August 2020 Grocery Challenge

Finstickle

£25.19 in Tesco yesterday.
Currently on £185.81/£750
Mostly bits I can't get in Lidl so tend to be a bit more expensive. Offset by getting 2 packs of YS sausages for £1.41 each.  1.5 packs put into a sausage casserole which worked out <£1 pp, so happy with that. Includes leftovers and 1/2 pack of sausages 😀

pamsdish

£3.61 a fleeting visit to Aldi with a friend.

Doom_and_Gloom

£7.04 spent yesterday. 

I've worked out a meal plan for the week for me. 
Tuesday
L - vegan breakfast burrito
D - quinoa buddha bowl
Wednesday
L - quinoa salad
D - vegan chili with quinoa (meatless co mince from freezer)
Thursday
L - vegan fry up (meatless co sausages and tofu from freezer)
D - vegan chili with quinoa
Friday
L - vegetable soup with GF bread (from freezer)
D - fajitas (using the vegan chili)
Saturday
L - breakfast burrito
D - vegan sausage pasta salad (meatless co sausages from freezer)
Sunday
L - vegan sausage pasta salad
D - vegan katsu curry and rice (freezer meal)
Breakfasts are a choice between fruit, green smoothies or overnight muesli (gluten free).

Not sure what the OH will be having over the week but we are both doing our best to go through the freezers and cupboards as much as possible this month.

£14.94/£155.
£140.06 left.

XSpender

First spend at the weekend was a big shop at Morries.  The man on the till asked me if I had a big family as I'd bought a lot of food!!!!  Didn't know whether to be offended or not!  I had a full trolley but don't think there was a massive amount and it did include lots of dog food and toilet roll which we won't be eating 

Groceries £129.50/£450
Bulk £0/£40

pamsdish

I really need to be careful next few weeks, washing machine died yesterday, it`s 20+ yrs old, hope the new one lasts as long, car deferred M.O.T. booked for Tuesday next week, noticed an odd noise from the rear wheel, think it`s brakes binding, lap top slowing down, another pensioner. 

Chloris

pamsdish said:

I really need to be careful next few weeks, washing machine died yesterday, it`s 20+ yrs old, hope the new one lasts as long, car deferred M.O.T. booked for Tuesday next week, noticed an odd noise from the rear wheel, think it`s brakes binding, lap top slowing down, another pensioner. 

Oh dear! Definitely coming in threes for you. I hope it isn't as expensive as expected.

Chloris

Doom_and_Gloom said:

£7.04 spent yesterday. 

I've worked out a meal plan for the week for me. 
Tuesday
L - vegan breakfast burrito
D - quinoa buddha bowl
Wednesday
L - quinoa salad
D - vegan chili with quinoa (meatless co mince from freezer)
Thursday
L - vegan fry up (meatless co sausages and tofu from freezer)
D - vegan chili with quinoa
Friday
L - vegetable soup with GF bread (from freezer)
D - fajitas (using the vegan chili)
Saturday
L - breakfast burrito
D - vegan sausage pasta salad (meatless co sausages from freezer)
Sunday
L - vegan sausage pasta salad
D - vegan katsu curry and rice (freezer meal)
Breakfasts are a choice between fruit, green smoothies or overnight muesli (gluten free).

Not sure what the OH will be having over the week but we are both doing our best to go through the freezers and cupboards as much as possible this month.

£14.94/£155.
£140.06 left.

Love your meal plan. Beautifully constructed with intentional leftovers creating the next meal.

riotlady

Hello! Would love to join this month please, have really let our food spending get out of hand over lockdown- I'm really not used to having us all home so often! 

Aiming for a budget of

£320

please, and have spent £39 already. That's for me, partner and 2 yo DD (who costs me a fortune in berries) 

PipneyJane

Good morning All

A quick, flying visit to log Sunday’s trip to L!dl.  £29.30 spent, mainly on veg, a kilo of cooking bacon (£1.45), some cheese and quite a lot of crackers.  (I’ve been perfecting my pate making skills, which DH prefers to eat on crackers.).  The only thing I couldn’t find this time was muscovardo sugar.  They had plenty of Demerara in stock, but virtually nothing else. Anyway, that brings our spend to £32.55/£140 leaving £107.45 for the rest of the month.  

@pamsdish - Fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong for you

@JingsMyBucket - good to see you back.  We heard that New York was badly hit by the Virus.  How are New Yorkers coping now?

- Pip

Pixiehouse55

Good afternoon everyone
So far this month we have spent £275.79. Out of our £400. We went to a farm/organic shop and spent £30. This was fruit, veg, cheese, GF brown leaf for me. That's a one off as we had heard how good it was there. But that's my big shop for the month between As6a, Li6l and Icebob. I need to make some pastry for apple pies and lemon tarts and cakes for their lunch.