August 2021 Grocery Challenge

elsiepac

£30 set from 12 Aug - 29 Aug inclusive.

12 Aug - £2.75 L1dl on 3 bags salad leaves and bag of radishes - £27.25 remaining

Suffolk_lass

'Tis the squash season. I am getting courgettes and cucumbers every day and I swear the pumpkin is a triffid the way it is spreading, having grown through the rabbit protection wire, it is off across the garden! Hoping I do not get more than four this year as I still have bags of it in my produce freezer. I have plenty of courgettes prep'd and frozen ready to add to cooking come winter.

Shopping wise I went, I shopped and I returned with £81.98 and £42.08 of stores bought. Good job I minimise my trips. I spent ten minutes entering their once a month £200 customer survey draw. I don't usually do these but I was winding down from a six hour drive (bicycle related) and so I did. 

elsiepac

@Suffolk_lass I'm jealous of your squash production!! 

Suffolk_lass

elsiepac said:

@Suffolk_lass I'm jealous of your squash production!! 

it's worse than that! I still have butternuts in a paper sack from last year, and about 8 mini pumpkins I never get around to fancying. If you are in Suffolk, PM me and I can leave some out for you!

pamsdish

I love the mini pumpkins cut into wedges and roasted.
I am also too far away.

elsiepac

Suffolk_lass said:

elsiepac said:

@Suffolk_lass I'm jealous of your squash production!! 

it's worse than that! I still have butternuts in a paper sack from last year, and about 8 mini pumpkins I never get around to fancying. If you are in Suffolk, PM me and I can leave some out for you!

Sadly I'm in Gloucestershire so a bit of a trek but if I was closer you'd have no surplus

threepenny_bit

spent a bit on household stuff, vitamins and then a small food top up and now at 3/4 of my monthly budget spent ugh! Need to have another review of the freezer and meal plan again. 

threepenny_bit

pamsdish said:

I love the mini pumpkins cut into wedges and roasted.
I am also too far away.

That sounds lovely - I have a small acorn squash that I should use like that and maybe have some kind of spicy mince on the side.

goldfinches

@Suffolk_lass - I'm just sitting here drooling and regretting that I also don't live in Suffolk. Pumpkin/courgette envy is clearly the chic complaint to have this week. 

ETA: I forgot to add my spend because I was so taken with the idea of relocating to Suffolk in order to enjoy the bountiful harvests.

I've been exemplary since the idiocy chronicled in my previous post and have only spent £2.15 on a new pair of rubber gloves for the kitchen which were needed because the previous pair suddenly became sticky.

That makes my new total £37.81/£124 and my average daily spend is running at a very healthy £2.52. Wow what a difference a few days make. Hooray. 

PipneyJane

Afternoon All

I am miles behind on posts - only on page 6 - so I’ll apologise in advance if I have missed anything.  I’ve been working long days and haven’t had the brain-space to read the boards. 

I’ve got 5 spends to declare.  Monday 2nd August, I popped to L!dl in my lunchbreak and attempted to do a “big shop” to kick-start the month.  £25.48 spent.  They didn’t have any onions and I totally forgot to buy wraps for the fajitas I’d planned to make that night. When DH phoned to say he was on his way home, I asked him to pick up the wraps on the way.  Another £2.10 spent on 2 packets of wraps and 1kg of onions, also in L1dl.

On Saturday 7th, we spent £4.97 in MrT’s.  Made the fatal mistake of popping in while we didn’t have the shopping list with us.  Spent 90p on 2 tubs of potato salad, 54p on a YS avocado and bought a YS pizza for lunch the next day.  (Can’t remember what else we bought.).

We were back in MrT’s the next day,  with the shopping list.  A further £11.24 spent, which included 4 x £1 litre bottles of concentrated squash, 2L skimmed milk, YS bagels and 600g YS mushrooms for £1.18.  (I can’t buy them in L!dl for that price.)

Yesterday, DH popped int Sainsbugs on his way home from work and checked out the “condemned counter”.  He purchased 2x 500g minced chicken for 74p each marked down from £3 each (£1.48 total spend).  The packaging comes with a recipe for tacos, but I may use one of the boxes to make a chicken meatloaf.  (Can anyone recommend a recipe, please???)

Finally, today, I dropped into L!dl on my way home from work - I actually went into an office(!) - to stock up on chocolate coated Oaties, which are on offer this week on L!dl+.  (Oaties are their version of Hobnobs.). £9.86 spent on 6 packets of Oaties (£2.82 with the offer), 2 packs of Brazil nuts(on offer, 2x £1.19), 4 packs of penne (4x 29p), a family pack of onions (2kg for £1), and, to my joy, 2 YS packets of pickled anchovies (2x £1.25).   The anchovies are long-dated, too.  (They are white and not salty.)  I add them to my version of a Warm French Lentil Salad.

The above brings my total spend for August to £53.90/£140, leaving £86.10 for the rest of the month.

- Pip