September 2012 Grocery Challenge

tinkerbellsmum_2

hi can I rejoin please with a budget of £250 for this month please

NickJW

Quickly popping in to report £2.60 in Mr S for lunch things today.

Housemate cooked prawn stir fry yesterday and pad Thai the day before. Is also cooking beef goulash tonight. I cooked on Monday and will cook tomorrow and Saturday. Planning on Spaghetti Carbonara tomorrow and not sure what to have on Sat.

Hope everyone is well.

rosieben

gettingready wrote: »

They will "block" the money straigh away and then claim it when delivered.

they don't actually block it though, because I've currently booked a delivery for 18th Sept and there's only about £3 in that account at the moment. I think they do a sort of test payment - sometimes my account shows a £2 payment going out but it disappears later eta - think this is just to confirm the bank details

gettingready

Perhaps it is different with different accounts but with mine - Asda is a nightmare.

Say I order something for £50.00 - they "block" £50 on my account on the day.

Say they deliver and something was out of stock so the bill comes to perhaps £43.00.

They take the £43.00 from my account on the day of delivery AND the original £50.00 is blocked for several days so I have no access to my own money till it "drops off" back.

Happens every single time when I order from Asda. There were few threads about this weird thing on MSE forums so does not happen just to me...

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They do reserve the money. Once your order has been picked and they know how much it is gong to be, they reserve it, but only the day before delivery, once you have signed for it, your account will be debited, usually the next day. This is because you might give some items back to the driver that may need debiting. I know this happens, because i have online banking and can tell when its debited and can also see monies being reserved on my balance, but possibly different banks do things differently.

gettingready

The problem I have with them is that they take the amount as on delivery day from the account and then still hold the original reserved amount (from the time of ordering) sometimes for several days grrrrrrrrrrrr

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im not too sure about Asda, but Tesco i think do things differently, thats really bad if people need to access their money

Kitchenbunny

Had a bad day today. Made some truly unnecessary spends and have taken a chunk out of my budget. Feeling really deflated about that, but must press on with it. Guiltily adding another spend of £12.45.

Gutted.

K xx

peony40

The sage bread buns sound good, I must make a note of the recipe.

We have been away for a few days break and I am now rested and looking forward to the challenge of trying to see how far I can stretch our grocery budget. I arranged a food shop to be delivered this afternoon and it came to £31.86. I will update my signature shortly.

DH is still on holiday and so I will be popping in and out until Monday when I plan on getting to grips with menu planning etc.

rosieben

gettingready wrote: »

Perhaps it is different with different accounts but with mine - Asda is a nightmare. ..

That's why its different then, I've only every shopped once from asda (very small order) and didn't notice they'd blocked some of the account, must have been flush that week all my dds etc go from another account so wouldnt have needed to access.

I've never noticed it with mrT or sainsbugs; thanks for the info - I'll be aware of it if I order again from asda