September 2016 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

Good morning all, I've been @ aol for a while as computer appears to have a virus and dh has gone off for three weeks touring on bikes. So am late to join Sept thread. But will sign up for £60 for this month as its just me!!! Writing this on a kindle for the first time, so it's taking ages to redo passwords and so on....Garr!! Enjoy the sun everyone. Xx

Pepperoni

Hi,

Can I change my target to £210 please?

Didn't really take into account that next week we are on a self catering holiday with family, so have basically just removed £40 that would have been for our food shop and left £10 for milk, bread, etc.

I'm not doing the food shop for next week, and I may need to pay for it / half / chip in etc, so I don't want to stress myself out about being over budget etc! Just going to take it from an entirely different budget (the holiday one!) if needed.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets updated to here

Commiserations to thriftwizard on the freezer tragedy

Coxy

Florence_J

Another Iceland offer-Alpro Almond Milk is £1. Woo hoo.

I bought semi skimmed milk and the cathedral cheddar cheese, so £2.45 extra was spent, meaning we have £15.95 remaining before we go over budget.

I did buy an Almond Milk as well, but this is purely for me and since my OH will write it off as being 'weird and healthy' it has come out of my spending money rather than the food shopping budget, so I am being a little 'creative' with the budget. My OH and I sometimes do this for things which are usually outside the typical things we buy for the house and only used by one person.

purpleybat

well, I sort of managed it.
morrys shopping came to £15.02, so with my £5 coupon only £10.02 spent. am very pleased
takes my total so far up to £56.85 which I'm happy with. I think next weeks shop should be around the £20 mark cos as much as I'm using the stuff in it the freezer doesn't seem to be getting any emptier!

flipper_72

Being off work is a nightmare. Went to town for a business expo and to hand around my cv so then popped into Asda a to get salad cream and picked up coconut cream block. If I was at work it would have had to wait!
Anyway another £1.21 spent £115.39/250 month to date.
Meals for the rest of the month planned and tonight's dinner cooked.

thriftwizard

Thanks, Mods, for the change!

Took advantage of the small freezer disaster to defrost & audit the big chest freezer out in the garage. Interesting! 4 bin bags went to the dump... I hasten to add, virtually nothing in there was anything I paid for; it was mostly stuff that a neighbour "parked" in there several years ago when their chest freezer died. And the bags weren't full, just heavy enough that they'd split if I put any more in.

It was stuff that her mother had ordered for her, in fact, in a misguided attempt to get her to eat more meat & fish... she's vegetarian, but not all of her family are. I'd offered it back several times, and got a vague answer along the lines of well, you use it up if you'd like to... sadly it wasn't stuff that we liked, and I didn't really feel free to eat it. But her mother died a couple of months ago, shortly after my neighbour moved away, and now I feel perfectly justified in removing it as it was all well past its best! A terrible waste, but it's also been a waste of opportunities when I've turned down genuine bargains that we would have used, because there was no space out there. Anyway, sorted now...

£20-odd spent on top-ups of bread, redbush tea (easier on my achy joints) and fruit & veg - big market shop tomorrow!

tattycath

Just £1 spend today for some milk.

TopsyMum

4.37 in Asda today......milk,yogurts,jaffacakes and biscuits!

DanielleNic87

£60.15 added to my total. This includes enough baby milk to last at least 5 weeks x