August 2016 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Few shops and another lunch for OH already sees us down another £51.02.
Total so far £99.53. £100.47 left. Epp, already nearly half the budget spent :eek:.

Did our main monthly shop yesterday and OH bought his lunch again today. Total of that comes to £59.02.
£158.55/£200 so far so that means £41.45 left. For the rest of the month. I can't see us coming within our budget but I'm not giving up.
Fridge, freezer and cupboards are pretty much full and there is a meal plan in place for the whole month.

milasavesmoney

Tightwizard meat wandering off made me laugh! I went to make grilled cheese sandwiches last night and found no cheese. My son!!

thriftwizard

Oh I know that feeling, milasavesmoney! I've resorted to stealth cheese - one packet placed obviously in the fridge, and one hidden - when the obvious packet's running out, they slow up & I still have some there to cook with.

Another £10.85 down - red wine (cheapest I could find was £3.99) white pepper, mince, bananas & onions. The trip to So'ton won't be happening tomorrow as DD2's not very well, so that's postponed now until next week. I have £354.11 to last 3 weeks, including a re-stock of spices, noodles etc., not to mention petfood; I'm going to struggle to stay inside the budget, but I'm going to give it my best shot! And it is entirely do-able, as I can make economies of scale; I may be feeding lots of mouths (not to mention their churches!) but it does work out cheaper per person.

tumptyteapot

elsiepac wrote: »

Wai Yee Hong in Eastville?

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another Bristol person here :-) I like the Friday market at Eastville too.

£1.95 on a coffee in town today, breakfast was eggs and mushrooms, lunch leftover pasta, dinner is oven chips and reduced small chicken type thing I can't spell or pronounce. There is loads of food in the freezer we need to get through before I can defrost it.
Today was improved by my son's birthday present he has just cashed in - 12 cookies from some shop we have never been to in town before. We both feel slightly sick!

K9sandFelines

Superdrug £1.00 on razors for DD1
Work £1.80 (incl.staff discount) on two bags of donuts
Morrisons £0.50p on a loaf of bread
Farmfoods £2.00 on ice cream for Dd ( got two for £4, but other one was DD1 that has moved)
M and S £1.60 on vegan jellies (mixed up meerkat are to die for!)
Work again £2.15 app.for bread and bananas last night

So total of £9.05

lynnejk

Evening all

freyasmum wrote: »

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I do want to pop to Tesco to get a few weeks worth of to bed tomatoes (we use them a lot) but won't make a special trip for this.........

I usually manage to work out what people post but this one has me totally stumped :rotfl:

Had a spend in Mr T yesterday = £6.99 (2 kg yoghurt and tru*ia sweetener)
and today was another NSD :j

Hope you all have a frugal Friday
Lx

WantToBeSE

thriftwizard wrote: »

Oh I know that feeling, milasavesmoney! I've resorted to stealth cheese - one packet placed obviously in the fridge, and one hidden

I do this too. I put my 'hidden' foods in the only kitchen cupboard that nobody else looks in- the cleaning cupboard :rotfl: I have hidden loads in there, and nobody ever looks!

Sayschezza

Did my weekly shop in Lid!s £30.18 and then a couple of bits in the local co0p when we went in to book next spring holiday £3 so £33.18 to add to the total. I know it's early days but I do feel as if I have got the handle on this now. Before I was lumping everything together including personal spending and wondering why I couldn't keep to budget. Separating one from the other is definitely better for me. I am even thinking twice about spending from the personal budget before I spend. If only I could learn to think 3 times I may have cracked it.

oceanspirit

£10.45 on weekly vegbox. Discovered OH isn't taking enough salad and veg from our box and has been buying more which has led to me binning things over the last few weeks :mad:.

In my book any food thrown away is a crime so have written a list so he can see how much money is going straight in the bin.

tumptyteapot

I'm going to merge my eating out with my food bill,
I've spent £122.66 on eating out (we went away for the weekend, my auntie came to visit, my sister came to visit.....) out of a £100 for the month budget.
Groceries I've still got £198 left out of a £250 budget and no need to shop for a while.

So, my new groceries/eating out budget is £350 for the month
I think this works out?
250 original groceries budget +100=350 new groceries/eating out budget
52 spent on groceries +122 spent on eating out =172
350-172=178 - so I have £178 of the combined groceries/eating out budget left for the month