August 2023 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

No spending here yesterday and today and as I don't shop on a Sunday - nothing to declare until Monday.

Soontobeoap

Another £23.47 spent today in sainsburys. Includes clothes pegs, baking paper and freezer bags. Oatibix and cocoa pops for DGC cost £7.80!
Made cheesy pasta for lunch . I added a bit of ropey pepper and some onion from fridge and once cooked sweetcorn, peas and ham pieces from freezer. Very tasty and very cheap! 

Made a lamb grill roast tonight using runner beans and potatoes from the garden. 

I love free veg! 😊

goldfinches

I bought some more eggs yesterday which cost £2.70 for half a dozen, ouch! I also spent £1.90 from the Baking Budget on some more unsalted butter. Then today I bought carrots, lemons, romaine hearts, wholemeal pittas and radishes which came to £4.25.

That makes my new monthly total £91.85/£124 and my average daily spend is now £4.83. 
The Baking Budget has spent £14.90/£25.

ancientmum

I've updated my spends, currently £665.97 for the year so far.
  I spent  a long weekend volunteering at a local music festival and as I was driving in from home every day took a packed lunch and benefitted from free coffee and a subsidised evening meal.  I did splash out on some delicious ice cream, but all in all it was a budget friendly way to get out and enjoy the music. 

2Scratters

Yesterday I checked our cash purse we use for the shopping and am still "training DH" in logging the spends/purchases. So he is writing them down then not taking the money - not helpful when trying to be accurate. There was over £5 discrepancy of a +balance so I passed it to him minus the odd bits of change that we squirrel away for nothing in particular. Properly eating from the freezer and making do before I give the fridge a good clean today and do a biggish shop.
Managed 2 BBQ meals for us over the weekend, how nice to have food cooked differently.
 
Not sure if I had posted earlier of our budget @elsiepac of £250 for August

Remaining balance £145 till the month end 31st. I do get paid on the 27th but eek it as far to the end of the month or beyond. 

2 Scratters xx

JingsMyBucket

@Suffolk_lass and @PipneyJane thanks for the advice on using the vegetable / canola oil. I'll try that next time. 

Yesterday we visited a local farm shop and did their little walking trail before heading into the shop for breakfast then shopping. £22.32 was spent on micro greens, a couple cheeses and some of their excellent ham from the deli counter. We also bought 2 rose plants and a couple other plants for our garden. Mr. Jings rode all those purchases home on his bike that has a trailer. 

I carried on back to the high street by bus and headed for M & S. £14.80 spent on strawberries, bananas, tomatoes, 2 boxes of 6-count eggs, kefir, hummus, and olive ciabatta. 

We made our dinner from the ham, cheeses, ciabatta, tomatoes hummus, greens and other bits like red onion jam, etc. It was delicious and there's plenty left over. 

£257.74 / £400.00 spent. £142.26 remaining

There's a Morrisons order coming tomorrow but it feels like I haven't really finished adding items to it yet but the total is up to about £78 already. It includes some restocks like vanilla extract, Swiss Marigold bouillon powder, various lentils and rices, etc. No matter what, I'll try to keep it to less than £100 so there's still some buffer for us. I want to stop by Lidl or Aldi at some point this week to get cooking bacon and maybe a hunk of beef for roasting but that'll likely be the end of the week. 

thriftwizard

Been a bit busy but have just added a more reasonable £93.53 for last weekend's combined grocery shop, still feeding 6 most of the time but it's dwindling down now, and we're past the "run" of 5 family birthday celebrations & visitations in July/August. DS3 vanishes to various conferences for 10 days tomorrow and does have a job lined up for the next academic year, somewhat closer than last year but not too close. DD1's BF is working closer to his own home for 3 days a week, meaning he's only here for 4 nights most weeks. And the allotment & garden produce is rolling in now, keeping me very busy cooking & preserving. Just had an omelette with home-laid eggs, home-grown onion, grated courgette, tomato & herbs - just the cheese & Worcester sauce were bought.

Florenceem

Spend of £1.45 on milk today.
Came home to find in my porch - 10 free range duck and 12 hen eggs - free!

SausageDogSandwich

More spending here, few small shops and also had 2 weeks of gusto on offer so have added that to the grocery spends. Not planning on anymore spends this week but will see how that turns out  Also realised that my £50 voucher has disappeared from where it was, turned the house upside down looking for it, trying to accept that I must of thrown it away in my big tidy up, still feeling gutted about but never mind. 
£248.17/400 spent.

Pennypincin

£10.13 spent on some cheap toilet rolls, clothes washing detergent, reduced diced onions, plus a few bits.
Hope you find the voucher sausagedodsandwich, must be really annoying, I'd be so annoyed with myself if I'd lost a voucher, more so the amount that you've misplaced.
What a freebie florenceem, I bet your happy, I would be.
I've tried a duck egg once, many years ago and had trouble getting my head around it. Hens eggs I eat though I've not been brought up with duck eggs.
I'm tempted to go to an open kitchen tomorrow to help stretch the food budget, I've not been to it before, but am so stressed and worried about my finances, it's getting to be a needs must at the moment.
The food club stuff wasn't too bad, I'm intrigued as to what I get this Friday. Especially as there was quite a bit this week.