August 2012 Grocery Challenge

sjprmc01

7.46 in Mr S on bread, milk, rolls and 2 boxes of Kellogg's crunchy nut caramel bites or whatever they are called! Naughty but I think I'm a little addicted to them!

CupOfChai

Well I have done the top-up shopping for F&V etc for next week and am now up to £146.67 out of my £180 budget. I think I might be able to come under budget, I hope I can.

People keep mentioning geocaching and I've got all interested now . I found the website and it looks like there are quite a few near us, and apparently I can just get an inexpensive app for my phone and use that to do it. Going to see if OH fancies giving it a go together.

jumblejack

Just found my first 2 geocaches. I'm now very muddy (and so are the kids).
I left tea lights in the tubs. Took nothing from the first one but my nephew took a minuscule water pistol from the second Ons
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Caterina

Just about completed the. NSW/end with DH, another useful and fun day spent working on the allotment, in the beautiful sunshine. Beats shopping any day! Off to cook a fresh veg dinner now, good night all!

Bluegreen143

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend so far.

OH bought square sausages yesterday for £1.50, not too bad as he ate half and froze the rest for next weekend.

I made my list for my top up shop this week and only had about six things on it since we're going away Thursday - Saturday this week and going out for dinner on Tuesday with family :j. Bought two bottles of coke, four pints of milk, a bag of carrots and two reduced pears at my local Mr T, normally avoid it as it's a wee garage supermarket that costs more, but didn't have enough on the list to justify going to the big one. Spend £5.13.

Tonight we're having the frozen leftovers from last week's roast - sliced roast beef and Yorkshire puddings, plus frozen leftover braised red cabbage from our last roast chicken dinner. Serving with potatoes (boiled rather than roasted for quickness), baby carrots from the garden and green beans. Easiest roast dinner ever!! Having defrosted apple cake with ice cream for dessert. Can anyone tell I love my freezer?? :rotfl:

Tomorrow we're having leftover frozen arrabiata sauce (made by OH last week) with spaghetti, and will roast the last peppers and courgette half to mix in the sauce, plus serve with last half bag of salad. Tuesday we're out for dinner and on Wednesday I have to work late so I guess OH will have the individual YS steak pie from the freezer with chips and peas or something and I'll just grab some soup out the freezer when I get home. Think I'll make pesto pasta for lunches for me with some carrot sticks - not bothering to make more soup and bread this week when we're not really in and there's still bread in the freezer anyway. Fingers crossed no more spends til next Sunday, I could really use a shopping-free week

savesummore

Caterina wrote: »

Just about completed the. NSW/end with DH, another useful and fun day spent working on the allotment, in the beautiful sunshine. Beats shopping any day! Off to cook a fresh veg dinner now, good night all!

Wow well done :T:T Im in awe!!

bossymoo

Hi all, nsd's completed. Will have to pop to @ldi tomorrow as low on nappies, washing up liquid and kiddies snack box is empty, other than mini marshmallows which they hate, lol. And I need coleslaw. Lol

Make-it-3

Can't stop to catch up as in the middle of making HM fish and chips to celebrate the Closing Ceremony.

Weekly shop came in at £29.74 making my total now £73.08/£200.
However, I had too many bulky things on my list so had to abandon some or I wouldn't have been able to carry everything home. So mid-week shop will be on the cards.

jasmin10

Hi all, hope you have all had a good weekend.

I had a small spend yesterday for a few bits, this being £13.75 at Mr M's. This now only leaves me with £22.57 until 27th :eek: due to my ridiculous spend at the beginning (still mad at myself).

Anyhow, at the hospital tomorrow for a pre-op assessment so thought I would kill to birds and work out a food plan to last us til then and get it whilst out (sm's next to hospital).

So here is what I have and I reckon it will come in at about £18.70, altho hoping that I might find something things on offer. couple of things not sure on price as I havent checked on ms.com yet. I have about £3 spare to play with for any thing that is slightly more.

Monday 13th - pasta bake (already have Ing)
Tuesday 14th - Salami Dinner (")
Wednesday 15th - Chicken fillets & chips (")
Thursday 16th - Cottage Pie
Friday 17th - Pie, Chips and Peas (")
Saturday 18th - HM Pizza & G Bread (")
Sunday 19th - Toad in Hole with Onion Gravy and Broccoli (")
Monday 20th - Pasta Bake (")
Tuesday 21st - Boston Baked Beans (")
Wednesday 22nd - Jacket Spud, cheese and Beans (")
Thursday 23rd - Lasagne and whatever veg
Friday 24th - Undecided, one of the above
Saturday 25th - HM Pizza (")
Sunday 26th - Toad in Hole (")
Monday 27th - Pasta Bake (")

so my shopping list (everything is value stuff) for things that we havent got is: -
Washing up Liq 35p (Mr M/Mr T or Mr As)
Cling Film [STRIKE]80p aprox ?? [/STRIKE]60p (Mr As)
Salt [STRIKE]50p aprox ??[/STRIKE] 29p (Mr As)
Bread Flour x 2 £1.20 (Mr As/Mr M or Mr T)
Yogurts x2 £1 (have coupons) (Mr As/Mr M or Mr T)
Onions ??
Sausages £1.20 aprox (Mr M/Mr As or Mr T)
Cheese £2.50 (Ald!)
Tuna x4 = £2.16 (Mr M)
Frz Peppers £1 (Mr M/Mr As or Mt T)
Mince x2 £5 (Mr As/Ald1 or Mr M)
Milk x3 £3 (wherever)

Some other things I need is Eggs and washing powder but have £9 coming from Pinecone this week, so not desperate and can wait.

Have a good one people.

jumblejack

Picked up a Lidl leaflet. XXL week from this Thursday.
Offers include:

20 toilet rolls (floralys 200 3 ply sheets) for £4.99 (25p a roll)

X Virgin olive oil 1ltr bottle £2.98

4 large margarita pizzas for £2.49

5kg onions £1.29

1kg mild cheddar £3.79

2 kilos of pork medallions for a tenner (buy 2 1 kilo packs in offer)

1 kilo Italian passata 59p

1 kilo couscous £1.35

500g red lentils 79p


Weekend offers 18/19 August:

375g British diced chicken breast £1.35
1 ltr skimmed milk 24p
500g red grapes 99p

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