August 2012 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

Afternoon all, you are right i should come in under budget and it is a very reduced budget compared to my normal one, i never do well with a reduced budget lol.

£1.95 spend on doughtnuts today, i also got a box of rocket lollys, a box of 40 ice pops, a packet fo kitkats and some cars juice for the kids but mil paid for it.

GreenFairy

Thought I was very clever today ordering a box of loo roll and getting stocked up on eco cleaning stuff and oats, but now that I've done my sums I've got €14 left in the budget for each of the last two farmers markets this month and nothing else. Bum.

It has been such a spendy month with all the visitors and dinners. I would be annoyed, but I've had a great few weeks and it was worth every penny

jumblejack

GreenFairy wrote: »

Thought I was very clever today ordering a box of loo roll and getting stocked up on eco cleaning stuff and oats, but now that I've done my sums I've got €14 left in the budget for each of the last two farmers markets this month and nothing else. Bum.

It has been such a spendy month with all the visitors and dinners. I would be annoyed, but I've had a great few weeks and it was worth every penny

Good for you:T

Imagine how expensive it would have been to go out for a meal with your friends instead of entertaining them :eek:

We are going far afield tomorrow on a Field Trip and friends if ours have asked us to join them afterwards for a Chinese buffet. Only problem is, it would cost us nearly 2 weeks of shopping money so I have had to decline!

I so much prefer being a host to guests. Much cheaper and cosier!

bossymoo

Managed an nsd here. Took tots swimming with mil who had a day pass for her health centre, so that was free. FIL had left us some money for a treat lunch, but the tots were tired and hungry and the restaurant wasn't open yet. So we went back to mil house and she made them egg and chips and me a salad. So free, and grumpy gramps got his £20 back, lol.

Then, she told me her friends kiddies were coming for a sleepover, and maybe mine could stay too? So I've left them, she has four children staying under age of six, lol, she is a nutter! Gawd knows where they'll all sleep. DD has a travel cot, and the other three will have to share the sofa bed...

Toyed with the idea of getting milk and coleslaw again haha told you I was addicted, but instead came home and am cooking a huge Mediterranean veg omelette in the oven, and some roasted tomatoes, so will feed me for the rest of the week...

Will finally do a meal plan later and might pop out for a few bits in morning.

Possession

2 NSDs and about time too. Don't think I've got the car tomorrow so definitely a NSD there. Did lots of baking today and the weekend project is to try to figure out a week's meal plans including packed lunches using all the mountains of food I have, Ugh, hate meal planning with a passion.

jumblejack

Bossymoo, I would love you to tell us that you have MADE some coleslaw to indulge to your little hearts content with no guilt pangs whatsoever!

GreenFairy

jumblejack wrote: »

Imagine how expensive it would have been to go out for a meal with your friends instead of entertaining them :eek:

Thanks
Given how many people there were, the entire GC budget for the month could have gone on one evening out. I do still miss my posh dinners out, but I'll live without them for now. Better a good dinner at home with no debt than all the fancy dinners in the world (on credit!).

craigywv

quintwins wrote: »

oh dear i've blown my groceries budget but i got

3 bags of celery for 12p each
bag of soup veg 11p
diced pork 80p
finest meatballs 70p
bbq chicken breasts 80p (i did have 2 of these in my trolley but one vanished)
value bacon 17p
normal bacon 22p
4 chicken breast 44p
tatie and leek soup 17p
steak pie 7p
2 blocks of cheese 9p each
sausages 17p
pate 22p
finest pork and red carmelised onion sausages 80p
coleslaw and tatie salad 10p
4 pork chops for 9p each
2x 2 packs finest cheese cakes for 28p each
12 value baps 9p

i also got full price
3 litres of milk
bag of carrots
2 bottles value lemonade
3 value cola
value yogurts
2 bottles of squash
value crisps
7.5 kg bag of spuds
and £2 on deodrant and wipes

and 2 boys caps half price at 50p

my grand total is £18.46

needless to say i'm a happy bunny


i also met another mse'r waiting for whoopsies, so if you met someone in the big tesco store in n.i that beings with C that was prob me

i knew u were from N.I. you said baps lol.........was it connswater?:)

jasmin10

jumblejack wrote: »

Good for you:T

Imagine how expensive it would have been to go out for a meal with your friends instead of entertaining them :eek:

We are going far afield tomorrow on a Field Trip and friends if ours have asked us to join them afterwards for a Chinese buffet. Only problem is, it would cost us nearly 2 weeks of shopping money so I have had to decline!

I so much prefer being a host to guests. Much cheaper and cosier!

thats exactly how I have been thinking things through now. Not sure if its a good or bad thing for me tho. Everytime I think of suggesting we go out or do something, I stop in my tracks whoaaaa, thats nearly a whole weeks worth of food blown in a hour or two at the most with nothing to show for it.

Like you when friends say lets go out for coffee, I say fancy coming to mine instead and I'll make a tasty tea loaf or biscuits to go with it. I'm so paranoid about spending money on wasteful things now.

Do think I will ever be going out for dinner again lolol

xxlouisexx56

£11 today in asda. Don't normally go there but DP and I love the stir fry sauces. So I bought 9 and 2 salad dressings

Got the rest of DD's school uniform too