July 2014 Grocery Challenge

bmma

first NSD of July's GC

Crowdpleaser

Howdy all. I came in pretty much on budget for june. This is 5 week month for me plus kids break up on the 18th and its dd2s bday party on 19th although that comes from a different budget. So can I go down for 300 this time please.

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Jacksmummy

Nipped into town today, whilst there called into Home bargains picked up a few toiletries also nipped into s@insburys for butter and cheese & loo roll, spent a total of £16.09

homemademama

I spent £7.94 today on some half price healthy snacks at my local Grapetree. £1 a bag for dry roasted peanuts, £1.25 for wakko mix (rice crackers) and 95p for bombay mix. These will do the kids after school snacks for the next 2 weeks hopefully! I already have today's dinner in the fridge.

dumpling

First of the month and my first spends.

I took my best friend out for lunch which came to £14, we then popped to Home Bargains where I spent £4 on cereals and biscuits for the snack drawer and finally we went to Tescos for some lactofree milk but of course I bought other bits and pieces too so I spent £6 in there.

I am trying to be more aware of where the money goes and today was a steep learning curve. I didn't even remember I was doing this challenge till I got back to the car! I am so used to flinging whatever I fancy into a trolley so from now on that stops.

x_raphael_xx

Nothing spent today. I'm hoping for 20 NSD's this month, good start with Day 1

Got a chicken cooking for tea (having chicken leg, rice and peas) and attempting a HM quiche ready for my tea tomorrow, had left over pastry so thought I'd give it a try.

Gracie_1827

Nipped into town today...using buspass;) to sort out a couple of things, then went to Sainsbugs and spent a whole 12p.
I got 2 litres milk £1, chillies flakes £1, 3 large onions 62p But I had £2.50 worth of Nectar points to redeem so ended up paying 12p
My meals today were:
B-porridge with milk, tea
L-jacket potato with cottage cheese & salad, berries & yogurt, tea
D-HM pizza with mushrooms & peppers on top of cheese, 1 slice wholemeal toast & HM jam, glass of wine.....I've run out of teabags:eek: will do without until I receive a £10 Sainsbugs gift card from Toluna...should come soon.
I've got a cassoulet (Hairy Bikers) cooking in the oven, along with the chicken I got yesturday

pixnmix_2

Oh dear... i forgot to take my lunch to work today so had to fork out £2.50 for a jacket spud and a choccy bar from work canteen... (ok the coccy wasn't needed but it helped me get through the afternoon ..and i did share it with a colleague

cw18

Took a trip to Costc0 today (had to be done at some point this week, and OH was going straight from work so it gave me an extra chance to see him ), but by my normal standards I got away very lightly - £26.78 spent.

3x 8 pack brown part-baked baguettes
1x 1kg natural yoghurt
1x 3 fruit cakes
1x 400g hard goats cheese

all the above for taking away with me at the weekend (away for 13 days, with OH joining me 5 days in)

also got
1x 1.3kg set honey (slightly dearer than I pay at A1di, but I find the one from there is still a bit runnier than I like for toast)
and
1x 9 packs seaweed. Taking a bit of a chance with this as I've never had before, but I know OH likes it so will take it off my hands if I don't. Normally comes as 10 packs, but there was one reduced by about £1.20 because one of the 10 was missing (and if all there they're only 50-something pence each, which means the 9 were cheaper per pack as well ) Been trying to find a local Mr T who stock it (shows on website if I don't log in), but theirs is £1 for a tiny, tiny pack (under a third the size of a Costc0 one) which makes it very expensive by comparison.

recovering_spendaholic

My target for July is £375 as DD1 is home from university for the summer and eats enough for a small army!

Had my first July spend today - £82 in Aldi. I got loads of meat, tinned stuff, pasta, rice and other dry goods (enough for the month hopefully) and bin bags dog food and other household stuff. I also got enough stuff to make 36 cupcakes, which I will get paid for so that will go back in the kitty when I do get it.

Just had pork chops for tea, and Dd2 and her visiting friend are having macaroni and cheese with garlic bread -

Hope you are having a nice evening!