September 2014 Grocery Challenge

sweetpea26

Hello to everyone

Have not done a Grocery Challenge in months so am looking forward to this month. Please add me for £450.

This is for 5 adults plus elderly relative at the weekends.
I am finding the price of food is rising constantly. Have purchased a yearly grocery delivery as I live in a rural area so is worth the initial cost.
This morning I had to go to local market town and called into Mr T ...Spent £39.70. Bread, milk, cat food, coffee £5 jars x 2, washing tabs 2 for £6. Have started to use these and they are excellent. I used to buy Lidl loose powder but I think the T ones are worth the money. Few reduced items so am happy with this shop. Buy most of my meat locally which is well priced and great quality. Sometimes get these products reduced as well.

Elderly relative brings eggs to us as well as some vegetables now and again.

I try to have at least one meat free day for hubby and me.

Going to get the toasted sandwich maker out for lunches as well.

Best wishes to everyone.

dumpling

I am back from town having bought 4 boxes of tea....and nothing else!! Amazing for me. I also used my £1 off voucher and then had a till spit for another £1 off £5 spend given to me to use next time. The checkout lady was very amused and said "That's nearly 1000 cups of tea there!" Sadly it should only last a few months but I will keep looking for good offers. Have updated my siggy x

sillyinthepast

Thank you for the ideas. I am going to do the ragu and freeze in to portions.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


I'm now back from my hols and have updated the budgets list to here


Welcome/welcome back to:
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Nice to see so many people joining/returning. Good luck to everyone.


ruby-eskimo, weps, gollysmissus - do you want to set a budget? Please let me know.


Had a Tesco delivery yesterday, so our September GC has started with a £66 spend. Children back to school on Wednesday so normality will return


Coxy

Ladyluck1

Just had a nice surprise to find my survey points are up to £20!
So I've just got myself a m&s £10 evoucher and will be going at around 4-5pm to see what YS there is
That should half my food spends this week!

Cottage_Economy

Went shopping this morning and bought 2 x 4 pints if milk from Mr T. Thanks to the two 'save off your next shop' receipts I had in August, I only paid 16p for them :T

Decided to try and run the freezers and store cupboard down a bit this month, so am going to try and make it as long as possible before doing an actual main food shop.

Captain_ladder

miss organised I love Stilton but am the only one in our house who does!

Popping on to declare £10 at l-dl on yogurt (got into habit of making my own but the last batch went horribly horribly wrong due to using some gone off milk powder :eek: ) hummous, cheese and juice

mrs-moneypenny

afternoon all
i hope everyone is as well as can be.
good wishes nad positive vibes to all who need them

im going for £400 again for September please

declaring August as a slight underspend at £397.26

cant believe where this year is going

tatabubbly

Hi all!! Had a big enough spend of 29bd outta my money, leaving 121bd for the rest of the month so that is a positive.. Stocked up on some chickpeas and red kidney beans on offer! Trying to eat out of the cupboards at the moment as well so hoping for a low spend next week! I don't usually pop to the shops during the week!

bmma

weekly budget £50.00p covers everything
Co-op's budget poridge 1 kg. 79p
2 tins of dog food (animal shelter) £1.20p
soy milk (reduced) 47p
garlic pills £7.46p bought both at Holland. buy one get one half price so milk was free
total spent today £9.45p/£50.00p