August 2012 Grocery Challenge

jumblejack

Saw this handy list of Tesco Everyday Value products on HUKD that might inspire a few folks to step down a grade on their brands:

Found some good deals online:

Chicken stock, beef stock or veg stock - 10p
Strawberry whip power - 10p
Chicken instant noodles- 11p
100 nappy bags - 12p
Rice pudding - 12p
Twin blade desposible razors - 13p
Press on towels - 14p
Styling gel - 15p
Cornflakes - 31p
Low fat strawberry yogurt 125g - 15p
Custard - 17p
Kidney beans - 18p
Ground black pepper - 18p
50pk straws - 18p
Mixed herbs - 19p
Toilet rim block - 20p
Veg soup in a mug - 20p
Tomato ketchup - 20p
Pancake 6pk - 20p
Coleslaw - 20p
Mash potato -20p
Pantyliners - 22p
Lemmon curd - 22p
Cans of soup - 24p
Spaghetti - 24p
Conditioner - 24p
All purpose cleaner -25p
Choc and vanilla Swiss roll - 25p
Shaving foam - 26p
Golden veg rice- 26p
Choc mouse - 27p
T bags - 27p
Malt loaf - 28p
Fibre tip pens 10pk - 28p
Jam - 29p
12pk colouring pencils - 30p
Shower gel - 30p
Garlic bread stick - 32p
That's just some of the really cheap ones x

DundeeDoll

O lore not the best of starts. Went out for meal with O?h totally unplanned. 1/12th of budget gone. Still, good to be keeping track and knowing where it's going!

Soworried

jumblejack wrote: »

Morning all

If you spend £6 on ANY cereals at Tesco, you get a 10p off a litre petrol. :j

That means if you fill up with 50 litres, you get a £5 off

That is the same as just spending £1 on the £6 of cereals.

Last night I bought 10 x Value cornflakes (they are really good) @ 31p = £3.10 and Tesco wheat biscuits 48 pack £2.90 and it generated a voucher at the till :j

Hi JJ, you make this offer work even better if you use JTD.
I'll try explain.
If I go now and bought 1x Nestle shreddies 500g for £2.29. This is only £1 at Asda.
If I buy 1x Kelloggs coco pops 295g for £2.09. This is only £1 at Asda.
If I then buy Weetabix chocolate spoonsize in the same sale for £2.25. These are £1.50 at Asda.
Total amount at Mrt is £6.63 so you will get a 10p voucher. But if you use the JTD offer "Just the difference" for people who don't know you can get £3.63 refunded because Asda was cheaper.
You need 8 items to get the JTD so I would buy 3x different flavour basic stock for 10p and a loose gala apple, and loose carrot.
This makes the cereal effectivley free. Do this 5 times to get the maxium discount but in 5 seperate sales.
I did this last week and got 5x 300g nescafe for free.
I hope this helps x

bossymoo

1st of my target of 5 grocery NSDs today. We've nowhere to go so playing at home today, maybe do some gardening this morning and see if the tots want to dig up some spuds.

Am loving all the bargains, but my best way is to avoid the shops altogether when possible...

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

bossymoo wrote: »

1st of my target of 5 grocery NSDs today. We've nowhere to go so playing at home today, maybe do some gardening this morning and see if the tots want to dig up some spuds.

Am loving all the bargains, but my best way is to avoid the shops altogether when possible...

That's what I do - I only get bargains when I've got to visit the shops anyway to try and control my spending!

Spent £10 yesterday on special offer toothpaste and razors. I try to only buy them and other toiletries when the offers are on as I hate paying full price for them .

Btw I've recently been trying own brand dishwasher tablets from Lid! (the really cheap ones) and they work really well. They were only about £1.50 (can't remember exact price) for 30. Also tried Sainsbugs own brand colour wash gel and that's good too but much cheaper than Ariel (and I'm not allergic to it which is a problem I have with a lot of clothes washing products). So all good :j.

sb88_2

Just a quick note! I spent 3.85 yesterday at the co-op on Pizza and Chocolate...The shame! Especially considering I am on a diet

I also spent 2.18 on oatbran, got two bags, buy one get one half price! It is my health food of choice!

PennyGrabber

Well, I spent an obscene amount of my budget last night, but need to work out how much was other stuff before I update, as didn't take my misc purse!

Hoping for a nsd today, strike that, WILL be a nsd! I got a lush-looking pork crackling joint last night for £3.74, reduced from £10.16, so we're having roast tonight! Also got 5kg of spuds for 47p, so that's most of the dinner sorted.

Have a great day everyone!!

PG x

westlothianlass

HI all
Just updated my siggie, spent £85 in sainsbobs yesterday.
Hoping this will mean i only have to pick up a few bits like fruit during the week as we have enough food in for all our main meals for a couple of weeks:), just need to remember and use it .
Fingers and all other crossable bits duly crossed.
Im enjoying everyones posts so thanks guys and gals, they sure do keep the motivation up x:T

helen_jelly

NickJW - noooooo, the post has gone :]]]

XSpender - what rotten luck but on the bright side - you get it fixed cheap and you had the money saved [silver lining and all that hehe]

So much more to say but I've a brain drain going on so apologies if I have missed something important

Happy no spending

Helen x

jumblejack

Just saw this on hukd:

28° Wilkinsons - ALL Hanging Baskets 30p
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Just popped into Wilkinsons Chelmsley Wood and they have all Hanging Baskets marked at 30p... includes the metal ones as well...
Found 39 minutes ago by
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Not bad:j

Just about to tuck into an easy n cheap dinner. Oh and sprogs are out trekking with cold bacon, crispy lettuce n mayo butties. I've broken my bacon up on top of a salad mountain of crispy lettuce, chilli, avocado, carrot shavings, cherry toms, cucumber and cabbage. I can only have stuff like this when the brood are out. I love the simplicity of salads. Zero cooking & maximum nutrition. Life's too full to cook really.