August 2022 Grocery Challenge

MissRikkiC

otb666 said:

i just cant handle the stress of it all and after 30 years thought it was his turn and he really enjoys it and like I said as long as its not wasted even though a bit costly I do point him to cheaper options deals etc

You’re very fortunate to have a hub who doesn’t loathe it. I actually love food shopping and have always done, even as a kid I’d enjoy going with my mum, so to relinquish that control probably wouldn’t be good for me, but even if I did, im not sure he’d do as well as your OH seems to be

LittleGem

A little spend of £2.62 in L!dl - only needed bread, milk and some fizzy drink, bought two other (chocolate!) items and remembered I had a £2 coupon on my L!dl plus card, so that covered the chocs at least!
Would 100% recommend downloading the L!dl plus app if you shop in there at all, lots of discounts and coupons to be had.

need to do a bigger shop tomorrow (without the toddler in tow!) as we have a BBQ planned for the weekend so supplies will be needed. 

Anyway, still just about on track at £158.20/£200.

JIL

I confess that after having my babies I used to escape to the supermarket leaving my husband in charge.
A drive in the car, music blaring. A leisurely stroll with the trolley round the supermarket where I usually bumped into someone I knew for a chat. A cold drink and a bar of chocolate to demolish in the car before a leisurely drive home.
 It seemed to be just enough for a break.

London_1

Had the chicken and chorizo reduced empanadas last night that I had bought reduced from the S'burys part of Dobbies on Tuesday morning and they were delicious They were only 79p for half a dozen small ones but really tasty.Don't know if I would have paid full price for them though of £2.65 ! ! but at 79p they were a decent bargain

Today is definitely another NSD as I shall be making soup I have aa celery on I'm making from left over celery from DDs on Sunday and also I may peel and make some carrot and coriander soup as when I was in Dobbies on Tuesday I got a 500gm bag of carrots for 12p so well worth turning into soup
I have plenty of soup bags so once cold I can freeze in portions for later.

My next door neighbough knocked yesterday as said did I want her opened 4 pint of milk as she had bought it when she had visitors last weekend aand had about three quarters left and we going away herself for a few days .So that is going into my slow cooker to make a two pint rice pudding and I shall also make a pint of so of custaed with whats left over so nothing is going to waste.

Nothing required on my shopping list for the moment and I think probably I may be able to last until next Wednesday when its the start of a new month.So fingers crossed and I will have some left over cash to get squirrelled away  

JackieO xx

                                                                         £46.08/£64.    

                             £17.92 left from August budget, and only 6 more days left until the end of the month    

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning GC'rs!

Well, I have bust my (self-imposed "ideal") target 🙁 but at the mo my budget is still intact, so we've not done too badly.

I went to MrL today and there were some £1.50 boxes on offer - with most having a reasonable distribution of both fruit and veg.  So I picked the one that I thought was of most 'use' to us. 

In total I spent £10.06 in MrL - but £2.49 of that is from the treat budget as I bought a box of mini ice-creams.  Of the remaining £7.57 - £1.50 went on the veg box, and £1.39 went on a YS'd tub of All Purpose Seasoning - from MrL's Polish range I think.  The seasoning was £1.39 for a 1kg tub.  Rightly or wrongly, I'm working on the basis that if my budget is tight, if I have a few vegetables - however bendy - some beans and some stock, then I have at least the basis of a soup and therefore a meal.  So I've taken a punt on this seasoning, hope it pays off....... Anyone else use this product?

Eggs, milk and bread made up the rest of my purchases.  

I have a couple of items of fruit from the waste divert, along with the remainder of the bounty gifted by my friend, so we definitely have food in the house - I will try my hardest to not shop again before the month end, because if I can hold off (without causing us to keel over or make ourselves ill - no point in that!!), I should have about £21.50ish of my August grocery budget left.  This will all help to form a 'safety net' for the upcoming changes in the Greying household, over the next month or two.  I'm probably - hopefully - being over-cautious, but with so many potential price rises, and most of us unable to exactly pinpoint our household budgets to the penny for the foreseeable, I'd rather (try to) leave a little room for manoeuvre if poss.  I shall move the remaining 13p of my 'treats' budget over into the remaining grocery budget - so that info will disappear off my siggie as we're headed towards the end of the summer hols anyway 🥲

Right, now I'm away to work out meals to make with what I HAVE got 😊

August Grocery budget £178.36/200

Greying X

SausageDogSandwich

Just stopping by to add £1.74 spend before I forget, husband had to work late Monday so got himself something to eat. I didn’t spend any money on Monday and Tuesday, did spend some yesterday but I didn’t get receipts and my online banking isn’t working at the moment, so will have to add those on when it comes back to life. 

Makes my total £99.91/200 with more to add. Would of been a spend day today, but it’s heavy rain so will be another NSD. Still going back and forwards with myself trying to decide on Septembers budget   

atrixa

I'm declaring at £144.44/£145. Very pleased with how this week has gone, I really didn't think I would make it. Onwards to September and payday tomorrow!

Blackcats

Greying - I think that I've used the seasoning mix you bought from Lidlee - it does indeed add plenty of flavour to soups.  We find it a bit salty and so a little goes a long way.  Funnily enough we were talking about it at the start of the week as part of our winter planning conversation and hoping that it would be back on the shelves soon.  

Soontobeoap

hi all,

very pleased with myself this week. Going to a wedding tomorrow and resisted the temptation to send for a take away to save my newly painted nails tonight. You won’t believe how good I felt after I had cooked meatballs and spaghetti instead.

I bought some mixed beef and pork mince at Aldi instead of my usual beef mince earlier this week. We tried the savoury mince with rice on Monday and DH liked it as much if not more than usual so that is now a cheaper meal. I also made the meatballs we had tonight with the same mince and they were very nice too. I can make them for half the price of Tescos or Aldis ready made ones. Have yet to try the shepherds / cottage pies. This has been an easy swap for me at about 2 thirds of the price of beef mince.

I am trying to cook as many meals as possible in the microwave or on my induction hob so more recipe ideas would be great.

Greying_Pilgrim

Blackcats said:

Greying - I think that I've used the seasoning mix you bought from Lidlee - it does indeed add plenty of flavour to soups.  We find it a bit salty and so a little goes a long way.  Funnily enough we were talking about it at the start of the week as part of our winter planning conversation and hoping that it would be back on the shelves soon.  

Thanks hun - yes, I too had noticed the salt content so will use sparingly, although to be fair to the instructions it does say to use..... 1tsp per 250ml of liquid (iirc), so that is not too excessive.  But I mustn't just sprinkle in with reckless abandon 😉 I liked that there seemed to be alot of veg flakes in it - more than a conventional stock cube if you put them side by side.  

Actually, it was in stock last week (if not the week before), and I had ummed and  arred about purchasing.  But with hindsight, I'm glad I held off, as I saved myself a few pennies 👍

Thanks for letting me know hun.  Appreciated.

Greying X