July 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

sugarpuss27 wrote: »

Hi Dylan, I have often looked at the pork shoulder and wondered. Thanks for the heads up will definetly get that next month.:)

Pork shoulder is lovely, Asda recently, well few weeks ago, had it at 2.50 a killo which is a great price so I bought a couple, then they had pork leg which cut into great steaks at 3.00 a killo so had a couple of them as well

Islandmaid

NSD today

Forgot lunch today - dohhh...

Drank a tonne of water and am now home and ravenous, sposed to be going prawning, but have sent OH and DS2 to do that whilst I make dinner.

Chicken thighs, with new pots and salad - hopefully with a garlic fresh prawn side dish - yummy

Have a fab evening all x

lilian1977

Well I've just added all the receipts up and - tada - £213.55 for the month! OH gets paid tomorrow so our month ends today, quite impressed with that although I'm sure something must have gone awry somewhere in my adding because that seems far too little for the amount of receipts there were!

pinkypig

£3 in the pound shop on bin liners, make up wipes and washing up liquid. Off to update sig and apart from some milk I am hoping that will be it for July as payday is on Friday:j

PPXx

Florenceem

Signing out of July GC as I am in August one now. Hope you all have success.

sugarpuss27

meg72 wrote: »

Pork shoulder is lovely, Asda recently, well few weeks ago, had it at 2.50 a killo which is a great price so I bought a couple, then they had pork leg which cut into great steaks at 3.00 a killo so had a couple of them as well

Sounds like something to look out for Meg. Will look out for it, hubs loves pork.

Billie-jo

£1.66 spent today from GC budget. Have also bought half of grandsons school uniform for when he goes to high school in Sept

Had liver & onions for tea then finished off the strawberries and ice cream.

All this talk of roast pork is making me drool, its gorgeous when its done right and lots of crackling and roast potatoes.

lushlifesaver

I've had a few NSDs, and bf bought some strawberries as a treat (he's been blending my fruit in to smoothies for himself over his week off!) And he picked up a couple of other little bits but he chose to do that outside of the grocery budget

£1.60 spent today on some ginger ale and ginger nuts (2 of each)

Two days left of July's budget and a few pounds left - good as I'm cutting it fine on another budget haha.

K9sandFelines

£6.14 spend today at C*-*p.

YS bread, strawberries and microwave burgers for the kids :eek: ... they don't seem to want to eat things off my meal plan!

On the plus point, i have resisted doing a shop at Mr T, but will use the remainder of my GC at Ald* as my Dad has offered to take me on Weds.

I think yesterday was a NSD.

CountingPennies

A spend of £13.22p yesterday at Mr T's. Managed to get some YS bread. WW bread for 19p and large farmhouse loaf that is usually £1.50p for 30p. I was gonna pop to iceland today for bread as I ususally get 2 loafs for £1.50 there but now i don't need to so could very well be a NSD for me today. Also got milk, sausage rolls and pork pies (DH packed lunch food), bottle of pepsi, some ham and toilet rolls. They were all on the list.

Not on the list i bought some big tubs of mini cheddars and mini twiglets. I think they were ment to be £2.45 and they were selling them off for 50p! So got 2 tubs of cheddars for the kids for now for snacks, and put 2 tubs and cheddars and 2 tubs of twiglets away for holiday to share out around the BBQ with friends (we all bring stuff to contribute). I thought they were a total bargain!

Deffo gonna come under budget so still considering if i should order some stuff from Approved Foods but still not sure if its worth it or not?? Any opinions from people on here??

CP xx