September 2015 Grocery Challenge

The_Only_Girl

Spent £42.34 yesterday at Mr. A and alldee. Haven't had much luck with NSD's due to small top up shops everyday. Hangs head in shame. We need to more organised than this. On the positive side, we are still within budget. £296 left for the month. That's £98.67 for the next three weeks or if I left £30 for emergency needs for this week, we'll have £88.67 groceries and household budget for the next three weeks. Doable? We are going down to London on the weekend of the 26th September and I am hoping to still live within that budget and not dip into the emergency fund. Fingers crossed.

Wysiwyg49

I watch Eat Well For Less - try to put things into practice, make most meals from scratch, buy basics products if they are OK, meal plan, the lot! But still spend approx £120 a week for family of 4. I think the budget is busted by fruit juice, biscuits and cereal...favourite recipes are from Jack Monroe and the Hairy Bikers (e.g. cauli cheese with bacon and mushrooms). I'm tracking spending a bit more now as I'm aware I waste food every week, but its definitely the extras not the main meal ingredients that bump up the spending...

SpikyHedgehog

I've managed 2 NSDs - or 3 if I didn't count giving DS2 money to pay school for the school dinner he had on the last day of last school year when his water bottle leaked on everything in his lunch box.

Just under £100 in Sains for a big shop on Saturday including the cat's food & litter for the month, and some bits for winter prep stores. I did make sure I looked at the prices per 100g for comparision.

Went into T3sco Express tonight with some letters to post for work, as my local post office is hidden away at the back of T Express. Found they had tinned fruit reduced to half price to clear with next Dec dates on it, so picked up 6 cans of apricots in juice. Got DS2 chips on the way home from Scouts (ok, we shared the chips).

With the little spends as well, out of my original £300, I've got £165 left for the month. I'm planning to go to the coop near DS2's music school on Saturday as I can get fruit & veg etc there without being tempted by lots of stuff that they can't fit into the shop .

moneyonmymindsam

Hi all, Everyone seems to be doing amazing this month


I think I am still doing well.


Had a JP with Tuna for Tea and some French bread

Spent 59p on Milk ( reduced and French bread ( YS)


Made hot choc with Milk ...lovely ..


£80.56 to go....:)


Hoping to make some over payments to cc if I can stick to the budget

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


We had another NSD today


Had HM beef chilli (freezer) with l/o avocado made into a salsa. I had jacket spud and grated cheese with mine and DH had rice and peas.


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

miss_try_to_save

hi all firstly spent £130 of my grocery budget out of my £200 for month and now disaster has hit my 7 draw freezer has broken and everything is ruined total nightmare luckily I have store cupboard things such as frey bentos pies and a 3 draw fridge freezer which still works cant believe my bad luck all my frozen stuff gone

t14cy_t

spends of £5.38 all YS bargains of course!! have enough cheese to last into Christmas!! took a good friend with me tonight to show her the ropes as she has big debt issues. have a lovely day everyone. x

craigywv

miss_try_to_save wrote: »

hi all firstly spent £130 of my grocery budget out of my £200 for month and now disaster has hit my 7 draw freezer has broken and everything is ruined total nightmare luckily I have store cupboard things such as frey bentos pies and a 3 draw fridge freezer which still works cant believe my bad luck all my frozen stuff gone

oh dear really awful when that happens my heart goes out to you xxx

The_Only_Girl

t14cy_t wrote: »

spends of £5.38 all YS bargains of course!! have enough cheese to last into Christmas!! took a good friend with me tonight to show her the ropes as she has big debt issues. have a lovely day everyone. x

Big fan of YS shopping here too. Although last time I went shopping they changed the rules a bit about YS goodies. We used to be able to pick anything with the day's date and the lady doing the stickers can put the last stickers on our good just before closing. Now they are not allowed to do that on things that are already in the customers' trolleys. We can't put them back either. . In terms of equal opportunities that's better, but not good if you want to bag lots of whoopsies. We just really have to be there at the right time. I might also try to go to other shops and find out about their ys schedule,

It's also note worthy how you showed your friends how it is done, it does make a big difference to the groceries shopping. There was this one time when I came out of the shop on Sunday afternoon just before closing, with 7 bags of groceries and paid only £9.88 (original price was £43).

The_Only_Girl

miss_try_to_save wrote: »

hi all firstly spent £130 of my grocery budget out of my £200 for month and now disaster has hit my 7 draw freezer has broken and everything is ruined total nightmare luckily I have store cupboard things such as frey bentos pies and a 3 draw fridge freezer which still works cant believe my bad luck all my frozen stuff gone

Sorry to hear about your freezer trouble. It's annoying when that happens especially when you are trying to save on your groceries budget and a lot of food goes off due to the freezer breakdown. Have you got an emergency fund to enable you to purchase a new freezer?