September 2015 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

nsd again yesterday, yippee!! still have £165 to last until end of the month.

miss_try_to_save

hi all spent £40 so have £20 left had budgeted on my over flowing freezer and store cupboards supporting us but as that's not happened I will just see where I end up at freezer comes Monday so Tuesday I will be in Iceland shopping for frozen stuff even though I have only my small freezer couldn't stop myself from getting some reduced snacky bits pizza twists 25p and chicken crouton lollypops £1.50 and samosas 75p so I jammed them in what little space I have to cook for dd2s lunches next week also went and got some blackberries from the common area near me so doing a rhubarb and blackberry pie as I also have rhubarb in my garden as I got a jar of bol sauce for 20p im doing a spaghetti bol tonight using up one of mince in small freezer £180/£200 think my total will probably be nearer to £350 by end of month but we shall see as I had my freezer malfunction im not including oh s beer in the £200 before this I never had a stock cupboard so glad I did this its definitely worth it if not only for times when your freezer fails

Dizzy_Imp

Online shop arrived and now magicked away into the cupboards - £77.42 spent but lots of food, so will be OK for the week. Also got enough dog food to last, so won't have pop out for that.
I think that takes my total to £133.27/£350, so £216.73 for the rest of September. I'm taking the boys to softplay this afternoon. Small gets a meal deal with his entry - do I include this in the grocery challenge? We'd be going anyway, but...?

Carviscocker

✨✨✨£3.47 spent today £11.03 in total ✨✨✨

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday again!! yippee.although I must confess I cant wait to do a shop!!

Itsa_Longshot

£20.47 this morning on my weekly shop against a target of £28.00. Takes me to £45.20/£112.00 for the month so nicely ahead, but I think next week will be a bit more expensive to stock up the freezer, though I do have a £5 voucher to use.

I could have gone cheaper this morning, probably one too many treats, but I just can't say no to a large battenburg for £1! It's the best cake in the world!

Rachiedabbler70

Morning All

Have just done my weekly shop which totalled £59.16. Total for the month now £174.73 of £300 budget so might not use it all as I got loads for my money this morning.:money:

I've been batch cooking during the past week and have chilli, pizza sauce, pizza dough and curry in the freezer to last a month and today I will make a big batch of corned beef hash. I have bought a nice pork shoulder joint for £3.84 so when I roast it tomorrow I suspect I will have enough for two more meals for the 3 of us - might do some extra veg when I do the roast and make a couple of pies for the freezer.

I work and travel about 50 hours a week, but I'm finally making the time to cook properly and starting to find it quite stress relieving.

Happy shopping and cooking everyone.:D

WantToBeSE

Oh i have totally confused myself!
I had £100 in my wallet and paid £40 towards the new carpeting, then some towards pocket money, and spent approx £20 on food...so i THINK that i have £80 left, but not sure

I am so annoyed that my local branch has closed down. It's now a 30 min drive away to the nearest branch, so i don't want to have to go there.
But my card has a £250 a day withdrawal limit on it, so i cant take out everything i need on 1 day (which is what i normally do) and split it up into different 'envelopes'.

curlywurly82

Monday included a quick shop in Co op for lunch items and a few essentials, I think I posted at the time and that was £8.43.

Today I did my first big shop of the month which came to £42.11 so a total of

£50.54

Billie-jo

WantToBeSE - I know just what you mean about banks closing down, the one we use has also gone and its a 20 min trip to the two nearest ones. I usually draw out £1000 pm for bills and food etc but now have to do it in 4 transactions and its a pain in the butt. Am thinking of changing where we bank but am thinking maybe they will go as well in time. :mad:

Spent £17.51 today but this included some things don't usually buy as we have an overnight guest on Monday who will only eat certain things!!! No dietary reason just plain fussy
Had a lovely lunch of left overs today - rice with onions, celery and some Cajun chicken bits in it then had a salad of tomatoes, radish and pomegranate with it. Odd but really nice and surprisingly filling healthy as well.