September 2018 Grocery Challenge

candygirl

Not been here for ages, but can I please attempt £120 for Sept?

Hopeless_Case

First proper shop of the month - £21.52 which puts me on £24.92/£240

luckofthe_irish

First small spend of this month at Lidl of top up items at £3.17. Hoping to keep the rest of the spend below the £30 for next week but I have had notification that I passed my Masters Qualification yesterday!! So my team at work will be expecting cakes and sweets next week which will eat into the budget!

MandM90

Congrats luckoftheirish!

We overspent a little this month, and in Sept we have a wedding (will give them £50 and need to pay for a taxi) and a couple of days out with friend's planned. If I can shift some of the grocery budget into other places it'd be a great help.

Tomorrow will be the most expensive shop of the month, as we have a neighbour coming for supper. Normally I wouldn't arrange something like that in such a lean month but he's in his 70s and I think we account for a fair slice of this social life, so I'm going ahead anyway! He's not short of a bob or two so always brings gorgeous wine.

I'm just going to do nibbles, a mushroom bourgignon type thing, rice, greens and rhubarb crumble (rhubarb from garden). If I have the energy tomorrow I'll make plum jam and give him a jar to take home. Will get a bottle of fizz and some red (some of which will go into the mushroom stew) tomorrow from Lidl. As everything can be done in the morning I can just chat and relax, which will be lush.

Have mealplanned for the next week. DH works away Mon-Thurs and gets fed in hotels/restaurants so that's a big help. I'm happy with lentil soup and beans on toast, as is DD

luckofthe_irish

So I never ever online shop as I always thought it to be the most expensive option, but as I am focusing on tackling this HUGE grocery spend I decided to see how much it would be on MySupermarket to shop at T*sco from my list, as I have £3 off a £20 spend voucher.

It comes out at £29.16 and with the £3 off that would be £26.16 so just under budget for the week including the few bits I picked up yesterday - question is: is this still better value than going to A*di and hoping that it is cheaper?! It is hard to know as they don't advertise their prices as easy so I am not sure what to do for frugality purposes haha... this saving money thing is hard :rotfl:!

If anyone has any tips, send them over!

MandM90

Is Aldi not on MySupermarket for you? Both Aldi and Lidl show on mine!

luckofthe_irish

MandM90 wrote: »

Is Aldi not on MySupermarket for you? Both Aldi and Lidl show on mine!

No, Aldi and Lidl are both blank on my options! How strange.. I can see the comparison with the other big supermarkets but not the 'smaller' ones!

Thrice

Morning all!

I'm going for £200 for all of September. Money envelopes are done with £50 per week in each, going from Sat 1st to Friday 28th September.

x

Suffolk_lass

luckofthe_irish wrote: »

No, Aldi and Lidl are both blank on my options! How strange.. I can see the comparison with the other big supermarkets but not the 'smaller' ones!

They will be blank if you have pre-selected online delivery. If you do the in-store comparison I think they will appear for you

candygirl

I find ALDI the best for price and quality, but i'm vegetarian, so I suppose it depends on what you're buying