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September 2020 Grocery Challenge
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sarahj1986 said:sarahj1986 said:elsiepac said:
Budgets updated to here
@PipneyJane well done on your amazing surplus! I've updated your budget
@sarahj1986 welcome back!
@zafiro1984 no problem - I tend to leave names on for a few months or if they are regulars, even if they don't declare for a bit - it just makes it a bit quicker and easier for me doing the budgets!
@taka welcome back!
@VickyV welcome!
@Pixiehouse55 - £300
€44.14 spent today
I’ve bought some meat, salad stuff, veg, fruit, eggs, frozen bits, crate of beer for my husband, pasta, bin bags, milk, big block of spanish cheese and cheddar cheese. This should do us a week although I need to go back in tomorrow to get water and some fizzy pop. I couldn’t carry it all in one go.€305.86 left
picked up water and mozzy plug in as I’m being eaten alive. I do get bitten anyway but even more so now there’s no tourists round.€297.86 left
€11.09 in Mercadona and €45.01 in Aldi
Mercadona small shop because we’ve moved further away from them and there is a few items I like to get from there. We were up that way so stocked upAldi was a top up on fruit, potatoes, milk, yogurts, Porridge, sugar, chicken on offer, nappies, fizzy pop and beer for my husband. Shouldn’t need to go back in there until mid next week for more fresh items. They’ve changed the offer days and there’s things I want to buy on Wednesday so I’ll be able to hold out until then.Edit - got a slow cooker from a charity shop yesterday. They are incredibly expensive here so it was a snatch. Bring on the colder months for stews€241.76:money::rotfl::T8 -
£17.65 this week. I bought a lot of tins this week because you can never have too many tins, which is fine except they're pretty heavy. I'll be making another attempt at veggie burgers but this time with vital wheat gluten, so hopefully that'll help with the texture.Grocery Challenge
2020: £739.83 / £880
2019: £166.20 / £2205 -
Hi can I please join, my budget is £300 for 3 going down to 2 people. I have been over budget pretty much every month since lockdown, because budget is based on 2 people and not 3 people and food was our only entertainment! But now is the autumn term which for me means very low pay until my hourly pay goes through in november/december. So it's time to get it together.
So so far I have used £97/300 my budget goes 27th to 27th approx.Isa help to buy: 1000/3000 33%
Emergency fund: 100/1000 10%
Weight loose 8.6 kg - while having fun. 0/8.6 0%
Focus debt to clear HSBC £10/1111, 0% updated May 256 -
moneyonmymindsam said:So plus one goes on an unauthorised spending spree to buy some biscuits and left them in the shop! Now £2 down and nothing to show for it.
Oh my days!
Sam
Home Pizza tonight, chicken roast tomorrow (potatoes need using up) and no other plans yet. The bacon needs to be eaten up soon so looking at bacon eggs Monday night that is if I don't get cajouled (is that a word?? Lol) into doing pigs in blankets with the chicken (!) Sadly no little visitors so cupboard full of skips and kinder but I can use those up in the week alongside lunches or for snacks.
Had a good day so far up at really early to give dogs walk, and clean the house, bathed, been shopping, tonight will be a film and pamper night as I have some foot socks and a face pack to use up.
Hope everyone OK and well
Sam x
Grocery challenge Feb £107/£100-epic fail due to cake and biscuits
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sarahj1986 said:Edit - got a slow cooker from a charity shop yesterday. They are incredibly expensive here so it was a snatch. Bring on the colder months for stews€241.76Grocery challenge Feb £107/£100-epic fail due to cake and biscuits
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Welcome to ditty 😊🤗Grocery challenge Feb £107/£100-epic fail due to cake and biscuits
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Hi
Small local shop today £8.05. Online shop coming tomorrow morning.
Hope everyone is well 😊
Pix
Xx🎄The most wonderful time of the year 🎄6 -
I needed to get some cash from the ATM at our local Co-op last night and I got in just as they were doing the final reductions so I picked up a bag of satsumas for 25p, a pack of apples for 25p, a savoy cabbage for 10p, some fresh smoked haddock for 50p, 2 family size steak pies for 75p each a loaf of bread for 15p
Not bad for £2.75
The pies have been put in the freezer, the haddock has been turned into fish cakes and they have joined the pies ( No wonder my freezer isn't going down.......... lol) the cabbage is being used for dinner and the fruit won't last long in this house
Total spend so far this month £48.35.
And still loads in the freezer............... in my defence it is a 5 foot chest freezer!
Dinner is roast chicken, roast potatoes, parsnips that I found at the bottom of the freezer, savoy cabbage, roast carrots, stuffing and yorkshire puds.
We don't have a dessert usually because we never have room after dinner, but I will have six yorkshire puds left and might indulge in my fave snack when we are watching telly tonight which is cold yorkshire puddings and jam.
DS has asked for his favourite chicken and veg crumble tomorrow so that will finish the chicken up.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
Not Buying it 2015!6 -
£38.63 for my click and collect shop today. That'll be us apart from milk and bread for the coming week hopefully.
I've made campfire stew (a Pinch of Nom recipe) which does two of us for four dinners and a chickpea and chorizo soup for my lunches for the week. Ate one portion of the stew tonight, so that's three dinners in the freezer now.
Freezers are groaning so I'm trying to use some of the contents in there this week. I'll need to get a meal plan on the go!
£41.98/£2505 -
Spent this afternoon foraging and came home with blackberries and apples from three different trees. Had to spend £4 at the local T*sco for the Merlot necessary to make another batch of bbc good food's blackberry liqueur but did use a voucher that was about to expire so that brings me to £43.03/£200.
Can anyone recommend a recipe for crab apples that uses them in slices that shows off their lovely colour? One of the trees I visited this pm had ping pong ball sized, deliciously sweet, gloriously yellow fruit that are just crying out for an open tart or something very similar. Thanks in advance, goldfinches.6
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