June 2008 Grocery Challenge

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Well done MrsM:T :T :T , I applaud you.

Glad your still aiming for your dream SFT.

Well i`ve gone and done my monthly shop for June, but hoping this will go into july aswell.:rolleyes: Spent a total of £131.97:eek: , so will only need to buy fresh bits and pieces each week, i`m hoping;) .

Had a NSD yesterday, spent the morning out with the kids and took a picnic. Then started to rain early part of the afternoon, so came back and played some games with them. They did help me with the shopping this morning:A :A and helped load the shopping back into the cupboards, which I have to say are now bulging with the weight. Off to update siggy.

JAMIEDODGER

I have just posted my final figures for may on the may gc. I will now be starting june:) Im really hoping i will come within budget this month as i want to stick as much into savings as possible!

angelnikki

MrT is (still)doing the following:

2 for £2 on 4 pints milk
2 for £3 on 6 pints milk
offer ends 15th June

Flora Buttery 500g 1/2 price - 84p
offer ends 17th June

12 Large Free Range Eggs £2
Offer ends 8th June

Bread Flour 1.5KG is still 48p and value plain & SR flour 1.5KG is still 36p

Stork 500g is 48p - 1KG is £1.01

Nikki
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Edit: since posting on here (last week?) that the Easy Cook Basmati Rice was 99p/KG the price has now gone up to £1.78!! And Fusilli Pasta Twists are back up to £1.24 after dropping to 99p

mandy_moo_1

angelnikki thanks for those price updates, will be tootling off to Mr T's to stock up on some more milk me thinks

SFT i'm so glad you're not gonna give up on your dream....may just take a bit longer, but i bet its worth it when you do both get there

Mrs Mc WOW!!! well what a fantastic achievement that is, and all done by yourself. you should be so so proud of yourself. :T :T :T

Anyhoo, this is the first chance i've had to get on here today to update my spends....this week has been really good for me so far, probably cos there's still quite a fair bit in the freezers.whatever i have left over at the end of each week goes straight into my sealed harry potter tin. my benefits are gonna drop by about £50 a week when DD17 turns 18 in july :eek: and i'm gonna use those savings to help me out on really tight weeks.

got some spag bol out of the freezer that i made the other day, so that's tea sorted for tonight

hope you're all having a good one, and (((hugs))) to anyone who would like one xx

woodpecker

New to this thread.
There are 5 in our household - 2 parents 3 kids. Our usual food budget is £350 per month and I thought I was doing well until I read this thread!
We don't throw anything away and I try to plan a week's meals in advance & only buy what we need.
Any other tips?
Oh I should mention that we have to spend a bit extra as my DH is gluten and lactose intolerant. We get some stuff on prescription but have to buy gluten free flour to bake bread, soya and rice milk instead of cow's etc.

FelineFantastic

Okay final shopping for the week- fruit and veg from the lovely man at the market- including cherries as a treat for me for lugging it all back to work:o

Have some fruit in there for freezing too as I got a yoghurt maker today and wanted to keep it all low fat by mixing it with fresh fruit rather than sugary mixes- the yoghurt maker should save me a fortune too in the long run

Hope to get the planting done later before the slugs have a feast!

Now I had better do some work..... :cool:

Triggles

Well, this weekend we're preparing to move. I am trying to be careful with the grocery budget, but I imagine there are a few takeaways in our future until the cooker gets hooked up and we get a few things unpacked. Plus we've tried to use up all the cupboard items and freezer items. So it will take a bit to build up the freezer/cupboard supplies again.

We're planning on having a big barbeque at our house in July (LOTS of family birthdays in July, so we figured one big celebration would be fun - plus less expensive!), so I'm trying to whittle small amounts here and there off the June grocery budget to pay for it. Guess I'll need to peruse the recipe threads for some interesting bbq food.

Little_Belle

Well I came in £13ish pounds under last month! soo i'm going to try and shave it off a bit more so £200 for me this month! i'm going to try and try and try to do this. We had a vegie week this week and spent so much less than we normally do, and we are still here! lol, so we are going to try and cut down on the amount of meat we eat all the time, hopefully that will help come in at £200

Good luck everyone for this month x

Bleachbird

Really chuft as have had first shop with Tesco delivered today. Gone value mad and with discount codes on thread managed to for the first time ever spend £33.00 on the weeks shop!!!!:j

i have a feeling this could get addictive!

good luck all x

teedy23

Well done MRS MAC and keep going.
SFT as the song says "If you dont have a dream..."
Well first and last shop of the week and I,m confusing myself again. Went to Tesco yesterday and spent £53.25, now, £34.00 of this was clothing and I dont count that as groceries, I also bought flowers so wouldnt normally count that £1.99 (reduced). I then had a BOGOF of £1.32 then used coupons, the final total was £29.04. If I take the clothes from this total I,m actually about 5 quid up then if I take the flowers into account I,m up 7 quid! If I go even further and count the value of points in deals thats another £8.82 but I wont do that.