August 2018 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

Our budget is going to be £155 for August 1st to 31st, that is for 2 peoples food and non alcoholic drinks. Thought about increasing but will try the same budget amount. If we don't come in budget this month I will increase next month.

For dinner tonight I'm having vegetable curry with some home made gluten free brown bread. https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/recipes-free-from-brown-bread was the one made. Used chickpea flour, apple cider vinegar, date nectar, soya milk (store bought not home made) worked well. It's dense but is more like bread compared to most gluten free bread.
OH is with his family today so he'll eat what they make, order etc.

£57.07/£155.
£97.93 left.

K9sandFelines

First spends today of £2.15 spent on YS grapes and crisps in work and £1.41 in Morrisons.

Hope to only need chopped tomatoes on Friday, but not sure if i'll be needing to spend anything on Saturday.

Wysiwyg49

Hi all

need to get back to the GC as I have wandered off piste for a few months with lots of convenience visits to "little Sainsb" !!

As we are in the summer hols everything disappears by Tuesday so I don't have high hopes for frugality this month, will go for £400...let's see how that goes! Two adults, two hollow legged teenagers...

We have a SC week away at the end of the month, last year was a bit of a nightmare as there were no shops other than a v pricey village corner store nearby, so this year our cottage is nearer a supermarket . Fingers crossed.

riotlady

£37 on our Riverford delivery today and £16 in Asda, £169/220 left



This is going to be my last month of eating meat before I go back to pescetarianism (I started eating meat again for the first time in 10 years when I was pregnant!) so hopefully next month staying within budget should be a lot easier!

PipneyJane

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

£4.24 spent mainly on RTC goods, hopefully that'll do me for the week, the only thing i might need is bread as there wasn't room in the freezer and it was a large RTC loaf and might not keep

£84.24/£240

Do you store your bread in the fridge? I do and even an RTC loaf will keep for about a week so long as it is in a plastic bag, not one one those perforated ones. (You know what I mean? The ones with a mesh of tiny holes poked through and, maybe, a paper bottom.)

I’ve got two shops to declare: A$DA yesterday, where I spent £13.09 on a huge bag of peppers (£2.50), two large tubs of Yeo Valley Greek Yoghurt (£2 combined - normally £1.65 each in MrT’s and never in their 2-for-1 offer), mushrooms (2x69p), 500g of butter (£2.45), some marked down pre-prepared veg of the just shove in the oven variety (70p), some strawberries (70p) and two 900ml tubs of low-fat vanilla icecream (£3 for both).

Today, I visited the farm shop and spent £7.30 on carrots, spring onion, onions, potatoes and a dozen eggs. Chatting to one of the farmers, they’re coping with the lack of water but it is beginning to show in their crops. (The carrots were a bit spindle-y.). He’s praying for a day’s rain every week.

Anyway, today’s shop brings our spend so far to £35.79/£120, leaving £84.21 in the kitty for the rest of August.

- Pip

JingsMyBucket

Evening everyone. I’m going to aim for €300.00 for August 1st – 31st. I’d also like to try for 12 NSDs again.

I had my first spend of the month today: €23.52 on real finely ground almond flour. It’s the first time I’ve found it in Europe (incl. UK), ever! I bought two bags and I can experiment with proper low carb baking. This also means I don’t have to make an Amazon US order which would’ve cost me a lot in customs fees.

TOTALS SO FAR:
€23.52 / €300.00
0 / 12 NSD

As for stocks, we’ve still got plenty of veg in the fridge to use this week. I’ll roast some tomorrow morning while it’s cool to use the next few days. There are a couple things I’d like to get at Lidl this week like fruit and whole trout on sale. The latter will go nicely with lemon and home grown thyme. I was also thinking about getting sliced ham there too but just remembered I have a cooked ham shank in the freezer I should use up. So there’s more and space money saved! I’ll pull that out tonight so I can start nibbling on it tomorrow.

Saturday, OH and I will be going to a British expat shop outside our city to see what they have. They deliberately import items from Waitrose as a house brand and have a ton British goods. We’ll see what there is to forage. Have a good week everyone and good luck this month!

Hopeless_Case

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

£4.24 spent mainly on RTC goods, hopefully that'll do me for the week, the only thing i might need is bread as there wasn't room in the freezer and it was a large RTC loaf and might not keep

£84.24/£240

I swapped the subbed item of my Waitrose order yeaterday and they insisted on giving me £1.58 back as it was a 2 for £6 on San Pellegrino - I did actually say that i'd had the 2 for £6 on the original order :A:D, but they insisted they had to give it to me as it was an offer, so my total goes down to £82.66/£240 so far :rotfl:

PipneyJane wrote: »

Do you store your bread in the fridge? I do and even an RTC loaf will keep for about a week so long as it is in a plastic bag, not one one those perforated ones. (You know what I mean? The ones with a mesh of tiny holes poked through and, maybe,:A a paper bottom.)

I!!!8217;ve got two shops to declare: A$DA yesterday, where I spent £13.09 on a huge bag of peppers (£2.50), two large tubs of Yeo Valley Greek Yoghurt (£2 combined - normally £1.65 each in MrT!!!8217;s and never in their 2-for-1 offer), mushrooms (2x69p), 500g of butter (£2.45), some marked down pre-prepared veg of the just shove in the oven variety (70p), some strawberries (70p) and two 900ml tubs of low-fat vanilla icecream (£3 for both).

Today, I visited the farm shop and spent £7.30 on carrots, spring onion, onions, potatoes and a dozen eggs. Chatting to one of the farmers, they!!!8217;re coping with the lack of water but it is beginning to show in their crops. (The carrots were a bit spindle-y.). He!!!8217;s praying for a day!!!8217;s rain every week.

Anyway, today!!!8217;s shop brings our spend so far to £35.79/£120, leaving £84.21 in the kitty for the rest of August.

- Pip

I don't have room sadly, it's a small under counter fridge and it's full. I usually keep bread in the freezer and just get slices out as we need them, but my spare freeser packed up and I've had to cram it all into the big one and couldn't get the bread in.

RedFraggle

£350 for me please

stoopy

Could have sworn I'd already posted on this board. After a great first month (having to publicly post what you spend really helps!) I am going to stick at £475 because it is the holidays so we will have more lunches than normal, and I do my shopping weekly on a Friday and there are 5 Fridays, trying to keep under £100 a week.

This is for 2 adults, 2 children, a baby and 2 cats and includes nappies, toiletries, cleaning stuff etc.

I'm away this weekend and DH is going to the shops later to buy himself food for the weekend - will be interesting to see what he spends! Haven't been organised enough to leave him stuff. But in July he only went to supermarket once that I knew of. (Of course he could pay cash and I would be none the wiser but I always moan about not getting cashback if he does that.)

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here