May 2023 Grocery Challenge

Verulamium_Vixen

Hi
I have just started reading back as I haven't been here since Thursday.
A few questions 
1. What does TGTG mean?
2. Can I  run my month from 15th to 14th as I get paid on 15th.?

I'm a suckerfor a yellow sticker but I am trying (and mainly succeeding) to only buy what I use regularly or can use Internet near future. 
I have a freezer full of yellow stickers,  I can spot one at a hundred paces.
I went to Aldi tonight, I took my son who kept putting stuff in the trolley and I  just took them out 
Back tomorrow 

gill5blue

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hi
I have just started reading back as I haven't been here since Thursday.
A few questions 
1. What does TGTG mean?
2. Can I  run my month from 15th to 14th as I get paid on 15th.?

I'm a suckerfor a yellow sticker but I am trying (and mainly succeeding) to only buy what I use regularly or can use Internet near future. 
I have a freezer full of yellow stickers,  I can spot one at a hundred paces.
I went to Aldi tonight, I took my son who kept putting stuff in the trolley and I  just took them out 
Back tomorrow 

1. TGTG means Too good to go-it is an app where you can get left over food from some outlets.
cheers
gill5blue

gill5blue

Hi All 
week 1 I spent £62.43 and week 2 spent £43.55.
It is getting easier with practice. 2 adults, 2 labradors and 1 tortoise
I am getting a little forgetful and occasionally forget I am cooking rice and it boils over so I am reluctant to cook rice. I have a lot of rice in my larder and I do like rice. I bought myself a rice cooker and it is fabulous-it makes lovely rice.
declaring so far 

£105.98/£240

gill5blue

joedenise

Back from holiday in Scotland on Thursday.  A couple of TGTG bags bought plus a small spend.  Have only spent £25.54 of my £150 budget so far this month but I still have a list of things to buy some of which I'll get today (bread at least even if nothing else!) but want to try and leave most of it until Tuesday next week as want to get some frozen stuff from The Food Warehouse on 10% off day for OAPs!

Suffolk_lass

Freezer dived today and rummaged out some frozen butter, so no shopping for me this weekend now. We have a small rack of ribs I've defrosted, about to go in the slow cooker for this evening to have with veg and mash, and a chicken that was also in the freezer that I will bounce forward (a la rubber chicken) after roasting overnight, for tomorrow and beyond

joedenise

Another £1.40 spent on a box of decaf teabags.  Still spent less than £30 so far this month but was away for a week last week.

Ginmonster

We've been invited round to a friend's house for Eurovision tonight so I've got an extra spend of £6.16 to declare which was spent on some sweet treats to take round with us. 

Feeling pleased as for lunch today I managed to palm off some Quorn nuggets, which had been lurking in the freezer, on DS who claims not to like vegetarian ones. It was achieved by the simple ruse of not eating any myself (I'm veggie, he's not). It's all in a good cause as we need to keep ploughing through the freezer contents if I'm ever going to defrost it!

otb666

432/600 Thank goodness only 11 days left of my month as go from 24th to 24th.  Not quite sure why everything gone up so much but so good to have a handle on it all as otherwise know i would be oblivious to wheres the money is all going to.  

Suffolk_lass

Ginmonster said:

We've been invited round to a friend's house for Eurovision tonight so I've got an extra spend of £6.16 to declare which was spent on some sweet treats to take round with us. 

Feeling pleased as for lunch today I managed to palm off some Quorn nuggets, which had been lurking in the freezer, on DS who claims not to like vegetarian ones. It was achieved by the simple ruse of not eating any myself (I'm veggie, he's not). It's all in a good cause as we need to keep ploughing through the freezer contents if I'm ever going to defrost it!

That's definitely a keeper tactic and has made me chuckle out loud this morning! Well done you! 

Verulamium_Vixen

@gill5blue thank you very much for that tip.
I have just ordered something from my local carvery which is around 200 yards away. I'll set an alarm on my phone to collect it tonight.
I will report back