September 2023 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Another £3.09 spent this evening on a TGTG bag from Morrisons which we'll pick up tomorrow afternoon.  Also need to pop to the butchers to get something for dinner.  I was going to get braising steak and do braised streak and onions but DH has said if the weather's nice he'll BBQ a chicken so looks like I'll be buying a chicken!  Also need to pop to the farm shop to pick up some lettuce or mixed leaves as have run out and going to need that as he decided he wanted feta and fig salad for lunch!  Can't really have a salad with no lettuce, can we?

Florenceem

Today is my last spending day for the 4 weeks of September as I don't shop on a Sunday. Only spent £60.74 so will donate £20 to SA Big Collection and rest will be in case needed.

thriftwizard

May I mention chicken soup, @weenancyinAmerica?  I'm glad you're doing better & hope your loved ones are too, but can't help mentioning chicken soup because apparently there's good solid science to recommend it, never mind the folklore. It does kind of rely on your having some chicken stock, if not pre-made soup itself, lurking somewhere like your freezer, as it's not on the list of stuff your room-mate's minister brought, but IMHO there's nothing quite so restorative after a nasty bout of - well, any nasty bug, really. Hoping this won't offend you or anyone else, but it really is a sovereign remedy...

goldfinches

Well I cycled to W8rose early this afternoon in glorious sunny weather and somehow left my willpower on the river path so the damage at the till came to a whopping £57.44! I think I'll just have to draw a veil over this month and begin afresh in October.

My appalling new total is £206.29/£120 and my average daily spend is £8.96.

I wish I had an OH to blame this on but the fault is entirely mine. 

2Scratters

Morning Peeps,
another one here guilty of not posting better and keeping myself accountable. As always though still working on keeping a ahem "rough check" on the balance. DH keeps messing it up and not putting all spends down appropriately. We have not been far off the mark in keeping in check, when a mistake is found I just work of the cash we have available, which is usually less  There has been a trip to the shop DH did the other day which should have cost under £5. The change that came back was in coins that we save i.e  £2, 20p and 5p. So the total we recorded was £9.50.
 There is just the 2 of us and 2 dogs so we can make this work. I use money from my wages when I get paid on the 27th monthly and set it in an account waiting to be collected. I move the 250 but only withdraw 200 and that is only done when money has run out even if it runs into the next month, it has now become later and later in the month for taking the money out. It may happen this year I end up with a spare month. This "change" sits in the account to be used at some point as a bulk buy. It has taken me years of budgeting to get to this stage and only a 2 or 3 yrs ago read on here somewhere too about the Christmas wages that are paid early to just leave them there till the normal date then treat the same as you do the rest of the year. Why did it take me this long I applied this to the rest of the year and here I am. 
This week we have had 3 TGTG bags very successfully & full of good stuff. 

Balance left £83.05/£200

2 Scratters xx

joedenise

Morrisons cancelled our TGTG bag this morning so I ended up having to go to Tesco to get the bits of salad and some mushrooms which I needed.  Just a small spend of £4.18 so amount spent to date is £86.84/£200 so £113.16 left.  Still a top up shop plus a weekly shop to do this week so should be plenty with some being transferred to another pot.

Also spent £3.86 in the butchers but paid for that with cash from personal spends as they don't take card for less than £5 so not taken from GC budget.

SausageDogSandwich

Good morning everyone, I have spent just over £20 since last posting, hb had the kids vitamins that usually pay £11 for, for £1.99 so got five of those, asked husband to get a microwave curry and he bought extras and also had to get some bread and milk. My big shop is being delivered later but haven’t been given a total yet so will have to add that on later. 

£249.65 spent

JingsMyBucket

@SausageDogSandwich that's a great deal on vitamins! I need to reincorporate vitamins D and B back into my daily regimen. 

diminua

£185.74 spent so far this month. I should just scrape through. I have had quite a lot of fizzy drinks this month, which I'm putting down to the heat.
I've also bought a lot of fruit for the same reason, including some grapes that I couldn't see lasting much longer so made a grape and almond cake (from Marisa's Italian Kitchen online if anyone wants to try it). I didn't have the thyme or orange zest or any almond flour but I bashed up some flaked almond to a powder and used those, and I put a splash of orange juice in and used half of everything as my cake tin is smaller, and it seems fine. 

joedenise

A top up shop this morning at just under £20 across M&S and Morries.  Total spend to date £103.64/£200 leaving £96.36 for final shop at the end of the week.  Should be some to move to another pot.