August 2013 Grocery Challenge

sefilby

£48.69 worth of shopping paid £36.69 thanks to clubcardy boost & money off vouchers.

Half way through the month doing ok on GC just a shame bout everything else - blooming car mainly, costing me a fortune!

meg72

Wanted to make chilli con carne today as its one of my fave to have in the freezer. I put the slow cooker on with kidney beans, tomato and onion. When I came to the meat I had taken out to defrost, it wasnt as I thought mine but diced beef, so chunky chilli con carne for me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

sheeppappar

Hello all!
I'm getting married on Saturday (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!) and then going off on honeymoon for 2.5 weeks so I am abandoning ship for August and will see you all in September... I didn't manage to pay for my August wedding by doing the GC but it's definitely helped.. would have been a lot closer if it wasn't for moving house in June! Still all our debts are safely on 0% credit cards which we should be able to pay off before the 0% runs out.. so all the more need to stick to the GC...

Mrs Cautious - would love to hear how Africa was once you get settled back into your UK routine

WanttobeSE/Flo - I hate thowing things out too.. I am thinking of how to freeze any left-over veg etc from the fridge, if it doesn't get eaten by Saturday.. massive pan of carrot soup in the SC I think!

1head - hope your hand is better soon and Meg72 hope your eye op goes well
Annie99 - I am sure you will find lots of support on here.. hope things are looking up for you soon x

Last of all bluegreen + meg - happy birthday for the weekend

Thanks to the people who run this board + to all the posters for all your help and support.. I could be starting married life a lot more disorganised and in debt if it wasn't for the MSE website and forums and particularly this lovely one !!! Bye for now XXX

ditsykitchen

NSD again yesterday. Drank the cider that I planned into budget when friends were over and they brought us a bottle of wine Definitely saved a lot instead of going out for a meal as we had originally planned. Had a hm italian instead

january_23

A and C delivery today was £43.23.

I noted a debate about if you include delivery charges in the budget and I have to say we do. Our decision to include it came about as it has to be budgeted somewhere.

Think tonight it will be a pasta dish of some kind.

£161.66/£200

meg72

sheeppappar wrote: »

Hello all!
I'm getting married on Saturday (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!) and then going off on honeymoon for 2.5 weeks so I am abandoning ship for August and will see you all in September... I didn't manage to pay for my August wedding by doing the GC but it's definitely helped.. would have been a lot closer if it wasn't for moving house in June! Still all our debts are safely on 0% credit cards which we should be able to pay off before the 0% runs out.. so all the more need to stick to the GC...

Mrs Cautious - would love to hear how Africa was once you get settled back into your UK routine

WanttobeSE/Flo - I hate thowing things out too.. I am thinking of how to freeze any left-over veg etc from the fridge, if it doesn't get eaten by Saturday.. massive pan of carrot soup in the SC I think!

1head - hope your hand is better soon and Meg72 hope your eye op goes well
Annie99 - I am sure you will find lots of support on here.. hope things are looking up for you soon x

Last of all bluegreen + meg - happy birthday for the weekend

Thanks to the people who run this board + to all the posters for all your help and support.. I could be starting married life a lot more disorganised and in debt if it wasn't for the MSE website and forums and particularly this lovely one !!! Bye for now XXX

Thank you for the Birthday wishes and all the best for your BIG day, where are you going for your honeymoon? Not nosey but I do like to know these things :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

craigywv

just back from hols so its too late to start this grocery challenge but will keep looking at thread to keep myself motivated. will do nextmonths challenge, usung up stuff in freezer to getme motivated good luck all xxx

sheeppappar

meg72 wrote: »

Thank you for the Birthday wishes and all the best for your BIG day, where are you going for your honeymoon? Not nosey but I do like to know these things :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

oo! venice then rome then sorrento! spending some of my last week at work [STRIKE]checking out cheap places to eat and drink[/STRIKE] making sure I get all my work done :rotfl:

joedenise

Been to Morries this morning for top up shop and spent £12.54, brings my total for month so far to £94.88/£250. Am really pleased as I had already slashed my budget by £150 over what I'd been spending over the last 3 months:eek:. It's really helped that I didn't need to buy any wine this month and all 3 freezers are really full so haven't had to buy much meat. Cupboards are also fairly well stocked.

I've meal planned for the month but haven't stuck to it rigidly but in the main have used stuff up from the freezers and cupboards in the hope that one of the freezers will be empty before we go on holiday next month - still not sure I'm going to manage that but will try.

Will be another NSD tomorrow:T which will also help with the challenge.

Denise

Welsh_Poppy

I have been To Mr Morries this morning only £5.39p
carrots,2 bunches celery,Turkey breast slice,bananas, milk broccoli and garlic.
I have lots produce from garden to supplement the food and long may it continue.
Dinner will be Italian stuffed courgettes with Rhubarb crumble for dessert.