August 2012 Grocery Challenge

sb88_2

quintwins wrote: »

my cat was like that, have you tried getting a big bag of frozen value mince, cooking that up and adding value musli? could be alot less expensive, value mince is £2,75 a kg and musli is 98p a kg.

Off shopping today wish me luck

Thanks! at the minute the food is 87p per KG of the food from Bolams, it is basically all the meat and vegetables from the butchers that need using, cooked up and packaged, and dated. She seems to be okay today! She is a big dog, so she will eats about 600gs a day!

And Goodluck!

sjprmc01

Right, I'm about to include the bread OH bought at the weekend and the few bits I bought in HB earlier into my spends

The bread was 1 loaf at 1.25
Then 2 loaves equalling 2.00
And 2.00 on the chocolate he bought at the same time.

In hb we got crisps :95p, noodles 59p, a tub of mash to try 39p and 10 x smart pr1ce 'de identified' shower gels. 1.90. Oh and 2 pks of 19p jelly sweets. So total of £9.46 to add to my totals in a mo

quintwins

sb88 wrote: »

Thanks! at the minute the food is 87p per KG of the food from Bolams, it is basically all the meat and vegetables from the butchers that need using, cooked up and packaged, and dated. She seems to be okay today! She is a big dog, so she will eats about 600gs a day!

And Goodluck!

lol i'm back i did ok thats a very good price for a decent feed, one of our dogs will eat anything and the other is abit fussy (even with human food she's abit fussy) we get an oily musli completely food for them, it's only £8 for 25kg from the manufacter (you have to order in bulk so theres an order split between loads of us every 3-4 weeks).

becca-2012

Hello. I joined halfway through last month and didn't do badly. Going to go for £200 for my first full month. I have already spent £44.49 with af, including delivery. I should be able to stick to budget as long as I don't go to the corner shop!

Kitchenbunny

Whee, Monday is over and done with work-wise (at least!) I wasn't looking forward to today so am v glad it's over! I'm reporting in with a spend today of £16.10 on various grocery bits. There's only a couple of items I should need this week so it's not looking too bad at the moment.

Tea tonight is a typical Monday nighter - pasta bake. I'm foregoing the leftover chilli in the fridge in favour of the more typical bacon & chorizo (which I fancy) While I'm feeling hungry I'm going to eat what I enjoy!

I'm off to update my signature now. Have a lovely evening, everyone.

K xx

MrsCD

KatyReed+5 wrote: »

Ok here we go my 2nd month of GC starts today. my 1st was a bit of a disaster but i've learnt a lot so hoping August will be my month, the older 2 will be going to their mums every other week so that will probably help, but it is my daughters 4th birthday at the end of August so that might impact a bit, hopefully not

Katy, X

Hi Katy - glad to see you're getting things sorted a bit. Take care

Xspender - Happy Birthday :j

My August starts today, so I'm going for £75 per week again. Thanks to Zippy, Pink, Rosie and Helen for continuing to do the good work in setting this up for us. :T

NSD today - first for this month.

happytails

Spent another £1.69 at the shop. So £50.74/£250

smelkel87

I would liked to join officially this month. Im giving myself £100 to spend on groceries and toiletries.

CupOfChai

Hi everyone, have spent another £2.75 today on 2 packs of sandwich meat and a bit of reduced pate I fancied the look of. But now I'm going to try to not pop into any shops on the way home until I actually need things again, I will try to tell myself I can't check for any whoopsies and have to let them go because there's no room in the freezer to put anything!

WantToBeSE

Well i am certainly noticing that the kids are on their summer holidays- i am struggling to make sure i dont spend any money.
I am going to have to spend more money tomorrow as they have already drank all the orange squash, eaten all the crisps and now the bread is gone too!
I have a feeling that i am going to be over my budget this month (even though its my 1st grocery challenge!), but i will be trying to get as close to budget as possible.