August 2015 Grocery Challenge

frugalsmurf

Ahh I always used do coinstar, even though I know it charges.

Although recently I've put a coin purse in my bag with change in and I use at self service tills as most shops have them nowadays. Although It irritates people if there's a queue;) so I try to go if it's quiet or not many people in the queue.

My month has been complicated so I'm going to join in again next month (&stick to it!) But I'll pop on every now and again until then.

t14cy_t

would like to add spends of£47 yesterday, £36 of which was the huge sack of dry food for the hounds! the rest was YS bargains from the C*o*!! best bargains of the day were their cooked chickens, were £6.25 lurked around and snapped them up for 70p each!!!

PennyGrabber

Nice bargains t14ty c!!

I managed to NOT do my weekly shop yesterday. I always go to aldililly on a Sunday for the weekly shop, but the children are with their sad this week, so I don't really need anything as I can live off the random stuff lurking around... Just off to find out what's for my dinner tonight!

Due to lots of other expenses, I have next to no money left for the rest of the month now, so must be as frugal as possible. I feel a fiscal fast coming on!

PG x

WantToBeSE

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Nice bargains t14ty c!!

I managed to NOT do my weekly shop yesterday. I always go to aldililly on a Sunday for the weekly shop, but the children are with their sad this week, so I don't really need anything as I can live off the random stuff lurking around... Just off to find out what's for my dinner tonight!

Due to lots of other expenses, I have next to no money left for the rest of the month now, so must be as frugal as possible. I feel a fiscal fast coming on!

PG x

I dont have much left either. Whats a fiscal fast?

MumofIowans

I did the weekly shop over the weekend and was trying really hard to get it to $38. I failed miserably and spent $51.59 instead. I tried not to be too disappointed but it did mean chances of coming in on target are pretty low. THEN when I glanced at the receipt last night to see how much the fruit had cost, I noticed I had been charged twice for a huge tub of yogurt I had bought which was $7.99. So I went back this morning and they refunded it so my spend was only $43.60 which is much closer to budget! I do usually look at my receipts but this just shows how important it is to make sure! So I am much more hopeful about getting to the end of the month on budget now. Fingers crossed!

lynnejk

Afternoon all :hello:

WantToBeSE wrote: »

I dont have much left either. Whats a fiscal fast?

It means you don't spend any money


We went shopping over the weekend and spent


Sa*ers........£ 4.98 (more N*scafe)
A*di...........£ 11.81
Morrys........£ 23.17 (quite a bit of meat and frozen)
L*dl...........£ 2.29


So a total of £ 42.25 added to siggie, leaving nearly £ 74 to the end of the month. This should be doable, if I'm careful, as have bones of meals in now and will just need milk, pack-ups, fruit and veg.


Hope you all having a great week
Lx

Islandmaid

Another £40 today at Aldo,s - this included a bottle of gin, as we enjoy a G&T of an evening.

2 weeks till payday and it's going to be a bit tight, but hoping I,ll scrap in - School Hol,s are meaning DS is grazing all day, which adds up.....

Tinkers7

Maria 3104, I will check my policy but I have not kept any receipts for the food. On the plus side I had a no spend day as well as eating the shallots from my garden

claireylulu

Sorry haven't posted my weeks shopping total as my laptop has been playing up. Did my weekly shop on Friday and spent £45 at Ald!. Had a few extra spends over the weekend. Treat as it was the last few days of OH's holiday. Spent a further £16.94 over the weekend. But that was instead of a take away and going to the pub one night

t14cy_t

spends of £9.00 to add to total yesterday.