Bluegreen143

Aw PennyGrabber, that sounds very cute, and honeycomb ice cream is my favourite too

Spent £29 in Mr M - delighted as we really shouldn't need anything until next weekend, which will be a new GC month! Not declaring yet as that would be tempting fate and need to keep OH out of the shops - no way am I telling him we have £10 of budget left :rotfl:

Just analysed my shopping for this month using my spreadsheet :

Bread products £3.01 this is so low because I've been making a loaf every week :j
Cat £7.27 This will be higher next month, we had a bit of a litter stockpile lol.
Dairy & eggs £25.93
Fruit & veg £44.54 Happy to keep this high for health reasons :cool:
Meat & fish £34.11
Toiletries £21.51
General groceries £55.20 way lower than last month, and not sure why
Household £14.70
Treats for OH £29.85 this is £5 down!! :j
Delivery charges £3 only got 2 deliveries and one was free

After I got the shopping, I spent the afternoon cooking - made chicken, leek & sweetcorn pie for dinner for me, OH and OH's brother, with potatoes, carrots and braised red cabbage. Also made 4 portions of carrot & lentil soup for lunches and have a loaf of bread rising.

Had a bit of an egg mishap this morning - noticed that the cardboard pack was really wet, so pulled it out to move the eggs into a bowl, but of course the cardboard split and one of the five eggs fell on the floor and smashed (caught the other four in my hands). Thankfully two eggs were fine (need them to make quiche on Saturday) but two have cracked and so need to be used today :mad:. So I'm making apple and cinnamon cake as I have a cooking apple spare. Also baking a few jam tarts with the pastry trimmings from the pie. And I wasn't even planning on making anything sweet this weekend!!

jasmin10

NickJW wrote: »

Hello all

Well, this month has been an unmitigated disaster and the spends continue!

£8.13 in a mixture of corner shops and M+S. I've been out all weekend and have been eating naughty things like pre-packed sandwiches and drinking diet coke on the go!

Then did an online shop with Mr W which is coming on Tuesday. My share comes to £40. I know that it will be all used in August but to be honest, I'm so fed up this month and am prepared to write it off and start August with a clean slate!

Tonight it's a cheap and easy meal - pasta with pesto, pine nuts, feta cheese and sundried tomatoes (all in stock).

Will need to spend money tomorrow though - it just feels as though money is slipping through my fingers.........

( I have had quite a few moments this mointh feeling sorry for myself. Lack of money and lack of any comfort food in dosent help but on the other hand it does help as I not eating rubbish that will make me feel worse after I've eaten it all.

Hope your feeling brighter soon