October 2012 Grocery Challenge

smartcat04

Hi,
Can you put me down for £200 please.
We've just bought a house and really need to cut back on takeaways and be more organised. I've got a pretty full freezer and a decent stock of toiletries and cleaning products but the £200 will cover any I run out of.
My month will start tomorrow 26th September as that is when I get paid.
Thanks

meg72

Businessgirl wrote: »

Well today was pay day and off to Lidl I went. £36 later (along with flabbergasting the till check out guy with my constant exclamations of 'but thats 1/3 of my budget!' - but I got home and reassured myself that I DID buy well..and all is ok with the budget! I do love Lidl.

I also arrived home to a notice from the postoffice saying something I'd purchased online from the USA had arrived but I had to pay £11 customs duty on it. I'm contacting the company as I paid rather exhorbitant fees for postage on it in the first place and its only a tiny parcel!

Not happy.

Other than that...alls well in my world. I've got some chocolate and nuts so making chocolate covered cocoa nib and nut drops later... thats my treats for the next few weeks sorted!

Hi I feel for you I had a 13.00 customs charge because I thought I would save on postage I bought two of the same item, it seems you are now only allowed to buy something for 13.00, if I had made two separate buys I would not have incurred the charge, postage is not counted in this, thankfullly as I would have had to pay more custom charge.

Coxy11

Budgets done to here

rosieben

Pearla*Merle, I've added your Chocolate Pear Pudding and Supper Onion Pie to the recipe index

tessie_bear

hi...on the subject of aldi we love it...super 6 veg/fruit is ace...39p at the mo for carrots and broccoli amongst other things...cooked meat is great and the fresh meat i have tried is good...we had left over chicken in sauce with pasta for tea and have a casserole for our tea tomorrow...also got a small ham from aldi for £2.99 which i thought we could have with egg and chips for our tea later in the week

we seem to have a lot in so hopefully no more shopping this week
take care tess

mossy

Hello peeps, have managed to muster up the energy to catch up on some posts despite almost dying from man-flu!!

As most of our income comes in between the 20th and 24th of the month I have decided to run the monthly budgets from the 20th of each month instead. So October is 20th Sept to 20th Oct.

Have had some spends from this months budget and need to work them all out which I'll do soon.

Thanks Coxy for putting this months budget on the list for me already. :T

It's 13 weeks until Christmas...eeek....so excited!! :rudolf: If I'm well enough (cough splutter cough) I'm hoping to nip in to Brighton on Saturday to do some Christmas shopping. :santa2:

she_who_can_not_cook

JayJay14 wrote: »

Don't forget this one too

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/

Weezl built this one on MSE with lots of people from here testing for her.

this is in my fav lol thanks to the people on here

she_who_can_not_cook

I too am a lover on aldi i go there most days the reduced is not as good as they used to be but not bad

moonpixiewitch

Please can I rejoin ? I have been missing this thread and my food bills have spiralled out of control again ! I will aim for £300 this month with a view to getting it down further by Christmas

cheerfulness4

First spend of the month for me with an Approved Foods order for £38.97. The assorted nougurt (sp?) in the sweets section is to die for @ 2 for £1! :drool: