June 2019 Grocery Challenge
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I've gone over budget too. Too much baking! And not enough staying-out-of-the-supermarket. It's not disastrous, luckily, but just goes to show how easy it is to drift & lose focus. Must do better in July... shouldn't need much else this week, and it's payday on Friday, but I've said I'll accompany DS2's partner to the market tomorrow morning to see what bargains we can find...
GC Feb 21 £382.53/£400 Mar 21 £50/£500
2021 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 5/48
(Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
Another spend for me today of £39.67 , total now stands at £160.34.
GMAT
Grocery challenge £103.91/£200
2020 Fashion on the Ration 47/66
No buying unnecessary toiletries - UU 0/24
With a week to go and a little of the budget left I feel this one is in the bag, and considering there were 2 meals out and 4 lunches I reckon I can tighten my budget for next month!
£155.22/£175
Bag of salad leaves (YS), 2 pots of pomegranate (YS), noodle salad pot (YS), blueberry apple and chia seed loaf (YS), 4 rosemary focaccia, 6 eggs, 7 jelly pots, 6 litres Pepsi max, 40 mint teabags, sweet chili sauce, bolognese sauce (4 portions), pasta sauce (2 portions), tin of chopped tomatoes, ball of mozzarella, hard goats cheese, 4 pints of milk, creme fraiche, gnocchi, basil plant, broccoli, 2 baking potatoes, 1 leek, bunch of flowers (YS), 1 banana, cherry tomatoes, 1/2 cucumber, 1 red pepper, bag of frozen butternut squash chunks, 1 sweet potato, 3 portions frozen fries, Quorn mince, bleach, 6 sponges, anti-bac spray, 1 doughnut (YS), 2 millionaire shortbread slices (YS).
Meal plan:
1. Quorn bolognese with linguine
2. Pasta ready meals from the freezer (given to us by my mum)
3. OH is out - I'll make an omelette with whatever's in the fridge and some fries
4. Creamy broccoli gnocchi
5. Meatball mozzarella bake
6. Sweet potato, sweet chili and goats cheese salad
Lunches will be soup (making leek and potato this week) and salads, and the YS noodle pot.
Breakfasts will be yoghurts, fruit and overnight oats/porridge.
For snacks we have rice cakes, pistachios, fibre bars, breakfast biscuits, crisps, popcorn, jelly, cheese and more fruit and yoghurt.
£49.02 left - we need to get dog food and treats on Saturday which will probably be £15-20, so we'll have to do a cheap weekly shop Saturday evening and make the most of our freezer/cupboard stocks.
GC Feb 21 £382.53/£400 Mar 21 £50/£500
2021 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 5/48
(Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
Annual total is looking good at £2279.43/£5200.
Students have returned home and are eating like locusts so I will be lucky to have another frugal month, although that said, my cupboards and freezer stocks are healthy and the garden is now producing supplies of berries and veg and there are quite a few yellow sticker pizzas for when they demand quick snack foods after sports and before nights out.
See you on the July thread!
Total so far I’d £192.92/£300
DEBT FREE 06/2018
I've enough in the cupboards to see me through the next week, and into July.
£0/£70 August GC
£68.35/£70 July GC
January-June 2019 = £356.94/£420
"Least said, soonest mended"