July 2014 Grocery Challenge

bmma

spends update £60.81/£250.00p
NSD'S 4

Gracie_1827

Another NSD and I ate:
B-branflakes with milk, tea
1 apple
L-LO pizza, berries from garden and yogurt, 1 Ryvita with honey, tea
D-HM chicken tikka (Hairy Bikers recipe) brown rice (cooked enough for rice salad for tomorrow) piece of Bakewell, glass red wine

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School holidays are in full swing here, sunny but cold today, so the fire is on, ipads in use and I am working on a quilt I want finished for the weekend.


Grocery budget is not going to plan, my dgkids do not do frugal at all. Just fed 1/2 bowl of expensive cereal and milk to a grateful cat who is now looking for a quiet place to hide and sleep it off.
Planning a trip to our nearest town with a heated swimming pool as the one in our village is closed for the winter. Will also do the grocery shopping while I'm there as I will have a choice of two supermarkets
cheers
kiwi

FoxFace

NSD again today, nothing exciting to report really... apart from that I am glad I had a massive cook off yesterday because after a really hectic day, it was nice to have the bolognese to hand, ready to reheat

PennyGrabber

Evening all,

I totted up my spends from this weekend's receipt, and the grocery element was £15.24. Not bad for a week's worth of food for three!! Ok, so I have a full freezer and full cupboards, but still!! As I allow myself £3pd and today is the 7th, I'm well on track for a good month. Just need to keep on the frugality wagon at the end of the month, which is my downfall!

I have a little local co0p literally opposite my work, and it's really tempting to pop in for lunch which ends up being an extortionate amount of money. Anyway, my little challenge this month is to not get my lunch there. Managed it today, spent less than two mins making some sarnies, saved around £2!

Hope you're all having a good week so far.

PG x

K9sandFelines

VickyV wrote: »

Incidentally, if, like me, your OH insists on wholegrain rice (don't understand how processed rice can be so much cheaper than unprocessed), tesc0 have got the tilda wholegrain basmati 1kg for £3. Not bad since the 500g bag is £2.59.

Thanks for this. Didn't see it in time for yesterday's shop, but will add it on for next week, providing it's still on offer.

£1.60p to add to sig. YS milkshake for DD, milk and YS florida salad.

Billie-jo

NSD Sunday & Monday and there is a possibility today will be the same.
Last night we had all day breakfast and it made a nice change. All grilled apart from mushrooms & egg and then these were done in frying pan without any fat. (cant you tell I have had a new frying pan as everything was sticking to the old one) Oh and toast instead of fried bread :A
Will need eggs now but can wait until shopping day.

joedenise

Went to see my DD this morning and popped into Aldi to do most of my shop, spent £8.31 but they didn't have a couple of things I needed so parked up at Sainsbugs and walked to the High Street to the 99p shop for toothpaste (needed some sensitive and knew they had Colg*te in there) and didn't buy anything else.

Walked back to Sainsbugs and bought the last couple of things on my list - and nothing else!. Spent a total of £12.49 today.

Total so far is £117.19/£250. My month finishes in a couple of weeks and I generally allow about £50 a week in total (2 shops a week) so should be OK.

Denise

Ryuu

So a quick update:
07/02 - bought 6x musli bar (T=CZK23), 93/1000
07/04 - bought eggs (6pack - the 10pack was sold out // diff of CZK3 between them) and sausages (200g) T=CZK33, 126/1000
07/06 - bought 2x2.5l Pepsi on sale T=CZK40, 166/1000
07/07 - bought icecream and water while on the bike, T=CZK21, 187/1000
07/08 - larger shopping, among Camembert (250g) - CZK35, whole chicken 1.3kg - CZK55, some veggies&fruit, T=CZK204, 391/1000

I really hope I will manage it, but it's going to be really hard...

craigywv

hello RYUU good luck with your challenge,i having a nsd doing some emptying of fridge veg ways chopping and cooking /freezing for days when I cant be bothered. wet and horrible over here so nothing better to do,son off for holidays but weather to improve so not too bad, have a good day all. xxx