September 2023 Grocery Challenge

selloptape

There's still a refrigeration breakdown at my local supermarket which has made food shopping challenging. On the plus side I'm eating lots of fresh fruit and veg, we have eggs, tuna and cheese in, and I have found a stash of quorn in the freezer which I'd forgotten about

I did have a random splurge as I spotted the hot chocolate I buy at around half price on Am4zon for a case, but there is now enough hot choc to last me and DS through winter  

Florenceem

Doing well today - my sister brought 12 hen and 6 duck free range eggs along to me - free. 
As it's my birthday - been given M & S mango slices, lots of biscuits, cakes and other treats. 
Another nsd here.

goldfinches

Happy Birthday @Florenceem and enjoy all your treats.

I spent £1.25 at Mr T's yesterday on clubcard priced kefir and then £9.95 at Mr T's today on pistachios and wholemeal spelt flour. Very irritating that I only needed 30g of pistachios but the smallest packet I could find was 250g for £6.75.

Anyway, my new monthly total is £90.38/£120 and my average daily spend is now £8.21.

Soontobeoap

Another £6.49 spent. DH headed off to buy bread at lunchtime and came home with value twixes, mars bars and ice lollies as well! Thank goodness he went to Aldi.

Stewex up more Tom's today. Have frozen along with the left over gravy from tonights meal in 4 different portions. Will add a jar od Aldi bolognaise sauce to use as lasagna, shepherds pie and pasta base. 

Had home made shepherds pie tonight. Far too much for 2 of us. As I am out for lunch with a friend tommorrow ( her turn to pay) DH will have the leftovers for his dinner tomorrow. 

lilly81

Happy belated birthday @Florenceem 🎂
Yesterday I did a big shop including post op delights like prune juice 🥤
Baulk cooking cauliflower cheese today and lasagne tomorrow.
Have my pre op assessment, hoping to have a NSD but if I need a treat then I'm not going to stress myself out about it 
Total spent £100.99/£264

joedenise

A top of shop this morning in Mr Ts as needed more fruit, yoghurt and a few other bits.  Now spent £33.27, leaving £216.73.  Really pleased with how little we're spending this month but of course it means that the freezer will need to be refilled next month as most meals are coming from there!

PipneyJane

Happy belated birthday @Florenceem, from me too.  Hope it is the start of a good year for you.

Good luck with your surgery, @lilly81.

While I went to my first choir practice of the season last night, DH popped out to Sainsbugs.  £7.48 spent on a HUGH head of loose broccoli (0.865kg), half a kilo of loose mushrooms (at £2.97/kg), some crème fraiche and some dried mustard powder.  He also bought himself some chocolate, but that came out of his own pocket.

While the mushrooms are more expensive than the ones we used to buy in L!dl, I am pleased to report that they keep well.  I can’t tell the difference between the 3 left from the batch I bought last week and the ones DH bought yesterday.  They all look equally fresh.

The above brings our spend to £113.25/£178, leaving £64.75 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

thriftwizard

Adding my belated birthday wishes, @Florenceem, and good wishes for your surgery, @lilly81...

£8.21 added for a swift top-up at L!dls this morning whilst waiting for the garage to try to mend my poor little van - and they may have succeeded this time, no "limp mode" problems since, despite a trip that nearly always sets her off - we needed some more instant coffee, plus a few bits of fruit, and I couldn't resist adding one of the £1.50 boxes, of which there were a fair few. Today's haul included lots of very shiny peppers, mostly red, a net of onions, a big bag of bananas (may have to make a banana loaf!) a net of easy-peelers (which OH loves) a rather soggy lettuce (which the chickens demolished) and a cabbage which will join several others in the next batch of sauerkraut. 
 

Cocobeans

Had to get milk, dog biscuits and salad today. Took DD with me so also included an after school treat or 2! 

Have only spent £117 / £250 but we are having very random dinners and will need to stock up on lots of things at somepoint. 

Bought the first giant butternut squash home from the allotment yesterday so will be trying out some squash recipes this week! 

goldfinches

@lilly81 - hope your pre-op assessment went well and agree that some things are more important than claiming a NSD.

I was rather fed up this morning to discover that the last quarter pint of my milk had gone sour in the bottle even though the use by date was tomorrow, yeeurgh, I hate the sight of curdled milk in my coffee.

So off I duly trotted to the supermarket and spent £7.74 on 4x milk, YS onions because I can always use them and they keep well in the fridge, sugarsnaps, lemons and lime bag, YS oyster mushrooms and YS white mushrooms.

That makes my new monthly spend £86.92/£120 and my average daily spend is now £7.24.