July 2018 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£10.20 Spent between Morries and Lidl just counting grocery spends, Actually spent nearly £80 in total but only the £10+ counts as grocery, Went to lidl to get the dogs chicken thighs, not 1 to be had so a trip to Aldi now on cards.

Hopeless_Case

mrssd wrote: »

Hopeless Case: It's me out of the Living Out of your Freezer thread :wave: Just found this thread. Thanks for pointing me towards it. I'm not a veggie, but like to have 3 meat-free days a week, if possible, OH, on the other hand...
I replace up to half the mince in things with brown lentils. He's never noticed the difference:D Also, add sofritto to just about everything involving mince: make your own (finely diced onion, carrot and celery). Make up big batches (easy with a food processor) and freeze in suitable sizes.

Hello, nice to see you here :j

My OH won't eat lentils, they upset his stomach - I do try and stretch the mince as far as I can, with loads of onion, celery, carrot, mushroom, diced courgette, tinned tomatoes, etc, and make extra portions and freeze, but I'm going to go with minced quorn from now on seeing as he likes it

K80_Black

Looks like I'm going to fail this months challenge - OH needs more beer, and I bulk buy so that's a whopping £20 out of the budget. Even being super thrifty on the rest of next weeks shop, I'm up to 188.59/200 with the week starting the 23rd left to shop for.

I could only count one case at £10, as the second one will sit unopened until August - but that's a '5 week month' for me, so coming in at £200 will be hard enough as it is! I might have to be slightly more realistic and set a £225 goal from now on. After tracking it properly and including all the corner shop top-ups I spend more than I thought (though thankfully not by much!)

pamsdish

£19.72 spent today, wilkos, tesco, home bargains and aldi, got 6 weeks of chicken for the dog, 3 bottles of carpet cleaner, almond butter some reduced ox tongue and lots of ibuprofen. nearly forgot book of stamps while in p.o.£23.74 total now.

caronc

Impromptu visit to Aldi this morning and £17 spent bringing total so far to £85/£150. I think I'll go over this month as I didn't budget for extra spends due to my son being here and holding a family bbq.

pamsdish

Returned carpet cleaner to Morries, well worth it if any body thinking of trying rug doctor, i declined the cleaning fluid and used astonish carpet cleaner from Family Bargains, spent £16.85 on a bottle of brandy, on offer, running a bit low although not drinking it much while so hot, but in my stock pile, and 85p on a reduced romanesco cauli

Merlin's_Beard

Up to £48.60/£100, hopefully sorted until next weekend now, though.

Highland_Fling

Hi everyone
well I spent £60 in @ldi. Did get a lot for my money and it will keep me going for quite some time.
Note to self: stop buying stores and start eating them:)

Mrs_Cheshire

Just been to Mr S tonight to pick up a few essentials, timed it just right for reductions as there was loads mainly meat and fish and all really good value. Spent a total of £33.08 as I had a £3 MOC. the reduction stuff totalled £14.91 but should have been £56.81 full price.
Along with the other meat in the freezer already I've got enough to last the rest of the month and well into august as well.
Hoping this will keep the spend down low this month.

mrssd

Highland_Fling wrote: »

Note to self: stop buying stores and start eating them:)

Same problem I have!