September 2020 Grocery Challenge

Tealadys

Quick shop at Asd! yesterday morning.
Spent £11.23, all YS, section was really full got peppers and potatoes, then the other reduced section was full with meat and all sorts.  Got a bit carried away but just enough room in freezer, must try and avoid doing this too often and start using up what I already have!.

£66.73 spent, £23.27 left.

nannygladys

HI everyone
Wednesday I did a small shop and went over the £5 mark just, so I will have to adjust my budgets as I know I wont be able to keep in budget, but I wont be far over. Freezer and cupboard audit coming up!!!
Nannyg

Esthermate

£20 today.
£80/£120

moneyonmymindsam

All spent out £29.97 from £30 week budget to last to 18/11
Have a fab weekend 
Samx

goldfinches

Spent £1.45 on tomatoes this morning, but lunch did show it was worth it, they are delicious. Then on the way back snapped up pyrex jug and really good hand towel from a charity shop so another £2. Then this afternoon spent £6 on new digital scales, £3 on pyrex mixing bowl, £1 on a small tray and £6 on a new, large mug all from town centre charity shop.
So altogether that comes to £19.45 which brings me to the frightening total of £96.23/£200.
The problem with shopping in charity shops is that when someone with your taste/interests donates you tend to want lots of the things they gave. Time to have another rummage through the freezer I think. 
Night all and sweet dreams, goldfinches.

mumtoomany

Spent £19.58 yesterday, this did include 2kg of cheese. Total to date £86.58/£200. Not too bad almost half way through September. Have written inventories of both freezers, now just need to use what's in them! Mumtoomany.

goldfinches

Had to do a top up shop for milk, yoghurt, radishes, cucumber, lettuce, lemons, tonic water, y/s pineapples and cherry toms to try out Nigella's moonblush tomato recipe. That little lot came to £11.60 so my new total is £107.83/£200. Now what can I make with green marbled lentils and fresh pineapple? Night all, goldfinches.

thriftwizard

A massive £90 spent between yesterday & today, stocking up for the next week and beyond! £10 of that went on a sack of spuds this morning, partly because OH was worried that we might run out despite having half an allotment full of the things. I'm sure there'll be more, but I don't need to cater for Wednesday - we'll be eating at the wedding reception! - and next Saturday I'll be off camping for 5 nights, with 2 of the Offspring and a couple of friends, and the food bill for that comes out of the holiday fund. There'll be plenty in the freezer, the allotment, the nest boxes and the fridge to sustain OH & DD2, who are staying at home, but I'll give them a bit of grocery money just in case.

mooomin

Spent what felt like a huge amount at Tesc0 and Sainsbobs yesterday, but not all of it came out of the grocery budget, so I'm currently at £79.74/£250.  I got some tomatoes to use up, which I did by making tomato, red pepper and lentil soup.  I'm not buying meat this week, as I have a tonne in the freezer, so I'm hoping that the next week will be minimal spends while I try and cycle through some of the food that's been sitting there for goodness knows how long!

Gammon steak for dinner tonight, soup for lunch all next week  

BrassicWoman

I'm back from my week's UK holidays with a friend, where I spent nothing much on groceries except for diet cola (I am a brand snob and while I don't usually have fizzy drinks I like some on my hols). I did spend lots from my holiday budget on nice take out, seeing as we could not go anywhere really!

Because we had loads planned for an overseas holidays which did not happen (quite glad) and because I think it's safer to be indoors for now (personal choice, no judgement!) I have got a few bits for the home instead; a stacking can rack, a lined funnel to make nut and grain milks, a dehydrator stand for my oven (well, for a ninja really but I am sure it will work in the oven) and a rug to cover the carpet for when I am doing exercise at home.

I am worried I am becoming a bit too much of a paranoid prepper. I do think there's  period coming up though when sitting in a cosy kitchen with the oven on low and slow, as it turns the slightly wilted weekly veg into dried veg for future soups and stews, might be quite nice.

The village I was staying in with my friend did have a health food shop so I got some dried beans and a couple of nut roasts; and I had my "welcome home" supermarket delivery yesterday - fruit, veg, few extra tins, and rice milk was on at a good price. 
I have about £35 left, which is just enough for a delivery from the wholefoods place next weekend - that should see me to month end. 

I have also gone a little bit organisationally OTT. I'm using an app to track my pantry contents. Slightly shocked how much tomato puree I found when I looked in all of the cupboards. It's a) reassured me I can live off what I have for a good while even if home deliveries get tough again; and b) will let me check what I need versus want, and if it's worth taking advantage of good prices.

Today's cooking has been tofu scramble with peppers and spring greens, and chia pudding. Might make some bread in the slow cooker later; I'll see what the temperature is like later on. It can wait until a colder day.

Looking forward to catching up on the thread!