July 2022 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

A careful £7.95 yesterday on yogurt & veg has left me just inside my budget, by £1.11p, and I can't go to the supermarket on Thursday as I usually do, so it might stay there & I'll re-stock on Friday, which is in August! BUT there's bound to be something vital that we've run out of tomorrow...

mumtoomany

Hi all. @Soontobeoap, the lifting is not a problem, I spend a lot of the spring "wrestling" sheep, and fortunately both children are walkers, albeit the one year old doesn't walk far. Also there is usually at least two adults at home, often more, so able to hand them to another when loading washer, etc. 
Added up the spends, came to £55.51, so new total for the year to date is £1522.81/£2640. back to where i should be for seven months in. Not much shopping will be done for the rest of the month, can't fit all five children in the car with us and DD1 and DS-in-L1 both working this week. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

atrixa

Calling it for the month at £144.63/£145. Pleased I've come in on budget

Valxx

Does everyone on here know about Iceland's 10% discount to everyone over 60? On Tuesdays. I tried it today. Fantastic!!

Soontobeoap

yes @Valxx. I have used icelands 10% discount twice now. It was originally until the end of July. Does anyone know if they have extended it? 

£24.00 spent in Sainsburys today. We were passing so it was the easiest place to collect bits for picnic with 3 boys in tow. We were looking for gluten free sausage rolls in the freezer section with the 10 year old. Looked around and discovered the 7 and 4 year old dancing in the isles! They have been a delight but I have realised that we both need to become a lot fitter. We also need to polish up on the latest music trends. 😅. I hope that the rest of you have done better than me this month.☹️. Really hope that it hasn’t done too much damage to my yearly target which I am determined to stick to.

wishus

Managed to spend bang on £10 in A*di yesterday. Might just make it!

goldfinches

The Baking Budget has taken another stern beating entirely due to the complete failure of Jus-Rol Gluten Free Ready Rolled Puff Pastry to puff when making palmiers for tomorrow's walking group. I'm really disappointed with the results which were so unsightly and inedible that I had to chuck the lot and hastily concoct something else. I had to rush up the road to buy two packets of gluten free digestives for the emergency recipe which cost £3 so my new Baking Budget total is £27.65/£20.

I've used the query facility on the Jus-Rol site to ask for help because I can't see where I went wrong so hopefully they'll be able to help because being able to buy gluten free pastry ready made really is a boon provided it bakes as one expects.

Then, of course, while I was there I had a look at the YS section, well it would be rude not to wouldn't it, when they've gone to all the trouble of labelling and moving it to a special shelf. I snapped up two 500g punnets of black grapes for £1.38 which makes my new monthly total £50.30/£120 and my average daily spend £1.93.

diminua

Met my Dad for a drink on Friday evening  £10.05 for a medium red wine and a pint - I'm sure that's gone up at least 10% this last year, but all the overheads have gone up, so I'm not surprised. Weekend shop was peaches, strawberries, squash, olives, tomatoes, oxo cubes (as a store cupboard item as I've already got an open pack) marmite, bread and milk. 

A Turkish deli has opened near work, so I got houmous and flatbreads and carrots, which is my home lunches sorted for the week. Today I got bread for toast and work lunches, pasta, pesto, tinned mackerel and anchovies and orange juice. 

Small extravagances: doughnut (Monday's sugary treat as there was no pain au chocolat) and fizzy drink. 

I have £15.52 left. 

London_1

Really pleased I've stayed away from any shopping since the 'big' one last week and my purse is definitely firmly shut tight and I have £14.63 still left nestling in there

 It will get deposited into my 'stash cash account on Friday (fingers crossed noting else need buying) but plentry of stuff left to eat this week and plentry of fruit and veg still left.

My daughter donating all those cherries helped a lot as I used those up, and the apples and pears are still untouched in the veg drawer of the fridge .I

 also ,because of the warm weather have half a cauli, a head of brocolli and a whole sweetheart cabbage in the veg drawer as well I steamed some of the cauli last night and theres enough left for tonights meal with also enough new potatoes and steamed carrots as well I try to steam the spud and two veg with enough left for the following day so I only use the steamer once yet get all three veg cooked on one ring Plus it gives me a night off from doing much cooking as well
 
Tonight I have a salmon fillet from the freezer, which I shall cook with some sweet chilli sauce and a squirt of garlic oil wrapped in foil in my Remoska, zap the veg in the microwave and job done in under 15 minutes.
Plain Greek yogurt for pudding with a dollop of honey mixed in and some diced grapes and thats pudding taken care of.

I have a nice large red pepper that I am going to stuff with some left over diced chestnut mushrooms and some cheese and cook in the 'moska for lunch as its a bit too warm for soup and crackers.

So plenty of food to juggle with and a good few NSDs which is even better  

JackieO xx

mumtoomany

Another £16.23 spent. Nappies for two little ones, milk and strawberries, many of which are eaten by M before we got to the till! Harvested lots of peas. Children helped to pod them. Now have peas, mostly without bite marks, mixed with fridge magnets! Total to date, £1539.04/£2640. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xx