July 2007 Grocery Challenge

shopaholictiedtheknot

galantvr4 wrote: »

Hey thanks for the welcome lil_me, I love the car too!:T
Enjoying the chat and inspiration on here, should keep me motivated for a while, well thats the plan anyway!
Sorry to look like an idiot but whats a bearded dragon?
Thought you were talking about a dog til I read "crickets":eek:

This is Maximus my beardie!!



And here is another pic of the gorgeous dude!

lil_me

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v241/lil_me/?action=view&current=woody-1.jpg One of Woody but it's dark, think he'd go crackers if I tried to use the flash. He was named after the character as my son thought he was Buzz at the time and he's his best friend so had to be called Woody, well that was after we convince him not to call him Granny.

Bought a tank for what will be the new arrivals of turtles some time next week, they eat fish and chicken etc so that will have to come out of the budget, only babies at the minute so about 2 inches long at the most and won't eat much :rotfl:

Did also do some food shopping, will add to total now.

nearlynewbie

Really spurred on by this thread. Weekly budget £81- spent so far £40 - leaving plenty for fruit and veg in the market on Saturday and some meat for Sunday.Have also managed to stock up on spices at the Indian supermarket.

Main impulse buy in Morrisons - almonds to go into the granola for breakfast next week.- were a really good price!

I am still only capping my budget for food - may move onto including cleaning/household stuff if doing ok.

millionaire_in_training

Hi all going to have another try at this. Just back from hols and skint lol. Going to go from payday to payday and allow myself £250.00 per month for me and 2 kids.

Starting NOW !!!!!!!!

claire1847

I'm inspired! the tomatoes in the garden are a bit waterlogged and the slugs ate the lettuce so I'm buying more salad stuff than usual this summer. Am making a huge effort to go local as well - it's scary where some of our food comes from!! Thanks for the inspiration x Claire

galantvr4

shopaholictiedtheknot wrote: »

This is Maximus my beardie!!

Hi, the crickets make sense now! Must show this to my son-his name is Max!!

Having a bad budget day and bought a bottle of wine tonight, that wont help getting out of the overdraft will it? But I have meal plans ready and just need to make my shopping list for the weekend shop.

teedy23

may not help the overdraft, but a glass or two in, and you wont care, another couple and you wont even be able to say it. Thats always a help, go for it girl, take a night off

galantvr4

Thanks, had a busy day today, need to recharge the batteries occasionally!

witchypoo

How on earth does he get through sugar that quickly? Lol. I had to buy more today along with the last bottle of milk and meal for the week, and it took me 7p over the week's budget. Not too bad at all really!

I wrote out a new list for the coming week starting the 6th (which it is now as it is past midnight) with a meal plan which includes a roast dinner for the boys and a veggie roast for us girlies. It's comfort food this week as I have factored in leftovers for bubble and squeak another night! We usually only have that on Boxing Day.

teedy23

Sounds very cosy witchypoo, well done on your 7p, a family makes it hard to stick to your budget, they always want something else. You have to become something of a confidence trickster sometimes. With my mum it was a hot pea special, which was a plate of peas. But it was on the telly at that time, so was a huge treat as we saw it. It,s all in the presentation. She would come into the living rom with arms outsrteched and call out " Who wants a hot pea special" such a con woman lol