July 2020 Grocery Challenge

PipneyJane

It’s not a problem, @elsiepac, as long as  you are okay.  (We haven’t seen you much this month, so I was beginning to worry.)

I have another shop to declare.  We walked the 2 miles down to Sainsbugs to buy a birthday card and, while there, hit the condemned aisle.  £4.28 spent on YS pizza (last night’s dinner), YS quiche (lunch today), YS lemon yoghurt, YS pork pies, YS hummus and YS spinach (already sweated down and in the freezer).  That brings our spend for July to 

£152.43/£120, so £32.43 overspent.

- Pip

ETA the birthday card wasn’t paid for out of the Grocery Challenge money

MazzieD

Hello All

Just a quick question, does anybody know if or where you can buy a supermarket trolley token?.  I was given one for the old round pound coin but now get very frustrated as I never seem to have a pound coin to put in the trolley when I go for a monthly shop!.  I have never seen them on sale anywhere.

Suffolk_lass

MazzieD said:

Hello All

Just a quick question, does anybody know if or where you can buy a supermarket trolley token?.  I was given one for the old round pound coin but now get very frustrated as I never seem to have a pound coin to put in the trolley when I go for a monthly shop!.  I have never seen them on sale anywhere.

Charity shops have them sometimes - although the old ones still work for me. There are also a couple of hacks - 2 x 20p stacked or the rounded end of a yale-type door key. Amazon sell them too, as do people like Royal British Legion

Finstickle

A couple of shops for me this week, had to go to co-op for bead and milk etc as couldn't last and then lidl and tesco yesterday.
Lidl was good <£90 including washing powder, tesco was Toiletries including hair removal cream of £14 😱
£147 spent
£37 alcohol
£29 Toiletries
£16 riverford

£566/£800 spent with £234 left and a week to go.  I'll probably need some basics between now and then, but hopefully keep to the £34 and come in at £200 under.

We have my step kids 3/4 weeks in August which will make it an expensive month so a reasonable month this month much needed! 

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

sarahj1986 said:

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 

€50 spent (rounded up) in Lidl (€2 of this will be in Aldi later) 

due to the new rulings in place from today on the use of face masks I’ve got to try to only go shopping once a week. But let’s not go into that. 

We stocked up on fruit, veg, salad. Plus meat, fish on offer, frozen stuff on offer, cheese, yogurts, bread, milk and a few cupboard items. We also need to get water which is €2 and already included above. We will go and get that later. Lidl is cheaper overall but Aldi do the water that my girl can drink. 

€113 remaining 

Hello all

€82 spent over the last 10 days

lidl had the mince beef on offer €4 a kilo so I got 2 packets plus fruit, veg, salad, yogurts, bread etc. I also stocked up on my daughters favourite cakes 

€31 left which is more than enough to see me through the end of the month 

PipneyJane

MazzieD said:

Hello All

Just a quick question, does anybody know if or where you can buy a supermarket trolley token?.  I was given one for the old round pound coin but now get very frustrated as I never seem to have a pound coin to put in the trolley when I go for a monthly shop!.  I have never seen them on sale anywhere.

We got ours by cashing in Yeo Valley points on their website.  (We eat their yoghurts and my husband religiously collects the points on each lid.)

Around here, MrT's trolleys still take both the old and the new £1 coins, so old tokens still work.

- Pip

joedenise

I'm still using my old tokens.  I use them both here in England and also when in France on holiday.  There's very little difference in size between £1 coin and 1 Euro coin.

Doom_and_Gloom

£44.46 spent since last post. 

OH dinner : cheesy pasta. 
My dinner : vegan ramen. 

£283.66/£300. 
£16.34 left. 

MazzieD

MazzieD said:

Hello All

Just a quick question, does anybody know if or where you can buy a supermarket trolley token?.  I was given one for the old round pound coin but now get very frustrated as I never seem to have a pound coin to put in the trolley when I go for a monthly shop!.  I have never seen them on sale anywhere.

Thanks for your help, it hadn't even occurred to me to try the old one.  I now need to try and find it, took it out of my bag as thought wouldn't be able to use it.  Not one of my better ideas, if I had a brain I'd be dangerous 

K9sandFelines

Thanks everyone for your kind words. I need to add up spends at some point and sort myself a new notebook.
I've had an Aldi spend, a T@sco spend for the cake,  which was about £8. That was for two different cakes in the end . I ended up being in work Sun, Mon, and Tues so made a gf one yesterday for myself, as i got home too late on Monday.
My DD1 also got milk yesterday from Lidl, so I need to also add that.
We have avoided the shops today, so no shopping. However, I ordered the food processor attachment for my Kenwood, as there is so much I can't do at the moment without one. I haven't had one for the past six months.
Hopefully, i'll save some extra pennies on at least Houmous. Can also make coleslaw with the massive tub of mayo. I'm sure ill discover the other stuff as I go.