June Grocery Challenge

Curry_Queen

gemmaj wrote:

I wont include my dog as I spend about £50 to £80 :mad: a month on his food (aaaarrrrggghhhh. Why did my dog have to have a sensitive stomach and need special vet food??)

Hi and welcome to OS :hello:

I'm assuming here you might have been prescribed Hill's z/d diet?

I don't know if you are aware that you don't have to buy directly from your vet (at sometimes inflated prices) but can actually obtain a prescription from him to buy elsewhere, even online.

Depending on diagnosis, which isn't something I want to go into on this board for legal reasons and you'd need to discuss with your vet, but Hill's also produce a generic diet for sensitive tums, available without prescription, and is much cheaper than prescription diets

Rebob

Just read through this thread. Well impressed with it. Over the last couple of weeks I have been following a few tips from this board. Think that I may be best starting with the storecupboard challenge as we are overrun with stuff and I still keep shopping!

Back to the bit about soya mince. I have used it for years as I love spag bol and other mince based meals but mince does not like me. It always tastes nicer when reheated so the freezer batch will be nicer than the first. I use the chunks to pad out a chicken curry.

gemmaj

I'm assuming here you might have been prescribed Hill's z/d diet?

You would think so, but strangely, Max was put on Hills Canine T/D for his teeth tartar problem. It doesn't seem to do much for his teeth but his "movements" improved beyond recognition, after not having been solid for the whole 2-3 years I'd had him (I had been to the vets numerous times on that score and they said it wasn't a big problem, but it was still rather unpleasasnt for both of us!!)

Maybe I should try talking to my Vet to see whether anything else would do the same but cheaper. Unfortunately I doubt I'd be able to get anything over the internet etc because I live on a small Island in the English Channel - most places refuse to post anything big to us! But I hadn't thought of trying to get a different (cheaper) product. Thanks!

spendaholic

Not sure if this should go in here or in the Cafe, but I just resisted nipping in to Tesco on my way past to get some bird food. I get the bird food with my weekly shop so therefore it comes within my grocery challenge. I've always been a compulsive spender, so feel quite chuffed that I didn't cave in to this urge. Besides, the birds have plenty to eat, it's just that their storage containers all emptied this morning.

Separately, I found out that I get paid on the 25th of every month rather than the last day, so now I'm not sure whether to close my June challenge then or still at the end of the month. As the 25th is a Saturday, I'm assuming I'll get it on the 24th anyway, and therefore on the Friday that my linear brain is more content with.

ms_london

I bought loads of goodies in the supermarket at lunchtime, spent £9.01 - most of reduced, so got some great bargains.

Bacon was £2.99 per pack, BOGOF, but reduced to £1.49 - and still went through the til as BOGOF. Whoo. I thought it would, only bought it for the topping of my homemade pizza, which i shall be making tonight - so bargain!!

Also got reduced mushrooms, cucumber, and a few other things - enough to make several meals out of.

I have a budget of £50.00 per week, this is a social & grocery budget, so the less i spend on food the more i have on other items, but obviously i want to eat well too.

Just thought i would share my bargains :0)

spendaholic

That's great, Ms. Well done! :j

Okey doke, just got back from the supermarket.

The shopping came to £61.98, which is £11.98 over budget. However, it did include £8.19 in goods for the new office, and £12 in wild bird food.

I'm not too worried about it (again), as when I cut up my Barclaycard a few weeks ago, I hadn't realised a balance transfer and a payment had crossed, and it left me with a balance of (£32.93). So, therefore, the shopping only really cost me (drum roll please): £29.05. Hurrah! That's £20.95 UNDER budget. (EDIT: I got them to temporarily send me a new card! They just don' know it's temporary ...)

Thank you for your attention. Now please mosey on along to the pin money savings challenge.

moggins

Went one pound over budget this week but actually that included 4 tomato plants at £1.30 for the four so that's not too bad and I probably have enough stuff in to last us the rest of the month.

Rage_in_Eden

I am soooo excited. You may all remember that my budget starting 25th of the month was £100. well, the freezer is full, OH and I are spoilt for choice for meals, the larder is full to the gills, my baking stock is high and we've still got £40 to fritter on those non-essentials such as bread and milk and bacon (a bacon sarnie on a sunday morning is THE LAW!) i am now hankering after a cheap curry at the local BYO - v nice and we always get a free drink as well as we started going when they had just opened. i-must-fight-temptation...... :eek:

spendaholic

I'd say go for it ... but then that freezer may stay full and the pantry may stay stuffed! But well done!

Rage_in_Eden

spendaholic: are you sat on my shoulder wearing a natty red combo with tail and a fork? My mouth is now watering for two poppadums each, a poriton on onion bhaji to share and chicken shaslikc for me with chicken rogan josh for OH with one plain naan and one boiled rice (effort to be healthy there). all this comes to just under £20 without booze.......... y'know i have no willpower what-so-ever :rotfl: