September 2012 Grocery Challenge

mossy

Thanks Save Dosh! Sorry to here things are a bit 'emotion in the ocean' as DD and I call it (based on the book commotion in the ocean!!) Hope things settle down for you soon.

Okay last proper spends of the month (there's only 12 days left after all!!) :eek:

Icy £4.70 (bread, milk and all that jazz)
Sainsbug 14p (reduced beef tomato)

So that leaves me with £1.66 left. But I have all the meat etc and meals batched cooked, so hopefully I can manage on that. Would be good to get some reduced fruit/veg and then a little left for milk if needed.

A friend asked me to bake a gingerbread baby for her friend (whose just had a baby) so I did that today (twice, I broke his leg off the first time oops!!) and I had some dough leftover so have made biscuits for DD's lunch and for treats etc so that's really good. :T

I also have a few cakes to bake in the next week, promised DD we'd bake a yellow cake when she got to 100 yellow cars, we count them if we see them (yellow car no returns padlock 1 2 3 lol) :rotfl: She's on 89 and I'm on 37!! Also have DH's birthday cake at the end of next week and cakes to bake to take around a friends house on Sunday to go with lunch while we watch the F1 on their sky!! Hopefully as long as DH doesn't eat them all I should have enough eggs!!

Coxy if you're getting October's thread ready already, I'd like to be put down for £200 for October. Cheers chick! But it is a bit early so I'm happy to post it again when October actually starts.

Good luck with your budgets for the rest of the month everyone.

Bluegreen143

Mossy that is so cute about the yellow cake for the yellow cars!

OH spent £4 on pizza and coke - he didn't get the job he interviewed for so it was comfort food so gutted for him as he really wanted it, he did get excellent feedback from the interview though so he isn't giving up on the hunt!

I want to make veg korma tonight with all the leftover veg and yoghurt in the fridge to have tomorrow night as I'll be late in tomorrow after an exercise class. Just need the motivation to get off my bum and do it! I'm going to use the cheese that's left in sandwiches for the plane on Thursday morning and I just remembered I have two out of date eggs to use so I think I'll make mug cakes tonight for dessert again then I'll have a nice clean fridge to go away.

missmucksmum

well ive gone well over this month but i have held a party and fed 50 people and totally stocked the freezer with meat (morrisons £1.50kg pork, reduced items and local slaughter house) and have started batch cooking so I am setting going to set my target for october for around £35 a week will decide closer to maybe even less! we are eating really well and not even tempted this week with 40% off at our local takeaway! also my husband has done a home detox this week after being an alcoholic for 20 years so havent had to buy booze yay just have to wait for a place for him at rehab hence anothe reason why I havent been able to keep up with my posting x

she_who_can_not_cook

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Someone (Butterfly Brain I think) posted this week's Audi super six on another forum and I thought it might help some of us -

Aldi Super six this week...........Iceberg lettuce, carrots, savoy cabbage, white onions, broccoli and celery all 39p

SL

i contributed 4 ... at my age i can not remember like i used too

Make-it-3

£9.85 spent yesterday, buying all the bits I forgot on Sunday and today should have been NSD, but got peckish for some junk and bought crisps and biccies from MrS (£1.05).

Bringing the totally depressing total to £171.61/£200.

Bluegreen143

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

I want to make veg korma tonight with all the leftover veg and yoghurt in the fridge to have tomorrow night as I'll be late in tomorrow after an exercise class. Just need the motivation to get off my bum and do it!

Veg korma for tomorrow now made using up two carrots, two tiny onions, two green peppers, half a tin of kidney beans lurking in the fridge, all the leftover fresh ginger and half the Greek yoghurt, amongst other things :T think it will be three portions worth so will freeze the rest.

Instead of taking soup from the freezer for lunch tomorrow, I decided to make a salad with finely sliced carrot, mangetout, radish and spring onion and take in with a lemon to dress (there is a bottle of olive oil hanging about the work kitchen), some oatcakes and a bit of cheese and an apple. I always regret taking salad in as it's just not the same as a hot lunch but it does look nice and it's healthy and more frugal to use up the veg anyway.

Also chucked some honey in with the rest of my yoghurt and will take as a snack tomorrow. Gosh, it looks like I eat so much at work!! :rotfl: From experience I know it's necessary to take loads in, I get so hungry at work for some reason.

Suffolk_lass

missmucksmum wrote: »

well ive gone well over this month but i have held a party and fed 50 people and totally stocked the freezer with meat (morrisons £1.50kg pork, reduced items and local slaughter house) and have started batch cooking so I am setting going to set my target for october for around £35 a week will decide closer to maybe even less! we are eating really well and not even tempted this week with 40% off at our local takeaway! also my husband has done a home detox this week after being an alcoholic for 20 years so havent had to buy booze yay just have to wait for a place for him at rehab hence anothe reason why I havent been able to keep up with my posting x

Really wishing you both luck with the rehab process. I only have indirect experience through colleagues' experiences but I know it isn't a smooth journey and really hard. What a first step to face the demon and commit to the start. :T

SL

Suffolk_lass

she_who_can_not_cook wrote: »

i contributed 4 ... at my age i can not remember like i used too

Me too, hence copying from another thread. Sorry I missed it
SL

missmucksmum

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Really wishing you both luck with the rehab process. I only have indirect experience through colleagues' experiences but I know it isn't a smooth journey and really hard. What a first step to face the demon and commit to the start. :T

SL

Thankyou! and these forums have been great to keep my mind off things and doing batch cooking/bargain hunting, and hubby enjoys it too, we hit rock bottom on the 31st of may this year and lost everything apart from our house and children(the business, car, etc, my family) due to my husbands drinking getting worse he was no longer a functioning alcoholic. So hopefully life is on the up from now on, we are on benefits (husband has a job waiting for him when he has done the 18 weeks at rehab) at the moment so using these forums has really helped financially there is so much great help and advice its brilliant and I shall never be embarressed to hunt in the reduced section again!:rotfl:

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missmucksmum - well done to your husband and well done to yourself - i hope it all works out for you.