July 2013 Grocery Challenge

Nymphadora

£7.78 in FF and £17.36 in Lidl today.

Dinner tonight will be HM Veg soup, Spag bol, custard and pinapple chinks

Tomorrow will be Roast Chicken and lots of veg and for afters chocolate fudge cake. Can't wait.

Florenceem

Popped to Asd. got some milk - spent £1.
Had a wander round the shop - I saw bags of chopped onion - 45p. Why would you buy that? :eek:
Talking to a friend the other day - she buys an apple tart from Asd. for £1. I make my own pastry and use it to create a pie.
Me - I like to know what is in my pastry and the apple filling. You are what you eat.
Also saw that potatoes had gone up to £2.25.
Cake mix on sale - £2.25 + you have to add eggs + milk. :eek:
I am turning in to one Grumpy Old Lady. :rotfl:

SAVVYMUMMY_2

A NSD today:j.
I was hoping that I wouldn`t need to buy any b-b-q food for today or tomorrow, as I already had things to make a lasagna today, i`ve turned this around and is now a chilli instead with some garlic bread. Hoping that the chicken I was planning for tomorrow will turn into a chicken salad instead of roast, as it looks like it`s going to be another hot one tomorrow. So i`m hoping for another NSD tomorrow as well.

pixiedust09

Afternoon folks, have some spends to declare today spent £13.50 in i*eland would have been more but had a £1 off voucher. Spent £5.81 at chemist, went in for some liquid pirton (chemist own brand) and came out with not only that but also some addidas shower gel and deoderant. They were only a £1 each though and thought that was a pretty good deal, should keep DH happy too. Spent a naughty £5.62 at bakers;:o only popped in for a french stick but ended up buying a lardy cake, egg salad bap, and a cheese and bacon twirly thing as well as the french stick. I'm not taking DH shopping again.:p Had to spend £4.99 last night on a bottle of wine for a birthday present for an 18th birthday meal we went too. Not including the meal in this months grocery budget though, that can count as entertainment budget (note to self make up an entertainment budget). Finally spent a naughty £11.47 last week at Mr W that i forgot to declare, (only went in for milk). so a grand total of £41.39. :eek: WILL REIGN IT IN THIS WEEK!!

meg72

Florenceem wrote: »

Popped to Asd. got some milk - spent £1.
Had a wander round the shop - I saw bags of chopped onion - 45p. Why would you buy that? :eek:
Talking to a friend the other day - she buys an apple tart from Asd. for £1. I make my own pastry and use it to create a pie.
Me - I like to know what is in my pastry and the apple filling. You are what you eat.
Also saw that potatoes had gone up to £2.25.
Cake mix on sale - £2.25 + you have to add eggs + milk. :eek:
I am turning in to one Grumpy Old Lady. :rotfl:

Well heres another old grump. saw in asda they have tiny packs 100grm of red lentils for 45p do they think we are stupid or what.

flyinggiraffe_2

Florenceem wrote: »

Cake mix on sale - £2.25 + you have to add eggs + milk. :eek:
I am turning in to one Grumpy Old Lady. :rotfl:

Those boxed cake mixes are everywhere at the moment! I saw one where you still needed to add eggs and butter, you may as well buy the flour and sugar as well and make it from scratch! Would be a hell of a lot cheaper.

Today I was naughty And bought a bag of jelly babies, so an extra pound spent this week.

Florenceem

Mr F came home from walking the dog with - loads of retro cookery magazines! :j
Someone was throwing them out - left them in a box by their bin so he rescued them. :money:
I love looking at cookery mags/books.
Lots of recipes - I have not seen before.
Re Asd. - they had tubs of white sauce granules - you add boiling water or milk to make. I should have read the list of ingredients - wonder how many there were to make it long keeping/look good/smell okay.
I too have never seen so many cake mixes in the shops. They are trying to cash in on the return to baking - due to recession. At those prices! :eek:

Billie-jo

Spent £21.77 today on fruit, veg and a large gammon joint. Have cooked this today and we will have it for lunch tomorrow with salad and minted potatoes before we go up to hospital again. There will plenty left so will use up in sandwiches, salads etc.

getting-sorted-sarah

What a lovely day!!! And a NSD to boot. Went for a walk to a country park (Groupon deal paid weeks ago) and took a picnic - sandwiches not rolls - which was much cheaper and I thought there would be complaints but there weren't - very yummy and topped off with hm muffins. (Which I managed to make without a 'mix' haha I have always been bemused by how much people will pay for a box of flour with a picture of a cake on it, they must think there is a magic ingredient.)
Salad, hm potato salad and burgers for dinner, yum.

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine!

Oh, confession, my 'top up shops only' got waylaid by a AF order which is due to be dumped in my front garden without knocking by CL on Monday - lots of snacks but the school hols are around the corner so this makes sense!

pinkypig

Called in at Ms on my way home tonight as we were out of cat food so I got a 12 pack of tins which will last the rest of the month. Also got some tiger bread and large white rolls that are on offer plus some ham, yogurts, plain flour and some pop for tomorrow's picnic. £9.15 :eek: can't believe how a few bits add up. Not going near a shop again until we run out of fruit.
Hope everyone has managed to relax and enjoy the sun.

PPXx