August 2014 Grocery Challenge

piglet27

Hello everyone,


I have been absent here for a while. Been so manic with school holidays and hm picnics everyday! A lot of baking for me, at least my 8 yr dd has learnt how to make bread and very excited about making hm pizza for best friend sleepover.


£52.46 spent this week, £20.45 for veg box and £32.01 at te$co (have lost receipt and can't remember how much of this is school uniform!!!) so added full amount.


Kids now on holiday for 2 weeks with their dad so will be able to keep a better track of spends/do a meal plan that Bf and stick to!


Have a great day all.

Gracie_1827

After gym & swim this morning nipped into B&M to check-out Kilner jars they had for 1.99...didn't buy any but had a good look round. I've not bought food there before but there were enough bargains to make me go back when I have some shopping to do. They had 4 tins tuna for 2.99 and Ryvitas for 79p. I did, however buy 2 big jars of passata for 50p for the two at the market...they're a bit over sell buy date (Jun 2014) but the jars were in perfect conditions so there's no reason to worry about condition.

joedenise

Went out to do a top up shop but was far more than I expected or usually spend:mad:.

Spent a total of £30.18 spread between Mr T, Icel*nd & farm shop. Total spend to date is £148.39/£250.00. Should hopefully still come in under budget as only 2 weeks to go until pay day but would really like to get through until the end of the month on this money till we go on holiday.

Denise

bmma

first NSD today of August's Grocery Challenge
spends to date £115.59/£160.00p

lynnejk

Gracie_1827 wrote: »

They had 4 tins tuna for 2.99 and Ryvitas for 79p. .

Gracie - 4 tins tuna in FFoods at £2.75 per pack (oil or brine)

HOT DEALS POSTED £5 VOUCHER IN THURSDAY'S SUN FOR MEAT AT MORRY'S


Had another NSD today so working towards keeping under budget

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

Solstice_3

Was popping on to say NSD but just realised it's not as I've had an Asda delivery - £37.56, yesterday spent £0.35 as I forgot to take DS's snack with me when we left in the morning *sigh, I need to get more organised!

Got a 1.5kg bag of McCains chips for the price of Asda Smartprice chips (82p) gotta love them substitutions sometimes ^_^

K9sandFelines

£44.47 spent at Asd* online and £1.96 in the C*-*p on YS produce.
£1.00 spent yesterday on milk, which I think I forgot to add.

Frizzle_2

Spent £3.14 in lidl on margarine, salad cream, raisins and rolls.
Also raided the veggie patch at mums and got some onions, peas and French beans. The French beans will last us months! There were loads and we only planted 5 plants!!!! They have all been blanched and put in the freezer. Left some out and we are going to have roast pork loin tomorrow with potatoes, French beans, LO parsnips and carrots from Sunday! Yum!

Finetta

My new automatic soy milk maker came, and I've made my first batch with no problems.

I spent $8.50 today on carrots, cauliflower, and onions.My freezer is so full, I even had to lacto-ferment some cut-up pumpkin because there was just no more room in there. I will be fermenting today's cauli with carrots and onions too.

I plan to spend the rest of August eating out of the freezer, so not much more shopping to do. I'll have to get some more soybeans to make soy milk, but that's all.

prophecy_grrl

I'm currently at £61.56, we're off on holiday this weekend for a week so won't be spending on GC (holiday eats are half board and lunches will be paid for out of holiday budget)
I do need to pop to the shop later for some cat food for my mate to feed the cat while we're away, and some bits and pieces for a packed lunch for the journey at the weekend. I'm hoping for an underspend this month, and any underspend will go in my sealed pot
Feeling so much better about money this month, just being back on the GC and the boards in general helps. So a big thanks to everyone who posts and in doing so keeps me on track!

p_grrl xxx