August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Make-it-3

Declaring at £150.96/£200 as I had 3 NSD's (well groceries anyway) since last shop. Pretty pleased although not sure how I did it (apart from giving the eating out budget a real bashing).

Off over to Sept thread, see you there.

Soworried

meg72 wrote: »

Last post for August, came in well under, and am taking my DGS away for a much needed treat, Going to Monkey forest, staying in a POSH hotel,with a swimming pool LOL am really looking forward to it.

I have just searched monkey forest, it looks fantastic.:j Enjoy it and smuggle me in.

mummyyof5

-oohh..NickJW..thanks for the recipes....wonder if the pork and paprika recipe would work ok without olives....already have chick peas in larder and all the spices etc so wouldnt cost too much extra...we dont like olives though

mummyyof5

£5.00 in L**l and £9.00 in £5.50 in MrTs

Declaring at £394.00...£56.00 under budget:j:j:j


Going for £440 for September,happy to keep in sig xx

DundeeDoll

Dont ask. Suffice to say i shut myeyes an we went overdrawn. Fail. I managed os really well for 6 months but last two slipping into bad habits. Defo be in sept challenge. Need to stick to it this academic year as now have 3 at. Uni!

NickJW

mummyyof5 wrote: »

-oohh..NickJW..thanks for the recipes....wonder if the pork and paprika recipe would work ok without olives....already have chick peas in larder and all the spices etc so wouldnt cost too much extra...we dont like olives though

Mmmm - that could work I guess - I would also suggest coating the pork with flour (if you have in), if you like the sauce a bit thicker (or add cornflour later on).

Also - I'm not a HUGE lemon fan so I actually only used half a juiced lemon, instead of a whole lemon juiced and zested.

As with any recipe you can experiment and try new things out though

Never tried it before - but this goulash recipe looks like it could be good - you could used diced pork as the replacement. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1094662/pork-goulash-with-herby-dumplings

Shouldn't be looking at recipes so early in the morning - I'm getting huuuungry, and have no breakfast food in, so I'm holding out for lunch! :rotfl:

Soworried

DundeeDoll wrote: »

Dont ask. Suffice to say i shut myeyes an we went overdrawn. Fail. I managed os really well for 6 months but last two slipping into bad habits. Defo be in sept challenge. Need to stick to it this academic year as now have 3 at. Uni!

You must have done a very good job raising them then. :T

Bluegreen143

Hello everyone! Just dropping in to declare as my month finished yesterday - OH bought some milk and kitchen roll yesterday, so the total now stands at £217.57 from a target of £230. Really chuffed with this!

Commiserations to everyone who was over, congratulations if you were under and good luck to everyone who still has some of their August to go :-).

EDIT Remembered that I'd done my usual spreadsheet geekiness and hadn't shared:

Bread products £0.99 I've been pretty much only making my own, only bought two part baked loaves for garlic bread and nothing else
Cat £14.24
Dairy & eggs £20.14
OH's treats £28.78 This is mostly coke, crisps, pot noodles etc, and is a bit down, yay!
Delivery £15.50
Fruit & veg £32.35 concerned that this is down as I wasn't trying to reduce it, especially as meat has increased. Don't mind if it's just through reducing waste or because it was a 4 week month, but I don't want more and more meat and less veg to sneak into our diet so will be monitoring that we get our five a day next month!
Groceries £45.12 This is down and I don't know why
Household £10.65
Meat & fish £38.06 This has been creeping up, I suspect because we have been eating more meat
Toiletries £11.74

Sue14

Just added up my receipts for this month, and since my last post I have spent £32.88 in a1d1, £25.29 in Mr A's, £4.92 in HB, £13.75 in I*eland, £5.83 in Mr M's and £3 in Wilkos, making a total for the month of £142.88, so a little over but not as bad as I was expecting, lol!

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hi, a little late but declaring at £354.02/£350. Starting Sept well and truly stocked up. See you over on Sept x