August 2019 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

We have spent £11.31 since last post. A good chunk of that was on a bottle of maple syrup but that will last ages at least.

My meals for today go as follow
B : Fruit (watermelon, blueberries, easy peeler and banana) and soya yogurt.
L : Pizza (half of the pizza from yesterday).
D : Tofu, vegetables and noodles.
Snacks : Popped potato chips(bbq flavour), celery with peanut butter.
Drinks : Water, coffee, kombucha, green tea and lemonade.

£136.31/£200
£63.44 left.

Tomorrow will be a NSD.

Luciecat63

I think this thread has awakened my inner thrifter. Instead of popping to the shop for one item and coming back with twenty I have made the effort to use up what I already have at home. I have had nine no spend days (and am aiming for twenty this month). Thank you Elsiepac.

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Planning trip to Lidl for some of the week-end offers but thats all.

zafiro1984

Did my weekly meal plan and then my weekly shop over the last 2 days. Lidl first and then Sainsbury for the items not in Lidl spent £82,14. However it did include freezer bags, baking parchment and some cleaning stuff.
I need to be careful this coming week as I've spent more than I should by this stage of the month so I need to claw some back. It should be possible so I must focus.

I've a mountain of eggs to use up (own hens) I'm doing cakes but freezing the cake batter and I'll cook them as and when needed I've done this before and it works quite well especially with traybakes.

susan946

Quite pleased with how this week's looking. We finished up the bargain lemon sole fillets last night with boiled tatties from the garden and frozen veg, followed by reduced raspberries and blueberries. I now have a beef casserole with lots of veggies simmering away in the cookpot for tonight and for hubby tomorrow. I'm going swimming tomorrow evening so I'll have a poached egg and avo on toast.

Just been to Waitrose yes, I know it's expensive but it's just up the road and other supermarkets are across town so I reckon for a small shop - just bread and an anniversary card this morning - the few pence difference will be cancelled out by the extra fuel it would have cost to go somewhere cheaper.

I needed bread because the loaf I had was mouldy. I've popped half of the new loaf in the freezer so I'm hoping that won't happen again. All the bread was short dated although I rummaged at the back to look for a longer dated pack but there wasn't anything.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Merlin's_Beard

£13.25 today, which takes me up to £61.75 for the month so far. Clawing back to being on track!

Very pasta-y week, with spaghetti and macaroni cheese planned.

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A few spends of £4.60. Got a couple of Blue Dragon Thai Green Curry paste, some YS bread n rolls, and some almond milk. Got some bottles of Aspalls cider too. Just need to get some fresh salad bits, chick peas, mushrooms and sweet potato and that will be me done for the week. Off to watch the footie #ComeOnYouReds - have a lovely rest of w/e everyone xx

Bluegreen143

Hope it’s OK if I jump in!

I used to do this years ago and have tried to rejoin a couple of times but not stuck to it. I found it so useful that I’m really determined this time to keep posting and keep a proper track of our spends

I think we’ll go calendar months as DH has just begun a new job which he thinks pays on last day of the month. For the rest of August I’m just going to track without setting a goal to see where we are at.

I *think* we spend about £65-75 a week on our Mr T delivery (food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, a case of beer for DH each week etc) and maybe £5-10 a week on top ups (though I try to avoid these). DH will often buy extra alcohol himself through the week but he pays for that out of his own spending money. Oh and we keep chickens so don’t buy eggs. In theory we grow veg and fruit too but the garden is terribly neglected this year as DD has been a fairly demanding baby bless her

There are four of us - me (stay at home mum), DH, 3.5yo DS and 7.5mo DD. We eat together as a family every evening and while DS is annoyingly going through a picky phase we don’t pander to it as such and just serve the lovely homemade food we usually do - no kiddie meals or expensive prepared baby foods here for either child.

Budget covers food for all of us, except when DS goes back to his mornings at nursery this week (we are in Scotland) he will be getting a free school lunch in addition to morning snack now due to them extending his free hours slightly. He will finish at 12.30 so we we will still have his usual afternoon snack and other meals to provide. DH generally takes packed lunches unless neither of us have remembered to make one, so that’s my first resolution there!

Today’s stats:

Spends - none with no plans to go shopping

Breakfast - toast, peanut butter & banana + a bowl of fruit for me and the children, bacon & egg butty for DH

Lunch - ham & cheese sandwiches, tinned fruit, crisps, raw cucumber & carrot. Heated a mushed up veg curry for DD but she spurned it and just ate bits of sandwiches and fruit, while DS nicked her bowl and finished it for her instead :rotfl:

Snack - usually do a biggish snack for DS in the afternoon but DH has taken him to visit his mum so she will stuff him with treats no doubt :rotfl:

Dinner - plan to make lentil & veg cottage type pie, must get started actually while DD is still asleep

Bluegreen143

Someone asked about redcurrants and gooseberries - well redcurrant jelly would win my vote & if you’ve not enough, you could add the gooseberries and make a mixed jelly?

With the gooseberries, I used some of mine from the freezer yesterday to make a gooseberry pur!e which I mixed in equalish quantities with custard and Greek yoghurt. The kids loved it!

MoneyMission

Back from holiday and updating the budget for the first time this month. We spent on a few bits before we went away (snacks for travel and making sure there was enough food for the cat) and then have topped up today on the way home bringing the total spend for the month to £35.49.

Proper shop tomorrow and will take and stick to my list.

Will have a read back through the thread properly as there are some great tips and recipes that I've skimmed over.