September 2014 Grocery Challenge

wendywitch

No Spend Day for me I took my parents shopping today. My mum brought my deodorant for me :A and gave me her "free" eggs, sausages rolls and new potatoes from her 2 for £x buys

Pablosmummy

Just sorted my weekly Tesco shop for tomorrow, another £75 gone. Annoyingly we needed cat litter, baby milk and nappies all in the same week so that took up quite a big chunk of my budget for this shop.
Got some custard cookie dough chilling in the freezer using bits from the cupboard, never tried them before so no idea what they're like. hopefully edible ha

dumpling

Pablosmummy wrote: »

Got some custard cookie dough chilling in the freezer using bits from the cupboard, never tried them before so no idea what they're like. hopefully edible ha

I make these regularly and they are more than edible, they have a lovely texture and they are such a cheerful cookie 'cos of the custard powder. My family absolutely love them so hopefully you will like them too.

Pablosmummy

just tried one, gorgeous! Now I just have to stay away from them until after my dinner

Keen_Young_Learner

Argh! It's only the 8th and I've already spent £61 of my £120 budget! It's my first month so this is a real eye opener - I've been an MSE affictionado since I left home and really thought I was doing all the right things: downshelfing; meal planning; shopping around...my thrifty ways have slipped! This grocery spend really needs pulling back... really don't know how to get it down any further though...
KYL xx

laura_hoggle

£52.50 to add for our Mr T delivery, which was mostly made up of wine and will not all be drunk this month but will include it in September anyway. Leaves about £34 left until the 20th when we go on holiday which is very much doable! Fingers crossed!

laura_hoggle

physicsgirl wrote: »

How did chicken in the slow cooker go? I've been meaning to try it for a while.

Chicken was very yummy! DH said it was the easiest Sunday roast he'd ever carved cos it all just fell apart! Meant I could really get the most of the meat to take off and had enough for another 2 meals and sandwiches for a small chicken. Made the house smell scrummy too!

HelenRachel

Had a no spend day today! Need to get organised and plan some meals for the week as DH is returning from work and this is normally when my good intentions go a bit wrong!

Caterina

Spent just under £6 in an impromptu picnic with DH near his workplace. As it was a one-off treat it is going down as entertainment/treats, not as grocery as such, so won't be calculated in my update.

But it means today was not a NSD. Maybe tomorrow.

Good night.

Saver-upper

Keen_Young_Learner wrote: »

Argh! It's only the 8th and I've already spent £61 of my £120 budget! It's my first month so this is a real eye opener - I've been an MSE affictionado since I left home and really thought I was doing all the right things: downshelfing; meal planning; shopping around...my thrifty ways have slipped! This grocery spend really needs pulling back... really don't know how to get it down any further though...
KYL xx

Aww,bless you Keen Young Learner.
Where do you shop?For years I shopped at Tesco,and if I only needed a few items,it was easier to drop into a Sainsburys on my way home from work.Since I decided to slash the budget,I've started doing my main shop in ALDI,then nip across the road to Morrisons for anything I couldn't get.Can definitely see a real difference in amount spent.