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£9.20 spent this morning on my way to the allotment; dived into the co-op for some "proper" sliced supermarket bread, rolls, hot cross buns etc. for OH, who will eat home-made & baker's bread but not without protests! I also picked up some bean sprouts (forgot to start any) and mushrooms for a stir-fry tonight but wouldn't have had any luck if I'd wanted any other fruit or veg; the shelves were just about bare. Hopefully they were expecting a delivery later on, but luckily I brought home a small cabbage & a couple of little leeks from the 'lottie yesterday so we didn't need anything else.
Angie - GC May 24 £253.52/£450: 2024 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 10/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)10 -
My long awaited Morries delivery arrived, booked 5 weeks ago, been putting products in my basket, asked friends and neighbours if they wanted anything, got my invoice for delivery yesterday, all food products out of stock, got delivered 2 jars of Care Noir, on offer, 1 bottle of Famous Grouse, ordered 2 Bardinet brandy, 1 coming, other a sub, 3 barrels yuk yuk, unable to hand back to driver due to restrictions, emailed for them to take back, assume I will have to return to shop, felt compelled to explain to driver, I had ordered loads of food but none available, I was not an alcoholic who drank coffee all day.
£8 on coffee alcohol different budgetDo I need it or just want it.9 -
Anzac_Biscuit said:Hubby did another shop today which came to $174. I don't think he has a budgeting bone in his body... but I'm thankful that he went while I can't. Total now $388 out of $800.Do you send him with a budget limit at all? And in addition to that, a consequence for exceeding the limit?Example: “This shop needs to be under $125 because otherwise we won’t have enough to pay for XYZ thing like the AC bill during Australian summer. Remember it was $600 for June last year and we scrambled to find the extra cash?”Maybe knowing there is an immediate consequence may help him frame the problem differently?10
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Not joining in this month, as am having to get all my shopping online, n it's so much more expensive! At least I'm staying safe though, n have managed to get most things every week
Hope you're all ok xx"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
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£8 Spent by my hardworking neighbour, she is shopping for herself, her hubby who is working away from home, but making emergency dashes home when he can for supplies, her mother, her daughter with her hubby and 2 boys, myself and my next neighbour, she got me salad stuff, a white loaf and a bag of onions to make stuffing, she then spotted reduced chicken thighs, she knows I feed my dog so grabbed me 4 trays of 6.Do I need it or just want it.10
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DH is considering a shop to the SM but I think we can hang on until Tuesday if we adapt a bit. We don't actually need to refresh the cheese while there is still a block and I am sure I could make a white sauce with powdered milk.
We heard yesterday that our old GP has just died of the virus. We both had a little weep and told ourselves and each other that that was not helping. I dropped off some bits from home to a neighbour and walked to another neighbour to collect tomato plants (bankers, as my own are so late). No human contact but I did open the gate to pop a bottle in the greenhouse of the neighbour who gave the tomato plants. Sorry if it is a bit off-topic - it's why we are not shoppingSave £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
OS Grocery Challenge 2024 31.1% spent or £932.98/£3,000 annual
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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Spent £9.15 today. Managed to give myself a really grim blister on my long walk the other day so I got some plasters. The rest on stocking up on cupboard essentials - the homemade tortillas worked really well last time so I think I'll make some more this week. Super easy to make as well, and can't take more than about 30 mins. I've got tinned potatoes, kidney beans, pinto beans and chickpeas too, so the makings of some kind of bean chilli or something... we'll see what I come up with.
Definitely going to try making some bread rolls this week, after talking a friend through making her first loaf of bread I feel inspired to pick it back up again!Grocery Challenge
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Good evening all
Good to see you back, @JingsMyBucket. I hope you are settling in well into your home in New York City. I’m glad that you can still shop for supplies - all we hear in the UK are horror stories about how badly hit New York has been by the virus.
@Anzac_Biscuit and @Suffolk_lass , you have my sympathies. I spend all my mornings on calls for work - mainly with a colleague in Sydney - so my DH has been doing all our shopping, walking the mile-and-a-half to our local L!dl so that we don’t lose our parking spots. (Residents Only parking on one side of the street, single yellow line on the other.). Although things have been getting better, around here you still have to shop first thing in the morning or the basics will have disappeared (e.g. no milk or eggs). Last week, he spent £16.15 in L!dl, followed by £4.78 on dried milk in a local, Polish corner shop, when he couldn’t find it in L!dl. (He bought 2 packets of full-cream dried milk, not skimmed. Skimmed dried milk tastes bad enough; full-cream tastes a whole lot worse, so I hope we will only ever have to use it in the bread-maker.)
Yesterday, he took my car for its first run in over three weeks in order to charge the battery and stock up. He drove over to our butcher, then took the long way around to MrT’s, via 2 junctions of the M25, and back via L!dl. At the Butcher’s, he bought a huge leg of lamb (over 3kg), 2lb of minced beef and 6 chicken breasts for £66.85. The lamb was £15/kg. The butcher was most apologetic, saying that their suppliers have considerably increased their prices and they couldn’t afford not to pass it on to their customers.
At MrT’s he spent £33.89, which included £5.78 on a large YS duck and £5 on a gallon of rapeseed oil. (Seriously, when I put oil on the shopping list, I was expecting a 1L bottle from L!idl for about £1.30.). At L!dl, he bought the 2kg duck for £6.99 that I had specified on the shopping list, plus 4 large bags of nuts, some more coffee, 6 eggs and some chocolate Easter bunnies, spending a further £21.99, before returning home to complain about the standard of my shopping list. (Meanwhile, I was glaring at some tradesman who parked in front of our house, nicking my parking spot. Said tradesman headed off shortly after DH got home, so my car is back there now.)
What DH thinks I am going to do with THREE joints to roast is beyond me. I am currently embroiled in a massive game of Freezer Tetris, attempting to squeeze everything into the freezer. Duck 1 has made it in, along side the mince and 3 of the chicken breasts (currently being frozen flat). Duck 2 (from L!dl) will be roasted tomorrow or Sunday. The lamb is waiting for the next round, as are the other chicken breasts, which will need to be frozen as flat as possible for stacking. There should be just about enough room to fit in the lamb, but I’ve had to remove 8 frozen bananas, which are now defrosting in the fridge and are destined to be mushed into bags and refrozen. (The bananas will eventually become banana bread, but we’re currently drowning in over-wintered carrots (finally harvested last weekend) so are eating our way through the carrot cakes I made earlier in the week.)
Excluding the meat from the Butcher, the above brings our total spend to £105.76/£130.96, leaving £25.20 for the remainder of the month.
- Pip
(How do you do eek?)"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.' "
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2024 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons, 0 spent.10 -
Laughing gently at your freezer tetris, PipneyJane; I've been doing something similar when DD1 brings back YS readymade veggie indulgences from the supermarket she works at. I made it clear long ago that I had no objections at all to my DDs "going veggie" (10 years in with DD2 now, about 5 for DD1) but I wasn't going to shell out for expensive readymade veggie dishes when I don't buy readymade meat meals either but make just about everything from scratch; the result of that is, of course, that they now regard those readymade bean burgers etc. as the ultimate treat! However last night's campfire cookery session may have injected a small dose of reality; never mind the leg falling off our beloved ancient pot-belly BBQ stove halfway through (a scientist friend who's a blacksmith in his spare time has offered to mend it, thankfully; it's a very useful beastie as it does much more than just BBQ) as the curried lentil burgers just basically disintegrated on the grill. We've had many a good BBQ with home-made chickpea burgers, which taste great, cost pennies & somehow manage to stick together perfectly well, but these things, which would have been about £5 for 4 at full price, had all the integrity of mashed potato & simply fell into the fire.
Anyhoo - £66 spent today, £45 at the market on fruit, veg, cheese etc. & £21 at the butchers on a chicken, some pork chops, bacon & liver, which should keep us going for another week.Angie - GC May 24 £253.52/£450: 2024 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 10/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)11 -
pamsdish said:My long awaited Morries delivery arrived, booked 5 weeks ago, been putting products in my basket, asked friends and neighbours if they wanted anything, got my invoice for delivery yesterday, all food products out of stock, got delivered 2 jars of Care Noir, on offer, 1 bottle of Famous Grouse, ordered 2 Bardinet brandy, 1 coming, other a sub, 3 barrels yuk yuk, unable to hand back to driver due to restrictions, emailed for them to take back, assume I will have to return to shop, felt compelled to explain to driver, I had ordered loads of food but none available, I was not an alcoholic who drank coffee all day.
£8 on coffee alcohol different budget
@PipneyJane I did laugh at your account of your DH's shopping trip. Mine is very similar and would also have blamed my rubbish list. 'Well I didn't know, you should have said', he'd have said, with righteous indignation10
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