September 2018 Grocery Challenge

mrs_Badger

Just £1 on a loaf of bread today. Probably do the first big shop of the month on Monday.

Cheapskate

£98.83 spent in total this week, although £12.65 was on loo rolls, kitchen rolls, w/up liquid, and laundry liquid, and £11.75 on a bottle of cheap brandy to make plum brandy for Christmas, so only £74.43 on actual food items. Not bad for 4, considering I had to re-stock lots of fresh things as we returned from holiday on Monday.

I've has 1 NSD, and done all scratch cooking this week, plus a load of baking as I'm not going to buy biccies etc any more, so we've been very well fed! Used up quite a bit of stuff from the cupboards and freezer, and I'm going to do a proper food stocktake and meal plan today as it's a bit damp and dreary.

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Highland_Fling

Good morning everyone
haven't been to shops much but did spend £15 on Chinese food last night.
No excuse, just laziness.
Had a tiring week and couldn't be bothered getting organized when I arrived home and just took the easy way out.
Will try better for the remainder of the month.

thriftwizard

£14 spent with the market butcher this morning, which will do us all week with a bit left over to freeze. I may pop down tomorrow lunchtime & see if there are any bargains on the soft fruit front; whilst I love the tangy tastes of autumn-foraged preserves, the rest of the family are more strawberry & raspberry oriented so it'd be good to have some of each stashed away to brighten winter scones & sarnies.

mrs_Badger

About £30 spent today in Lidl - mostly on fruit/veg and top-up stuff.

pamsdish

£5.08 in Asda, only needed potatoes and a paper, really, picked up y.s. kale and spinach, got a bottle of Pepsi with ginger which I like but getting hard to find, considered getting 2/3 but didn`t, just noticed on receipt despite shelf label of £1.50 it was reduced to 66p, would have cleared the shelf as not too many on it.

candygirl

Been to the Asian supermarket today, n stocked up on tons of fruit, veg, spices n pulses.Then Home Bargs for sauces, vinegar etc , n spent £30 ish , making my total so far 73/120 :eek:

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£6.56 spent on Saturday at Morrisons on milk, pop and mayo.
Today i spent £0.38P on YS peppers at work.

Total £6.94

*edit* Have a Tesco shop coming which comes to £27.79 once i have deducted cat food off ( which i don't include here).

So will add that now too, and adjust as necessary as i need to go to bed once i have sorted it out (due 6-10pm). I'll try and read through the thread in bed, but posting now as i will probs have no energy to be working stuff out by the time it is all done and dusted.

Total is now £34.73

I have spent £2.19 and £3.27 since my last update, at work; but I can't remember what on. I also spent £2.20 today on YS grapes, YS celebration and YS eggs. £6.66

£2.79 to deduct for a refund from the Tesco shop = £3.87

Aldi shop done on Thursday totalling £32.45 (+£3.87).

So total spends to add to sig are £36.32

katiegirl

I only spent £1 during the week. Well I say I but actually dd took some change to top up her school dinner account one day when she 'couldn't find the bread' to make herself a sandwich - aka slept in! The bread was in the same place it always is.

£31.02 today and meals sorted until next Saturday. Signature updated to reflect today's spend.

So I feel like it's going reasonably well, I am meeting a friend for lunch during the week, but it won't be anywhere expensive. DD has decided on a sleepover rather than dinner out for her birthday so that will cost considerably less (was budgeted for separately anyway).

I don't feel like we've made any real cutbacks/compromises so far in what we're eating, I've just been more organised!

FrugalinShropshire

Hello all, I am restarting the challenge on Monday and budget £180 for the rest of the month. We have plenty of food in the house as I got married last Tuesday and we got back from our ‘minimoon’ today. So I begin my budgeting as a married woman on Monday!