September 2021 Grocery Challenge

nannygladys

No money spent, but made a cabbage pie using potatoes instead of pastry for the next two days dinners, hm tomato soup for lunches and dgd (eldest) made a bread and butter pudding which we both tried and it was delicious, it was her first one! So at least I'm sorted for food the next few days.
Nannyg

BadBookkeeper

£142.18/£320

Second weekly shop of the month came in at £65.00.  Really pleased with that as our budget is £80 a week.  Mixture of Aldee & T£sco.

Suffolk_lass

I went shopping with DH. It was a mistake. He does follow the list but does not look at offers or multi-buys. Apparently, neither do I read what the actual offer is, when worrying about time and what he is doing. I ended up mixing and not matching supermarket meat offers and missing the discounts I thought I was getting. As a result I spent £120.91. I am appalled and now going on their website to check it was my incompetence and not their labelling mistake. I think I know it was me.

Balancinglife

Hi
Spent more than the previous weeks = £87
£54 Ald!
£23 F@rm Food - bought a few of their offers like 12 tins tuna in spring water for £7. This will last a good couple of months. 

£10 in L!dl 

£284/£350 

Tightpants24

£89 this week from M0rri3sons.  I have become lazy since the lockdowns and have kept getting click and collect.  I need to get myself inside to look for bargains.  Two weeks running they have been out of milk due to delivery issues, so I have increased my local dairy order which is lovely but twice the price.

goldfinches

@elsiepac - forgot to say that it's possible to visit Haddenham by train and that the village itself is very picturesque. We spotted an interesting looking church, a duck pond by a village green and a promising looking pub with a garden so it might be worth making a day of it. 

I popped into M*rks yesterday, needing more milk, and mysteriously managed to spend more money than planned on cous cous and y/s fine beans, romaine hearts and butternut squash bringing my new total to £38.26/£120 and my average daily spend to £3.47. So that's pretty much on course and I've spent 31.88% of my months budget to date.

poppysmic

Spent £20.40 this week stocking up the cupboards in Mr T, which brings my total to £33.19. Although I'm still well on track to be under budget for this month, I'm a bit miffed with myself, as I could have been a bit savvier with that shop, I think. I stocked up on items (such as chickpeas) that we actually already had coming out of ears and didn't get so much of what we did need and will blitz through (chopped tomatoes, in particular).

I've found shopping quite stressful lately, actually! Think it's a combination of the sparse-ish shelves and an increasing absence of masks, social distancing, etc. I've been considering returning to online shopping, but we just don't buy enough to justify the minimum spend.  

Suffolk_lass

@poppysmic I'm with you on this. I have a face shield I am going to resume wearing (well I bought 20 face shields, actually). Not clinical level of protection but it stops the tiny airborne droplets landing on my face when someone sneezes or coughs, or even speaks, too close for my liking.

joedenise

I'm still wearing a face covering when I go into shops but agree that not many people are thinking the same way.  I've heard talk that there is a possibility that face coverings will become compulsory again in the Autumn - wish they'd stuck with face coverings indoors as compulsory.

jozbo

Still masking up indoors here too… seems mad not to.
been blackberry picking today and making a crumble with those and some topping I found in the freezer.
also making some roast potatoes to freeze from the YS pots I got earlier in the week and needed using up