May 2008 Grocery Challenge

razra

Ok well if it works heres my photobucket album.

Theres pics there from when I first moved in and the garden was full of weeds through to how it looked prior to the shed coming down.
Theres two pics of how it looks now but as its pouring it down I wont get chance to get out there and sort out so will update the album when I can.

The pile of bricks down the end is currently my raised potio :rotfl:but hopefully I can teach myself how to make brick raised beds and a nice paved area so I can use them up.

http://photobucket.com/razrasgarden

Hope it works

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Good morning everyone:hello:
Haven`t posted much, but managed to catch up on the thread. Only got just under £30 to last till the end of week, so hopefully I can do it.

Had a NSD yesterday and hoping for one today, as it`s sooooo miserable outside, chucking it down and windy, not a good start to the school hols.
I will have to have a rumage through the cupboards and freezer and see what I can come up with. Still haven`t done my meal plan for June, so may do that and also a bit of baking. Hoping to do one big shop for June and then a weekly shop of all the fresh stuff and see how that works out for me. Was also hoping to bring my budget down but not sure yet, as food prices are going up.

At least I won`t need to water the garden today, i`ve lettace, toms, peppers, cue, sweetcorn, marrow, melons, cabbage, brussels, dwarf beans, runner beans, potatoes, carrots, asparagus, so far coming up. Lucky we have an allotment that we share, so some of this has been taken down there.

mophead

Good Morning Everyone.

Well i am well over budget this month!!:eek: I did'nt realise it was a 5 week month and i have been doing the challenge as a calender month so as i go on it will hopefully even out. I did a shop in tesco last night and you could'nt get near the whoopsies for the crowd. They did have milk on offer and i got 12pts for £3. On the plus side i am going into next months challenge with a well stocked larder and freezer.

We laid our turf on saturday and planted some potatoes into an old bin.

The kids are back from their nan's so we are having a baking day today double choc chip cookies and blueberry lemon drizzle cake mmmmmm:p .

I bought a large piece of gammon as a whoopsie last week 1/2 price so that is for tea today with potatoe gratin and the left overs wil do a tea tomorrow and DH's sarnies for a few days.

Enjoy the B/H everyone.

Clare.x.

MRSMCAWBER

Razra...

Thats looking great :T ...get even more pots on there and it then moves from being a POTio to a POTio aPOTment... for those of us that don't have an allotment:p

razra

:)Thanks mrsM you cant really tell from the photos but at the moment Ive got
on the pile of bricks at the end potatoes, 2 tom plants and alpine strawbs
in the raised bed
cucumber (plus another one in a pot at the side)
cabbage
onions
lettuce
cabbage
carrots
garlic
leeks
radish

on the potio
6 tom plants
3 tumbling toms (in the baskets)
Corgettes (in the wheel barrow)
gojo berries (in the planters on the brick edge)
rocket and radishes (on the greenhouse rack)
stawbs in the wooden planter

some rasberries against the side of the shed

and peas growing up the arch in front of the shed and some more straws in the baskets hanging on the arch

when I can get out there and clear up the rest of the rubble I'm planning on putting all the pots up by the house

and fingers crossed I may be able to get some of those dinky fruit trees to grow up the wall where the shed was (and next doors still is) so thats where the huge pile of bricks should come in handy to make some raised beds

Plus I would like to put another brick raised bed against the shed at the bottom so I have more space for veggies

This growing food lark is very addictive:rotfl:

frazzmunch

Hi people....just been mooching for the June challenge and can't find it!! its probably just me trying to be too keen but started my own 12 week challenge so chomping at the bit so to speak!! :rotfl:

Anyway...didn't do last month as in a bit of a tizzy ...can you please put me down for £250 this month (June).. its normally £300 but I am trying to pay off 1k in 12 weeks to clear one of my interest charging credit cards...decided to up the ante a bit as feeling a tadge overwhelmed at times and tend to just float without much direction!!!

Many thanks.. good luck everyone!!:D

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi Just wondered if I could join please. There is myself, OH DD 14 & DS 12. My husband is often away working for a few weeks of each month and my children only come home weekends & half terms etc as they are at boarding school. So no 2 months are the same. I always cook from scratch but still tend to spend alot each month. Have worked it out over the last 6 months and spend on average £220 a month. So Mrs M could you please put me down for £200 will reduce each month. My month starts from this Friday as we get paid the end of the month.

BigMummaF

May I apologe if my post yesterday caused offence? As usual, I knew what it was I was trying to say, while attempting to be diplomatic, & ended up putting me fat feet right in it down to me tum:o

I agree with your comments 100% MikeD. Likewise I do not think folk have to be so hard on themselves for 'relaxing the reins', when it is evident they have far greater issues to deal with at some point. I think we can all relate to how emotional well-being has an impact on monetary spending......now I sound pompous & soooo righteous, but I too have to be careful what I spend & where. It's just that--particularly following a bereavement SIZE=1]there--I've said it[/SIZE hunting for little yellow stickers just doesn't enter into the scheme of things.

Again

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sorry if I've only made things worse.

OrkneyStar

Poosmate wrote: »

Talking of toilet roll! It was disappearing fast since lodger came back - what on earth was he doing with it? Anyway, another roll was finished yesterday afternoon so I decided to put one out for just him to use to see just how long it would last. I had my own - I have hayfever and a very bad cold atm so have one close by me anyway. I started a new one for myself anyway for experimental purposes. He came home last night, it was after 9.00pm because Pushing Daisies was on. He told me he was going back to his gf today. He left today at 2.00pm. So the toilet roll experiment had to be abandoned. I took my toilet roll upstairs and to my horror I discovered that he had used at least half of his toilet roll literally overnight!!!! I had used about 2mm of mine!! Who uses half a toilet roll in 17 hours especially when 6-7 of those hours are spent asleep?! The mind boggles!!

So, when lodger wants to come back I'll have to put a condition on his return that he buys his own toilet roll so he will realise how much it costs and how much he wastes!

He doesn't happen to take some with him to his gf by any chance ?
Just a thought and please don't be offended if you don't think he would do that sort of thing!
In my experience the ladies seem to use more than the men!

ifonlyitwaseasier

morning all,

had a nsd yesterday, and a random powercut in the evening,

Annelouise - welcome to the gang! :hello:

am going to have to get a tension rod for my freecycled net curtain today, but thats not out of the Grocery budget

Dinner should be fab, roast beef at my parents AND we are getting the left over beef all sliced up for the weeks sandwichs!!

i agree with you MrsMc i'd like some overcast days as i really fancy using up some of my stewing stuff up over the next week. :rolleyes: