September 2019 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

I know I"m bit late but can I join. £150 for the month of september

So far I've spent £87.27 which included £21 for school snack until Christmas for my youngest.

tessie_bear

hi totted up last weeks spends...£40 better than the £60 plus it had crept up to...just got to keep going now

Suffolk_lass

Planned meals for this week -

Today - soup for lunch, Sweetcorn with butter, salt and pepper and maybe egg salad (if we are still hungry) for supper
Tuesday - soup with cheese and cucumber for lunch, whatever I got out of the freezer this morning (that the label had come off) - it looks like chilli, for supper
Wednesday - salad for lunch, Melanzane Parmiggiana for supper
Thursday - soup for lunch, chops (from freezer) with garden veg for supper
Friday - some sort of fish from the market for lunch with sweet potato and butternut squash chips and frozen peas
Saturday - supper will be something from the freezer or some YS meat from the SM (I find it hard to resist) and fast the rest of the day
Sunday we are out.

I should just add that my homemade soup is quite filling, with a base of onions, carrots and sweet potatoes, it is courgettes and chillies so warming and filling (and about £1 a batch of 8 portions thanks to home-grown and wonky veg)

zafiro1984

Meal plan done for the week, shopping list at the ready - Just off to Lidl and then Sains for the things Lidl doesn't stock. Now I just need to do serious battle with my will power.

pamsdish

£9.35 Spent in Aldi, made my meal plan, I use copy me that, add all ingredients to shopping list, then delete what I have already, needed onions broccoli and creme freche, also bought 2 packs of nan breads for the freezer, paper some sweet potato fries yoghurt and a reduced pet doormat. Nothing else required this week.

quintwins

Youngest has the cold and asked for strawberries on the way home. Stopped at Asda and got some deodorant and some cake bars for pack lunches, then they had packs of 6 apples reduced to 45p so I picked up 3.That's pack lunches sorted for the next week atleast and I have a meal plan for the next 2 weeks so I should only need milk, bread, yogurts and possibly some cereal next week.

JingsMyBucket

PipneyJane wrote: »

...and a roast chicken dinner accompanied by home grown roast potatoes and carrots. The chicken was a near disaster. I am not sure why but it was only partially cooked, when it was due to come out of the oven. The only thing I can think of is that it wasn’t totally defrosted, yet I put it in the fridge on Friday to defrost.

That must have been shocking. You can still salvage it by boiling the chicken and turning it into soup. I wonder if something went wrong with your oven.

I have a few spends to declare but I'll do that later in the proper morning when I have the receipts in front of me. I’m currently babysitting/waiting for my quinoa to cool so I can put it in the fridge. I’ll make this salad with it in the morning: https://www.budgetbytes.com/lemony-artichoke-and-quinoa-salad/. I’ll omit the chickpeas but will replace it with feta. We also have some cucumber and green veg I can toss in there too.

zafiro1984

£64.12 at Lidls and 34.15 at Sains, A large shop but I feel confident I have enough in to last quite a while - I'll see how it goes

bettertogether

£18.71 at Asda today - mainly fresh fruit/veg and milk (still need spinach and a packet of chicken thighs).

FYI hubby eats a low-carb diet for health reasons so the only carbs he has are from beans and veg, this makes our shopping more expensive and means I constantly need fresh veggies!

This, plus the stuff in the freezer/cupboards will do the next 10 days' meals:

Fried cabbage with bacon
Roasted salmon with veg (fishcakes for the kids)
Bacon, eggs, spinach and red kidney beans
Baked Chorizo, chopped tomatoes and eggs
Chilli Con Carne
Frittata with prosciutto
Chicken breast stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in prosciutto
Stuffed peppers with ground beef and cheese
Bolognese
Chicken Fajitas

Will need to replenish the milk, eggs, spinach, fruit bowl and salad over that time too but the main meals of the day (dinners and packed lunches) are sorted!

Now just to stick to the plan...

Merlin's_Beard

PipneyJane wrote: »

One small shop from yesterday to declare, £4.76 in Lidl for 2x£1.29 packets of almonds and something to eat for lunch. (It was 3pm and we were starving.). That brings our total GC spend to £59.68/£121.20 leaving £61.52 for the rest of the month.

Jings, thanks for the insight re sweet stuff. My first ever migraine was triggered by the overtly sweet icing on a British birthday cake.

Merlin’s Beard, apologies for the delay, I thought I’d blogged Pipi-An years ago, but it turns out that I hadn’t. Here’s the recipe:-

- Pip

That looks fantastic, and I'll definitely have to give it a go at some point. Thank you kindly!

£13.06 spent in T's, which takes me up to £78.23/£100 for the month, and it's the 10th....:eek:

Vegetable chilli and spinach-y pasta is on the menu this week! (I never list breakfast or lunches because it's a bit of fruit or porridge, then a sandwich.)