August 2013 Grocery Challenge

Sue14

meg72 wrote: »

Wow can you really be so strong as to only eat one biscuit a day.
I cant do that, have packet will eat it.

Not as a rule, usually a packet of biscuits would not last five minutes once they are opened, but at the moment I am very focused on my weight loss/fitness as I'm determined to get to my goal weight before Christmas, so they were only bought on the basis that we would have just one each per day. Mind you, I originally read the calories as being 158 per biscuit, but when I read it properly it was 158 per 2 biscuit serving, so although they are still bad when on a diet, they are not quite as bad as I thought they were, lol!

Sequeena

£8.28 in morrisons today.

smokies

Had a little spend today, £1.29 on a coffee, and £2.70 some fruit from the market...

But did walk into town so saving on fuel and parking

getting-sorted-sarah

Back from hols and no time to read all the thread - will start afresh with September on Saturday (SEPTEMBER? WHAT?!). OH was super generous while we were away and paid for sooo much, I hate to think how much I would have spent if I had gone halves like I intended to - much more than I budgeted for, and as it is I will have to be very careful this month. But it was lovely to get away!

Do any of you lovely shoppers know what the Adl! super 6 are at the moment? Their website is showing the offer that ended on 14th August...

Florenceem

NSD here.
Just me here for dinner - I had a cooked Chicken Drumstick from the freezer. I warmed it through in the oven with some LO cut up roast potatoes. Also had some spicey baked beans.

Billie-jo

Shopping went well today and only cost £15.73 (£3 of this was flowers)
Will need to get more fruit & veg over the weekend but it will still be a cheaper week.
Chips & egg for tea tonight so no photo and used up last few mushrooms.

XSpender

NSD today, 1st day of new budget month for me. Can't remember the last time I didn't do a shop on pay day.:D. I have had to improvise for lunch tomorrow as I have no eggs or cheese left for my roll. I had 2 sausages in the freezer so cooked them and will have them cold in the sandwich tomorrow:). DH will have tuna.

I costed my shopping list on mr t last night as we need to do a big shop tomorrow and it is coming in around £90:eek: my budget for the month is £250. This will cover 2 weeks meals, excluding salad and fruit and a lot of toiletries.

DH is going to get an electric razor at the weekend as he finds the replacement blades are so expensive.

Coxy11

£28.07 spent at Ts which gives us just over a fiver until the 31st August :eek:

Coxy

Bluegreen143

Small spends to report - £1 on tampons, £1.50 on 2 YS goats cheeses (half price), 42p (I think) on cream crackers, £1.69 on Mr M spreadable butter and £1.25 on a YS baking camembert (also half price). Plus OH spent 62p on 1 pint of milk (no idea why he persists in buying one pint when it's £1 for 4 at the supermarket...).

A friend cooked me a lovely dinner tonight, OH had a turkey burger (HM) from the freezer and somehow failed to see the oven chips and got chippy chips... out of his own money though so his loss lol.

Suziebabe

Please please can I join in ? Not sure if this should go on a new September thread or not though? I've been lurking for a few weeks, having had my lightbulb well and truly turned on earlier this month, i missed the start of the August challenge, but have used the tips and a spending diary to get to an accurate view of our grocery spend this month. While i could claim school holidays and visitors as an excuse for our spending this month, I'm horrified to have added up all my receipts and seen how far adrift it is from the budget I'd originally set! :eek:

OH has been paid early for September, and rather than risk losing a week (during which much £££ would inevitably disappear) I've extended our budget to 5 weeks, with a target to spend £340 between now and late September payday (£60 per week once school is back, and £100 to see us through until then when family guests also leave!)

Happy to return to lurking and post on September thread if that's what I should be doing! Thanks.