May 2020 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£26.52 from bulk fund for 12 jars of Douwe Egberts from Amazon, couldn`t pass the deal up £2.21 a jar

Suffolk_lass

@pamsdish - my DH got six 190g jars of the stronger granules for £4.99 a jar on Thursday - we were down to the last jar in our stores!

pamsdish

£3.07 Spent in the coop, shopping for a friend, 3 packs of y.s. nan breads and a packet of tomatoes. @Suffolk_lass I get alerts twice a day from a site off facebook, most don`t interest me, but some are relevant. 
That will be all for May now.

PipneyJane

@pamsdish - excellent bargain.  

@Suffolk_lass - is there a reason why there would be a run on Douwe Egberts?  I’m just curious - I have no recollection of their prices.  I use the jars for spice storage.  One of the roughly-6-inch tall jars will hold 500g of ground spice (measured with lid on).

- Pip

jenni_fer

We were reasonably well stocked and I didn't want to go over my budget for the month so I pushed back our C&C to Monday so it'll count for June. Instead, I popped to Al$i to pick up the couple of bits we needed sooner and the few Al$i specific things we had run out of, spending £17.76
With that, I am declaring May as £444.02/£450, £5.98 under budget...phew!

Pixiehouse55

I counted 10 tins of chopped tomatoes in my cupboard!!
Will look to see if I can find a recipe for tomato soup 
Also 2 tins of spinach need to find a recipe using them.
No spends in shops this week
Pay day Tuesday we have done well. Do need to get some veg for tomorrows  Roast
Hope everyone is ok coping with the lockdown.?
Are beach was mega packed last few days!!

joedenise

Our beach has been packed right the way through the good weather of lockdown even when we were only supposed to be going out once a day for exercise, essential shopping or medical reasons.  We used to walk along the beach for our exercise but there were always people just sitting on the beach chatting and sunbathing!  

Since the easing and being allowed to travel for exercise it has got so much worse we've given up going for walks along the beach!  Really annoying for us locals though, I'm sure loads of people are travelling from London as we're probably one of the closest beaches!

Suffolk_lass

PipneyJane said:

@pamsdish - excellent bargain.  

@Suffolk_lass - is there a reason why there would be a run on Douwe Egberts?  I’m just curious - I have no recollection of their prices.  I use the jars for spice storage.  One of the roughly-6-inch tall jars will hold 500g of ground spice (measured with lid on).

- Pip

It isn't a run as far as I know. For me it is my "brand" (one of the few) and the 190g jars are £6.85 locally so when they are £5 or less I stock up. - they are great little storage jars and DH has lots with nails or screws in so you can see what they are and how many are left in his workshop. After losing two glass-topped hobs to jars without the lids pushed properly home I transfer them to a tin (just an old illy one) for storage in my cupboard in the kitchen but I hate recycling the jars. By the way, the C&C had a 400g (probably 380g actually) double sized large jar - we have two with dried goods in 

PipneyJane

Anzac_Biscuit said:

PipneyJane said:

Anzac_Biscuit said:

Hi @Anzac_Biscuit. I thought the pantry was meant to be bare because aren't you moving interstate soon?  (Out of curiosity, from where to where?  I know, vaguely, that some of the borders are closed but not which ones.  My sister mentioned last week that Victoria's were still closed.)

Hi @PipneyJane,
Yep, still hoping to move interstate but nothing is certain until the job offer comes through (if we're successful, lol) - and it seems it will be a bit longer... We're hopefully moving from the Blue Mountains (west of Sydney) to Hobart! The NSW/Vic border is fine (never closed) but we will need to quarantine for 14 days once we get to Tasmania. So pantry is remaining *fairly* bare but has been divested of many out of date things. And Mum has said she'll take anything left we need to get rid of (mostly unusual flours other people are unlikely to use). In the meantime I'm allowing myself to keep small amounts of things in stock so I don't go completely spare Hubby would need to give a month's notice anyway so we'll have plenty of time to empty it again!

Fingers crossed when the job offer comes through, we’ll have a vaccine and you won’t have to quarantine for 14 days.

- Pip (I have very vivid memories of the Blue Mountains.  You live in a lovely part of the world.)

ancientmum

I'm finishing May on £716.03 out of a yearly budget of £1500. It's a bit ahead of what it should be but I should be able to rein it in a bit later in the year .