August 2016 Grocery Challenge

Soworried

A spend of £46 yesterday in Aldi and Morrisons. I need to buy some beef and spinach but other than that I shouldn't need anything for the week now.
I bought so much veg to pad our meals out with as well. I'm finding I am eating less and less meat, even going 3-4 days without any. I think I could easily give it up all together but OH won't go a meal with out it

WantToBeSE

Spent the last of my £50 yesterday

I give up...again! I dont know why on Earth i cannot stick to a grocery budget!

guccigoo

Had an as*a shop delivered yesterday came to £49.33. Will be spending today as got to go to Home Bargains and buy cat litter and bottles of water, I'm hoping that's all I buy!

Flat_Eric

Went into sainsbobs this morning for bread rolls and spent £27 ?!! but it did include socks, milk and tea bags plus various toiletries that I bought in anticipation of holibobs :j

Hope everyone is having a great day x

Sayschezza

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Spent the last of my £50 yesterday

I give up...again! I dont know why on Earth i cannot stick to a grocery budget!

Surely if you are shopping to feed yourself on the food you like to eat and you are not wasting anything then you are setting your budget too low. It's not what other people are spending that's important it's what's right for you.

dumpling

Good afternoon everyone,

I had my second delivery of the month from Tescos and I was very pleased it came to £65 exactly. I now have enough ingredients to make lots of lovely meals this week and I even bought some bits and bobs for a tea party for the girls and my grandchildren this evening.
Hopefully that will be it now apart from the odd loaf of bread and some milk. Having the girls at home certainly makes a huge difference to the amount of food we get through but I love having them here so I don't mind.

Islandmaid

milasavesmoney wrote: »

A bottle of gin will take you troug till Wednesday? My kind of woman! :beer:

Mila - sorry missed this - :whistle: too busy with gin :rotfl::rotfl:

WantToBeSE

Sayschezza wrote: »

Surely if you are shopping to feed yourself on the food you like to eat and you are not wasting anything then you are setting your budget too low. It's not what other people are spending that's important it's what's right for you.

Thanks. I thought that £350 a month was realistic for us. 1 adult, 1 teenager and 1 almost teenager.

My teenager eats SO MUCH though! He costs a fortune. But it's not just him though- i sometimes dont fancy anything that i have in the cupboards so end up going to Morrisons to buy more food

mrs_Badger

£7 today on milk, cheese, crisps for DH, dark choc for me

Matody

My first NSD of the month :j going to aim for 4 this month as I normally shop daily.

I've done a food inventory of the store cupboard today, need to do fridge / freezer and the herbs / baking stuff. Plan meals around what I have in and then I'm planning to start to get my shop delivered weekly and do a full weeks meal plan, but this will be September.