July 2012 Grocery Challenge

rising_from_the_ashes

Well, been to Home Bar*gains & done my 3 month stock up of loo rolls etc - now up to £44.22 / £160 (a wee pizza did sneak it's way in there .... I'm on my hols so treated myself on Sat night!).

I have also spent £9.99 from Oct's (next stock up) budget - this was stuff bought on fantastic offers that won't be needed until next the next 1/4.

I wish I'd done this at the start of the year - as I managed to get all my WM liquid, fabric conditioner and nearly all my household cleaning bits in the 1st 1/4 which probably accounts for quite a bit of the overspend from then!:p

Still - something learned & will do next year!:cool:

nannygladys

Hi everyone, still trying to keep to spending only £10 a week and so far so good, mind you the freezer is starting to look empty and the pantry is slowly going down - but it feels good:)

I reckon I can keep going on £10 a week for the next few weeks, but eventually I will have to put it up a bit when the food runs out, and then I will scouring the aisles for reduced stuff and eating home grown vggies I hope:)

Tea in - mash, fish in sauce and mixed veg followed by fruit and yogurt, not very exciting but I like it

See ya
Jxx

Samantha22

Hi everyone,;)

I would be very grateful if you could put me down for £250 for July 2012, please. This will begin on Wednesday, July 4th. I went almost £100 over my June challenge:eek: of £200, so feel the need to go for £250 this month. Having said that, June was my first ever challenge, so I suppose it was bound to go wrong. However, I would love to come in under budget in July.:rotfl: Wish I could go to the market to buy the fresh meat, but am disabled, so depend on online shopping, and bits & bobs from Budgens & Co-op when I run short.:(

I shall try to sort out a meal-plan for the coming week, and do my shopping list prior to the online shop.

Good Luck to all for July challenge,:)
Regards,
Sam22:T

PennyGrabber

Coxy11 wrote: »

Had planned to have chicken & cheese puff pastry ring for tea, but DS1 has asked if a friend can come for tea and I'm pretty sure it's the friend who hates cheese......:(

How do you make this please?! Sounds like something we'd like.

nannygladys wrote: »

Tea in - mash, fish in sauce and mixed veg followed by fruit and yogurt, not very exciting but I like it

Dinner doesn't have to be a culinary masterpiece every day!! There's nothing wrong with fish in sauce - I like it too!

liz-paul

Well I have a huge tesco shop being delivered any minute now which is costing about £275 of my £325 budget :eek: That's ok I thought as it has everything we need for the month except fresh things like milk, bread, veg, fruit etc.... Except that I already thought og 5 things I forgot to order :mad: Oh well I should still be on target....

Any tips for how to lay off my milk man? I think we could sae about £100 per year if we stop having milk delivered but I feel bad telling him as it's his job.....

sneakyspender

What an enormous thread. Was working at the end of last week and busy with the dcs at the weekend so no chance to catch up till today. Spent £49 (£40 @ Mr M for petrol voucher) and £10 @butcher. NSD friday. Aiming for another tommorow and wednesday

sneakyspender

LO lasange tonight, hm pizza tuesday and home grown spinach and lemon rissoto on wednesday.

meg72

Have spent most of the day installing a camera and getting a pic on here, think I have managed it now, heres hoping. My Chicken Salad for dinner.

Edit Yay I have done it.

KatyReed+5

Popped to the co-oops for some bread and chocolate, Came back having spent £12.45 although my saving were £7.53. bought myself some cider on offer 3 x big bottles for £5.50, 1 x loaf of bread and 1 x chocolate orange, 2 x rolo cookies reduced from £1.29 - 45p, 4 x big packs of bananas reduced from 99p - 34p, 2 x pack of new potatoes £1.50 - 52p

Not too bad really.

Katy, X

Bluegreen143

OK, this is what happens when you don't read for a couple of days - 10 pages of posts! Can't remember who said what now after skimming through them all, except love the rose petal jelly jumblejack! Oh, and to whoever's not sure about the cost-effectiveness of making jam - I find it's generally more expensive than shop bought, but I still make it because NOTHING beats the taste of HM raspberry jam. And I give jars of jams/chutneys as Christmas pressies if you want to keep the costs down, home grown/foraged/reduced/frozen fruit are all cheaper, and you can also make apple/pear jams as these are MUCH cheaper than berries.

Spent £31.80 yesterday at an extremely fancy Mr M's (not the one I usually go to) which had the biggest selection of fruit and veg I've ever seen in a SM - soooo tempting! But managed to resist spending too much as we're away at the weekend - only spent half what we generally do for a weekly shop but it should be plenty. Also bought some coke at my local Mr T express as it's still on offer and the OH just goes through it SO quickly.

Had very tasty salmon last night on a bed of sweetcorn, both dressed in a caper/red wine vinegar dressing, and with salad and potato salad - SO delicious though OH didn't like it as he's not keen on fish, still ate it all though so can't have been too terrible! And I felt very bad he hated it so made apple crumble with ice cream for dessert after :rotfl: