September 2021 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

£32.97 spent in W8rose this morning, a fair amount of that stocking up on teas (green, & green with lemon) for the girls and coffee for OH. Also £8 on frozen fish - the market fishmonger's on holiday - and £2 on burgers for DS3, who doesn't eat fish. Apart from that, just rice & noodles for the store cupboard, as we were getting low.

scotmumof3

First shop of the month for me today. Spend of £54.69 at T3sco. Should probably do us about 10 days hopefully   I still have some chicken breasts left over from last month so will be stretching that out a little for curry etc.
Hope everyone is having a good day

Balancinglife

Hi 
I spent £57 this weekend.
£48 in ald1
£5 in a pound shop - baking paper as none in ald1 and a few snacks.
£4 on goodtogo - a shop close by was on the app so thought I’d test it out. 

£197/£350

LadyWithAPlan

 Grocery spending Sept  is now £34.13/£170
Had a friend round after a lovely walk in the sun so had to grab some milk stuff for her and then I bought more sweets  and some crisps.. Clearly junk food is turning out to be my biggest expense so far!
Oh well the first step is acknowledging the problem ..

goldfinches

@nannygladys, @joedenise and @LadyWithAPlan - thankyou all very much for your suggestion of a separate household non-consumables pot which did cheer me up no end. I've decided to do that forthwith and implement it retrospectively from the beginning of this month.
That means that I'm removing the expenditure on flowers, washing-up brushes, WD40, bicycle pumps, and the distilled vinegar used for the washing machine and ad hoc descaling from my accumulated total which makes my amended total for this month £21.22/£120 !  

I do also have to add a small shop done today primarily because this morning I realised I was about to run out of milk and yoghurt plus I finished the wholegrain mustard and the balsamic vinegar when I made my lunchtime salad dressing. However, I did very well on y/s items that are in my meal plan for this week so think I should now be able to get to Saturday before needing anything more.
So I went to M*rks and bought 4x milk, 1 kg f/f greek style yoghurt, wholegrain mustard, balsamic vinegar, y/s tenderstem, y/s portobello mushrooms, y/s cucumber, y/s sugarsnap peas, y/s baby leeks, y/s romaine hearts and 4 x y/s radishes with leaves for £12.11 and then got another 50p off the mushrooms from using my Sparks card so the final bill was £11.61.

That makes my new total £32.83/£120 and my average daily spend £5.47.  Hooray, much more respectable figure for this early in the month and sorry for the essay.

If you're still reading, guess what I tripped over this morning - yes, the missing bicycle pump - of course I've already taken the new one out of its shrink wrapping so I can't return it now!

poppysmic

Haven't spent any more in the supermarket, but stupidly left my lunch at home today (hectic first day back in the classroom!) so spent £3 on lunch at work brings me now to £12.79. 

I'll definitely have to watch lunch spends, I think. I'm a teacher and the college canteen is pretty reasonable, so it's easy to be careless. OH has just begun his PGCE, too, so I think a bit more lunch planning is necessary! If anyone has any lunch ideas that are a bit more exciting than a few soggy sandwiches, I'm all ears 

Suffolk_lass

Just to add to @joedenise's post - I keep a treats and entertainment pot, which includes any snack foods (sucker for C&O crisps with lunch), alcohol, ice cream or chocolate, as well as a drink at the pub or meals out. All my things like washing up brushes are random. Bleach I buy in the SM do that is groceries, but (for example) the brush and paper cake tin liners I picked up while getting a couple of things for DS's house yesterday (saucepans, cutlery spatulas), went on the CC for DH to reimburse all but those from the other house fund.

In the 8 years he has been there they have lost all but two dessert spoons, and someone burned the bottom of the saucepan that their steamer layers attached to, and threw it out. He did find lots of bits that were awol, like the lid of a cast iron casserole in the back of a cutlery drawer... I suppose that is what you get with a couple of tenants.

jozbo

Grocery spend to log … £2.29 at MrT’s on Sunday - big bottle of lemonade for the half bottle of pimms I found in the cupboard, and 2 bags of YS potatoes that have already been baked and put into the freezer for quick dinners.

so total spends so far -
£106.6 L*dl
£73.50 veg and fruit box (last month, have now made this less regular so will be £50ish next month)
£2.29 Mr Ts
Total £182.39/£300
so £117.61 remaining

elsiepac

Hey guys - how typical with the bicycle pump @goldfinches!! 

Still not spent since my last summary.  Used up the last of my fresh veg today for lunch - most of a cucumber which I ribboned using the box grater and about 7 radishes, which i sliced and then I had a bottle of W1cked Kitchen cucumber and dill salad dressing in the cupboard that I've not tried before so I dressed it with a little of that, and then I topped it with a bag of Nak3d Glory BBQ Tenderstrips that actually went off on 4 Sep but tasted fine and had been fridged and sealed so I went for it!  It was actually a very nice combo!

I literally only have about 1/4 of a broccoli fresh now but I'm going to keep trying to live off what I have for as long as I can manage as I have a decent amount of frozen veg and the prepped mixes that I bought the other day.

Tightpants24

First week of the month was £90.84 click and collect.  But we did go out for an anniversary meal too which was a bit pricey (not from grocery budget though) 😅