July 2022 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

£15.43 spent in Mr S and £4.40 spent on c0-0p since last post.

£125.97/£250.
£124.03 left.

thriftwizard

£65 spent at the market this morning, which did include £14-worth of olives, hummous & samosas from the Greek Deli stall, as it's going to be a scorcher of a weekend. So I'm now at £253.28 - nearly halfway through the budget, nowhere near halfway through the month, and haven't yet done the L!dls run!  I will sort that out early next week, but we shouldn't need anything else much until next Thursday.

CynicalPinnacle

£5.35 at the bakery today. I am wondering if I should get my sourdough starter going again, but it's small local bakery and we supported them throughout all the lockdowns, plus I'm not sure when I would find the time since the boy came along.

£146.97/£550, £403.03 remaining.

After discovering some very out of date tofu and the lingering remains of our Brexit/Covid stockpile, I've been detemined to get a better handle on what we already have, and use stuff up before it goes bad. The tofu had a Use By date and all the stuff I found on the internet said bin it. It's probably old hat to a lot of the GCers but I've been doing a Jack Monroe style stocktake, and have used up some soured cream in a lemon cake and loaded sweet potato skins today (I de-veganised the recipe), as well as made a cheat's lasagne which will do us another meal.

I've also discovered that I own 6 different types of vinegar, and not one of them that I would put on my chips😄.

JingsMyBucket

@Doom_and_Gloom wow, can you please link to the oyster mushroom kit that you bought online? We’d love to add that to our household. 

JingsMyBucket

@otb666 that’s terrible to hear about your MIL. My condolences and at least the poor thing went peacefully on the night. I hope your husband and your family are weathering this well. 

@Greying_Pilgrim thanks for linking to the site with the pea pod soup. I found a darn good looking greens and lentil coconut curry that I will try when we get back home.  https://eatscrumptious.co.uk/greens-lentil-coconut-curry/

We’ll have a lot of spinach from the garden to use up after being away for a couple weeks. 

PipneyJane

Good morning All

Happy Saturday!  I have one shop to declare: £11.23 spent in L!dl last night.  When I finally logged out from work yesterday evening, at 8.20pm, my DH insisted that we walk down there.  To be fair, I needed the walk - I needed the stretch and the de-stressing effects - but I was still surprised when, on the walk back, he announced that he was very hungry and hadn’t realised how late it was. < sigh >.

We went to get milk.  What I normally do is buy 2L, decant a litre and freeze it. We get through about a litre a week.  Yesterday morning, the milk in the fridge was looking a little low and I asked DH “Should I defrost a bottle or do we buy fresh this weekend?”.  He opted for the latter.

Anyway, what did we buy?  2L milk £1.35, bran flakes 59p, high protein granola on special 2x99p, YS quiche £1.76, Oaties 2x59p, YS premium fresh pasta 2x£1.50 and a YS Turkey escalopes pack of 2 for £1.39.  

The above brings our total spend to £46.23/£140.00 leaving £93.68 for the rest of the month.

- Pip



PS:  We finally ate dinner - a French Lentil Salad - at 10pm.  Fortunately, I’d cooked and dressed the lentils on Thursday night.  (Homemade vinaigrette.)  But I still needed to slice and add spring onions and red peppers, then stir in a pack of pickled anchovies. (Not tinned/salted.). Fortunately, I had been so wound up by work that I wasn’t hungry yesterday evening.


ETA: it takes about 40 hours to defrost a 1L bottle of milk in our fridge

joedenise

Went to lots of different SMs yesterday and have now spent £62.32/£250.  This leaves me with £183.68 for the rest of the month so definitely doable as have plenty of fish and meat in the freezer.  It's mainly fruit, veg and bread that we will need.

£5 of the spend was on a TGTG bag from the Italian Deli but quite honestly it just wasn't worth the money so won't be using that again.  Had hoped we might get some plain fresh pasta but the only pasta we got was a takeaway tub of pasta in tomato sauce which we'll split for lunch along with a piece of pizza which was also in the bag.  Will have that with some salad.

mumtoomany

Went into town as OH needed a new alternator belt. Two motorist shops, nobody had the right size! Now ordered online. Did a bit of shopping while there. Veg shop, home bargains and Aldi, also bought milk locally on Thursday. Total for these is £26.83. New total so far is £1441.10/£2640, getting back on track now. Have lots of food in, including leftover vegi stuff DD left behind. Slowly feeding that to grandchildren. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

PipneyJane

Evening All and welcome to everyone who is new

I have another spend to declare. DH was out-and-about today and popped into MrT’s for a cold drink.  £6.59 spent on a packet of mixed peppers, four YS packets of chicken livers 350g each for 82p a pack, a bag of new potatoes and the cold drink.  

While I was repaying him from the GC purse, I cleaned out £2.18 in shrapnel:  one £2 coin, 2x5p and the rest in coppers.  They’ve gone to their separate money-boxes upstairs. (The £2 coin money box is also called The Running Away Fund.)

The above brings our total spend for July  to £55.10/£140, leaving £84.90 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

Smoosh

A few more spends.

75p yesterday on soap.

Then £6.08 on ice cream (YS - £4.05 from £5.79), a bacon and sausage sandwich (YS - 44p from £2.95), an egg sandwich (YS - 38p from £2.55), a chicken pasta salad (YS - 84p from £3.49) and some Quorn chicken slices (YS - 37p from £2.49).

Really fancied some strawberries today so spent £5.31 on those along with cream and pancakes (YS - 87p from £2.29).

We've spent £126.99/£230