May 2021 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

Dog at vets again, not looking good, called for petrol, needed some occasion cards, stuck my head in £shop, and as I had used their car park M0rr1es, all y.s. items 2 belly joints, assorted cheeses.

GSDMum

pamsdish said:

Dog at vets again, not looking good, 

Hope all turns out well x

PipneyJane

pamsdish said:

Dog at vets again, not looking good, called for petrol, needed some occasion cards, stuck my head in £shop, and as I had used their car park M0rr1es, all y.s. items 2 belly joints, assorted cheeses.

Hope all turns out well.  ((((((((((( pamsdish )))))))))))

- Pip

pamsdish

GSDMum said:

pamsdish said:

Dog at vets again, not looking good, 

Hope all turns out well x

PipneyJane said:

pamsdish said:

Dog at vets again, not looking good, called for petrol, needed some occasion cards, stuck my head in £shop, and as I had used their car park M0rr1es, all y.s. items 2 belly joints, assorted cheeses.

Hope all turns out well.  ((((((((((( pamsdish )))))))))))

- Pip

Thanks both for your good wishes, they worked, apparently I have a dog in perfect health, albeit with swollen lymph glands which are causing her tremendous pain, options are, another scan with a specialist, or an mri, she is fine with all the major things, eating, drinking etc, blood work all perfect.
She had a fall 4 weeks ago doing zoomies, a greyhound thing, put her foot in a hole, the only thing I  can think of, just hopefully control the pain with meds and hope the swollen glands go down.

Sallyp2

Urgh small spends this week 
Veg & fruit box £21.60 / Morrison £16.09 / JS £12.95 / milkman £5.53
total spend £56.17
new total £200.81 / £320
will go over budget for sure but this thread is keeping me mindful

Sallyp2

BTW anyone watch Martin Lewis extreme savers last night? Loved the grocery challenge, the lady couldn’t buy anything until she had used up her fridge freezer and stores. Perhaps I will take inspiration from this 😏

Happy_Sloth

Bread and onions for me yesterday (£1.60) taking my total to £31.18 spent / £300 Budget

Finstickle

Spend is going well this well this week.  My mum did the food shop this week (she's staying with us at the moment) and we've only gone seperately to get some beer and wine last weekend.
We did get a chinese takeaway last night as the stepkids got very good school reports so treattime for them.  We obviously bought too much but should give us tea for 2 tonight and SS took lunch on with him.  I normally put take-aways in a seperate budget, but as we have the space this month leaving it in groceries.

Starting to struggle a bit with all the things my mum doesn't eat (curry, thai, middle eastern, too spicy, beef mince, anything made from beef mince, sweet potato, tuna, macaroni cheese, vegetarian meals, couscous, lentils) and also all the things she's never had so not sure about, even choosing something from the Chinese was hard.  In fairness, she says she's always enjoyed everything I've cooked - but that is because I'm fully catering, although, as she's buying the food cost wise it's less of an issue, just a bit tricky when someone eats very different to the way I cook.
She tends to coook us a roast on a Sunday and is going to do a shepherd's pie next wednesday (weekday stepkids visit), but i am missing a curry!!! 

I'm on £181.49/£450

t14cy_t

spends og £1 in tesco and £4 in morrisons as i had lots of coupons and vouchers to use up! also had community larder yesterday so full to the brim again!! off to see mum on monday (at last) so will take a large box of provisions to keep her going. 

joedenise

Shopping this morning and managed to get everything on my list for just over £20 which I'm pleased about.  Plenty of food in the freezer but will need to spend on a few things in the next town when I go early next week but most of it will come from Bulk Fund not Groceries.  Currently have £144.68/£250 left for the rest of the month so seem to be doing OK.