September 2017 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£62.73 in Morries and Lidl, which includes £30 Amazon voucher and £7 for a birthday pressie.

Ginmonster

Well done purpleybat! That bottle of wine was well deserved. :-)

Wysiwyg49

£107.48 this week and prob only need another £1 4-pints of milk. It's a bit on the high side but I bought big packs of chicken and mince at A$da so have some for next week too. Plus double sausages at Sainsbobs (posh ones with 87% meat or something, only ones the family like!)

DD has developed expensive breakfast tastes - bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon :eek:

zafiro1984

Just decided to use cash only this month as it's too easy to flash the card. It's already making me think.

njk1012

2 NSD's together for us, which is a first! Although having cut back a lot this last couple of weeks have depleted some of the store cupboards and freezer, so will have to do some top up bargain shops soon. I'm trying to hold out till closer to the end of our month (the 26th) to make a trip to factory foods.

Shopping only with cash is definitely making a huge difference as well as my mini challenges for never buying full priced bread and no buying food while at work, packed lunches all the way.

Tomorrow I'll have to pick up some milk so hoping to hit on some yellow sticker stock up stuff too to replenish stocks.

pamsdish

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Just decided to use cash only this month as it's too easy to flash the card. It's already making me think.

I am doing the same, although I ended up lending my friend £50 to save ME a journey to the cash point with her card, already paid back, then i had to use my card in Morries as spent over £50, but knew I would have to draw more out by end of month, so I will stretch what cash I have.
When I was in Lidl I paid in cash and didn`t realise she had given me old £ coins, time is drawing near to no longer be legal tender, I will be refusing them from now on.

meg72

purpleybat wrote: »

i can declare i'm now debt free!!!! I called company and they gave me money off for an early closure, I'm so pleased.
only spends today were for a bottle of wine to celebrate, not in this budget

Congratulations enjoy your wine.

zafiro1984

Dilemma - I've still got a £20 voucher off a £100 online shop at Wait...
So comparing their website with mysupermarket and using the 10 picks of Wait.... 'My Favourites' I can spend £80.20p and save a total of £141.79.

Do I spend the money - it does seem like a no brainer and I can freeze everything? However, I don't exactly need the items at the moment and it would eat into my monthly budget and just leave me with about £100 for the rest of the month. I can't leave the dilemma on the back burner because Wait... changes its offers each week and what is on offer now may not be on offer next week. Help.....

By the way I've worked out I can make a total of 126 meals from this if I use vegs from my plot which works out at an average of 64p per meal.

pamsdish

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Dilemma - I've still got a £20 voucher off a £100 online shop at Wait...
So comparing their website with mysupermarket and using the 10 picks of Wait.... 'My Favourites' I can spend £80.20p and save a total of £141.79.

Do I spend the money - it does seem like a no brainer and I can freeze everything? However, I don't exactly need the items at the moment and it would eat into my monthly budget and just leave me with about £100 for the rest of the month. I can't leave the dilemma on the back burner because Wait... changes its offers each week and what is on offer now may not be on offer next week. Help.....

By the way I've worked out I can make a total of 126 meals from this if I use vegs from my plot which works out at an average of 64p per meal.

I would do it, it`s like banking save a little now for lean times Chr....as is looming.

njk1012

Another £9.17 spent today mainly in Ald! on top up stuff, fruit yogurts and milk. Also includes two small spends in Mr T and Mr M on reduced stuff mainly bread, GF bread, 4 giant cheese and onion rolls towards a main meal and humus for lunches. We shouldn't need anything now till the main shop on Friday. Signature updated.