June 2008 Grocery Challenge

teedy23

I,m really into porridge oats at the moment. I dont cook it though, not on the summer! I have them with milk and whatever fruit I can get cheap e.g. bananas and berries and a few chopped nuts or sunflower seeds. I,m not on a diet or a healthy eating binge, I just like it.

teedy23

teedy23 wrote: »

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.

Update; the skirts too long so taking it back, thats another £12.00 off the bill:D

cookinmummy

Bleachbird wrote: »

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

THANKS A LOT BLEACHBIRD for this post - in my ignorance I had not been aware of the discount thread!

Just bought weeks shop online at Mr T and it came to £62.10 - which is brill for me cos its usually £80!

Sosh

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Sosh

Are you planning on growing the carrots in the ground or a tub? If you have room for 1 , tubs are brilliant for carrots as they aren't growing in stoney compacted earth..when the carrot hits a stone it will fork..giving you odd shaped carrots -not that they don't still taste good...also if you do them in a deep enough tub..there is less chance of the dreaded carrot fly getting them as they can only fly 12-15" high ..so can't get at them ....a collapsible crate lined with thick cardboard is a cheap way to do it and you can bring the card up high enough to stop the carrot fly ..heck i should get out more... im turning into my mum :rotfl:

Oooh, thanks for all the tips Mrs M. I'm a complete clod when it comes to growing anything, so any advice is greatfully recieved.

I was planning to grow my carrots in a big trough hopefully that will be enough to keep the flys at bay.

Moniker

Just popped in to update my sig. Had to go shopping for salad stuff and a few extras for my visitors arriving this afternoon. Have got £198.70 to last until the end of June - but as we are away on 2 weekends I am hoping to manage - fingers crossed. I had a look at the discount vouchers thread last night but never seem to find any for Sainsbury's - am I missing something?

Anyway, best get off here and get on with cooking - going to make hob nobs and the 'wacky' chocolate cake and some rhubarb crumble - oh and I promised a batch of scones for a church fundraiser - so I better get my skates on!

Have a great weekend every one.

Love M

Anitaj73

Hi all.... wow the most difficult part is keeping up with the thread, i've subscribed now so i can read it in an email in my own time

Ok first of all a BIG WELL DONE to Mrs M for the fantastic weight loss you go girl you must be very proud
*sft* I'm glad your feeling more upbeat about your holiday plans now, its always good to have something to save for for and it makes you feel so proud once you get there
*jennybee* Well done on finishing that graduate loan, i know the feeling of achievement when paying of a debt. I started tackling mine at the end of last year and a proud to say i only have 2 outstanding debts that i hope to pay off as soon as possible and i'll be debt free :j

Now thats done an update on my GC my month started on 29th may and so far i had MrT deliver on 29th and cost £36.63 after using a £6off voucher which i obtained from this wonderful site Could have been less but stocked up on quite a bit of my usuals that were on special offer, also the kids have been off school this week so needed a bit extra to keep them happy. I also spent 3.19 on a large bottle of fruity cider when my mate come over the other nite ....I have had 2 NSD so far & i don't plan on going out today so all good
I had some fantastic news today i have finally got disability benefit for my 5 year old :T which will help us no end
I think thats it for now will update in a couple of days, i'll be going into town monday when the kids go back

Keep it up everyone :beer:

ifonlyitwaseasier

well today is a nsd for me, am not going anywhere. rather i am spring cleaning and mooching thro the boards here

have a carrot soup on the go to use up the scruffy looking ones from the back of the fridge and i have yet to decide if i cna be bothered to cook anything else.

if anyone has the coconut bites recipe handy could they post it? my mum wants to try it and i can't find it anywhere!! TIA

pink_princess

Morning every-one
Been out this morning to grab some soap powder (i have already updated sig)
worrying about this months total already . I have loads in yet i always seem to come up with an excuse to go to mr t s or mr s .
Just been catching up on the thread MRS MC any chance you could post the recipie for the southern chicken it sounds nice and i have two chucks in the freezer.:D
Hope every-one has spend free day ttfn

savingfortravel

Hi everyone
Just got our newspaper-we buy it for the TV mag and best freebies/MOCs
sorry if someone has already said but THE SUN (55p) HAS A TOKEN FOR A FREE LOAF OF HOVIS SOFT WHITE BREAD (usually costs about £1.16, Mr T offer 92p) TOKEN CAN BE REDEEMED UNTIL 14TH JUNE
I picked up 2 copies and 1 more for my mum.
SFT

Little_Belle

Well last night we had a bill of £58 but nearly half of that was stocking up on cleaning bits and BOGOF hand soap, deoderant and reduced toothpaste *because the box was damaged!* stuff like that. Also treated the other half to dinner as its his birthday so more expensive than it could have been but im still quite impressed with myself that for the first time in ages the amount spent on food was only £30!

We had a vegie week last week and I actually feel much better for having had no meat, so from now on we are going to have half and half weeks, so I hope that out shopping bills will be much more around the £30 mark!