August 2017 Grocery Challenge

Florence_J

Lots spent today, a slightly reduced budget remains.

pipkin71

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Sorry about the car PG. I also hope it is easily/quickly fixed and isn't costly.

£1.80 spent today on a bag of frozen peas and courgettes.
Making vegan lasagne in the slow cooker. Not done it before but hoping it will turn out well.

£63.27/£155.
£91.73 left.

How did the vegan lasagne turn out, D&G?

pipkin71

£46.44 on a Tesco delivery shop this morning, so the total now is £66.92/£360

armchairexpert

One big Saturday shop down and I'm at $180/$950. Heading to Costco later this week, but I think I have the hang of this now: meat, frozen berries, tofu and noodles only!

Meal plan for the rest of this week:

Monday - spinach and feta quiche (not done this for a while as my chickens have been on strike, but I've finally wheedled a few eggs from them)
Tuesday - Cuban pork with leftover roast pork
Wednesday - Hainanese chicken rice
Thursday - Tacos
Friday - Laksa with leftover chicken from Wed + tofu + whatever else is around

excelwizard

A small top-up shop in Aldi this morning for lunch stuff for the rest of the week and the essentials (milk etc.) of £13.77 - total now £60.13 / £200

mumofthetwins

Well guys .. I've been over on the debt free board and I've been trying to get as many NSD as possible buy had to go food shopping yesterday (no toilet roll lol)
So pends this week of £25.90
I'm hoping that there should be enough in to last the week now, fingers crossed for nice weather next weekend and I might even get to Sunday as I have some BBQ stuff in the freezer

I've been trying to use what I've got and so far pretty good .. :T

lynnejk

Afternoon peoples

Spends yesterday = Morries £40.48 and Al*i £28.45. Hoping these will see us through the week now

Have plenty of mince, casserole and chilli in the freezers and lots of fruit and veg. Just cooking a large pack of chicken and about to do three lbs of runner beans (yum) and freeze them in portions. Stock cupboard looking healthy and I've ingredients for making a large batch of bolognese sauce sometime this week.

We've four NSDs so far for August :j

Hope you all have a money-saving Monday
Lx

BrassicWoman

M&S YS £3:05: 2 fancy salads and a loaf; and a posh pastry as I am fed up today!

PennyGrabber

Well, today was unintentionally a nsd! We went out for lunch to see my friend, and oh paid, then by the time we'd finished, the shops were shut so I couldn't get the few bits I needed.

Still at £10.33 for the month so far. I'll pwrhaps go to morries tomorrow as I need so little, to combine with a ys mooch. I have actually only had 1 spend day so far this month!!

No idea what we're going to eat, as we had a big meal at lunch. I'll offer a few different ideas and see - any way they choose, we'll be using stuff up though .

PG x

PipneyJane

Hi Everyone

It's been a strange couple of days for me. I spent most of Thursday feeling like death-warmed-up, which culminated in a splitting migraine. Friday was a bit of a fog, but I'm a contractor so I work unless it really has laid me completely low. I can't afford not too. Friday was also my birthday, which I celebrated by curling into a ball on the couch as soon as I got home while DH stumped up for a takeaway curry. (Is their a flu virus doing the rounds at the moment? If so, I wish it wouldn't come in stages - I've had the throat, now I have the aches.).

We've had a couple of small spends: my husband went a bit mad in Costco, but most of it comes out of the Bulk Fund or the meat fund. He spent £7.99 on four chicken en croute, which will come out of the general Groceries money. Today, I spent £7.19 on stuff for wraps for tomorrow night, plus some YS cheese and YS salami (we're off to the Proms tomorrow night, so need to pack a picnic),

While I was feeling like rubbish, I wondered if I shared my motivation for doing the GC whether you'd all share yours, too. (Curiosity really should be my middle name.). We run pretty well to budget but things have the potential to get tight around here. As mentioned, I'm a contractor and I hate it. I have a rolling contract but I've spent a lot of time over the last year wondering why they brought me on board - I don't have a defined role. I'm just a spare pair of hands who gets given tasks to be sorted out. It's not that there isn't stuff to be done but nothing is "mine" and I can't plan my work day. I keep expecting to be given my notice. In addition, my DH is being made redundant on Friday. We have an emergency fund and we've reached that happy point where either of us can pay all our living expenses, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I remember quite vividly what it was like to live pay-cheque-to-pay-cheque. Anyway, that's why I'm doing this. What about you?