July 2016 Grocery Challenge

milasavesmoney

$137 shop so that puts me over ALREADY! :eek:

t14cy_t

cold cold cold....everything cold for tea tonight, meats, cheeses, salad and crackers!!! all YS goodies and bits from garden. x

Smiley87

£265.82 so far with a week and a half to go. Might end up over because I'm going to Costco today to stock up on some bits that I've noticed that I keep on buying every month - hopefully that'll help me reduce our budget again for the next few months.

Scrimps

We've spent £23 at sainsburys and £21 at aldi and have lots of food. My meals should last me until the end of the month due to pearly barley and a pack of 20 sainsburys own brand frozen sausages and pearly barley and potatoes, basics frozen fish etc.

Ive made a few 'peasant' dishes like 'Caldo Gallego' but made them even cheaper by subbing black kale for spring greens, potatoes for turnips, pearl barley for white beans. still tastes good, is suprisingly filling and excedingly cheap.

We've got some big expenses coming up so if i can come in under budget for a few months, that would be very helpful.

pamsdish

£7 to add, coke zero for sister and some ice cream and lollies.

CloughiesBrewerArmy

Another £22.68 spent but shouldn't need to spend much more before the weekend now.

£128.51 spent with £71.42 remaining for the next 11 days....I can do this.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

SO HOT.... Determined not to moan though, great start to the kids hols and least those of you with school age kids can get them out in the sunshine to wear them out - mine used to be really tired at the end of term, the first day of the hols was always a 'pyjama day' with nothing planned.

I toddled off to Aldi today and spent £65 - this included weekend wine/beer - I hope that's it apart from some bread and milk

Off to grab more cold water from the fridge then update my signature

Suffolk_lass

Geldsparerin wrote: »

I went to T today and spent 8.84 on dishwasher salt, milk but earnt 50p on shopitize, napkins for DS nursery party and fruit. Have enough treats homemade through the week to take to the party. Probably the first time I went to T and spent under a tenner! Holidays start tomorrow but determined to see it through with a couple more NS days this week.

We are having our dishwasher repaired currently. It has just gone on its holidays to be repaired. 2nd attempt by the repair man. When he came last week he said that if you use a 3-in-one dishwasher tablet, you should not use rinse aid or salt or it makes the quantum thing foam too much, causing it to overflow into the chassis (bottom) and go wrong. I said the water is quite hard here and he conceded a bit of salt but definitely no rinse aid.

Potential to save a bit more in future? - I shall probably do it the other way round and only use the 3-in-one thingies every 3 days or so and buy cheaper tablets.

SL

t14cy_t

spends of £38 yesterday! first time in the shops since 8th july! spends in morrisons and tesco, mainly YS goodies including lots of veggies for the girls(16 chicken, 2 ducks!). enjoy the weather everyone. x

pinkypig

£5.35 on milk, two bags of apples, peppers and lettuce plus a great haul of 10p prepped veg which is now soup frozen in portions or part cooked and in the freezer. My second and final big shop of the month is tomorrow and although I'm running really low on dog food and cleaning stuff the freezer is full so I'm hoping for a record month:j probably just as well as we are away a lot in August and I'm going to need every penny:eek:
PP x