August 2020 Grocery Challenge

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Ordered from sainsbugs for delivery Saturday - will put actual figures on once cost is confirmed (dh always remembers stuff prior to final call! 😂) but should be around £55. 

XSpender

£2.89 spent in the local co-op on bread, crisps and GF cake (for my birthday tomorrow) all YS 

Groceries £2.89/£450
Bulk £0.00/£40

Retired_Minky

Hi. I'd like to join.

Please set the target for me to £400 which will be the lowest ever spent for me.

BrassicWoman

Hello, 

May I join in August for £150 please?

Just me, but I have been spending tonnes in lockdown - most of which ended up at foodbank/ neighbours as it was overwhelming to keep around. So now, I'm on a simplification month, and squirreling away some money if I can to redress the impact of spending on my savings. I also need to run down my stockpile and reclaim the spare roomy.
The wholefoods coop in the next town delivers to me, so I have a grocery delivery coming on Sunday for £43.14 - this is lots of different fruit, veg and tofu for the week, plus some fancy biscuits and cheeze, loo roll, pate, yogurt, herbal tea, and dates. I am trying to eat less sugar, generally, and have the luxury of WFH, with a slow cooker, at the moment. Non-yeasted bread is expensive to buy, so I'll be making my own wholemeal soda bread, too - needless to say, I have plenty flour in.

Suffolk_lass

It should be just milk for me this week (milkman's bill goes by direct debit). It is so easy, just opening the front door and there it is, every other morning. I know it is a bit more expensive but I'm happy to pay that for the reliability and convenience, especially as the supplies of organic milk have been rather sparse for a few months now in the SM.

Pixiehouse55

Hi. Can I be put down for £400 this month as we have ran out of so much dry/tinned foods. Thank you. Payday was 28th this month. Spends so far is coop £10.05 and As6a £16.10.  In the next few days I will go through the cupboard and do a meal plan for the month. Shocked we have 6 packs of As6a  speciality Sausages🙄 oh well lots of sausage meals this month then🤣😂

lantanna

£70 in Asda today, now just over £100 until the 20th. Plenty of food in, but forgot to ice today so that will take me back in tomorrow

lantanna

XSpender said:

£2.89 spent in the local co-op on bread, crisps and GF cake (for my birthday tomorrow) all YS 

Groceries £2.89/£450
Bulk £0.00/£40

Happy birthday for tomorrow

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

@squirrelgirl thanks so much for the recipe! Might see if my mum wants to help me try and make it - I'm useless at baking!!
@XSpender Happy Birthday for tomorrow!
Welcome @BrassicWoman and @Retired_Minky

PipneyJane

Happy birthday @XSpender!  Hope you have a lovely day.

On a less festive note, I just want to say that these challenges are invaluable for keeping me on the straight and narrow.  It's the feeling of accountability.  Although my month doesn't officially start until tomorrow, we took the housekeeping out last night.  I have a small spend to declare which came out of August's money:  £3.25 at MrT's for salad items.    That takes our total for August to £3.25/£140, leaving £136.75 for the rest of the month.

- Pip