September 2017 Grocery Challenge

Maitane

The kitchen audit is in full swing here in the People's Republic of North Wales and we really have stockpiled a month' worth of storecupboard meals :eek:
We had a NSD today thankfully but spent £3.51 in a German hard discounter yesterday for some frozen veg and their version of San Pellegrino for DH.
£184.18 left for us now - including tomorrow's prosecco buying :beer:

chocoholic_chick

My muscle food order came today (from last months budget) and it all looks OK, having input what I bought into Mr T's there doesn't actually seem to be any saving (in fact Mr T was cheaper overall), so not sure if I'd bother again, unless the quality is much better.

I've spent some time meal planning and have 21 meals/recipes planned (a lot will have leftovers which will do for lunches) and I've made a shopping list for the extra things I need for the recipes I have planned which comes to just over £40 (will be bought when needed). I plan on having a batch cooking day on Sunday to start stocking my freezer with "ready meals" and to use up the fresh food I have. This month, in terms of this challenge, is 35 days, so as it stands I will need another 14 days worth of meals to buy, but we'll see how the batch cooking goes and how many portions I get out of it.

Feeling really focused and hoping to make some big savings!

pajama

Can I please be put down for £350 This is for a 5 week month for us which includes cleaning products and toiletries.

PennyGrabber

Hi everyone,

I lost track in August. Hardly did any real shopping, but spent loads at sainsbobs getting the reduced jars etc, which will save money later on. Did a weekly shop (still in August) yesterday, which came to about £25, but I've got into the habit of popping into a shop nearly every day. The holidays are terrible for that!! In term time, I'm really disciplined and only go once a week, but this month...

Anyway, I'm in for £100 for September, and here's hoping that I actually keep track! Of course, it's far easier to do that when I'm only shopping once a week lol.

See you all on the 1st.

PG x

wooderz79

First top-up shop of month - £4.40. Made the mistake of taking the kids on their bikes so included 2 drinks for them!

njk1012

NSD for us today, i was tempted to have a quick look in the SM for yellow sticker items but resisted. I was mooching around for ideas to use up some pears that were going a bit brown round the edges.I tried the pear chocolate cake from this thread. I thought it was lovely, however OH, DS 1 and 2 however ate the cake picking out all the pear pieces leaving them on the plate!:mad:

On the plus side I found a random £5 voucher while decluttering that can be used in the land of Ice, not somewhere I usually shop (apart from for frozen Christmas platters). Any suggestions what is economical to buy from there?

lynnejk

Evening all and a warm welcome to the new peoples and returners :hello:

Thank you Zippy and Coxy for running the thread again

Please can I be put down for our usual £200 for the month, from 1st to 30th. This is for DH and myself for all food, cleaning, laundry and toiletries.

Hope you all having a lovely weekend and good luck with the challenge for September
Lx

njk1012

Another £10.97 today taking us up to £65.17 already. I've come to the conclusion that we have a bit of a shopping addiction. Need to have a few NSD's to even things out a bit, that and to reduce OH's fruit and yogurt addiction.

chocoholic_chick

First spend of the month - £2.19 on some fruit from the market (6 bananas, 10 peaches and 8 nectarines).

Have had a productive day in the kitchen as well, made 3 lasagnes for the freezer with a portion of bolognese left over, 2 portions (each feeds 2) of beef stew and there's a chicken and mushroom curry still cooking in the slow cooker so that's evening meals for the two of us for a week made so far. Might do a bit more batch cooking tomorrow as well if I have time.

njk - it depends on what you like really, but if it was me I'd spend it on 500g of fresh chicken breast (£2) and 400g of lean steak mince (£3) as I'd be able to make quite a few meals out of it for the two of us.

BrassicWoman

I've an early spend but it won't be invoiced til next month; £14.50 on a trial pack of veggie sausages etc made for tasty mushrooms - looks like enough for about 15 main meals, and has free postage. So best clear the freezer out before it arrives on Friday!