August 2016 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. yipee! hoping to last until monday when it will be 7/8 nsd. xxx

dangerbadger

£7 yesterday on food and treats for the dog.

thriftwizard

*** Slinks back in, tail between legs, with a very guilty look ***

My carefully-laid plans got a bit blown out of the water by the short-notice arrival of OH's twin brother & 10 y.o. son for a few days! It was delightful to see them, as always, but means I'm rather - ahead of myself - on the spending front, and it'll be an estimate up to now as I haven't (yet) had time to collate receipts, add up my market spends etc. The young gentleman is violently allergic to a fair number of everyday food-stuffs, but just at that age where they eat like horses - 3 large baked potatoes vanished in a flash the first evenings, complete with several fillings! So price couldn't be my main guide when shopping for them. So I think I'm up to about £150, which breaks down as £85 at the market yesterday, £22 at the farm shop on a sack of spuds & some poultry supplies, £20-odd on pet food and the rest on things we wouldn't normally have, like "luxury" ice cream, supermarket fruit & nut-free cereals.

Bearing in mind that the freezer's fairly full, and my target's £550 for the month, and we're nearly a week in, that's not too far off-target really; I should be able to shave a bit off the next couple of weeks. But that said, there's a trip to the Big City the other side of the Forest in prospect, to visit a certain Swedish furniture emporium, which means a trip to the Grocers of Eastern Promise, to stock up on nice rice, soy sauce, spices, dried beans & lentils, and noodles... ah well!

Flat_Eric

I feel guilty that I spent quite a bit in mNs today but I did mainly buy all the offers AND since I was meant to be having a day out today with a 3 course lunch, I haven't had to pay for that and I now have a tidy house !

Florence_J

Spent £1 on milk today. Have achieved one NSD already but am aiming for many many more.

Have £36.98 remaining of the food budget till the 27th.

I like your tip about protein powders xspender, I was thinking of getting chocolate protein powder, but was torn between that and vanilla. Will probably get vanilla now

Matody

I spent £3.85 in a Chinese shop in town today but a lot cheaper than MrA - I use coconut oil a lot it cost me less than £2 which is better than nearly £10

I also got some spices which were cheaper, didn't spend too much in there as I need to do a food stock list and use what I have! My plan for tomorrow!

I then went to MrA and branded down, spent £27.25 but got a lot more stuff.. I bought 2 chickens and intend to cook them both tomorrow, rubber chicken one and use the other as sandwich meat, which is a lot cheaper!

I also bought some packet of jelly and some tinned fruit as my daughter wanted the ones they sell for 3 for £1 - so I've made my own, made 8 for less than £1..

I think I'm liking this budgeting already

So far spent 66.47 but all I really need to buy until Wednesday is mainly bread and milk, so should come under the £80

Leaves me 253.53 for the rest of the month!

Sayschezza

At my DD Fri - Mon so paid for the shopping today. £15.30 at Aldi on things I would not have had to buy if I had been at home as I have all the bits in my cupboards. oh we'll never mind will update signature later.

just_trying

My son got me £20 butcher meat so total last week was £41.50, unusually low and there was some moans at times, though they didn't last long.

This weekend was £88, rounded up so that's okay, there was a lot of treats.

My son broke his finger a few weeks ago, now my daughter fell and I think she's broken her finger and possibly her hand, she says it's okay but it's swollen. She says she's not going to A&E until tomorrow as she can't stand waiting. It's always 4 hours here. She was crab hunting when she fell.

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. yipee!!x

squeezedmillennial

£30 Lidl shop y'day, bringing me to £121.23 / £180 with 2 more shops planned until next pay check. Should be able to eek it out and will go hunting for YS meat today to put in freezer.

With the sunny weather yesterday we decided to have a cheap date instead of take away/eating out- took our dinner (roast pork, roast veg and new potatoes, baba ganoush) down to the park with a couple of beers and a picnic rug and watched the Thames roll by.