August 2016 Grocery Challenge

tumptyteapot

trying for a NSD today, though I might buy a bottle of beer on the way home from a party.
cinema yesterday, snuck in nicer tesco popcorn for £1 rather than buy nastier popcorn for £3.50. we went to the cheaper cinema instead of the huge one and it was great, cried and cried at Finding Dory :-)

£129 left of groceries/eating out combined budget for the next 11 days so that should be easily doable.

Wysiwyg49

Got 5kg of chicken fillets delivered yesterday - have packed into bags of 2 each for freezer, should last us about a month I think. They are huge, so 2 fillets = 400g or thereabouts. Very reasonable at £5/kg.

So £25+delivery charge £3.99 to add plus my Sainsbob order of £53.55 to collect tomorrow. Still have fruit and veg to get.

Pleased with much reduced waste this week, although that may be because the [STRIKE]gannets[/STRIKE] children have been in all week and eaten everything in sight :rotfl:

Meal plan for next week is based around what we already have in, lots of basics plus sausages and oodles of chicken! So:
- sausage and bean casserole
- cauliflower cheese with bacon and mushrooms (Hairy Bikers - strongly recommend the recipe)
- spag bol
- spanish chicken (Jack Monroe) & HM savoury rice
- cottage pie/ratatouille
- thai chicken curry

Hope you all have a successful shopping weekend

Rosesandrainbows

Although I've not been so great at posting on this thread I have been marching on with the August challenge and doing really well. I have spent £88 over two weeks so £12 under budget.

The cupboards and freezer are full, there's still plenty of veg in the garden to pick so with a bit of meal planning we should be pretty much sorted for the rest of the month except topping up with the fresh stuff.

freyasmum

Two NSDs for us; yesterday and today.

Tomorrow, we'll be off to pick up some turkey mince, cabbage and brioche buns for our turkey burgers (will be served Sunday and Monday).

I'll also need to pick up a few bits and pieces to make sure that we have enough meals in the freezer for next week as well. But I haven't yet decided what!

just_trying

Evening all, yes lynne I buy those chips but from lidl, I like them but have a few who like "proper" chunky chips when they have them and they only get a handful. Though I did try with the lidl french fries, saying there just like Mcdonald fries !!.

Today spends were £85 over farmfoods, Iceland, home bargains and lidl. There was extras but will just count everything. Have a lovely Sunday everyone and good luck.

t14cy_t

YS spends of £14 in tescos last night, lots of veg, meat and bread. xx

euronorris

Hi everyone

I remember there being a website, years ago, created by a forum member which had lots of cheap family meals on it, but I've lost the link. Does anyone have it at all?

I'm on maternity leave, and only getting SMP now, so am keen to make sure that we save some pennies, don't waste food and eat healthily/lose some pounds (both DH and I).

Thanks

Euro x

csnann

Is this it? https://web.archive.org/web/20130525131953/http://cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/
Now I shall go back to lurking!

euronorris

csnann wrote: »

Is this it? https://web.archive.org/web/20130525131953/http://cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/
Now I shall go back to lurking!

Yes, yes, yes! Thank you so much!!

Matody

Went shopping for school uniform yesterday (not in this budget) - they had YS there so spent 36p on fruit, veg etc... now having roast parsnips with my roast dinner!

Today is going to be a NSD, third for the month... I don't think I've actually had a NSD all year, unless the shops were closed!