September 2014 Grocery Challenge

MrsSave

Mr T delivery this evening. £26.81 spent, which brings my September total to £58.22. £101.78 left for the rest of the month, which includes another 3 home deliveries (5 Tuesday month - boo!!).

Bluegreen143

Just popping on to update current spends = £44.50, which I'm happy with for almost a third through the month got a reasonably full fridge but freezer has run down quite a bit so might need to stock up next week.

I've recently discovered the budgeting software YouNeedABudget (YNAB) which is amazing - anyone else use it? It did cost me £29.99 but you could do a similar method on a spreadsheet. I love the software though and have spent the last few days playing with the budget, is that sad? :rotfl:

Saver-upper

K9sandFelines wrote: »

I will have to pick out the worst and use for fruit leather

Good heavens,I never knew you could home-make these :eek:.
My (still quite young) kids used to love these.As far as I know,they haven't eaten them for a while.Might have a go at making them.

I have been tweaking my (SW) diet over the last few days,so despite having shopped on Saturday,and still having lots of food in the house,I wanted to do abit of a top-up.

So today have spent £26.09 in ALDI,and £38.17 in Tesco,total £64.26.
So,spends so far this month total £124.12/300.

Lizling

Another £4.41 today, making my total £34.75/£80.

That was for cheese (special offer), milk, cream, butter, YS Kale and YS doughnuts in Sainsbury's. Basically the things that weren't available/good value in the Indian shop at the weekend. Didn't buy eggs because I can't bring myself to pay Sainsbury's prices for them now after getting used to Lidl.

[Deleted User]

Small spend today of $25, $18 of which was on food for the dog!


Chickens are in top production at the moment. so am looking for ideas to use up the egg mountain.


Beautiful spring day today, temp will be about 20, so plan to spend the afternoon tackling the herb garden

cheexy

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hi everyone,


Budgets list updated to here


Welcome/welcome back to:
cheexy, wendywitch, maria3104 and HelenRachel


Thank you piglet27 for the advice re: mince - very helpful


Lost 6lbs at SW this week - although it was my first week, I am well chuffed. Went for a job interview last week and they've just offered me the job - yay! My birthday tomorrow too, so lots to celebrate


Out seeing Dawn French this evening, so dinner will be spag bol for DH and children, and I will eat out with friends. Nandos tomorrow with the family.


Have a good day all
Coxy

Congrats on the job offer, weight loss, also have a very happy birthday. :beer:

Went to the gym, bought a tub of Haagen Daz for £2.00 at Mr T. It was meant to be £3.15 but i had a voucher which entitled me to £1.15 off. :T. Also got a tub of Yeo Valley yoghurt for £1 and some reduced carrot batons for 29p at Mr S. The yoghurt is for DS1 who lives about 2 hours away and would be coming for the weekend. This brings my total so far to £25.05. I will get a few more items on friday for next week.

CH27

I'm having another NSD as I have no car again.
My fridge is looking quite bare though the freezer is full.

stiltoncheese

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Just popping on to update current spends = £44.50, which I'm happy with for almost a third through the month got a reasonably full fridge but freezer has run down quite a bit so might need to stock up next week.

I've recently discovered the budgeting software YouNeedABudget (YNAB) which is amazing - anyone else use it? It did cost me £29.99 but you could do a similar method on a spreadsheet. I love the software though and have spent the last few days playing with the budget, is that sad? :rotfl:

Bluegreen, I use YNAB and love it. I used to use my own spreadsheet to track finances, but if you needed to add in new categories then it was a pain recalculating all the formulas again to include the new categories. YNAB makes it so much easier and like you said, you can play around with it.

wendywitch

Only a £2 spend for me yesterday, that was for locusts for DD1's chameleon, which she's supposed to pay for!

Finetta

I've spent more of my $34.10 remaining:
$2.50 500g flaxseed
$2.39 2kg apples
$5.67 3 boxes laundry powder (33 loads)
$1.59 brown rice
leaving me with $22.00 for the rest of the month.