September 2016 Grocery Challenge

Elephantchunks

Hi, so far we've spent
£10 fish and chips
£19 on LOADS of meat from a Groopon deal £29-£10 off for first customer last month. Must remember to defrost it the night before
£77 Mr M's monthly shop
Hope to get most my veg from local Mr T's yellow stickers (5.30pm is good time at mine)
OH has also bought his months worth of ciggies so he doesn't run out before he uses up his fun money
Signature updated

Fruball - Bit late sorry! The app I use is Spending Tracker on Windows phone, it's great. It allows me to do spending/income for me/OH/both and I can name categories myself

Sayschezza

First shop of the month done spent £41.96. Away for a week on Sunday so bit of a cheat this month.

Matody

I had a NSD for the 1st :j, I put myself a target of 10 this month managed 3 last ... but last month was a test month and only started planning food for the last two weeks...

I need milk today so I need to go to Tesco.

hazeldreams

Hi


Please can I join this month?


I'll try £400 for this month, with a big change being I'm going to plan for the whole month for the first time ever!


Wish me luck!


Hazel

Milly-Ann-Molly

Just did a full cupboard stock check (first one in two years... Found lots we didn't know we even had!) and a huge mr T delivery... So I start September with a spend of £164.93 of my budget £300... But I think we have enough meals etc for the entire month... Fingers crossed. Just fresh juice, milk and fruit / veg to aquire over the next few weeks... I hope good luck everyone

Caeraugirl

Spent almost £24 yesterday on "special" dog food, as our puppy has had an upset tum for last few days, leading to some spectacular bottom explosions overnight! The probiotic and tins of food prescribed by the vet have finally turned this around so got some more food from Amazon to ease the transition back onto his dry stuff. It is NOT cheap......:eek:! Fortunately, pet food doesn't come out of our food budget at the moment.

Then first visit of the month to Mr T (had planned to use local Lidl more often as a means of staying in budget, but Mr T is on the way home from work - I know, excuses ). Managed to spend £95.91 on not very much. To get more of an idea of what exactly I spend so much on, this month I've broken my grocery budget down into food / cleaning stuff / toiletries / treats / alcohol (for OH, I'm not drinking at the moment as have signed up for One Year No Beer), and was not totally surprised to find I spent just over a fifth of that money on treats for the weekend for us and the kids!! It'll be interesting to see if that remains constant throughout the month, as that'll give me the first area to cut back if it is!

Just off to update my signature, and sort out some meal plans so that the next shop I do is less aimless and might just feed us for more than a couple of days...lol!

lushlifesaver

My parents brought me up a small beef joint, beef cubes and some cauliflower cheese from the stash I sometimes keep in their freezer and they also bought me eggs so that's great for us!


Meal's are roughly planned to try and use up as much of the meat in the freezer as possible as I'd like to start with a clean slate so to speak when we return from our holiday at the start of October so I can begin to prepare things in advance and freeze them for Christmas

TopsyMum

Spent £20.54 in Aldi this morning....hoping to spend no more than another £10 max this week though and save the extra £12!

DanielleNic87

£14.36 spent at Aldi stocking up on nappies. That was spent on 29/08 and nothing has been spent since hopefully the NSD's will keep rolling in.

lynnejk

Afternoon all


Spent £2.00 in Morrys on 4 for £2 packets of hollandaise sauce. I usually try to buy it on offer. I have found that 1/2 a packet makes enough for the two of us and it keeps ok wrapped tight with a laccy band around


Yesterday was first NSD this month :j


Good luck with the challenge everyone and hope you all have a super weekend
Lx