September 2021 Grocery Challenge

ancientmum

Hello elsiepac and fellow challengers.  Please can I set my budget at £70 for 1st to 30th September.  I've just gone over my August budget stocking up cupboards and freezer, so this should be enough.

nannygladys

Just a quick one from me, no money has left my purse today so I haven't spent anything yet! Can't quite believe it but I'm making sure all perishables are being used some how before I buy anymore.
Nannyg

LunaCatty

Hi, I'd like to join again this month please. We've still got overfull freezers and cupboards - and now so many jars of jam, fruit fillings, and sauces for the Winter that I've run out of storage space - so should just be top-up basics again. I think £150 for September for grocery and household including cat food. We are adding 2 new little ones (cats) this month, so some of that will be kitten food as we swap them over to our adult cat food gradually. Thanks!

Jellybaby

Spent a huge, for me, £65 at the weekend which leaves approx £28 each week for the rest of September EEK!   Hopefully doable as it should only be fruit, veg and some packed lunch bits for DS.   A lot cooler here, almost time to get the soup pot out!

LLM2018

Hello, I am going to aim for £75 again for September x

Money_Choices

Thanks Elsiepac for starting this thread.

My (food only) spending target for this month is £85.
Like KS9and Felines I am waiting for a start date for a job. My future employer is doing all the employment checks but it seems to be taking a long time. I've been told by a lot of people that this is normal for this employer.

Hope KS9and Felines soon gets a start date for their new employer.

Money Choices

nannygladys

Hi all,

No money spent and most of the day spent working on the allotment, I'm a slow worker!! Collected enough veg to last me the week, especially if I like cabbage!! 

Nannyg

Balancinglife

Morning 
spent £140 this weekend, £80 was in QS on toiletries, laundry and cleaning supplies. 

My superstar mum picked up some YS items for me on Sunday which will cover most meat meals for the rest of the month. Only DH and DD are meat eaters in the house but most of the time DD likes to select the veggie option. 

£140/£350 spent

MissRikkiC

Afternoon all, a few spends from me to declare but already feeling better about the monthly budget than i was. DH seems to be thinking with our purse strings a little more than usual which is helpful - also means he is complaining less about eating certain foods. 

£60.27 spent so far - we also have a daily food hub (a waste preventing tactic) in our town so have also used that once a week and ALWAYS manage to get through everything. The only exception to that is salad leaves - we never get to using the whole bag! 

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

I'm going for £174.52 - very specific, because it has to be!! Very tight few months starting due to poor decision making.

Anyway, I've actually spent a lot as per my usual MO - I did my sort of monthly trip to W41trose yesterday for my "special" vegan items - mainly some different tofus I can't get locally, a load of Koko cheese, a load of the bagel thins I like and freeze, some fake chicken I can't get locally and was on offer... you get the picture. 

Also I've really really been struggling with preparing proper food in the last few months.  Those of you who know me of old know that I am normally (or I guess, used to be) really good at batch cooking and eating my veggies and cooking and preparing from scratch.  Post covid I'm still struggling with life.  And the last few months with these vitamins deficiencies it caused or triggered have meant I have no physical energy along with my lack of mental good health...

The point is, I've literally only just realised that I have been making it harder for myself by trying to be perfect and then wasting a lot of food and buying convenience items instead because most of the time I just don't seem to have it in me to prep proper stuff.  It's not helping me feel happy!  So I also picked up some frozen bags of soffrito (I think that's the right word - basically onion carrot and celery ready chopped) and also frozen med veg in little tiny pieces like the soffrito.  I'm hoping that by doing little shortcuts like this will make it easier to get back into prepping/batching/eating properly again as I really need to try for my health, sanity and purse!! 

Hope everyone has a great September!