August 2018 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

£6.12 spent since yesterday.

Broccoli, lettuce, pak choi, chopped dates, free from cheddar style and spring onion crispbakes, organic milk, sandwich loaf and pulled pork burrito.

£115.53/£155.
£39.47 left.

thriftwizard

Eeek, it's quiet in here! Or has nearly everyone had an NSD? I didn't, today; £13.33 spent on fresh fruit & veg as a top-up. I still haven't done the non-perishables run to L!dls, as we've been putting Cluckingham Palace together today; maybe tomorrow? I do need to go before we run out of loo roll...

Highland_Fling

hi everyone,
another spend of £20.

Thank you YorksLass for advice re freezing chives. Will do so in the next few days.

JingsMyBucket

thriftwizard wrote: »

Eeek, it's quiet in here! Or has nearly everyone had an NSD? I didn't, today; £13.33 spent on fresh fruit & veg as a top-up. I still haven't done the non-perishables run to L!dls, as we've been putting Cluckingham Palace together today; maybe tomorrow? I do need to go before we run out of loo roll...

"Cluckingham Palace"! :rotfl: Thank you for that much needed laugh!!

I've had two NSDs on Monday and Tuesday, thankfully. I kept meaning to post every day but was busy with calls. I finally broke down and bought a few groceries tonight after work because I noticed we were down to just 2 cloves of garlic while making our lunches this morning.

€10.61 at Delhaize: garlic, bananas, tomatoes, olives, and tiny potatoes.

TOTALS SO FAR:
€220.75 / €300.00
4 / 12 NSD

I'm trying to make our food stretch for another couple days before buying more stuff. I almost bought strawberries this evening. They weren't looking great so I decided to use the frozen fruit at home instead for the next couple of days. That will also help me cool down when working from home too. For our lunches today I made a couscous salad that used up a lot of vegetables; tonight I roasted vegetables that were on their last legs. We should be okay for veg until Friday I think.

Have a good week everyone! We're almost there. :j

Hopeless_Case

thriftwizard wrote: »

Eeek, it's quiet in here! Or has nearly everyone had an NSD? I didn't, today; £13.33 spent on fresh fruit & veg as a top-up. I still haven't done the non-perishables run to L!dls, as we've been putting Cluckingham Palace together today; maybe tomorrow? I do need to go before we run out of loo roll...

Cluckingham Palace is just brilliant :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I did a shop on Monday but nothing since, I do need a few things today though, bread and celery mainy!

JingsMyBucket

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

£6.12 spent since yesterday.

Broccoli, lettuce, pak choi, chopped dates, free from cheddar style and spring onion crispbakes, organic milk, sandwich loaf and pulled pork burrito.

£115.53/£155.
£39.47 left.

You got all that for only £6.12?! Jealous of UK prices!

Doom_and_Gloom

JingsMyBucket wrote: »

You got all that for only £6.12?! Jealous of UK prices!

£6.12 spent;
Broccoli, lettuce, pak choi, and the pulled pork burrito were all reduced. OH would never buy the burrito unless reduced as he could make it cheaper but reduced it was same kind of price and just shove in oven.
The chopped dates were reduced to clear.
Only the free from cheddar style and spring onion crispbakes, organic milk and sandwich loaf were usual price.

Not included as we bought them for a celiac friend were gluten free frozen sausage rolls at 35p per pack instead of £2.50 as reduced to clear :money:. She will be very happy to have those at the next drinks night we provide the food for.

We buy reduced and reduced to clear items to help keep our budget down or when things are on offer buy loads.

pamsdish

£11.68 First spend of August on grocery, haven`t been able to get tonic water in my local Morrisons for months, so trip elsewhere on the cards, noticed the store seems very sparse on things like butchery dept, may have to change my store, do most of my shopping in Lidl/Aldi, but can`t get the things I can`t get in L/A any more.

caronc

£22 today bringing total for month to £69/£140. Well stocked now though so this should hopefully last until the 20th (ish) though I might need to get a loaf

K9sandFelines

£3.25 spent Wednesday at the food club shop
£6.55 spent in Aldi yesterday via Dad (would have been a lot more if I'd gone myself)
£1.64 in work last night

Total to add to sig : £11.44