July 2012 Grocery Challenge 4 June 2011 at 12:19PM edited 4 June 2012 at 1:30PM in Old Style MoneySaving 1.4K replies 126.8K views

mummy2mygirls

Sorry havent been posting much but reading as and when I feel up to it (Morning sickness has hit me hard so thinking about food isnt great!!) Ive come in well under budget so im very happy - £363/£450 But thats because DH has done the shopping last few weeks so we have had hardly anything in lol. Will still lower next mth to £425 and see how ill do. Im not up for loads of homebaking atm so will see......

Sue14

jumblejack wrote: »

Oh no:eek:

I use a hand blender first to get it to a stage that is easier to whisk first. Much much easier.

Hope it gets fixed

I ended up having to use my hand blender when the processor stopped working. Luckily it turned out that it wasn't broken after all, I just hadn't clipped the bit from the blender part back into place properly, so the main bowl wasn't clipped in place, lol! I only discovered this yesterday while trying it, just in case, after spending the past week thinking it was going to cost me about £50 to replace it with an equivalent one, so quite relieved, lol!

What a great bit of luck NickJW, don't feel guilty it's their mistake so just enjoy it!

I made some more banana ice cream yesterday, with the YS bananas I got at the weekend, and we had some tonight with some fresh pineapple, which was only 69p. OH brought home over 2 kgs of bananas yesterday, which he was given free because the Mr S where he works had over ordered, which saves me having to buy any for snacks at work, and if any get over ripe I will make a banana cake or muffins with them.

I've not spent any more since my last post, so declaring for July at £112.68.

TheThriftyScrumpers

Morning,

Declaring at £369.32/£350 for July. See you over in Aug xx

meg72

mummy2mygirls wrote: »

Sorry havent been posting much but reading as and when I feel up to it (Morning sickness has hit me hard so thinking about food isnt great!!) Ive come in well under budget so im very happy - £363/£450 But thats because DH has done the shopping last few weeks so we have had hardly anything in lol. Will still lower next mth to £425 and see how ill do. Im not up for loads of homebaking atm so will see......

Hope you feel better soon, feel for you, I had horrible all day sickness with my first, I think my now ex OH lived at the Chippy for weeks.

debbiedeejay

Sorry have not had chance to catch up with posting weekly shopping in past couple of weeks.

Anyway need to add £97.83 ( thats rest of Julys receipts in my bag, yes kept them although totally scrunched up) and then shift myself over to August fast)

Will be there in a minute

minicooper272

Hey, I've seen a few other's posting this in there signature bar, I've finally decided to have a look-see to try and understand how it works (not how I thought at least!).

My money disappears atm, and the only thing I can think of that I buy is food, so I want to try and budget how much I spend. I would like to try £100 next month, so with half a month left, I'll say £50 for the rest of the month if that's alright?

rosieben

Hi minicooper, this is an old thread; you'll need to join in at the current grocery challenge for September which is here

If you have any questions post them there and someone will be along to help, GC'ers are a friendly bunch and very supportive of each other.

Good luck with the challenge!