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September 2016 Grocery Challenge

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  • t14cy_t
    t14cy_t Posts: 1,474 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    spent £6 in morrisons yesterday on bleach, dishwasher tablets and a little dish meal. tabs were half price and i had a coupon too, and little dish meal was a freebie, brilliant! x
  • Ladyluck1
    Ladyluck1 Posts: 749 Forumite
    edited 22 September 2016 at 7:04AM
    £14 in Lidl and £33 in Morrisons.... That's all for this week I hope!
    Just shy of £60 left for the month. Pretty sure that's do able...
    Sausage casserole for dinner today done in the SC :)
    I'm C, Mummy to DS 29/11/2010 and DD 02/11/2013

    Overdraft PAID OFF
    CC PAID OFF
    GC Sept £141.17/200
  • Spent £3.10 on some store cupboard bits and 29p on YS parsley that I needed for a recipe! Felt quite lucky as I would have bought it at full price but just happened to be one of the only YS items there :)
    So currently on:
    £22.65/£40
    Mortgage received 21/12/2018
    Mortgage at start - £261,980
    Current mortgage - £260,276
    Saving towards a loft conversion first, then to smash the mortgage down!
  • £2.38 at coop yesterday and £23.22 in lidl yesterday, still a week to go but nearly £50 of budget left so all is good there.
  • I did my last big shop of the month £42.98 so bringing my total spends this month to £164.24. Doubt if I will need to buy anything else fingers crossed.
    All that clutter used to be money
  • t14cy_t
    t14cy_t Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    nsd yesterday, hoping to do a ys rampage tomorrow night in my old stomping ground of surrey! xx
  • Did a shop yesterday totalling £9.79 - not yellow stickered, but got such a lot - well I think so for normal priced stuff - some in Waitrose. I have updated Sig. Hopefully that will be it, but I will grab some avocados if I see some well priced ones.

    Carrots
    Hash Browns
    Coffee
    Biscuits
    Garlic Baguette
    Free From Cheese Spread
    2 x Co Op Pies - Rhubarb & Cherry
    Alpro Yoghurt
    Cucumber
    Red Cabbage
    Red Onions
  • Top-op shops done over the past few days - home stuff & work food totaling to £7.70, £23.67 left for tomorrow's shop - need a bits of veg, frozen pastry & toiletries.

    Sig updated - have a good rest of the day all!
    SIL
  • pamsdish
    pamsdish Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    £26 in Tesco as my favourite coffee is on offer, got some cream, liver and my choc, 2 items for neighbour, £4 off £30 spend, couple of bits from wilkos, £6 I will be glad when all the reduced garden stuff gone.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • Treated oh tonight with take away fish and chips. Well he has bought several milks this month which he hasn't taken the money for so fair dos.
    All that clutter used to be money
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