September 2013 Grocery Challenge

sefilby

1st shop of september - £30.02

Battered fish £ 2.00 celery £ 0.80 cherry tomatos £ 0.98 Chips £ 0.82 cucumber x2 @60p £ 1.20 lettice £ 1.00 milk £ 1.00 peppers £ 2.50 sausages £ 4.00 grapes £ 1.00 toilet roll x2 @ 67p £ 1.34 wraps £ 0.92 cheese £ 3.00 ham X2 @ £1 £ 2.00 apples £ 1.00 YS easy peelers £ 0.88 YS corn on cob £ 0.60 bananas £ 1.15 tucs £ 1.00 Popcorn £ 2.83

I admit the popcorn & tucs were a treat - 1st day DS at nursery, DD back at childminers & 1st day back at work after nearly 2 weeks off. Bit of a shock for all of us.

FlubM

A total of £130 spent so far with a relatively big shop today to take advantage of the last day to earn a 10p per litre off fuel by spending £60.

I am amazed at how enjoyable this is. It is becoming quite a satisfying cjhallenge to make the most of any vouchers for money off and extra nectar points. It's also very exciting waiting to see what offers the till will print off when I pay:D.

I am totalling without counting nectar points earned and without deducting the 5% discount we get at our supermarket via the discount scheme my DH's employer provides so is actually better than it looks. Nectar points will be used at Christmas so that we can have the usual Christmas treats without it costing more than usual in cash.

CountingPennies

Hoping for a NSD today. Plenty of bread/milk in so should be able to avoid the shops. Just me to feed for lunch today, so its chicken salad. Dinner is going to be shepherds pie with peas and carrots. Mince is already defrosted so will prepare that before i leave for work for the other half to serve to the kids when he gets in from work. We are like 2 ships who pass in the night! Lol!

I'm back on the slimming world diet so will have to go to the shops later in the week and top up on fruit and veg. Hopefully i can leave it till Friday when i do my top up shop as I have a £6 off £40 spend at Mr T's

Have the afternoon to myself so think i'll bake some muffins for the kids.

davsidipp

spent 2.76 in a M and S local,on bread and a box of cakes.:D

lizalloareds

NSD on Monday
spends from yesterday and today £6.78

£2.61 Mr T
£3.22 Ald*
95p Mr A

money_saving_hedgehog

Just updated my signature for spends on Monday. £15.26 in Sainsburys, I used a £9.51 brand match I had, but have counted this as real money. Mostly stocked up on basics range for cooking GCJ recipes. Also Monday £1 in Tesco express for Milk.
Yesterday was a no spend day until about 9.30pm, when I could not resist popping out to try TCO at Tesco - 40p spent for 40 TCO. Put away for Christmas.

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£8.89 spend in FF and Dad is abiut to take me to Ald*. It wasn't planned, but I figure as he is away for a big chunk of September, I would cease the opportunity whilst I can

£33.04spend in Ald* in the end on lots of fruit and veg, store cupboard stocks, subrolls, wraps and toilet rolls

cattysmum

Good afternoon, well a couple of no spend days for me yesterday and monday, but I have a feeling that I am going to have to spend a lot soon, my fridge freezer keeps emitting warning that freezer temp is rising arggghh. Iv shifted all my frozen stuff to garage freezer and can hear it now so just gone off again for some reason, temp is showing at -8 for freezer which is much too high, my service book recommends -16 so really dont know whats going on there. Had a spend today which I really didnt plan, went for a walk (as my physiotherapist has told me to lay off the running for a bit) across the humber bridge, found a little cafe that charged us £4 for two coffees, nearly fell off my chair, but suppose my own fault for not checking prices. So a little spend of £4 today, have a good day everyone.

cattysmum

money_saving_hedgehog wrote: »

Just updated my signature for spends on Monday. £15.26 in Sainsburys, I used a £9.51 brand match I had, but have counted this as real money. Mostly stocked up on basics range for cooking GCJ recipes. Also Monday £1 in Tesco express for Milk.
Yesterday was a no spend day until about 9.30pm, when I could not resist popping out to try TCO at Tesco - 40p spent for 40 TCO. Put away for Christmas.

Im still on the lookout for TCO, went to a new Ts and absolutely zilch.

MissRikkiC

Afternoon all,

Lunch break! First of the week!

Had relatives over for the weekend and so eating out for lunch's etc made the total for September increase and fast!

Had a night mare week - working late, setting work building alarms off and scolding my fingers all before wednesday at 9am!! :mad:

Hope everyones week is better than mine

Chicken and Tomato lasagne tonight for dinner!

Using up a tub of quark that i bought on a whim in the white sauce, has anyone ever done this before?

Thanks
RC