August 2018 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

£45 spent this morning at the market & in town, on bread, cheese, fish, fruit & veg. I'm fairly busy this weekend so may not get to buy anything else, though I'll allow myself £10 at the market butcher if I get there early tomorrow morning. Otherwise we'll be eating from the freezer & allotment this week!

MadamMim2013

£9.54 spend in Mr T's this avo.. Home to a pasta bake and fresh made garlic bread. (Sauce defrosted from freezer :T)
Not been feeling so well the last few days, have been glad of the meal prep I'd done so I've not had to faff in the kitchen to feed us all!

K9sandFelines

Bananas bought today from Morrisons for £1.29 and £3.45 spent on tins in B and M. I really only needed the bananas, but thought i'd stock up on some cupboard stuff, whilst i had the opportunity to carry it

£4.74 total and i am missing a receipt from yesterdays spends at work.

Doom_and_Gloom

£40.88 spent since last post.

Veggie week at L blew the budget out completely (and that is with putting some into next month's budget as the dates are really good.) Didn't know they would have this week and if I had would have done a bulk budget this month.

£175.67/£155.
£20.67 over.

So not great that we are already over this month. Hopefully we can stay under £217 (That works out at £7/day).

elsiepac

Hi everyone

Budgets updated to here

As usual I've gone over budget, but this last week I tried something new as... BIG NEWS... I now HAVE A MICROWAVE! I went years without as couldn't see a need but finally gave in for convenience!

This means I can try proper meal prepping - as in prepare whole plated meals that I just have to nuke - I have done this for the first time this week and WOW what a difference it has made in terms of stress etc in the evenings as I have virtually no time in the week and was going to bed really late so I could get everything done, and it was all just quite stressful and I got super overtired!

I haven't helped myself by starting a lot of exercise classes too, thereby losing an additional 2 hours of every evening that I didn't have spare in the first place! So this meal prep thing has been great! I didn't really plan it too well - just used what I had in with a few fresh additions, but I can see how, if I stay organised with it, that I can make this work for me AND it will benefit the GC budget too, hopefully meaning I actually start coming in on budget as I really don't want to increase but I guess I should next month as I'm spending the money anyway... hmm .

So this week I had soup and salad for lunch - alternating between carrot and coriander, and Pea, Mint, Edamame and Spinach. For dinners I alternated between Ratatouille with Vegan Sausage with Pasta, Broccoli and Green Beans, and Sweet Potato, Chickpea, Red Pepper and Spinach Curry with Quinoa and Broccoli and Courgette.

This has MASSIVELY helped me on Slimming World too for those interested - everything was syn free except for the sausages I used Fry's which are 1/2 syn.

JingsMyBucket

Morning everyone. Turns out yesterday ended up being a NSD so that brings me up to 10 for the month. We're heading up to Ikea today to get some containers for more organizing. There's nothing I want at Ikea food-wise either so I'll skip the food market after the main check out. Afterward I'll probably head to Delhaize for fruit and a bit of veg.

TOTALS SO FAR:
10 / 12 NSD
€290.91 / €300.00

Have a good day all!

pamsdish

£3.91 spent between, co-op, 2 baking potatoes, reduced bread and reduced sweetcorn, £1 in Wilkos 4 snickers, as I had taken friend to nearby town and ended wandering around while waiting, 2 packs for a £ biscuits in £land, would have been more but ended up having a disagreement with cashier over pricing, I am aware a lot of goods are more than a £ now, but the shelves are so disorganised it`s easy to pick up items and get the price wrong, bet they hope I never enter their branch again, don`t worry I won`t.

Hopeless_Case

I've lost track a bit, been to the shops three times this week, all budget spends but I haven't updated my total . I need to dig out the receipts!

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Bananas bought today from Morrisons for £1.29 and £3.45 spent on tins in B and M. I really only needed the bananas, but thought i'd stock up on some cupboard stuff, whilst i had the opportunity to carry it

£4.74 total and i am missing a receipt from yesterdays spends at work.

Found the receipt but I am knocking a purchase off from Shopmium as that will to back in my bank at some point. So £1.15 spend on 13/8 and todays spends equal £2.75 inclusive to add to sig.

JingsMyBucket

Thankfully another NSD today. I didn't buy anything in Ikea's food market (due to stress) :T and because we were finished so late, I missed all the grocery stores today so shopping is put off to tomorrow. No chicken cutlets from Lidl for me then. Well, that means I saved myself another €5.

I just pulled a bag of pumpkin, carrot and chipotle soup from the freezer to defrost for dinner. The label says December 15th, 2017! There's some defrosted ground lamb in the fridge that I want to make meatballs with but OH has taken over the kitchen to build Ikea organizers we bought today. There's also some pork belly I pulled from the freezer on Thursday to defrost which needs seasoning. The freezer is slowly emptying.

Between the lamb meatballs and the pork belly, that should take care of most of my meat for the week. I'll focus tomorrow's shopping on fruit and veg. Cooking tomorrow will probably be:

• roasting the last wrinkly veg along with some diced pumpkin from the freezer to have easy veg next couple days
• making banana bread
• making a baked eggs dish with the cheddar that's on the turn along with some veg
• lamb meatballs
• seasoning pork belly Korean style

TOTALS SO FAR:
11 / 12 NSD
€290.91 / €300.00