August 2018 Grocery Challenge

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A few more shops, totalling £17.90, bringing my total spend to £46.36, leaving £33.64. I am very well stocked - to be honest I could easily go the rest of the month without buying anything and eat well. Not intending buying anything for at least a week. #FamousLastWords. Have a lovely w/e everyone.

Highland_Fling

Good afternoon everyone
just cleared out fridge and prepared veg for freezer. There was no way I was going to use up all the peppers etc.
In the past the vegetables would have been thrown out.:( I was very guilty of wasting a LOT of food.:eek: To be honest there is still some going in the bin but I am really trying to stop this.
Veg now chopped and bagged in freezer. I can easily use them up by throwing a bag of chopped veg into pasta sauces, soups or stews.
Going out for lunch tomorrow. Still have plenty of chicken, fish, etc. in freezer so I have lots of options re future menus:).
Will need to buy milk next week but have enough for the weekend.
Good luck to everyone else.

pamsdish

Another £8.93 in Aldi, forgot to get butter, so 2 butter, 2 more chia seeds, 2 packs ground almonds, I had forgotten those too, and a packet of biscuits for a treat tonight.

Doom_and_Gloom

£6.04 spent since last post.

3 Almond breeze cartons, 1 pip and nut coconut and almond carton, 400g organic white grapes, vegan burgers, coconut collaborative mango and passion fruit panna cotta and 1,450g bananas.

£121.57/£155.
£33.43 left.

PipneyJane

Good morning all

Nearly half way through the month and I’ve got £29-ish left in the GC kitty. This last week looks a bit spendy, but we’ve done our big shop and have quite a few successes on YS items:

3/8/18. £1.54 spent in Sainsbugs on 2x1L milk, YS at 20p/L, plus two Rachel’s Organics Greek-style yoghurt with honey YS at 54p each (down from £2.10). The milk went straight into the freezer for later in the month. The yoghurts were used up this week (each pot makes 4 Lock-n-Lock pots for work).

5/8/18. Popped into MrT’s to get our Sunday paper (we’re subscribers so get discounted coupons to pay for it so I don’t count it in GC). Spent an additional £2.03 on salad stuff and something to drink (we were on our way back from Somerset and had drunk the water brought with us).

8/8/18. Our big shop. £37.65 spent in Mr T’s, which included £7 spent on birthday cards (August is a busy month). I’ve argued with DH that we should pay for the cards separately, but he says not. Wandering around the shop, we found three crates of YS items filled with Chinese/Japanese sauce packets and dried noodles. We needed noodles anyway, so stocked up. They also had cooking bacon in stock, so we bought 2 packs at 57p/each.

The one thing I couldn’t get was a refil pack of their freeze-dried instant coffee, which tastes as good as Douwe Egberts but is considerably cheaper. The jars aren’t worth the money, so after MrT’s, we headed to Lidl to buy their freeze-dried instant coffee, cream cheese, nuts, breakfast cereals and cheddar (Lidl’s is cheapest). We’ve not drunk their coffee before; I’ll give the jury’s vote on Monday when we’ve started the jar (we drink “proper” coffee at the weekends, instant during the week).

Anyway, all the above brings our total spend for August to £90.75/£120, leaving £29.25 remaining. It should do us for the month. We will need more yoghurts and some veg (mainly mushrooms and onions) but the garden is ready to yield up carrots and the tomato crop is ripening well.

- Pip

RedFraggle

RedFraggle wrote: »

First shop done at Mr T. A whopping £94.61!
Few extras as our 4 year old granddaughter is coming to stay for the week tomorrow. Wine was also on offer so bought 8 bottles.
£255.39 left!

Today's shops
Ald1 £26.04
Mr T £48.03

£181.32 to go
Looking healthy this month so far!

thriftwizard

£65 spent yesterday & this morning, on fresh fruit, veg, meat & bread. Still haven't done the non-perishables thanks to a massive struggle with the new chicken run. Nearly finished now, and we haven't run out of anything yet!

pamsdish

Had to go Asda for my tonic water that Morrisons can`t stock, picked up a y.s. mint to plant as mine is struggling. £12.72 spent.

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£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

£1.25 spent in B and M, £0.37 in work and £3.75 in Morrisons spent yesterday. So, £5.37 to add.

Doom_and_Gloom

£1.26 spent yesterday. Today was a NSD for us though.

For dinner we are both having pizza. OH is having a frozen pizza. My pizza is a Bfree base, some tomato paste, some coconut based 'cheese', courgette, onion and pepper. Also doing smoked paprika sweet potato chips to go with the pizza and as the oven is on put in 4 vegan sausages as well.

£122.52/£155.
£32.48 left.