July 2020 Grocery Challenge

Hettyhound

Well July seems to be going a little better.  So far spent £21.54 in HB, £32.96 on a pet food delivery (with cashback 😁), £30.14 in Aldee last week, £4.41 emergency greengrocers fruit buy and just spent another £30.15 in Aldee.  Shouldn’t need to buy anything until next Friday now but my son finishes for summer on that day so will have to stock up a bit as he’s always hungry.  So far spent £119.20 out of my £200 budget so happy with that.

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

Hello all

Elsiepac please add me for €300 for July

€65 spent (rounded up for ease)

spent in Aldi and Lidl today and 1st July. New offers started so took advantage plus as it is very hot here we are eating more salad so I top that up more often. I’m trying different fruit with my girl too but so far no success on anything. She used to love it all now it’s pears only but I keep trying 

€235 remaining 

€72 spent (well rounded up) 

this is over the last week in Aldi, Lidl on fruit, veg, salad, meat etc and lentils on offer. 

€163 remaining 

Doom_and_Gloom

Chloris I'm happy to help with vegan cooking inspiration. Hope the okonomiyaki worked out well, it can be tricky flipping it over. 
Also I often have many tabs open for recipes. Although I have favorite meals I like to try a different recipe from time to time. Some even get into the usual rotation.
My OH loves okonomiyaki (he eats animal product) and often eats it inatead of a stir fry now. He really loves it with home made okonomiyaki sauce but the bit that is expensive is he prefers it with the Kewpie mayonnaise which is £4.50 for 500g, epp. 

£9.78 spent today.

OH dinner : cheesy pasta. 
My dinner : vegetable tofu tikka masala with FF naan and mango chutney. 

£147.14/£300.
£152.86 left.

No need to shop until Monday now. Have an A&C delivery scheduled for Monday that comes to £42.71. I'm getting a medium fruit and vegetable box (£19.95) and a 5L bio-d washing up liquid bottle (£10.45 but the bottle lasts around a year so works out well price wise) in the shop.

thriftwizard

noorulhassan, sounds like you need more than help with your grocery bill! Perhaps a moderator could move your post to the right part of the forum? I'm sure someone over there would know the answer!

In the meantime: £70 spent at the market this morning, which has bought us all we should need for the week, and a bit more. I'd forgotten we're having a take-away tomorrow night (paid for from the Entertainment budget) & bought lots of chicken breasts; they'll be going into the freezer & brought out a bit at a time for OH & I over the next few weeks. We did pop into the Oriental Grocers whist in the city today, but just bought some noodles & a big pack of ground cumin, which is included in the £70. By that point we were running very short of time, and it was quite crowded. If there's anything else we really need, I can pick it up next week when I return DS3 to his studies.

pamsdish

The scheduled trip to Morries ended up a rush job, crossed wires with the person I was meeting, grabbed the pork hock, my sister coming Wednesday to get her hair cut by my hairdresser, regular occurrence, and we enjoy this meal, I have similar regularly, her husband will not eat anything green, or stew like,  spent £3.11 as no time for anything else

PipneyJane

@thriftwizard - have you been reading my shopping list?  The first two items are a 500g bag of ground cumin and Chinese noodles.      I don’t remember the last time I filled up the cumin jar - it must have been a couple of years ago - but, when you make your curries from scratch, it’s been hard planning meals without using any.

This morning, I upgraded Numbers on the iPad.  For some reason, when I went into my Grocery Challenge spreadsheet, it took me right back to the very first tab.  Apparently, I’ve been doing the Grocery Challenge for 3 years!  My first tab is August 2017.  Thank you All for keeping me on the straight and narrow.

The reason I went into Numbers is that I know I haven’t declared Tuesday’s shopping.  We went to L!dl at 5pm to buy the majority of the things on the shopping list.  There was no queue or I’d have popped the Asian supermarket nearby and bought the cumin from there, while DH waited in line.  (By the time we got out of L!dl, we’d forgotten about the cumin.).  £39.79 spent.  There were almost no voids on the shelves; they even had their budget eggs in.  What was missing was their freeze-dried instant coffee.  First world problem.  (Fortunately, I always have a spare jar of coffee in the pantry.)

Did I declare Sunday’s spend?  (Oh, how I miss the old “search thread” function.) We spent £6.55 in the Co-op when we popped in to buy the paper.  That was on ham, ice cream, a bag of spinach, humus and wraps.  

Anyway, all of the above spending brings our July Grocery Challenge total to £55.55/£120, leaving £64.45 for the remainder of the month.  

Have a lovely day, everyone.  I’m off to put the bread maker on.

- Pip

Suffolk_lass

thriftwizard said:

sounds like you need more than help with your grocery bill! Perhaps a moderator could move your post to the right part of the forum? I'm sure someone over there would know the answer!

In the meantime: £70 spent at the market this morning, which has bought us all we should need for the week, and a bit more. I'd forgotten we're having a take-away tomorrow night (paid for from the Entertainment budget) & bought lots of chicken breasts; they'll be going into the freezer & brought out a bit at a time for OH & I over the next few weeks. We did pop into the Oriental Grocers whist in the city today, but just bought some noodles & a big pack of ground cumin, which is included in the £70. By that point we were running very short of time, and it was quite crowded. If there's anything else we really need, I can pick it up next week when I return DS3 to his studies.

I reported it - either a spam post or in the wrong place each time we quote their name it becomes more searchable - as you can see I edited it to remove it in case it is Spam

Bluegreen143

I haven’t been updating on here woops! Luckily I’ve been using YNAB so still on track. Got £166 left in my food budget - £55 for each of the next three Wednesday til we get paid. Will be very tight as after our veg box it’s just over £30 a week for other food. Will be very strict this week doing our mealplan as we have loads in to be using up.

Anzac_Biscuit

Been a bit absent the last few weeks but hoping to post a bit more again now! 
I totally lost track of June's totals - lost a few receipts I think. I'll stick with the same total for July - $700 I think but hoping to come in well under this time cos we're moving to Tasmania! Hurray! So lots of things to use up. Any food left by the time we go will be donated or passed to my lovely mum Tonight's effort was a prawn and pea risotto to use up a bag of frozen prawns. 
I'll come back later to update receipts so far.

PipneyJane

Anzac_Biscuit said:

Been a bit absent the last few weeks but hoping to post a bit more again now! 
I totally lost track of June's totals - lost a few receipts I think. I'll stick with the same total for July - $700 I think but hoping to come in well under this time cos we're moving to Tasmania! Hurray! So lots of things to use up. Any food left by the time we go will be donated or passed to my lovely mum Tonight's effort was a prawn and pea risotto to use up a bag of frozen prawns. 
I'll come back later to update receipts so far.

Yay!  You’re moving, @Anzac_Biscuit!  I am so pleased for you both.  Good luck with the move and with the  new job(s).

- Pip