August 2019 Grocery Challenge

[Deleted User]

Just placed onl;ine order for £44. Heavy stuff, tins and pop as well as lots of spices. Also ordered some re-chargeable batteries and charger the other day.

jam2019

£31.69/£60 - pretty pleased with that result! I'll be lowering next month's target I think

PipneyJane

Two small spends to declare: 75p, yesterday, for mushrooms from Sainsbugs; and 95p last Friday for creme fraiche in Lidl. Once you account for some coppers - now in the coin jar - this brings our total spend for August to £118.80/£120, leaving £1.20 to roll forward into September.

I can't figure out what to make for dinner tonight. I haven't defrosted anything because I was totally uninspired this morning. While we have plenty of food in the house, virtually none of it is fresh (beyond eggs, milk, mushrooms, onions and garlic. There may be a few potatoes lurking, too). I am currently vacillating between homemade pesto - there are pine kernels in the fridge and we have basil growing - and making some sort of quiche.

Hmmm...

- Pip

thriftwizard

Declaring for August at £446.18/£450, which I'm happy with, after a cheeky £9 spend today on odds & sods like beansprouts (note to self, just get organised & grow them!) cabbage etc. as we needed to do a stir-fry tonight thanks to DD1's social commitments, and we'd just about run out of veg as Friday is my stocking-up day.

That said, I went down to the allotment today & liberated a massive 5Kg of tomatoes, mostly still green but on the vine so they'll ripen in the conservatory (I'm terrified the blight will strike any day now; there's at least double that still on the vines yet to pick) and the same amount of runner beans. Many of which are too far gone to cook/freeze as normal, but I've shelled those to dry & use like kidney beans through the winter, as well as seeds for next year. One more huge beetroot - the leaves & stems went into the stir-fry - an ice-cream tub of blackberries from the hedge and a bowl of raspberries. The chard is almost ready to start picking, the sea-kale also, and the little cabbages are coming on nicely. We have a huge yellow pumpkin, plus a smaller one & some little butternut squashes coming along.

The leeks, however, are definitely slacking... I think they'd do better with some cooler, damper weather. Unlike their grower... And I do wish I'd got some more kale in!

ditty1234

Well with being home but on holiday my grocery budget had carried some of the holiday expectation w some fresh fruit there as a treat and a couple of ready made things after some emergencies.
So I'm checking out at chocking £395/£260 for 2 people + one occasional. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

We genuinely cook everything from scratch, mostly shop at Ald*

In SeptemberI literally have £400 after bills so while I will increase my budget to £300 to be more realistic as uni son will be home and I will be helping setting him up in his new house, it will still be tight.
See y'll in September

[Deleted User]

Lunch out for 4 yesterday , I paid to make up for bad one last week, £26. Lidl for measuring spoon + groc £7.03, Asda for top ups 6.74. Gardener is coming today so will have to pay him but not sure how much yet.

[Deleted User]

Do not need anything but have a job for a sm delivery so have made shopping list up to minimum delivery cost, which will be reimbursed so a no spend, but as no real need of anything am ordering very long term stuff, some for my Brexit box, like pasta and tea etc.

susan946

Well at the end of this month I'm declaring at £484/400
which at first glance doesn't look too good, but I have spent this morning at the hospital having some treatment on my back so I've stocked up for the next week or so as I don't know how mobile I'm going to be. Had I known this at the beginning of the month I would have increased the budget to account for it but I didn't. I shall reduce the September budget accordingly and see how I get on.

sweetpea26

end of August already where has time gone !

Finishing this month at £415 approx. I have went over budget by £15. Its been a good month for stocking up and have picked up quite a few bargains along the way.

I feed 4 most days and 5 at weekends.

This is about £3 per day per person. I think I could cut this down but I do find it difficult.

All the best for September and thank you Elise Pac

zafiro1984

Finished the month at £15.71 overspent which is pretty good for me. I had a careful look at where the money went and I think I could do slightly better in Sept - see you over there