May 2020 Grocery Challenge

MrsSnowy

Suffolk lass ,I should have said the flour was from my local garage,nearest Morries is 28 miles away ,hence delivery!! Always envious of reading posts on different SM,but very content with living in rural Wales.

thriftwizard

Well, £28 spent between the butchers, C0-0p & the bakers this morning - it's somewhat expensive, having OH home all the time! - but I did realise that £6 of yesterday's spend belonged in another "budget" so I've added £22. Not sure I'm going to make it under budget & still have a two-week "cushion" of reasonably fresh stuff... but I'm still going to try. 

In other news, I'll be bringing home the first of this year's "crops" next week; the broad beans are podding up  & swelling fast now & I nearly brought some home today, but decided to give them a little longer. Bees everywhere, which is lovely; I've let the chard & kale flower to bring the pollinators in and maybe give us some "free" seedlings too!

K9sandFelines

I am now up to £491.30.
I have kind of given up this month. Can't believe how much we have gone over 😮

joedenise

Bought some coffee beans from Amazon but used a voucher for part payment so just £2.15 to come from grocery budget.  Now have £143.82/£250 left.

snowbird20

picked up $100US in groceries and sundries this morning so that puts me right at my budget for the month.  I will probably spend more on eggs this week for my children--they want the farm fresh ones we get here in the country.  

Herbyme

About flour: my local Aldi had huge sacks of plain flour today. Must have been at least 10kg. Sorry if already posted, I'm a bit behind. Also hand sanitiser in little bottles and a pump (hand wash) size. First time I've seen that in any store since March. And I agree, Aldi feels like a relatively safe place atm, certainly compared to my local A$da which is just awful.

btw I know these are not  relevant Qs but I know someone here will know and I can't find an answer (not to #2 anyway):
1: how do you get a green pepper to go red/orange/yellow before it wrinkles beyond being edible?
2: how do I stop getting emails every time someone posts, I  do love to know but I can't cope with all the emails!

Pixiehouse55

Carolinerunner turn off your notifications from here, not sure if it's on your profile if you have a look its there somewhere 

Anzac_Biscuit

$78.94AU on a 'small' weekly shop just now, mostly meat! I haven't bought any for a while. I'm hoping we'll be ok for fruit and veg - might need to do a top-up later in the week.
Restrictions are easing here, bit by bit - we even had lunch in a cafe yesterday, but it was very weird and a bit unsettling. 

XSpender

carolinerunner said:

About flour: my local Aldi had huge sacks of plain flour today. Must have been at least 10kg. Sorry if already posted, I'm a bit behind. Also hand sanitiser in little bottles and a pump (hand wash) size. First time I've seen that in any store since March. And I agree, Aldi feels like a relatively safe place atm, certainly compared to my local A$da which is just awful.

btw I know these are not  relevant Qs but I know someone here will know and I can't find an answer (not to #2 anyway):
1: how do you get a green pepper to go red/orange/yellow before it wrinkles beyond being edible?
2: how do I stop getting emails every time someone posts, I  do love to know but I can't cope with all the emails!

To turn off notifications click on the profile icon in the top right of the page.

Click Edit Profile on the left hand menu.

Click Notification Preferences.

Untick the boxes for the email notifications/pop ups you don’t want.

Save 

Hope that helps 

Herbyme

XSpender said: To turn off notifications click on the profile icon in the top right of the page.

Click Edit Profile on the left hand menu.

Click Notification Preferences.

Untick the boxes for the email notifications/pop ups you don’t want.

Save 

Hope that helps 

Thank you so much XSpender, I looked at it for ages but couldn't work it out! Note to self: don't try to do such things just before bedtime!