August 2014 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Solstice_3 wrote: »

I always struggle with online shopping as you have to spend a minimum of £25 and I don't like buying fruit and veg too far in advance,

I'm the same. I also like to see what I'm buying when it comes to any fresh foods, not just fruit and veg. When I see the colour of some of the meats in the SM it really puts me off!

I don't go shopping quite as often as you but I do go twice a week so that we have fresh fruit regularly. Have to admit to not buying much fresh veg as unless I want something specific at the time I go shopping I don't really know what veg I'm going to be using so tend to stick to mainly frozen, apart from the few things I grow in my very small patch. Courgettes are doing amazingly well at the moment - picked some last night and gave to my friend as we've got too many to eat at the moment. It's a pity they don't freeze well.

Denise

Make-it-3

Have a batch of receipts from the past week and totalling them up it comes to £46.83. Half of which is OH buying snacks, and ice cream for himself. He maybe getting the MSE message tho, he came home with some YS stuff - shame it was beer and only 14p reduction per bottle!

£133.17/£180 left for rest of the month.

BlimusOreilly

I'm sure I can be doing better with this!! I do have it in my head that I have to spend £40 in Mr M's in order to get the £15 off voucher, so I have bought extras like a giant Greek watermelon to bump the total up - totally going against the ethos of the grocery challenge!
£53.05 spent today (bumped the total up a little too much!) added together with last weeks is a total of £101.67 out of £300. I can't seem to edit my signature, it's saying something about no links allowed (even though I have no links in the sig).

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Budgets list updated to here


Welcome/welcome back to:
prophecy-girl, Saver-upper, jo101 and mobo1980


We have about £100 left in the budget until we go away on 16th. Given that 10 days of this month's budget we will be away on holiday (different budget) that is slightly shocking!


Have a good day all.
Coxy

Billie-jo

Small spend of £7.89 today on fruit then 59p on a bag of sugar.
Doing cauliflower cheese for tea to use up some cauli before it goes off. DH will have either bacon or sausage with it if he wants.

Shopping tomorrow but don't want much (famous last words)

meg72

BlimusOreilly wrote: »

I'm sure I can be doing better with this!! I do have it in my head that I have to spend £40 in Mr M's in order to get the £15 off voucher, so I have bought extras like a giant Greek watermelon to bump the total up - totally going against the ethos of the grocery challenge!
£53.05 spent today (bumped the total up a little too much!) added together with last weeks is a total of £101.67 out of £300. I can't seem to edit my signature, it's saying something about no links allowed (even though I have no links in the sig).

Feel for you Hun, I don't do these vouchers now as never spend enough, but when I did I took my calculator with me, saved me many a time. Also if I was struggling to make it up I bought usually looked for an offer on washing up liquid shampoo etc that would keep for yonks,

Saver-upper

I went for a top-up shop this morning.I am trying not to buy too much because we are going away on Saturday for a week.
Anyway,I spent £17.35 in all,but only £5.35 in cash:£12 was in clubcard vouchers.Soooooo,I was wondering:have I spent £5.35 of my budget,or £17.35 .How would you count it?Answers on a postcard please

Edit; after thinking about it for a few hours,I am going to count only the cash spent,because that is all that has been taken out of my grocery budget.So,this month on groceries,I have spent £25.53/£300.To be fair,it really has only been topping-up.

meg72

Have just phoned my local Morrisons to ask about the rumours that there is to be a £5 off fruit and veg voucher in tomorrows Sun.


They confirmed this is true £5.0 off fruit and veg, no minimum spend
and valid to the 10th.


£5 free fruit and veg should help the budgets.

Solstice_3

Spent £9.12 today on groceries including £6 on a bottle of Nola (Vodka Spritzer), which I had to try

Need to write a menu for the rest of the week and a shopping list and get back into the game properly I've been a bit rubbish with my menu planning! I know I have to use up sour cream so if I have beef it's beef stroganoff and if I don't it's mushroom stroganoff tomorrow.

Any suggestions for using up courgette for someone who is sometimes adventurous and someone else who only likes to eat it if it's hidden? I have some in my fridge and more coming Friday argh!!!

wishus

Doing well, but hubby and I went shopping at cross-purposes yesterday with the same list. Hence we now have 8 pints of milk in the fridge for 2 of us...

Ah well. Going to freeze over half in blocks and make yoghurt and cheese with some. This will last all month!