July 2015 Grocery Challenge

The_Only_Girl

A spendy day today. Spent £70 for the weekly groceries, including toiletries, toilet papers, and gardening materials. Still under budget (£90 per week) so there is still room for small top up if needed but I am hoping not to have to do any so I could put the excess in the pot.

Did some brand dropping today - instead of DS2's favourite tomato ketchup, bought ALDI's own brand for only 55p for a 500 ml bottle. And DS2 actually prefers the taste of the cheaper version a- win win! Also bought a 500 g jar of Alcafe for £1.29 in lieu of the famous brand that costs £4.29 per jar. I needed some condensed milk and got 3 tins of an unknown brand for 95p per tin in lieu of Carnations £1.79.

mrscobden

I can attest to the fact that the Aldi own-brand ketchup tastes no different to the super expensive ones. A wise brand shift. You will need to tell me what the Alcafe is like!

The_Only_Girl

mrscobden wrote: »

I can attest to the fact that the Aldi own-brand ketchup tastes no different to the super expensive ones. A wise brand shift. You will need to tell me what the Alcafe is like!

To be honest I like it better than Nescaf!. I find the taste to be deeper and less flat. It is worth a try for £1.29. Oh and the kids prefer their baked beans too.

lynnejk

The_Only_Girl wrote: »

Did some brand dropping today -

Well done :T It really is worth trying just the once on things and you can always return to usual brand(s) if you're not happy.


There are very few brand items I buy these days. eg I only like H***z baked beans and salad cream, o*o cubes and B*sto for gravy and these I always keep an eye out for offers and stock up. Tea and coffee are medium-priced brands.


Otherwise I'm all for buying the cheapest :money:


Mr T today was £ 10.93 including an 11p MOC for items checked last time.


We had cheesy jacket spuds, corned beef and baked beans for dinner today - really yum.


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

barneydee_2

Just a quick post to add what I have spent so far £81.48 this is made up of a few small shops all in Mr s would have been higher but kind sil paid for my shopping on Saturday as he did the shopping & had use of my car lol since he lived here it's the first time he has contributed so I'm not going to say no
Dee x

Pearla*Merle

Another £10 spent on essentials... Doing ok so far this month! It's hrlped that we visited family over the weekend and they fed us (yummy roast dinner with all trimmings and apple pie!). We had to grab done good on the go but that comes out of a different budget :j

I'm also loving Ald!'s ketchup and coffee, it's completely insane how good their food is. We're addicted to their pulled pork and chocolate as well. And local strawberries to boot - all ripe and utterly perfect, unlike so many I've had over the years from the big four. :T

PS. Their beetroot and goats cheese crisps are insanely nice!

*niptuckfan*

Hi folks, been forgetting to post but still doing well with my budgeting…its even more essential now as just found out yesterday im pregnant…any money I save from the grocery spend is going into savings

Billie-jo

craigywv wrote: »

love the sound of your pulled pork billie jo, nsd today will spend tomorrow as need a few bits from where I work should be about 5 quid.....I hope

Thanks it was really lovely but used green beans instead of courgettes as we had none left.

Congratulations to niptuckfan I hope everything goes well for you.

A!di brands we like their mushroom soup but not so keen on the chicken. Also another vote for their beans, rice crispies/cornflakes, coffee. However DH doesn't like the crisps (but does the dorritos) or brown sauce (I don't eat tomato sauce but DH likes it) Their dips are lovely and 34p cheaper than what we used to buy and their chorizo slices are a lot cheaper.

Spent £27.02 today this included a joint of pork which is for Sunday and should be plenty left over for another time.

Islandmaid

Another NSD today

*Congratulations Niptuck*

The_Only_Girl

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

Another £10 spent on essentials... Doing ok so far this month! It's hrlped that we visited family over the weekend and they fed us (yummy roast dinner with all trimmings and apple pie!). We had to grab done good on the go but that comes out of a different budget :j

I'm also loving Ald!'s ketchup and coffee, it's completely insane how good their food is. We're addicted to their pulled pork and chocolate as well. And local strawberries to boot - all ripe and utterly perfect, unlike so many I've had over the years from the big four. :T

PS. Their beetroot and goats cheese crisps are insanely nice!

I'm with you on a!di's chocolates too. DS2 loves their cookies n cream biscuits.