September 2021 Grocery Challenge

Purple_kitten

First spend of the month is Lidls and a square £44.00

Just so I know the animals were 6.49 and the middle of lidl, metal carabinas were £7.98.

Pixiehouse55

£13.25 Asdi 
£8.51 Lidi   yesterday 

goldfinches

It's been a blazing hot day here and I spent this afternoon at a local wildlife hospital so succumbed to the lure of an easy dinner from the supermarket on the way home only to discover, on looking at my receipt just now, that I somehow didn't manage to scan one of my two purchases properly so I've not paid for it. Ooops! 
I'll have to go back with the wrapper tomorrow, I think, as it's the Mr T Express which is effectively my corner shop so I'd feel awful if I didn't. 

Anyway, for now, I spent £1.30 on f/f cottage cheese and nothing on a baguette which makes my new total £34.13/£120 and my average daily spend £4.26.

Here is one of the patients we saw.



She got too close to a strimmer and lost an eye as well as other injuries we were told, her name is Scarlett.

Finstickle

£9.54 in the Co-op this morning.
Bacon, bread and milk as well as 2 packs of YS Cumberland sausages - one will do for tonight's dinner and one for the freezer.

New total £171.97/£495

thriftwizard

Just about to add £67 to my total, spent yesterday at the baker's (£5.75) and today at the butcher's (£35.18, large chicken w'giblets, sausages & mince) Grape Tree (£7.98 on ACV for chutney & pickling) and W8rose (yogurt, cream, mustard, raisins, sugar, orange juice, cream cheese & a handful of large spuds) - you can detect from that lot that I'll be making chutney & pickles all weekend! 

I'm kind of sad to buy some spuds; apart from the weekend when I was working away, when OH bought some because he "couldn't find" the very large sack of spuds in the conservatory, I haven't bought any since I started digging up the Desirées at the allotment about 6 weeks ago. But I need quick & simple this evening, and it's "eat it up with baked potatoes" day before re-stocking with fresh stuff at the market tomorrow, and there are no large spuds for baking left in the sack! There probably are some still in the ground; every spare square inch of allotment seems to have produced "feral" potatoes this summer, but it's raining, and I haven't got time to pop over there as DD2 & I are doing lunch for DDiL (HM paninis & HG salad) and looking after the baby/doing the housework this afternoon so she can get some rest as DS2's back to work now. But I'm patting myself on the back a bit at having basically fed 5 adults all the spuds they can eat - roast, wedged, chipped, baked & boiled - for 6 weeks! And you should see/taste the sweetcorn... 

Just a note for those of you inclined (or in a position) to forage; it's a cracking year for blackberries, etc. down here, and hopefully elsewhere. Pile in before it goes wet & cool for too long for them to ripen up, and fill your freezer & jam jars! Crab apples & sloes are also producing in abundance, though elderberries seem thin on the ground & I haven't seen any Japonica quinces in the urban hedgerows. Cobnuts don't seem to be ripe yet.

elsiepac

@goldfinches how lovely to help at the sanctuary and poor little Scarlet!! She's in good hands now thank goodness.  My mum seems to have acquired a new hedgehog after a couple of years with no evidence of any - lots of hedgie sized nuggets left around so she has warned dad to be extra careful with the strimmer!

@thriftwizard I'm now craving potatoes which is basically the one starch I don't have in so thanks for that! 

I have just done a rough but comprehensive inventory of everything I have in the house.  Some things I have quite a few of as I can't buy them locally so I get a few when I am further afield at the big shops (see Thai curry paste, mixed wild and basmati rice, risotto rice and jasmine rice!).  See my scribbles for interests sake.  I want to try and live off all this for as long as poss.  The only downfall is going to be the veg side of things, but I'll do what I can for as long as I can.  Just remembered I have a butternut in the cupboard as well so that's a bonus!

Finstickle

@thriftwizard

Yes!! 9 jars of Blackberry jam made yesterday, no spend required as had some preserving jam and lemon juice in (although both of those now fully used up).  

joedenise

Another small spend at the Farm Shop today as needed some salad stuff, bought a living lettuce, a few carrots, small cabbage (both for coleslaw, already have onions).  This leaves £188.12 for rest of month.

Must stop doing small shops - they are really adding up!

jozbo

Few more spends to declare
60p today on an i newspaper for the £5 off £25 Lidl spend
£13.70 Lidl - hoping this covers provisions for the next week

Remaining for the month is £95.82 out of £300

nannygladys

Small send £3.55 on a few bits today, mainly milk and ys cereal.
Goldfinches - poor Scarlet, one used to visit the garden last year but I haven't seen it this year, but I have left a hole in the gate so it can through.
Nannyg