June 2008 Grocery Challenge

irishwexford

I came in at £139.42 for May but we did go away for one week. Will go for £150 for June. Our local Rainbow store has some good bargains at present. Bought enough toilet rolls for month and also got frying steak, burgers and best sausages all reduced so in freezer now. I did well for May with meal planning and stayed on top of spending. We have been to Lake Garda for a week which we got at half price and from our local airport (Norwich) which saved us parking charges. I would love to have a month with spending no more than £100 but not managed that so far. Best of luck to everyone for June

galadriel

SuziQ wrote: »

Just to say Asda were doing colgate toothpaste in the pump dispenser (much more economical with my kids) for only £1 yesterday. I couldn't find the 4p curry paste in tins everyone keeps talking about though!
It's just as well I am starting my challenge on the 1st-I have had to spend £17 on postage this week as I am in a CJ group and birthday swap agreed prior to my life imploding! Each CJ has to be posted SD at £5-6 per time and I have had 2 this month as the lady posting to me got beging following illness. I also returned an item to QVC for £38 refund and have vowed not to buy anything from them again (had only bought one item since November so not a great loss to them or me!)
Question is,it's pouring here,kids are fed up and I only have £7 until my Child benefit 4th June. I have bread,milk,freezer-full and store cupboard so no food needed-but what can I do for them that's fun? Poor kids have done nothing all week.

What about baking if you have the stuff in? Mine used to love that, we used to make biscuits, buns and home made pizza. My son used to love making lurid coloured buns and icing them - luckily he had no problems with e numbers or additives in the food colouring.

I used to do CJs, they can work out quite expensive to post, particularly as they get fatter towards the end. I never had the stuff I wanted either and always used to be ordering stuff, of course you then add more stuff for yourself to justify the order. Haven't done any scrapbooking for over a year, I have £100s worth of stuff upstairs, I ought to get it out and save some money by making cards.

tinkerbelluk

Morning all

Well after months of being MIA I've decided to start getting back to my OS ways with a vengeance now that the house is nearly finished and I'm a lot more settled into my job.

So I thought what better way to start back than to join in on my first ever GC. There are two of us plus a dog and we're away for a week in June so I'm going to try £150 (includes all food, toiletries & cleaning products) from 1st - 30th which should be more than do-able especially as we had a large Mr T shop delivered yesterday.

I think the main challenges will be cutting back on online orders from Mr T just to boost my clubcard points and trying to break DH terrible habits when it comes to sweets and expensive ice cream :rolleyes:

Wish me luck

Sharon_1970_2

Hi All

Not sure if I am doing this right but I am going to run my month from receipt of salary to receipt of salary rather than the 1st of the month to the 30/31st. That being said I have just done my first shop for June. I collected the Morrisons vouchers from the Sun last week so I have two for each week throughout June and I am going to use them to stock up on the non perishables from Morrisons that we use. First spend came in at £30.61 after the voucher off. I miscalculate going round I was trying to come in at £30 before the voucher.

mrs-moneypenny

Mrs_Money_Penny wrote: »

Hi Mrs M you put me down for £200 for the month. Just confusing as i have the same name as the other Mrs Moneypenny but no dash. Just joined last week and starting in June. Sorry for the confusion.

so you were correct MrsM;)

we have a mrs-moneypenny, a Mrs Money Penny and i think i've seen a miss moneypenny as well. it could all get very confusing.:rotfl:

Welcome to the budget other Mrs M P , i hope you get on better with your than i do mine.:D

Flylady_Flower

OMG. New thread, new challenges, main one being to keep up with the thread!:shocked:
Have had 4 NSD's this week:T . That's amazing for me, never done it before so thanks to everyone for all your help and ideas last month, this is one newbie who is beginning to catch on. I would have had to pop to shops for milk and bread by now - LOOOOVE that I can now freeze milk!

We've been eating well too, I've been cooking good food and when rushed we've had food out of the freezer that has been prepared earlier!, had to go out last night for work so got cottage pies out that I cooked at the weekend and we had those - I'm going to start calling it 'Nuke & Go!'

Hubby now has sandwiches ready every morning for work and just picks up his fruit and salad and he's on his way, no more rushing around every morning.

At the weekend there is the fresh smell of baking coming from the kitchen which is a great stress buster for me, and I feel really good doing it.

So to all newbies out there - YOU CAN DO IT! stick with this and you will be amazed. I am hooked - line and sinker, I'm also still learning (about to go onto 'sneaky ways to save money' thread to see what else I can pick up) and wish everyone all the best for June!

Happy OS saving to everyon!:beer:

gunsandbanjos

Sharon_1970 wrote: »

Hi All

Not sure if I am doing this right but I am going to run my month from receipt of salary to receipt of salary rather than the 1st of the month to the 30/31st. That being said I have just done my first shop for June. I collected the Morrisons vouchers from the Sun last week so I have two for each week throughout June and I am going to use them to stock up on the non perishables from Morrisons that we use. First spend came in at £30.61 after the voucher off. I miscalculate going round I was trying to come in at £30 before the voucher.

Glad you're enjoying the GC, we're missing you over on flylady. Dont know if you are aware Sharon that Tesco are accepting the Morrisons vouchers too, i always find Mr T cheaper. Just gives a bit more choice as how to spend them:D

Tashja

SuziQ

My 2 are sat in the front room with a load of boxes, paper, paper cups, etc making robots, houses and armies !!! Hasn't cost me a thing though I bet I have some tidying to do in there later. At the moment I am keeping all the house clean accept the front room and then giving that a quick clean in the evening - half term is a nightmare !!!

T xx

mandy_moo_1

SuziQ wrote: »

I couldn't find the 4p curry paste in tins everyone keeps talking about though!

hi SuziQ the curry sauce is in a jar, and its usually on the bottom shelves, out of sight! i think it says 27p on the jar, but the SEL says 4p, and that's what it goes thru the till at

i'm feeling really pleased with myself today....i've cut the grass, weeded front and back garden, and tidied the pond.....all jobs i hate doing, and have been putting off for weeks!! i love tending to all the veggies i'm growing cos they're in containers/bags, i just can never be bothered to do all the boring stuff in the garden!!

just off to Mr S's with some more milk vouchers cos they run out tomorrow. hopefully after tomorrow, i should have enough milk for the next couple of weeks in the freezer.

my oven's all cleaned now as well, after my disaster with the yogurt cake yesterday, so i might get another yogurt and have another go! at making the cake that is, not another go at making the oven all yukky with exploded cake :rotfl: so wish me luck

hope this weather's here to stay, i always feel really depressed when its horrible outside and can't be bothered with anything!

hope you all have a good one x

Scenic_Route

Delivery from Asda is now in the cupboards at £60.44 of which £17.58 was for puss-cat. He needed another bag of litter (£4) and I've got the cheapest bag of dry cat food (£1.70) but any idea's how to wean him off the Whiskas in gravy (was okay when it was £4 for 24 pouches but now it is £5.98:mad: ), he won't touch kitekat or anything in jelly. He is a crabbit sod most of the time and he doesn't appreciate me messing with his food. Has anyone sucessfully weaned their moggie off whiskas?

Meanwhile I'm on an organic kick, I'm getting a standard bag of mixed fruit and veg and 6 eggs for £11.50. Has anybody any idea how many bits of fruit and veg there would be? I'll not be amused if it is one potato, one apple and one onion for that price!:eek: