August 2023 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

Another NSD here.

Soontobeoap

Another £50 spent today in Sainsburys. £11.00 of that was on coffee. Then a few sweets for the obligatory midnight feast to go with some fresh fruit, salad ingredients, bread, ham, cereal, biscuits and snacks for the GDs journey home on Sunday. Its all of the snacky things that add up so quickly. I Was also very surprised that the nectar price for coffee is £5.50 which is what I think it has been at normal price for a long time. It now appears to have gone up to £7.00 a jar so I got 2 whilst it was on offer

lilly81

Spent £2.50 today on ice cream, it is just so hot out 🥵

Suffolk_lass

I had to go to Sainsbugs after DH chinked the glass sugar storage jar on the underside of the granite worktop and took a large lump out. Not a clean lump, it was one where shards covered lots of things in the drawer and you could not tell if any glass had got in the jar, so the whole lot (about 1.8k, as I put two 1k bags in last week) of sparkly grains of granulated sugar had to go in the bin.

I need sugar at this time of year as the garden fruit gets frozen, bottled (USA call this canning) or stewed and stored in screw top jars for winter. I know Sains do big bags of pasta too so I took my list and off I went. £21.21 of groceries (garlic, yogurt, butter, carrots, baking potatoes, leeks, cream and fruit; stone fruit and strawberries to add to rhubarb to try bottling some), £26 on stores; sugar (2x5k cane), pickling vinegar (x3) and pickling spice, and pasta (5 bags, with a humungous bag of penne for £4 among them). Then there were treats (treats and entertainment budget) which was hammered to the tune of £19.25, buying ice cream (individual and 1L pots) and custard tarts that were reduced, and finally some own brand cola for the bees (well, for the wasp traps that I make to protect the bees!).

We get wasps trying to get into the hives and lurking around, trying to glean sweet residue ad they are a total pain. We tolerate them until August, when they are ending their season and then make up traps of cola and meat, just a little raw meat attracts wasps but puts off bees, in a cut down bottle with the top bit inverted. There are so many this year, but happily none in our roof!

I shall be preserving shallots as pickles as well as garden and bought fruit this weekend!

Florenceem

Been shopping - spent £18.33 - just going to add to my total.

LittleGem

Updating my total so far to £107.43 /£250. Let DH loose in waitrose unsupervised - he was supposed to buy bread and pizzas but somehow spent £35 odd quid 🙄
Tomorrows tea is sausages and jacket potatoes, and a chicken casserole on Monday then it’ll be time for another shop i think. I don’t know about you all but I’m quite looking forward to autumn when you can cook big portions of cosy things and tuck them away in the freezer.

Suffolk_lass

No spending for us, other than eggs and 3 pints of milk delivered. I have just popped a rice pudding on to use up some of the extra. I didn't pick in the garden yesterday, other than a cucumber I could see I had missed in the greenhouse when returning from the dog walk. 

I have defrosted a portion of the joint of cooked beef that I picked up for less than half price last month, when the deli counter realised they weren't going to use it. That will do sandwiches for lunch and we can eat light with soup and a snack for supper tonight. I think there are two pots of leftovers that need using!

peony40

Morning,

LittleGem, my husband is exactly the same.

My shop is coming today and it is £31.18.  I also spent £4 on bread from the milkman yesterday, so this week’s total is £35.18, a saving of £4.82 has gone into my savings pot.

mumtoomany

We went into town as the chicken feed was running out. Morrisons had some reduced sausages. I'd only got13 sausage let in the freezer so stocked up 7x6 packs. Also 1litre of whipping cream for £1, and bananas. Cash and carry also had some reduced sausage. £4 for 18. Won't need sausage for a while now! Aldi for bacon, crisps, bread and milk. Veg shop for fruit. 4 lettuce, 30 peaches, 2 punnets of grapes, around 50 granny smiths, 30 pears, total cost in there, £10.50. I do love the veg shop, especially when the DGC are off school and grazing all day! Total spent for all shopping, £46.08. Total to date now £1316.64/1860. Hugs to all, mumtoomanyxxx

lilly81

Yesterday I volunteered at the community fridge, got a large chicken, new potatoes, gf thins, 3 bananas and 3 apples.
Spent £7.49 in Aldi 
Today I have done my meal plan for next week. I was supposed to do an olio pick up but we didn't get a notification 😔
I'm cooking roast chicken with new potatoes for dinner tonight and will have the left overs for dinner tomorrow and hopefully some chicken for lunch time. I haven't had meat for 4 days, so this feels like a luxury 😋

£63.05/£264