August 2013 Grocery Challenge

suzybloo

Not been on since last Friday, but have hit my budget figure already :-( however, if I hadn't been keeping a note of my spends the chances are I would have spent a lot more!
Asda last Saturday £82
Tesco - Monday £22 , wee bottle of wine bumped that spend up by £7
Lunch two days as busy at work £8,health food shop £3

My month ends next Friday, and I still need some fresh fruit and vegetables, and something for evening meals for 2 nights, but will keep that to a budget of £15. Sainsburys open here today so I have a £2 off a £6 spend voucher which will help :-) at last we have a choice as only had tesco up until now

Coxy11

Hi Suziebabe

September's GC thread hasn't been posted yet so please feel free to post on here until then. I will add you to the list so your details get copied over to September

Good luck

Coxy

scotdebs

Well August GC was bit of a disaster for me ..... But think I tried to cut down to much rather than follow the wise advice on here of knocking a bit off every month so when September challenge starts ill give my self a bit more leeway rather which will hopefully stop me spiralling into the "sod it" mode that I have been for the last week:(

sefilby

Hi all,

I been MIA this month been sitting my AAT exams 3 in 3 weeks; neglecting MSE forums very much, so will catch up now.

Declaring £118.83 for August yay! Under budget for a change!!
Off to Isle of Wight tonight and not back until 1st Sept, so see you all in September.

Good Luck everyone! x

LisaJane

Being on hols this month has completely thrown me up the left. OH and I's joint account is at £0 after totally overspending at the Edinburgh Festival! Too much cider and good food!! He has agreed to buy chicken for tonight's dinner out of "his money" so we don't have to put anymore on the joint credit card. We are eating at his parents tomorrow night and my parents on sunday night...have enough in the freezer hopefully to get us more or less through to pay day next friday (I hope!!) 500L of heating oil on top of hols has meant credit card spends and me being owed money from next month's joint account money, ahhh nightmare! See you all for another go in September!

lizalloareds

Thanks for the good lucks, induction went well, in college 2 full days and 1 half day, got Wednesday and Friday off, though I will still be working in the evenings doing office cleaning (for the time being anyway) think I have my meal plan sorted for next week 1st time in ages!

spends today £57.73
£32.48 Mr T
£1.50 Lid*
£1.78 £st
£2.55 FF
£16.92 Ald*
£2.50 Mr A
over budget again!

zippychick

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hi Suziebabe

September's GC thread hasn't been posted yet so please feel free to post on here until then. I will add you to the list so your details get copied over to September

Good luck

Coxy

I'm having technical problems with it - have been trying to sort it out for days! Will be sorted very soon hopefully.

lushlifesaver

Well it's payday (a couple of days early due to the weekend and then the bank holiday) so I am all set to declare - on 'paper' (aka according to my signature) I have come in healthily under budget at a scrap shy of £66 but that's not really representative as bf bought a just shop when the new fridge freezer arrived so...yeah not overly impressed with myself even though we probably have at least a weeks worth of food in the freezer/cupboards!

Back to £100 target for September as we are around all month and there's dog bits to get now our stash of food we bought whilst it was on offer before has gone but it has just gone back on offer today! Making a list tonight and will also set a meal plan as now we're going to start enjoying less salads/summer food it will help to know in advance what I'm making!

NickJW

Had a slight change to the meal plan - my housemate finished late last night so I cooked instead.

Didn't do the chilli con carne though - decided to do a Chicken tomato and mango chutney curry - used the last end of the Mango chutney and it was a lovely dish! Another condiment used up from the fridge - only about another 15 to go! :rotfl:

Tonight will be the breaded fish with new potatoes and broccoli with sweet chilli sauce as planned for yesterday

Next week will be a very mince based week since I have 3 packs of turkey mince, a pack of boneless chicken thighs and a pack of boned chicken thighs. Also have a tin of salmon (bought it for a recipe a long time ago - can't remember what!) and a tin of tuna, so I'll be okay for dinners until the end of the month and onto next.

ETA - £1.10 spent in Mr S yesterday

Hope everyone is well and has a great bank holiday! :beer:

angelatgraceland

meg72 wrote: »

Is it a treat then to feed your cats,I thought you were supposed to do that, or do you mean you have bought a more treaty kind of food for them than you would normally have done?

I don't normally feed them on tinned food-they generally have dried. Yes-they do get fed daily!:rotfl: