June Grocery Challenge

Penny-Pincher!!

Hello Janeryan

Ocado is Waitrose basically but they deliver! I got the £20 voucher from the voucher section of this forum-I dont know how to do a link..sorry

Shopping arrived today fine, they didnt have my cinnamon bagels so they gave me a packet of plain ones for free Total goods came to £76.00 minus the £20 voucher, free bagels and free delivery. Total £52.33 :eek:

When hubby unpacked everything there were a few problems which I have never experianced before with waitrose. 1 egg was cracked, 1 apple bruised, lettuce when opened for lunch had started going abit brown-but just removed them leaves and jar of mustard mayo had a small crack in jar-but still airtight! I emailed them politely and apologised for moaning but blah blah blah, and got an email back saying they were crediting my debit card with £5.15 for the goods :eek: :T

Will use the cracked egg if OK for egg sarnie tomorrow, bruised apple will be cut up for daughter packed lunch, lettuce wasnt brown under a couple of leaves(think it had been over chilled) and the jar of mustard mayo is fine-just a crack in the jar but not affecting goods.

Brings total shop too £47.18

They also stuck in a freebie of Suncare washing up liquid-travel size...thank you very much Ocado!! :T

Penny-Pincher!!
xx

moggins

Wow, well done that Penny-Pincher

Waiting for my first shop of the month to arrive from Tesco tomorrow to see if they do allow the £10 e-code I've used. If it does work then I should get my weeks shop and a months supply of cat food for about £30

Janeryan

Thanks Penny Pincher

Found a £15.00 voucher code but not a £20.00 one(you can't remeber the code can you?)

Registered on the web site anyway as £15.00 is better than nought!!

Cinamon bagels aound pretty yummy to me!!

Janeryan

Wow I made it to the 100th post-when do I get my next star???

Lillibet_2

New month for me today, total budget is £126 for 2 adults, one cat & one dog, it's a long month. A new Tesco has opened near me, not a great size but they have sent me a load of £4 off £20 vouchers so I will be trying to get as much as I can broken down inot £20 totals to take full advantage:D

nicki_2

OP asked if anyone has survived on doing all their shopping in Lidl or Aldi and I can say YES!!!

When I was pregnant with my (now 4 year old) daughter I had only just moved into my own place with OH and we were on benefits so had to keep in a very tight budget! Our closest supermarket was Aldi so as I couldn't walk that far (bad back so being pregnant was not a good thing!) we did all our shopping there except for restocks on milk which we got from our local Co-op. Now I'm not saying that what I'm about to 'say' is a good thing or not, but when I got pregnant I weight 15st (only 12 months out of uni which was a diet of pizza, chips with gravy & mayo and lots and lots of lager!) and at my last check up before I had daughter I still weighed 15stone! We lived on chicken breast in breadcrumbs, fresh veg, toast for breakfast and lots of fresh fruit. After having my daughter I weighed in at just over 14 stone!!!! The doctors couldn't understand how someone who was pregnant could loose weight but once I explained the change in my diet they decided that that must have been the cause. So, not only did I manage to shop for 2 adults (one with a huge appetite and me with cravings for the strangest things) on less that £35 a week, I actually managed to get a healthy diet sorted. We only swopped to shopping at Asda (literally over the road from Aldi) as it is cheaper, 90%+ of the time, to buy their smartprice range than Aldi stuff! Maybe it's time I went back to shopping purely in Aldi :think:

fruityslh

I'm going to have a go at the challenge this month, as a newbie, I've been reading the boards for a few weeks/months, and have been following advice given on lots of the forums. For 2 adults and a dog, we currently spend way over £200 a month on food (usually between £50-70 a week). When I look back to when we were skint a few years back, I spent £60 a month and we still ate really well (and I was a lot thinner). So I'm going to cut back gradually, cut out the ready meals/convenience stuff that creeps into the trolley and this month start cooking from scratch, I plan to have a cooking day on Sunday or BHMonday and stock up the freezer as I often work late, so no excuses for nipping into Sainsburys for a ready meal plus all the other extras you get when you just nip in.

I'm also going to dig out my bread maker as DH is a bread monster we are talking approx 1 loaf a day for him, he eats toast like it's going out of fashion (it's wholemeal as he's diabetic

So my challenge will be £140 for us this month, starting at the weekend.

squeaky

Hiya, welcome to MoneySaving

So I'm going to cut back gradually

Cut back gradually, she sez, and then promptly lops a huge £60 plus off the monthly budget!

I wish you well.

fruityslh

Squeaky,

The cost of the ready meals is so exorbitant (and my DH always choses the most expensive one in the shop) that I'm really hoping that by cooking from scratch I will be able to limit myself to £140. In the long term I want to get it to between 80-100 a month.

Thanks for the welcome

squeaky

OK I hope you'll have gathered that this thread is as much about support, ideas, and advice as it is about the budgeting itself. That's still a big change in one month and it means a change in life style as much as a change in shopping habits - so be sure that there are plenty of people sharing the challenge with you who you can turn to in times of need.