August 2014 Grocery Challenge

Saver-upper

Hi,SchmooSquidge,of course you can join.There are different ways people manage their budgets on here;weekly,monthly,budgets starting at different times in the month,depending on when people get paid.It is whatever suits you.

Frizzle_2

8.11 spent in tesco. Went for a mooch and to get yoghurts as they are cheaper than aldi! Picked up a few bits for ds1's birthday (different budget) and 4 packs of barny cakes (on special offer down to 84p a pack- kids love them but I have hidden them!), crispy chicken x4, fab ice lollies, cucumber, a YS sausage roll for OH's lunch tomorrow and some YS iced fingers for this afternoon when my mum brings ds1 back so we can gave a cuppa and a cake!
Could have been worse. Everything was on offer or YS apart from the yogs and cucumber!

piglet27

Good afternoon all, Hi SchmooSquidge.


I had a small spend this weekend of 39p a*di for chilis, I also bought a pint of milk but my mom paid, so only 39p to add. I will update sig now.


I will at some point this week, need to do an online shop. Hope everyone has a frugal week.

Bornagainshopaholic

SchmooSquidge wrote: »

Can I join in, even though I do a weekly shop please?

I'm a weekly shopper too! And also in Wales. Croeso!

SchmooSquidge

Thank you all the rest of this month I'm just trying to cut back shopping in general (around £50 a week) in preparation for September, as then we'll have £42.25 a week for our weekly shop x

Frizzle_2

Another £1 spent. Needed bananas and tomato pur!e to make pizzas for dinner so mum got me some when she went to aldi!

wannabehermit

£20 on diesel today plus did shopping at just over £35, plus splashed out on some twixes from the canteen (20p for 8 two fingers), love the staff sales :j. So brings us to exactly £142 per week over the year.

Greying_Pilgrim

Hey Grocery Challengers!

Sorry you don't *know* me - I'm not currently doing the challenge - but I wanted to pass on some information/recipes that I've come across, regarding recipes for tight budgets.

Some of you may know that in the US, folks are issued 'food stamps' - although the program has now been renamed 'SNAP'. Anyhow, it only equates to about $4 per person perday for food - not a lot huh? So a gal - called Leanne Brown - who was doing a masters degree in food nutrition, noticed that folks on this program ate a lot of carbs to fill up. So she got practical, and devised a cookbook to make meals that were within the budget of $4 per day. Her efforts were warmly welcomed in the US, and she has sought to make it available to folk, so the PDF version of her book, called 'Good and Cheap' is free and you can find it HERE and she has also done another book called 'From Scratch' which you can find, for free, HERE. If you would like to find out more about Leanne, have a look HERE

I know you don't 'know' me, but the links are legit - and Leanne wants people to cook the meals and share the info. So if you, or someone you know, could use these recipes, then share them around. In the US, you can buy a print version of the book, and/or choose to donate $5 so that a print version could be given to a person in need. Pretty much like people bought version of Jack Monroe's book to give to Foodbanks.

Hope this helps someone - there are meat and veggie recipes, and I shall certainly be giving some of the veggie ones a go

Greying

craigywv

Hi all been awol but still thriftyish! Spent 6.55 this morning on 3 massive bottles of the heinz(sorry cant eat anything else) tom ketchup and milk the sauce is half price so got a years supply of it, i the only eater of it in house. Will get 3 more as good dates on them. Hi new folk and good luck. Freezers still bulging so low spends in next few weeks .

Gracie_1827

Evening all...went to Sainsbugs today and "spent" £6.83 of my free gift card, so no actually money spent. Indulged my self my chocolate almond ice lollies and a bottle of Stella cidre, not tried that before but went down a treat with my spaghetti with meatballs.:beer:. My son had passed on the gift card...say here there's only £4 on it..when i went to the checkout she said there's £14.73!!!