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August 2021 Grocery Challenge

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  • elsiepac
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    @Suffolk_lass I'm jealous of your squash production!! 
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  • pamsdish
    pamsdish Posts: 2,585 Forumite
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    edited 12 August 2021 at 10:40AM
    I love the mini pumpkins cut into wedges and roasted.
    I am also too far away.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • PipneyJane
    PipneyJane Posts: 4,652 Forumite
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    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
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