September 2015 Grocery Challenge

CountingPennies

Afternoon all!!

Finally have some spends to update. Been to my favourite farm shop today which is really cheap. Picked up 10 massive chicken supremes, bananas, 2 boxes of grapes, turnip, apples, milk, parsnips, strawberries, leeks, spring onions, new potatoes, sack of potatoes, carrots, cucumber, watermelon, large piece of topside beef, 1/2 turkey crown (still massive), 2 packs of back bacon and 10 large chicken supreme filets. Came to a grand total of £35.89! This is such a good price for such a large amount of meat, fruit and veg. Upon checking the receipt I wasn't charged for the sack of potatoes so saved £2.99 there :cool:

The meat will last me for the month. I have a ham shank in the freezer so I'm planning some broth for DH and the kids this week.

Baking a pie this afternoon, have everything in apart from cornbeef which my mam is picking up from the shops for me so I won't be tempted by the shops. She is also picking me up eggs as I forgot them at the farm this morning :mad: The eggs are cheaper from Icel*nd anyway but I like the eggs from the farm and like to support local trades. Never mind!

Gonna sit down tonight and do my meal plan so I feel organised

Hope everyone is well!

CP xx

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Budgets list updated to here


Welcome back tessie bear (waves), do you want to set a budget?


Good luck everyone.
Coxy

tessie_bear

thankyou coxy...i wont set a budget on here thankyou just seeing how it goes....dont want to mess it up and be down hearted:o

went to waitrose today and purchased a lovely saucepan as you do...£18 reduced to £7.50...lovely... no food then popped into coop and got a massive bag of bananas for £1 its quite odd in our local coop a few times a week they scoop up all the nanas and bag them up and reduce to a quid...a big carrier bag full and they chuck the new green nanas on to the shelf.....the ones in the bad are perfect to eat and make lovely cakes so long may it continue

hope everyone is doing well
tessa

Bluegreen143

Sorry I've been quiet, the good news it's cos I have nothing to report spending-wise. Doing my weekly shop on a Friday rather than Sunday is working out much better for us (we would end up with a top up shop on Fridays where my husband would buy lots of snacks and rubbish and spend nearly as much as our Sunday shop before).

Hope everyone else is doing well at holding onto those pennies!

Billie-jo

Spent £9.05 on Saturday. Hope that tomorrow is a NSD as can't think of anything we need but you never know.
Had sweet chilli chicken, salad and potatoes for tea - lovely but feeling a bit hungry now so will have some cheese and crackers I think.

lynnejk

Evening everyone and welcome Tessa :hello:

CountingPennies wrote: »

.... Been to my favourite farm shop today which is really cheap. Came to a grand total of £35.89! This is such a good price for such a large amount of meat, fruit and veg......
CP xx

Wow - well done there CP :T

We had an NSD here. We had corned beef with a lovely large salad and DH had refried l/o roasties for dinner today.

Hope you all have a super Tuesday
Lx

moneyonmymindsam

Morning ...well just about


Todays update


£4 ..on toiletries ..


£30.85 total so £81.15p to go ....17 days and counting down.


Have done my stock take and cupboards pretty full


Happy days ..


Need to get milk again soon but think will just take the cash for milk to the shop so don't get tempted.


Good luck this week and well done to those that have had NSD :-)

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday, yippee!!

Ladyluck1

£40.10 in Mr T yesterday. Took the kidsand hubby! Big mistake.
£80 left for September!
Got a fair amount of yellow snickered meat and some half price snacks for the kids so this should take me into next week

karenccs67

At last, yesterday was my first NSD :j. Today I spent £8.99 in Sainsburys.