August 2016 Grocery Challenge

mrs_Badger

Walked to Lidl today for some sardines for the dog, and salad bits, and baby wipes - £4.40

Running total
Pet food £30
Household £0.80
Food £7.40

£38.20 / £300

tumptyteapot

no spend day today on groceries - vet bills and cat medicine is a different matter! The cat was uninsurable but my mathy sister worked out that despite the huge bill it is cheaper than it would have been if I'd paid for insurance for all the cats I've had in my adult life.

anyway, tuna fishcakes for tea made with stale bread and using up random half veg, I'm hoping my tuna hating 13 year old will like them because they are cheap! Need to meal plan for the rest of the week!

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Budgets list updated to here


Welcome/welcome back to:
tighteningthebelt, squeezedmillenial, Rosesandrainbows, tumptyteapot, wannalot, mrs_Badger and claireyfairy82


tumptyteapot - our dog is now uninsurable and we put money away every month to cover any future vets bills.


Good luck everyone,
Coxy

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I am really tearing through my budget - got 'till 31st - gonna be really tight. Spent £9.50 on cheese - YES CHEESE - a bit gutted really. My local health store ordered them for me a while back - they have only come in. Got to get some salad stuff 2 moz, then i'm going to try and have a week of no spends - should bring me slighty back on track. Have updated sig.

Islandmaid

£14 spent at Aldi, just bought a few things to stretch leftovers, and some cat biscuits

Trying to keep it low this week

mrs_Badger

Ack, £2.70 sweetie run to the corner shop (don't do this often)

Running total
Pet food £30
Household £0.80
Food £10.10

£40.90 / £300

tighteningthebelt

NSD for me today. (will need bread tomorrow though)

Sayschezza

Went into MrT to buy newspaper and the coffee we use was on offer so another £4 spent today.

dumpling

Good evening everyone,

I've had a top up delivery this afternoon which has taken me over my budget for the week but I'm expecting to be significantly under next weeks.

Had a substitution of 20% fat frozen mince for my nice healthy living one at only 10% fat. Yuck, won't be buying the fattier mince in the future. I normally buy the extra lean fresh mince but thought the healthy living one wasn't too bad when I've tried it before. In retrospect I should have refused the substitution but I had already put pasta bolognese on our mealplan for today.

Note for the future: don't be so inflexible, it's not like I don't have cupboards full of food and two freezers worth as well!

claireyfairy82

More shopping today, went to Lidl to stock up my store cupboards as they're not that healthy at the moment. I don't get the chance to go there very often as it's not near my house but is near the swimming pool my daughter trains at once a week, think I'll try and make this a regular thing just need to remember it's there!! £54.42 spend.

My online meat order was processed today as well so that was another £64.50. But that should be me stocked up with just bread, milk and packed lunch stuff left to get weekly.

Note to self don't take OH with you to the shops hes worse than the kids when it comes to shoving stuff in my trolley!!

New total £168.72/ £320