July 2018 Grocery Challenge

stoopy

MY DH spent £4.36 (no evidence in the house of what he bought lol!) so brings our total to £179.81.

So next 3 Friday shops need to all be under £100 to keep on target.

MadamMim2013

Totalled up.. £130 so far :eek: only a week in :eek::eek:
Some of it is bulk buys form the cash n carry so should last the month!
Weather is wonderful, so many struggling tho, nagging at my Ma & boys to keep hydrated!
Have a great weekend :j

K9sandFelines

Today's spends were:

£1.05 at Morrisons garlic bread to go with tea, plus spring onions and cucumber.
£0.39 in B and M
£3.80 in work mostly YS stuff

Total = £5.24

Tales17

Late to the party this month! Can you put me down for £600 again please, I am just finishing off June so will update shortly!

Tales17

So total for June came in as £585.95 so under budget thankfully and still 2% under for year to date which allows some spare in the budget for Christmas!

Will update for 2 weeks in July, hopefully on Thursday if I can get back into my routine!

MadamMim2013

A small £3.20 spend on a loaf, onions & a ys chicken! (huge bargain & now in slow cooker) :T
Have added to total

YorksLass

pamsdish wrote: »

First spend of July £4.97 it finished up in Morrisons, I had picked up 2 bunches of reduced flowers £2.40 reduced to 15p each, I ALWAYS check my receipt before leaving shop, nobody behind me and knew I had spent just over £5, he requested over £9, looked at my receipt when he gave it me charged £2.25 for each bunch, he took me to customer services who refunded me £4.50 so free flowers.

It's all too easy in life's "busy-ness" to miss these things so well done - enjoy the free flowers.

K80_Black wrote: »

This thread has prompted me to make a spreadsheet detailing ALL of my outgoings. I've had a fairly good idea on what I spend, but seeing it broken down like this will hopefully make it more obvious where I can afford to shave a few pounds off into savings.

I'm sure it will - you might be surprised to see your "fairly good idea" is anything but! :rotfl: Keep us updated on how it goes.

DH did the Friday market shop and spent £8.90, so total spend for Week 1 comes to £43.10 with 5 NSDs. Meal plan done for the coming week and nothing on the shopping list so far.

selloptape

A week in and a third of the months budget gone

I think a lot of money's going on ice cream in the hot weather

Also far too hot to do my usual trick of cooking roast chicken at the weekend and using the overs during the week. Have tried to throw some new summery recipes into this weeks meal plan -

Sun - pasta salad and salmon
Mon - wraps with chicken salad
Tue - potato salad, peas, veggie sausage
Wed - microwave jackets, tuna, salad
Thu - eating out
Fri - halloumi and pepper wraps

Sewinglady

Just popping in to report a small (£2) spend on fruit n veg yesterday followed by a NSD today. I have planned the forthcoming week's menu's and believe that I can avoid the supermarket - "shopping" from the freezer instead and just picking up a couple of items to make the meals.

CRANKY40

Another NSD today. I haven't been over the front doorstep. The HT aged 13 likes Pizza Hut. I'm not so keen (on pizza or the price of us eating there) so this weekend I recreated the pizza hut experience for him in our kitchen. I cooked a pizza (Asda), made a box of pasta salad like the have on the salad bar, cooked some chicken goujons and bought him a 41p bag of plain tortilla chips also from Asda. He doesn't seem to mind cold pizza reheated in the microwave and he's had the same thing for his evening meal two nights running and lunch today. Pizza, pasta salad, chicken and tortilla chips Way cheaper than eating out and he gets to enjoy the experience more than once.

He asked for a roast dinner today so he must have missed vegetables. He ate it as well - I had my chicken with salad. The garden has given me another handful of raspberries and two pods of peas.