September 2013 Grocery Challenge

Peggybabcot

declaring £627.02 so £27.02 over budget
must try harder next month x
Off to update signature. See you in October with an October budget of £500 that's for two adults, 2 teenagers with hollow legs and 1 cat who, since he was poorly, has a penchant for astronomically priced Sheba!!!

Sequeena

I'm not going to spend anymore now so declaring September as £258.98/£200. Still over budget but less than last month so I'm getting there slowly Off to join the October thread now.

Florenceem

Spend of £3.50 today.
For dinner last night we had HM meat pie + roast potatoes + cabbage, carrots + gravy.
I used 15 ozs pastry - made a medium pie and 8 individual ones - so 14 portions. I sprinkled garlic granules on the pie tops. Left over pastry made 2 garlic twists.



Needed a quick easy meal tonight. We had HM Spinach Quiche + potatoes + barbecue baked beans and the garlic twists I made. Also had one of DD's home grown tomatoes.

icontinuetodream

been awol...sorry!!:o however, have managed to come in on budget every week this month...will try to find the October challenge and join up....thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement (and the confessions!!:D)

NickJW

Hello all!

Bit late to the game declaring my budget - like to read everyones posts before posting my own, and RL has been a bit busy since coming back off holiday.

Kept all my receipts though, so need to add these to September:

£7.19
50p in the corner shop
£2.42 in BoOts on flu tablets (luckily I had Advantage points to go towards another pack)

£10.11 spent so declaring £126.38/£130....JUST under budget.

See everyone over in October.

Downsizing__for_sanity

I'd like to declare for Sep at £193.93 for the month of Sep please. And thanks as always to those of you who keep the threads running so smoothly.

I feel like I should add... The last time I posted something on OS, saying something like this was another reason for me to switch to Aldi, due to those silly ""psycho patient" Hallowe'en outfits that some of the big stores were selling, obviously my comment got moved somewhere other than Old Style (which is fine by me, obviously it wasn't strictly OS) and I got massively flamed by some other posters saying how unreasonable I was to be offended by this.

I can agree to disagree with most views but I was totally unprepared for the vitriol people sent me - eg "I bet OP is still happy to buy cheap clothes from factories where people die in fires" would be representative. Anyway, what I meant to say is that I felt a bit upset by all this, and have stayed off MSE for a wee while. But I have missed all you OS folk, and since I've never, ever experienced that sort of rubbish on here, I'm coming back to the OS fold. I'll post my details on the Oct challenge too to make it clearer to see.

Good luck everyone for this month!

DFS

Downsizing__for_sanity

I'd like to declare for Sep at £193.93 for the month of Sep please. And thanks as always to those of you who keep the threads running so smoothly.

I feel like I should add... The last time I posted something on OS, saying something like this was another reason for me to switch to Aldi, due to those silly ""psycho patient" Hallowe'en outfits that some of the big stores were selling, obviously my comment got moved somewhere other than Old Style (which is fine by me, obviously it wasn't strictly OS) and I got massively flamed by some other posters saying how unreasonable I was to be offended by this.

I can agree to disagree with most views but I was totally unprepared for the vitriol people sent me - eg "I bet OP is still happy to buy cheap clothes from factories where people die in fires" would be representative. Anyway, what I meant to say is that I felt a bit upset by all this, and have stayed off MSE for a wee while. But I have missed all you OS folk, and since I've never, ever experienced that sort of rubbish on here, I'm coming back to the OS fold. I'll post my details on the Oct challenge too to make it clearer to see.

Good luck everyone for this month!

DFS